Beyond Emergency Towards Circular Design: Building Low Tech

Antonini, Ernesto; Boeri, Andrea; Giglio, Francesca

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-55969-4_3

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“…43.1). Temporary Architecture reaffirms its role as a privileged field of experimentation for the development of production models and technical solutions based on circular economy and digitalisation processes (Antonini et al 2020).…”

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Design Scenarios for a Circular Vision of Post-disaster Temporary Settlements

Arnetoli

Bologna

2023

The Urban Book Series

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The construction sector has a considerable impact on the environment in terms of both exploited natural resources and greenhouse gas emissions. Therefore, converting the production process from linear to circular is essential. In increasingly vulnerable human settlements, post-emergency recovery can become an opportunity to develop innovative circular design strategies. The research focuses on how to strengthen the resilience of risk-prone territories through pre-disaster strategic planning based on a systemic approach. Post-emergency management of 2009 and 2016–2017 earthquakes in the inner areas of Central Italy is assumed as a case study. In particular, the tender specifications that guided the recovery revealed a deep lack of preventive programmes on the post-use phase of the settlements, which remain suspended between temporary and permanent. Starting from the analysis, the paper proposes a matrix of alternative scenarios for the end-of-life of temporary structures. The matrix allows connecting the recovery phase with the objectives of social cohesion and territorial regeneration policies, adapting the response to the needs of the specific context. Assuming that the artefact’s technological requirements depend on the different perspectives of their life cycle, the scenarios are oriented towards different degrees of reversibility, addressing the complete disassembly, with the reuse and recycling of components, up to the reconversion of temporary assets as local facilities and as resources for green and digital transition. Integrating post-disaster into ordinary tools would trigger virtuous synergies to optimise public funding use. In this framework, post-disaster temporary housing can become a field of experimentation for disaster-resilient communities and circular economy.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 90%

Design Scenarios for a Circular Vision of Post-disaster Temporary Settlements

Arnetoli

Bologna

2023

The Urban Book Series

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“…The enabling factors that promote the transition to a CE model in the construction industry include education and cultural change; data availability; policies and incentives; and novel voluntary stewardships [58]. Interestingly, low-tech design and approaches have been noted to be very promising for the further development of circular design and the overall advancement of a CE and sustainability in the building sector with a focus on, e.g., reversible building concepts, the circular and reversibility potential of buildings, local materials, resource circularity, material recovery and recycling, and technological innovation [87][88][89].…”

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Circular Economy Development in the Wood Construction Sector in Finland

Husgafvel

Sakaguchi

2023

Sustainability

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Circular economy development is about a system level change towards enhanced sustainability and circularity covering both biological and technical cycles. This study aimed at exploring, identifying, analyzing and synthesizing the current state of and future outlook on CE development in the wood construction sector in Finland as perceived by various sectoral companies. This study focused on multiple themes related to the importance of the various aspects of a CE and associated approaches in this particular sector. This study applied a qualitative research approach, and a questionnaire survey was the specific method. The survey was sent to both architectural and construction sector companies. This study addressed a gap in research and contributes to the better understanding of the current state of and future outlook on CE development in the wood construction sector. The results indicate that the CE concept is mostly considered to be an important part of building design and construction. However, some respondents found that this concept is new to them. Interestingly, the cascading use of wood and the assessment and measurement of a CE were not at all familiar to many respondents. Particularly important CE aspects in the wood construction sector include, for example, sustainability and the long life cycles of products, components and materials; co-creation and cooperation covering the whole life cycle of construction and the whole supply chain; training and competence development; and design for a CE, sustainability and long life cycles. Many essential elements of a CE were in use, coming into use or in consideration by many of the sectoral companies.

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“…Some designers have started using digital fabrication (mostly 3D printing, CNC milling, and laser cutting) to produce low-cost and customized architectures for humanitarian or social purposes. Corsini, Aranda-Jan, and Moultrie [17] report the existence of a large literature, which demonstrates how many applications of digital manufacturing in emergency areas are based on creative use of digital techniques and methods of production [4,5,23,24]. Most of the applications concern developing countries and often involve research institutes or universities in partnership with government agencies.…”

Section: Digital Innovation In Post-disaster Areamentioning

confidence: 99%