Professor Marco Imperadori presents his work with Active House at Politecnico di Milano, with climate modelling and simulation of indoor climate

1. Active House Symposium 2017
#AHsymp17 #ActiveHouse
Active House in Mediterranean climate:
experiences and monitoring in some Politecnico di Milano case studies
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2. MARCO IMPERADORI
 Short BIO:
 Full Professor of Building Design and Innovation at Politecnico di Milano, Marco focuses his interest in
Sustainability as a contemporary result of the fusion between Art and Science. As a designer his
projects have been awarded several times and published in many international magazines; he has
published worldwide and he teaches as visiting professor or lecturer in many Universities and
Institutions around the world. He’s very ”active” therefore Active House Alliance is a natural
environment to be involved in and enjoy exchanges and mutual growth:
People First and Planet First...together!
 The core of his interest in research about sustainability is Dry Lightweight Structure/Envelope
Technologies. Active House vision applied to these concepts have been proved successfully in
Mediterranean Climate too, where beautiful sunlight and the possibility to use natural ventilation in
many months of the year show that we should go beyond Passive...towards Active House concepts.
Inter-Active buildings and sensitive responding buildings are the next step and the actual research
frontier.
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 COMFORT

6. High performances VELUX roof
StoVentec panels windows
Triple glazed windows
with Low Emissivity
Knauf Cleaneo panels:
gypsum board with zeolite
Steel structure easily disassembly and recyclable. Only
basement floor is in reinforced concrete.
Hyper-insulation of polyurethane,
polystyrene, mineral and fiber wood wool
Architecture and technology

7.  Environment

8. VELUXlab: Building sites
1st August 2011, h 6:00 am
Politecnico di Milano, Bovisa Campus
VELUXlab: the construction site begins
4 months of work:
more than 20.000
screw, 100 m3 of
insulating material
Building reuse
Bilbao 2007
Rome 2008
Milan 2009

9.  Energy

10. Energetic simulations and mechanical system

11. Wireless Sensors Network Monitoring System

12. Wireless Sensors Network Monitoring System
The data acquirer of the wireless sensors network (WSN) are realized by TelosB appliances with data-logger designed to have the required reading
errors (<0,1 °C in temperature reading) using PT1000 sensors.
TelosB equipment allow the data acquistion, processing and trasmitting. They are powered by four AA battery (their life-time is in testing). The used
software was developed by D.E.I. Department of Politecnico di Milano.
The temperature sensors installed are:
-14 Surface temperature sensors PT 1000 A class with platinum sensible element for the monitoring of the building envelope
- 6 Surface temperature sensors PT 1000 A class with platinum sensible element and 2 electric meters for
the monitoring of the mechanical system
- 7 Micro Data-logger wireless TelosB

13. 9,8
30,0
25,0
20,0
15,0
10,0
5,0
0,0
Energy need for heating and cooling without solar gains
and solar system
35,0 32,0
HeatingkWh/m3anno CoolingkWh/m3anno
Energetic assestment of the building
with transient thermal analisys done
with TRNSYS software.
Energetic simulations and mechanical system

14. Certification Active House Comfort
Energy
Environment
Radar Data
First Italian building “Net Zero Energy” in a
University Campus
And through the integration of the PV system:
First Italian Active House certified as built

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Augmented Reality
_Communicating design
POLITECNICO
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Coordinators
Marco Imperadori
Andrea Vanossi
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Students
Davide della Croce
Alessandra Di Maggio
Matteo Lazzarotto

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20. July 2013 – Esperimento Drone (Drone experiment)

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Università degli Studi Roma Tre
Politecnico di Milano
RhOME for DenCity
Solar Decathlon 2014
Team Leader:
Prof. Chiara Tonelli (Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Architecture
Department)
Prof. Stefano Converso (Università degli Studi Roma Tre,
Architecture Department)
Active House:
Prof.Marco Imperadori (ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano)
Prof.Gabriele Masera (ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano)
Prof.Graziano Salvalai (ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano)

30. Blower door test –VANONCINI S.P.A.

32. ENERGY

33. Maisonverte
Sant'Anna
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• Location: via Ambrogio da Calepio 12, Bergamo, BG - Italy
• Architecture design: Atelier2 - Valentina Gallotti e Marco Imperadori
Associati – Milano
• Structural design: Studio Tecnico Ing. Gian Pietro Imperadori - Darfo
Boario Terme, BS
• Construction: Vanoncini S.p.a., Mapello, BG
• Client: Vanoncini S.p.a., Mapello, BG
Project general data

36. Exposition and roof protection to prevent overheating
Daylight analysis for the best positioning of the roof-windows
High thermal insulation of the envelope to optimize the Top
Maison Verte
- Indoor comfort
VELUX Daylight Visualizer
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0 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 6000 7000 8000
°C
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Tair,ext Ti,op

39. LAYERING AND OPTIONEERING

45. Radar diagram – Maison verte

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Grazie!
There’s a necessity to move
And to choose a particular direction
Therefore a double necessity:
to move and to find the right direction
D.H. LAWRENCE, Sea and Sardinia