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The recovery of Brownfield redevelopment imposes a delicate task that tends towards a compromise between the need to preserve the characteristic composition of the building and the will to make it functional. Our thoughts will describe a teaching experiment of the thesis “From the industrial building to the lab-museum”, which deals with the museum as a responsive use for a dismissed industrial building. The design approach experimented by the authors within the Research Project of National Interest entitled “The environmentally friendly behaviour in the redevelopment and conversion project of Brownfield sites”, starts from a critical reading of the area of study through an oriented interpretation of its natural and human-made characters. The aim of the thesis is not linked to a design speech exclusively related to the re-functionalization but rather to the symbolic role that the Museum – Lab could play. From a technological point of view, the main goals of the project are the satisfaction of the user’ needs of fruition and illumination through photovoltaic systems.

Every action to protect archaeological heritage requires environmental transformations, especially when such interventions are aimed at make available (usable, accessible, readable even in the early stages of investigation) a site through a proper infrastructure of the area. An archaeological site is, in fact, a system characterized by complex interrelated relationships that must be supported by networks able to provide technological control of complex functions. In this regard, this research aims to study in particular the system of infrastructural networks (communication, energy supply, integrated water cycle) in the service of taking care of archaeological sites as well as the interaction with the ecological and landscape network that covers the area. The encounter between infrastructural networks and ecological and landscape creates a new type of network, that can be defined as “environmental” and which takes account not only of supply and flow of matter and energy, but also the needs of environmental sub-systems water, air and soil. The research is also applied to the archaeological site of “the Villa di Pollio Felice” in the town of Sorrento, which, for the characteristics of the archaeological park with strong environmental and landscape values, is particularly suitable for the application of the aforementioned concepts.

"La sperimentazione progettuale proposta supera il limite della pura ricerca compositiva, alla ricerca di una nuova tipologia costruttiva il cui centro dell’interesse è un rinnovato concetto di involucro, prodotto paritetico di diversi approcci: progettuale, tecnologico, impiantistico, …, che contemporaneamente risponde a requisiti compositivi e strutturali, tecnologici ed energetici, impiantistici e funzionali."

""Starting from the concept of sustainable use of natural resources, cross-cutting theme in the research carried. out by the authors, we propose a reflection on the enhancement practice of waste associated with the. anthropization phenomena of a place. The combination of waste - resource while is not a new concept it’s,. from the environmental point of view, highly relevant and, therefore, there is a need to approach the problem. in a systemic way promoting the diffusion of innovative technologies that can maximize the input of these. "resources" in new vital, productive and designing circuits. It is evident, therefore, the necessity to set. strategies of sustainable waste management through its recycle and reuse in order to contribute to the. safeguard and conservation of such a resource. More specifically, from the systemization of critical issues. observed to building and landscape scale with respect to the main human activities, the living, the authors. suggest a synthesis framework about best practices for the recovery, reuse and recycling in the Architecture. project (in particular: waste landscape, C&D materials, storm water, urban gardens) framing this approach in. a logic of technological and design opportunities. Even at national and international level, in order to comply. with the directions contained in the various Framework Directives, there are numerous initiatives oriented. both to the reduction of waste production and to the promotion of innovative strategies by working directly on. the sustainability of construction""

Usage of natural resources, energy efficiency, adaptation to climate change, waste reduction and mobility are, at the same time, both the problematic issues of sustainability and areas where the discipline of architectural technology has the specific skills and tools to contribute improve. In line of recent intensification of this problems, also in Italy, housing requires a critical reflection oriented to definition of innovative design approaches. Technology teaching, especially in laboratories, represents an stimulating field for further investigation and experimentation. The didactic experience, carried out within the Architecture Construction Laboratory (IInd year) at the Second University of Naples - Faculty of Architecture -, brought out the importance within the architecture design to realize objectives as sustainable usage of natural resources (water, solar energy and wind) in social housing. This paper explores innovation and quality question in social housing. The complex balance between needs for housing, quality of buildings and economical feasibility, well explain the challenge of Social Housing. Architectural and technological experimentation are important interpretation tools both of user needs and performance’s improvement in relation to built environment and collective spaces. Changed housing needs, increasingly oriented to flexibility, as well as the need for high performance energy and, in general, environmental urban settlements (and building) require a strong educational approach based on teaching of a design "method" able to contemplate this complexity. Probably, if the question regards “How can we assure to our students the ability to be innovative?”, the need for innovation could mean, from an educational point of view, teaching a designing method opens to changes and innovation.

The concept of sustainability, in the meaning of rational use of the cultural resource, constitutes the starting point of the considerations carried out in this work, which is dealing with the elaborate topic of the archaeological heritage fruition. The user – with his needs – and the archaeological object represent the cornerstones of an innovative approach aimed at the elaboration of a visit-path, according to an augmented key that, starting from the material datum (archaeological object), is able to involve the virtual datum (non-excavated object). The real/virtual alternation, created starting from the selection of the real datum and supported by the development of the tale, represents the main innovation of the proposed fruition hypothesis.

Il volume raccoglie gli esiti di quattro ricerche condotte nell'ambito del dottorato in Tecnologie dell'Architettura e dell'Ambiente coordinato da M.I. Amirante presso la Seconda Università degli Studi di Napoli. I beni archeologici e gli edifici industriali sono i campi di applicazione su cui sono state sperimentate dagli autori metodologie di progetto e di gestione finalizzate alla valorizzazione di tali tipologie di patrimonio. Il delicato tema della gestione dei beni archeologici viene affrontato da Mah.d Arinat e Caterina Frettoloso con l'intento di innovarne i processi e le strategie di approccio attraverso due declinazioni: l'elaborazione di linee guida per il management di siti archeologici in condizioni di scarsità di risorse e la messa a punto di metodologie integrate per la fruizione. Il recupero in chiave energeticamente sostenibile degli edifici industriali, finalizzato ad un uso residenziale, è l'oggetto della proposta di Manuela Musto, mentre, la definizione e la costruzione di una griglia di indicatori di supporto alla progettazione ecocompatibile di un involucro industriale prefabbricato sono gli argomenti chiave affrontati da Angela D'Angelo.