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Talks and Poster Presentations (with Proceedings-Entry):

M. Gesierich, O. Sukrow, U. Pont, R. Stalla, A. Mahdavi:
"Investigation of Historical Villa Architecture under Combined Consideration of Cultural and Performance-Based Aspects";
Talk: enviBUILD2017 - Buildings and Environment - From Research to Application, TU Wien, Vienna, Austria; 09-07-2017 - 09-08-2017; in: "12th international enviBUILD conference 2017 - Buildings and Environments - From Research to Application", U. Pont, M. Schuss, A. Mahdavi (ed.); Department of Building Physics and Building Ecology, TU Wien, (2017), 58.



English abstract:
Recent discussions about building´s energy performance of the building stock often emphasize the poor thermal quality of existing buildings. At the same time, it is often forgotten that different historic building traditions since Roman Antiquity did address building performance based on low-energy design features. While such design features, which regularly were based on evolutionary climatic adaptation pressure, are frequently promoted for building traditions of hot-and-dry and hot-and-humid climates, relatively little attention is being paid to such design features in moderate climates, e.g. in central Europe. Moreover, the architectural discourse on historic objects that are considered as lighthouse projects does regularly neglect performance aspects. In this context, the present contribution focuses on a number of rural and sub-urban Villa projects of the past 2000 years. These projects were widely examined concerning their architectural meaningfulness in terms of the "Villa" concept. To further investigate their architectural quality, the projects are empirically evaluated regarding their utilization of different, "low-energy" measures for improving thermal performance and indoor climate, such as cross-ventilation and shading. Moreover, the designs are investigated with specific reference to their (micro-) climatic context, and a methodology for a future detailed examination is delineated.

German abstract:
(no german version) Recent discussions about building´s energy performance of the building stock often emphasize the poor thermal quality of existing buildings. At the same time, it is often forgotten that different historic building traditions since Roman Antiquity did address building performance based on low-energy design features. While such design features, which regularly were based on evolutionary climatic adaptation pressure, are frequently promoted for building traditions of hot-and-dry and hot-and-humid climates, relatively little attention is being paid to such design features in moderate climates, e.g. in central Europe. Moreover, the architectural discourse on historic objects that are considered as lighthouse projects does regularly neglect performance aspects. In this context, the present contribution focuses on a number of rural and sub-urban Villa projects of the past 2000 years. These projects were widely examined concerning their architectural meaningfulness in terms of the "Villa" concept. To further investigate their architectural quality, the projects are empirically evaluated regarding their utilization of different, "low-energy" measures for improving thermal performance and indoor climate, such as cross-ventilation and shading. Moreover, the designs are investigated with specific reference to their (micro-) climatic context, and a methodology for a future detailed examination is delineated.

Keywords:
Building Performance, Indoor Comfort, Architectural History, Villa Architecture, Building Traditions


Electronic version of the publication:
http://bpi.tuwien.ac.at/envibuild/enviBUILD2017_book_of_abstracts.pdf


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