SUD / Sustainable Urban Design

TOWARDS AN URBAN ECOSYSTEM - Visions for a Sustainable City

2011-02-08T10:47:00.000+01:00

The "TOWARDS AN URBAN ECOSYSTEM. Visions for a Sustainable City" competition notice is online. This international call for proposals for students and young architects has the pourpose of awarding two scholarships for the Master in ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN.

The Master was created by IED Rome in collaboration with the National Institute of Architecture (IN/ARCH), which is recognized as being a Special Scientific Institute by the MIUR (Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research). The objective is to train professional experts in the field of environmental design by providing them with the skills needed to imagine a different conscious and responsible type of habitat.

The competition invites young architects and graduates to reflect collectively on the issue of a new ecology for urban development by formulating visions, ideas or design proposals for the redevelopment of their own city. This is to be accomplished through three simple digital cards that can travel on a global level to tell the world how our cities could be different, more beautiful, more correct and more in balance with the rest of our living planet.

The Master trains designers to address the complexities of the contemporary city by promoting a true ecology of urban development through two different areas of specialization: Sustainable Urban Design and Landscape Design. These two areas of specialization share the same preparatory aims: to acquire theoretical and practical skills related to the concepts of sustainability, ecology, territory, ecological footprint, renewable energy, bioclimatic design, sustainable mobility and water managment and urban agriculture. Subsequently, the area of expertise offered by the course in Sustainable Urban Design concentrates on the following specializations: designing renewable energy plants, analyzing the thermo-fluid dynamic of buildings and urban systems and developing a design method that is based on both architecture and energy simulation. And, the area of expertise offered by the Landscape Design course focuses on the following specializations: botany, geography, aesthetic and contemporary art, landscape history and design.

Send IED Rome the three proposals by February 15, 2011, to participate in this competition.

The evaluation commission will be composed of Alberto Iacovoni (Director of IED Rome), Marialuisa Palumbo (Master Coordinator), Massimo Locci (Secretarial Coordinator of IN/ARCH) and of the professors in charge of the Master in Environmental Design: Mauro Annunziato (ENEA), Luca Galofaro (IaN+) and Lorenzo Romito (Stalker).

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2010-11-24T14:54:00.006+01:00

Mariya Sabotinova + Luigi Greco

Damiano Capuzzo

5. Mariya Sabotinova + Luigi Greco

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5. Damiano Capuzzo

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5. Giorgio Scarchilli + Omer Hamulu

2010-10-22T13:41:00.000+02:00

5. Garghi De

2010-10-22T13:39:00.000+02:00

4. Mariya Sabotinova + Luigi Greco

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4. Damiano Capuzzo

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4. Giorgio Scarchilli + Omer Hamulu

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4. Garghi De

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3. Damiano Capuzzo

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3. Giorgio Scarchilli + Omer Hamulu

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3. Mariya Sabotinova + Luigi Greco

2010-08-30T17:57:00.014+02:00

3. Garghi De

2010-08-30T15:24:00.009+02:00

2. Damiano Capuzzo

2010-06-22T13:11:00.007+02:00

2. Giorgio Scarchilli + Omer Hamulu

2010-06-22T13:06:00.004+02:00

2. Mariya Sabotinova + Luigi Greco

2010-06-22T13:00:00.004+02:00

2. Garghi De

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Analysis map

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1. Mariya Sabotinova + Luigi Greco

2010-05-14T11:59:00.013+02:00

1. Garghi De

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1. Giorgio Scarchilli + Omer Hamulu

2010-05-14T11:27:00.006+02:00

1. Damiano Capuzzo

2010-05-14T10:33:00.019+02:00

Constructed Wetlands

2010-04-24T13:10:00.003+02:00

22.04.2010_Fabio Masi

When we talk about wastewater should understand it’s composition: we are talking basically of WATER and other ELEMENTS that can be considered misplaced, if we can get them back in the right place we could use them for many good things.

