Innovative Systems for a Sustainable Architecture and Engineering

摘要

The main architectural, technological and structural factors influencing the response of buildings to environment actions and control its environmental impact are discussed presenting the sustainability in architecture and engineering in terms of performances of the building involving both the increase of safety and the impact reduction. New conceptual approaches to the building design deriving from the use of innovative systems allowing an improved passive protection against extreme attacks like earthquakes are proposed. A case study is reported where the designers, by means of the operated choices of sustainable architecture and engineering, have tried to combine the structural and architectural aspects, expressing in figurative terms what usually is hidden to the inattentive observer.