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2012 , Vol. 1 >Issue 4: 357 - 364

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foar.2012.10.001

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Restoration of modern buildings

  • Grazia Lombardo
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  • Department of Architecture, University of Catania, Italy

Received date: 10 Sep 2012

Accepted date: 07 Oct 2012

Published date: 05 Dec 2012

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2014 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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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 precompressed blocks of natural stone through reinforcing steel has good performances when used both in the case of new design and 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.

Key words： Pre-compressed stone panel; Innovative envelope; Energy improvement; Feasibility study

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Grazia Lombardo . Restoration of modern buildings[J]. Frontiers of Architectural Research, 2012 , 1(4) : 357 -364 . DOI: 10.1016/j.foar.2012.10.001

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