The wastewater characterization is based on:
PHYSICAL PARAMETERS (temperature, electrical conductivity, solids, colour, odour)
CHEMICAL PARAMETERS (PH, alkalinity, O2 demand COD-BOD-TOD, TOC total organic component, nitrogen, phosphorus, oils and fats, mineral oils, surfactants, toxic substances, dissolved oxygen)
BIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS (total coliforms, fecal coliforms, fecal streptococcus, Escherichia coli as pathogen indicator, salmonella)

Wastewater treatment has to be a primary target, and we have to consider the best technology for our necessities. We have three treatment levels:
PRIMARY, it is the first line of defence and consists in screening, grit removal and primary sedimentation
SECONDARY, it is the minimum level of municipal and industrial treatment before discharge, it gets rid of additional solids and of the pollutants that are solved in water, with microbial uptake and growth
TERTIARY, after secondary treatment water can still we full of bacteria, so this advanced phase works on processes of nitrification, denitrification and phosphorus removal

NATURAL and CONSTUCTED WETLANDS

Natural wetlands are areas of land whose soil is saturated with moisture and can be partially or completely covered with water, they are considered one of the most biologically diverse ecosystems, due to the richness of it’s components: plants, soil and water. The high biological activity can transform many of the common pollutants contained in wastewaters into harmless by-products or essential nutrients that can be recycled for additional biological activity.
This transformation is obtained with a low utilisation of external energy due to the natural environmental energies at work (sun, wind, soil, plants and animals).

Constructed wetlands are man-made systems designed to emphasize specific characteristics of wetland ecosystems to improve the treatment capacities, they can be defined as engineered water saturated areas in which the natural removal for the water pollutants is reproduced, enhanced and controlled in order to optimize the purification performances.

We have three types of constructed wetlands:
FREE WATER SURFACE (FWS): they are areas of open water and are similar in appearance to natural wetlands.

HORIZONTAL SUBSURFACE FLOW (HSSF): they typically employ a gravel bed planted with wetland plants; the water, kept below the surface of the bed, flows horizontally from the inlet to the outlet.

VERTICAL FLOW (VF): water is distributed across the surface of a sand or gravel bed planted with wetland plants; the water is treated as it percolates through the plant root zone.

Water managment in Tor Pagnotta

2010-04-24T12:40:00.005+02:00

8.04.2010_Giulio Conte

Sustainable Waste Management

2010-03-29T12:32:00.008+02:00

25.03.2010_Andrea Masullo

Tools for Water Managment

2010-03-29T12:30:00.003+02:00

26.03.2010_Giulio Conte

The Smart City Context

2010-03-29T12:21:00.004+02:00

22.03.2010 Mauro Annunziato

ECOSYSYEM arrives to SUSTAINABILITY, it is a state of changing.

SELF ORGANIZATION is the tendency of a complex system composed by a moltitude of autonomous elements to produce an internal organization on the base of the composition of local interactors.

Stuart Kauffman establishes a relation between SELF ORGANIZATION and EVOLUTION giving it a progressive increase of complexity. Evolution is not obseved by the point of view of a single species but as the interaction between the different life forms.

Ecological footprint

2010-03-29T12:16:00.005+02:00

16.03.2010_Eva Alessi

Ecological footprint is the measure of human impact on our ecosystem.

Mathis Wackernagel and William Rees developed this concept starting form the idea that to develop a sustainable way of living we have to observe the DEMAND of the Earth's population.

Human demand is compared to the Earth's ecological capacity to regenerate.
It represents the amount of biologically productive land and sea area needed to regenerate the resources a population consumes and to absorb the corresponding waste.

Global Footprint Network

Water and the city

2010-03-29T12:13:00.004+02:00

10.03.2010_Giulio Conte

Sustainable Sanitation

GTZ

ZeroM

Fosso di Vallerano: a natural corridor

2010-03-28T18:25:00.009+02:00

19.03.2010

We have walked along the Vallerano ditch, starting from the Tiber back up to Tor Pagnotta, our project area, searching for the identity of this natural corridor.

How does the city relate with it's water sources, which are the uses we found along our way?

Project Topics

2010-03-28T18:00:00.008+02:00

18.03.2010_Marialuisa Palumbo

People, food and water, energy.
Thse are the three components we have to take into account.

How can we design the combination of these elements?

What is the new city model we can propose?

Urban Explorations

2010-03-22T17:05:00.003+01:00

Project area: Tor Pagnotta

2010-03-21T16:07:00.006+01:00