Hybrid Building as Social and Energy Hub for Smart Cities: Unitè 2.0, a Prototype

Abstract

The purpose of the master degree project «Living in the time of crisis: Unitè d’habitation 2.0» designed by Eleonora Barsanti and tutored by Luca Lanini and Sergio Russo Ermolli aims to offer a possible definition for a new housing model based on concepts like affordability and social living, but above all of flexibility, adaptability, versatility, energetic sustainability and/or production: a prototype that can be placed in any context and adapted to meet specific needs as being a node in a smart city grid. In our opinion, this process would allow us to accomplish diversity within the same building, attaining a kind of chameleon like organism which is flexible, adaptable, versatile and an active energy hub.