Grafting a solar chimney: Strategies for urban regeneration

Unlike a “traditional” approach to design that interprets the question of integration of plant design in an organic vision of the relationship between environment/area/shape, in the case of the project SEEM, the architectural theme is that of identifying formal solutions, energetically performing, that, in the comparison and in the need for integration with pre-existing buildings, can achieve the dual objective of improving energy performance and presents itself as an opportunity for redevelopment of the urban habitat. It is, therefore, to interpret a plant beyond its technical content, assuming the character of formal autonomy as an element able to communicate with the building called to host it. The definition of the basic geometries of the prototype represents a real experimental work in progress which involves, actively, multidisciplinary skills and that is started from the first formulation of a concrete case study that focused on the south side facade of the Laboratory Benecon-Ars in Frignano.