The recovery of old buildings out of use to be designed for services for which they were not designed for originally has become, in Italy, a widespread practice. The choice to reuse old buildings with strong architectural and monumental connotations, generally poses problems relating to structural adequacy, energy consumption control, functional distribution of new spaces as well as to the satisfaction of indoor comfort parameters (i.e. the minimum lighting requirements). In this paper the preliminary plan of the new town library of Piombino (Livorno, Tuscany - Italy) intends to realize in the ex-Church of S. Antimo (medieval age, c.1250) is illustrated. The results of an extensive analysis concerning day- and artificial lighting of the consultation and reading areas of the new library to be realized in the nave of the ex-Church are shown. Finally, the evaluation of energy demand for artificial lighting, by calculation of Lighting Energy Numeric Indicator (LENI), is presented.
Daylighting and lighting energy demand analysis of the new town library of Piombino (Italy)
LECCESE, FRANCESCO;SALVADORI, GIACOMO;
2009-01-01
Abstract
The recovery of old buildings out of use to be designed for services for which they were not designed for originally has become, in Italy, a widespread practice. The choice to reuse old buildings with strong architectural and monumental connotations, generally poses problems relating to structural adequacy, energy consumption control, functional distribution of new spaces as well as to the satisfaction of indoor comfort parameters (i.e. the minimum lighting requirements). In this paper the preliminary plan of the new town library of Piombino (Livorno, Tuscany - Italy) intends to realize in the ex-Church of S. Antimo (medieval age, c.1250) is illustrated. The results of an extensive analysis concerning day- and artificial lighting of the consultation and reading areas of the new library to be realized in the nave of the ex-Church are shown. Finally, the evaluation of energy demand for artificial lighting, by calculation of Lighting Energy Numeric Indicator (LENI), is presented.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
