Synthetic Scan and Simultaneous Index Aimed at the Indoor Environmental Quality Evaluation and Certification for People and Artworks in Heritage Buildings

Litti, Giovanni; Audenaert, Amaryllis; Braet, Johan; Fabbri, Kristian; Weeren, Arie

doi:10.1016/j.egypro.2015.11.155

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“…Most of them center on temperature, relative humidity, or ventilation, sometimes even interior air quality, and rarely natural or artificial lighting. Little research adds acoustic comfort to the above [43][44][45]. This is the case despite the fact that noise is one of the most disruptive aspects with health implications for housing sector occupants [46].…”

Section: Energy Efficiency Thermal Comfort and Interior Environmental Comfortmentioning

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Beyond Cultural and Historic Values, Sustainability as a New Kind of Value for Historic Buildings

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Dotor²,

Duarte

2021

Sustainability

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In attempts to improve the energy efficiency of protected historical buildings, two barriers arise. The first is the restrictions imposed by authorities that are responsible for cultural heritage preservation. The second is the exclusion of protected buildings from strict compliance with energy efficiency requirements in current regulations, such as the issue of an Energy Performance Certificate, which removes them from conventional channels of public policies. Both of these issues put heritage in a delicate situation, especially when they are intended for privately developed residential uses. This paper presents a methodology for assessing and establishing a trade-off between energy performance and the cultural value of heritage buildings through the comprehensive analysis of a case study: the retrofitting of Can Armengol Palace in Palma de Mallorca (Spain). The study revealed (1) the need to objectify the cultural values of the building as far as possible to identify conflicts with the strategies of energy efficiency improvement; and (2) the appropriateness of considering every aspect of a rehabilitation intervention in a global simultaneous approach, not just energy aspects. The method that was used had five steps: acquiring a deep knowledge of the building configuration, assessing the building performance for every legal requirement, identifying cultural values, defining intervention criteria, and analyzing intervention effects on the protected elements of the building. The most important contribution in this study is the detailed and extended definition of architectural heritage values and the consideration of interventions resulting from sustainability retrofits as a new kind of value, that reflects current worries, for which future generations will remember us.

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Section: Energy Efficiency Thermal Comfort and Interior Environmental Comfortmentioning

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Beyond Cultural and Historic Values, Sustainability as a New Kind of Value for Historic Buildings

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Dotor²,

Duarte

2021

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“…Some authors also wrote about Indoor Microclimate Quality (IMQ) [12], which is not defined by specific standards and is easily confused with Indoor Environmental Quality (IEQ) [13,14], which is defined by standards for new buildings (EN 15251).…”

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Widespread Difficulties and Applications in the Monitoring of Historical Buildings: The Case of the Realm of Venaria Reale

2020

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Environmental monitoring represents a key step for restaurateurs to follow who strive to ensure the preservation of buildings and artifacts while allowing for people’s thermal comfort. This paper describes the possibilities and main issues arising from the study of indoor microclimates. The presented case study focuses on the monitoring data analysis for two rooms of the Realm of Venaria Reale, in Turin. The adopted methodology provides for the gathering of knowledge about the history, the geometry, and the change of use in the course of the lifetime of the building. This information allows us to construct a virtual model of the building, through which it is possible to evaluate the past and present and to hypothesize future scenarios regarding the indoor environmental conditions. Moreover, this paper presents a specific index, namely the Heritage Microclimate Risk (HMR), which enables us to evaluate the risk level to which the artifacts kept within historic buildings are exposed. With that database of information, we can preemptively define which actions (managerial and structural) would need to be taken for the preservation of the artifacts and the building itself, avoiding the possible risk component taken by working on the real building.

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“…Many studies have been conducted about indoor microclimate and comfort sensation within scientific literature [1,2] and physical characteristics and instruments have been defined, especially in the heritage field [3][4][5][6][7][8]. Different study cases have been analysed [9,10], especially in relation to the indoor microclimate of museums [11][12][13][14], and norms have been elaborated [15,16], as well as specific indexes for the heritage field [17]. In this perspective, a historical role has been given to HVAC [18], and we tried to start to study it in different papers [19][20][21].…”

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The Study of Historical Indoor Microclimate (HIM) to Contribute towards Heritage Buildings Preservation

2019

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Knowledge of building techniques, materials and their decay is nowadays quite vast, as well as on the solutions and methodologies of a restoration project, which depends on the goal of the restoration itself. Even the choices on the new usage of historic buildings are often well considered. In the last few years, we have conducted some monitoring campaigns to obtain data related to four distinct buildings, differing in construction times, typology, location, current and historical uses. What has been discovered is that these buildings appear to be able to guarantee historical microclimates surprisingly overlapping to the parameters nowadays considered appropriate to conserve them and the historical patrimony they contain. In this article we show some explanatory results of four case studies from our research. The monitoring control, moreover, allowed us to develop the analysis further, from survey to virtual simulation. In this way it was possible to verify the effects of minimal variations in the architectural characteristics, such as opening or closing a window, covering an open yard, or else removing a cover, reducing the source of light etc. All of these managerial and architectural interventions have a significant effect on the indoor environment of buildings and can improve the conservation status of architecture, sometimes to such an extent that more costly and invasive restorations become unnecessary.

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Synthetic Scan and Simultaneous Index Aimed at the Indoor Environmental Quality Evaluation and Certification for People and Artworks in Heritage Buildings

Cited by 14 publications

References 9 publications

Beyond Cultural and Historic Values, Sustainability as a New Kind of Value for Historic Buildings

Beyond Cultural and Historic Values, Sustainability as a New Kind of Value for Historic Buildings

Widespread Difficulties and Applications in the Monitoring of Historical Buildings: The Case of the Realm of Venaria Reale

The Study of Historical Indoor Microclimate (HIM) to Contribute towards Heritage Buildings Preservation

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