Eduardo Cademartori
Energetic efficiency in the brazilian built environment :retrofitting strategies for a hotel in Goiania.
Rel. Guglielmina Mutani, Jan Hensen, Paolo Oliaro, Daniel Costola, Claudia Amorim. Politecnico di Torino, Master of science program in Architecture, 2011
Abstract
Currently the world is experiencing an urbanization at an unprecedented rate. Urban centers, which are definitely thè predominant morphologic unit of thè contemporary society, are essentially collective. As citizens we have no choice but to learn how to live collectively, solving and avoiding thè main problems of our cities, therefore leading them into a sustainable behavior.
Living together in great cities couid be thè origin for many environmental problems, but this agglomeration is also a fundamental driver of innovation in our time. Due to technology and scientific development, settled indeed in thè urban environment, anything we find inconvenient is supposed to not endure. Eliminating unpieasant conditions seems to be one of thè main motivations to innovation. In order to find remarkable ideas for thè future, it is necessary to identify thè significance of these inconvenient things. Probably thè foreseeable future of our cities is to support us proactively in our day lives.
Energy remains a fundamental requirement of today's society. It is thè basis of almost everything we do today, and there is no doubt thè way its production and distribution is settled nowadays must be changed. Energy's broad concept represents thè feeding of ali production organisms in thè world, from food moving individuai to oil, gas or naturai coal, which move cities and industriai fields. Day after day this word and its strong meaning have became more elaborated: politic and environmental dimensions have been increasingly taken into account in energy's consumption and production, due to thè global changes' perception and analysis in thè last decades
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