Building with Water: new Standards of Sustainable Architecture
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https://doi.org/10.19229/2464-9309/2162017Keywords:
water, architecture, innovation, trans-structure, multifunctional elementsAbstract
Within an increasingly consolidated architectural practice aiming at environmental sustainability and energy self-sufficiency, the article reports international research and experiments carried out on water-architecture. Furthermore, it highlights how, starting from the excellent capacity of the fluid to heat and cool its surrounding space, we can think to water as a material component of architecture.
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