Traditional Building Materials for Innovative Envelope

Abstract:

The present paper is part of a research that is developed within the sustainable building design through the revisiting of the traditional construction materials. The results obtained show that the natural stone, enhanced by technological innovations, are often capable of providing excellent performance. Based on the tests, it was possible to verify and validate the hypothesis that the proposed new system of external vertical opaque enclosure consisting in a panel in dry-assembled and pre-compressed blocks of natural stone through reinforcing steel, has good performances when used both in the case of new design in the case of recovery of modern buildings, when the intervention is being addressed within of an overall building improvement regarding the security, sustainability, functionality and image. This paper reports the first results obtained by the study of the feasibility of the envelope being tested, through the definition of all the details of links with the existing building structure.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 253-255)
• Pages: 358-366
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.253-255.358
• Online since: December 2012
• Authors: Grazia Lombardo
• Keywords: Energy Improvement, Feasibility Study, Innovative Envelope, Pre-Compressed Stone Panel

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