Emergency Architecture in The Urban Renovation

During the past years the developed countries have become more conscious of the need of sustainability in everyday life. In architecture this is reflected in the search for Sustainable Housing solutions. Researchers all around the world aim to minimize the negative environmental impact of buildings by enhancing efficiency in the use of the space, materials and energy. The purpose of this research was to investigate the best way to construct a “plug-in” sustainable house, in order to build a flexible space and to reduce impact on the environment. This will make it affordable not only for low-income people, senior citizen and people with impairments but also for the planet. It will be prefabricated with industrialized processes to speed up the construction time on site and to facilitate its aggregation in bigger flexible buildings. To reach these results we studied the typological solutions in order to have a clever distribution of inner spaces and a careful arrangement of functions to create a flexible home, disproving the notion that “living small is living with less, giving at same time the opportunity to the owners to get a personal space that meet their needs. From a constructive point of view, we designed precast panels completed of the layers for the insulation and the inner and external finishing for an easily assembly in short time. To improve the time performances the kitchen and the bathroom were designed as modular three-dimensional units. In all the design process the aim was to reduce the economic and environmental impact of the final project mitigating the costs, using renewable and/or recycled materials and lowing the energy consumption of the house.