This project wants to propose a design strategy to achieve the climate-neutrality for buildings with the use of fast-growing biomass insulation materials as GHG compensation.
Moreover, to lower the impacts also in the construction phase, it investigates the creation of sustainable materials and production cycles by exploiting the mycelium growth as a binder and create 100% bio-based insulation composites.
Location
Material Balance Research (Politecnico di Milano, ABC Departement, IT) and Chair of Sustainable Construction (ETH Zurich, CH)
Collaborators
Prof. Ingrid Paoletti (Politecnico di Milano), Prof. Laura Elisabetta Malighetti (Politecnico di Milano), Prof. Francesco Pittau (Politecnico di Milano), Guillaume Habert (ETH Zurich), Stefano Gomarasca (Università Statale di Milano)
Research assistants:
Marco Lenzi, Luca Ficarelli, Pietro Minotti
Contribution
- Conceptualization
- Methodology
External links
https://www.edicomstore.it/vetrina/designing-the-climate-neutrality/
Publications
F Pittau, O.B. Carcassi, M Servalli, S Pellegrini and S Claude, (2022), Hygrothermal characterization of bio-based thermal insulation made of fibres from invasive alien lake plants bounded with mycelium, IOP Conference Series: Earth and Environmental Science, 2022, DOI: 10.1088/1755-1315/1078/1/012069
O.B. Carcassi, G. Habert, L.E. Malighetti, F. Pittau, (2021), How does a climate-neutral building look like? In Construction Technologies and Architecture. 4th International Conference on Bio-Based Building Materials. Trans Tech Publications Ltd. DOI : 10.4028/www.scientific.net/cta.1.279
O.B. Carcassi, G. Habert, L.E. Malighetti, F. Pittau,, (2022), Material Diets for Climate-Neutral Construction, Environmental Science & Technology, 56 (8), 5213-5223, DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.1c05895
O.B. Carcassi, P. Minotti, G. Habert, I. Paoletti, S. Claude, F. Pittau,, (2022), Carbon Footprint Assessment of a Novel Bio-Based Composite for Building Insulation. Sustainability, 14, 1384.DOI: 10.3390/su14031384
O.B. Carcassi, I. Paoletti, L.E. Malighetti, (2022), Reasoned Catalog of biogenic materials in Europe. An anticipatory vision between availability and technical potentials, TECHNE 22 : Circular Transition and Design. DOI: 10.36253/techne-10578
Photo Credits
Marco Lenzi, Luca Ficarelli and Pietro Minotti