Energy Efficient Building Design by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030406714
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

9.3 Conclusions

Among the few studies on the Tower of Shadows, a small book by Francesco Venezia published in 1978 represents a significant reference for this short chapter. The approach proposed here moves, unlike those years, from the need to face the question of the relationship with the sun in the face of a constant removal of architecture from the natural elements, in particular for the consequences that this loss means in terms of energy consumption that correspond to a general flattening of the architectural characters and, generally, a flattening related to the design process.

The research carried out in the Architectural Composition PhD course is in continuity with the study of Francesco Venezia [7] investigating in more depth what the Tower of Shadows offers with respect to the questions concerning the good orientation of the buildings in order to guarantee suitable conditions of living. These aspects are known and investigated by Le Corbusier over the course of his long theoretical and architectural production.

The opportunity to publish these studies allows me to underline an inseparable relationship between architecture of real appearances as Venezia calls it and the studies on solar orientation of energy derivation. The Tower of Shadows stands as an emblematic and clarifying experience that permit to understand, as I tried to do in this small text, the architectural reasons of other buildings, not only designed by Le Corbusier. On several occasion of discussions, the attention to the aspects of energetic nature and more generally to the sustainability in architecture has been read as a positivist approach referring with this definition to the criticism moved to the studies of the modern movement on the theme of orientation. Today’s challenge is to reach the synthesis mentioned earlier.

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H Focillon, Vie des formes. Parigi: Ernest Leroux, 1943; transl. it., Vita delle forme. In Id. Scultura e pittura romanica in Francia, ed. by S. Bettini, (Einaudi, Torino, 1972)

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