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EUROSOLAR /UIA-ARES
MANIFESTO
Rome, 19-20 May 2011
THE ARCHITECTURE OF
WELL TEMPERED
ENVIRONMENT
AN HARMONY OF
INTEGRATED
INSTRUMENTS
PROLOGUE
We are living in a
turning moment in
our History, which
urgently requires an
effective action to
contain the
disastrous effects
of Climate Change
and the threats of
"Peak
Oil"
and
"natural
resource depletion".
This Manifesto
recognizes the
significance of the
European Charter for
Solar Energy in
Architecture and
Urban Planning
(1996), and intends
to reaffirm its
content in
accordance with the
European Directive
on nearly zero
energy buildings,
the latest European
and international
documents on
strategies for
Sustainable Cities
and Environment.
We strongly believe
that Architecture
and Urban Planning
have a leading role
for the formal and
functional quality
of our future,
social and natural
environment, and to
ensure survivable
levels of comfort
and well-being, it
is unavoidable and
urgently necessary
that the design is
the result of a
harmony of well
tempered
environment.
It will be necessary
to reformulate the
approach by which we
act on built
environment and
nature, and as
professionals,
planners, architects
and engineers,
assume the
responsibility of
our role.
To reach these aims
it will be necessary
a reformulation of
the architectural
language and
roles in time,
in space, in
mobility and in
technology and in
terms of
"structure,
grammar and syntax",
reaffirming the
relevance of
Vitruvius
"firmitas,
utilitas, venustas".
Therefore we believe
in the need of
acting in the fields
of
:
ENERGY – ENVIRONMENT
– ARCHITECTURE –
CITY – EDUCATION –
THE PROFESSIONS –
GOVERNANCE
10 KEY ACTIONS
-
Designing
buildings from
the requirements
of thermal,
light and sound
comfort,
providing
architectural
solutions that
guarantee
buildings free
of non-renewable
energy, provided
by technological
efficient
systems and
powered by
renewable
energies.
-
Designing cities
based on the
integration of
functions -
home, work,
services - to
encourage
pedestrian and
bicycle
mobility,
reducing
pollution and
private car use.
-
Pursue the
development of
distributed
renewable
energy, network
and storage
systems in the
design of
buildings,
neighbourhoods
and cities.
-
Reformulate the
rules and
approaches,
increasingly
complex, of the
Architectural
and Urban Design
to include the
necessary
multidisciplinary
skills useful
for the organic
development of
the project;
restore the
links between
aesthetics,
technology and
function towards
an environmental
approach.
-
Promote the
Integrated
Design, both
through the
changing role of
the architect
"to integrate
skills",
both through the
design process
that comes from
the organizing
and enhancement
of an harmony of
multidisciplinary
contributions
for climate,
environmental
and cultural
equilibrium.
-
Pursue the
integration
between natural
and human
ecosystems -
nature, history,
cultural
identity, social
and economic
aspects,
morphological
characteristics
- ensuring that
developmental
processes by
humans, aimed at
fossil-fuel free
food production,
soil and wetland
restoration and
land
conservation,
become part of
our future.
-
Ensure through
innovations and
technologies to
achieve the
maximum possible
in energy
efficiency, in
this
architecture
should play a
proactive role
to stimulate
technological
innovation,
environmental
friendly and
compatible with
the local
"milieu".
-
Promote
scientific and
technological
experimentation
involving
universities,
professional
firms, local
governments and
industries in
order to develop
a repertoire of
effective energy
saving
techniques,
technologies and
tools.
-
Promote and
disseminate new
technical and
scientific
culture through
training in
close
cooperation
between
universities and
professional
associations.
-
Seek the
political
commitment of
governments and
institutions at
all levels, to
engage in the
realization of
these goals
through
appropriate
instruments and
policies.
Rome, 20 May 2011,
by Francesca
Sartogo with the
collaboration of
Angelica Fortuzzi
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