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Techno-centric approaches to sustainability and energy optimization are not sufficient to achieve the international targets for CO2 emissions reduction. This applies to our case study, engaging 500+ tenants of a public housing in Milan, deeply renovated in 2014. The 14mln euros invested in technical implementations risk to be vanished by tenant’s ways of living which are not consistent with expected or optimal uses of the building infrastructure and devices.
This study frames changes towards more sustainable patterns of energy consumption by analysing how people carry on conventional practices and for which energy is required.
The study is based on a multi-disciplinary methodology pairing quantitative data from energy monitoring with qualitative understandings of tenants’ practices through ethnographic and participatory methods. This paper presents interim findings drawn from a first set of semi-structured interviews to tenants in order to unpack people’s understandings of technical implementations, ways of doing for reaching thermal comfort and personal satisfaction, leverage of personal skills and aspirations to implement change in practice.
Authors: Giuseppe Salvia, Eugenio Morello, Andrea Sangalli, Lorenzo Pagliano
The research explores the broad topic of sustainability in higher education institutions (HEIs) and offers unique
country-based perspective by focusing on undergraduate architectural education in Kazakhstan. Specifically, it examines
the Kazakh Leading Academy of Architecture and Civil Engineering (KazGASA), a leading HEI in Kazakhstan
in the fields of architecture and design.
A thematic literature review includes sustainability in higher education, integration of sustainability in HEI,
sustainability in architectural-design education; as well as the state of sustainability initiatives in the country’s government
and education system.
14 semi-structured interviews were conducted with faculty, administration and students of KazGASA. The interview
findings helped to understand the level of integration of sustainability topics in KazGASA and identify barriers and
opportunities for the integration of sustainability.
The recommendations are suggested based on interview findings, literature review, and secondary research on
the education system in Kazakhstan.
Author: Nurgul Nsanbayeva
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Based on the theoretical foundation of emotion research in architecture and design, this study starts with design experience
and practical cases. Taking form, space and feeling as the analysis elements, this paper explores the emotional
attributes of sustainable architectural design strategies and space ontology from the four dimensions of aesthetic
appreciation, psychological satisfaction, emotional care and spatial experience. This study found that, in diversified
buildings design and sustainable strategies, the expression of emotion can be immediate, continuous and diversified.
In the future, as the maturity of sustainable architectural design methods and technologies, people's attention will
turn to the emotional perspective full of humanistic care. Paying attention to the integration of ecology and humane
motion in architectural design and exploring its possibility will be another key point for the popularization and development
of sustainable architecture.
Author: Yun-Ting Gao