WOOD, THE “PRECIOUS” MATERIAL

Massimo Rossetti, Iuav University of Venice, Gianni Biagi, INU – URBIT


The economic recovery of these early months of 2021, also supported by tax incentives, has clearly highlighted the great opportunities that wood buildings offer in terms of energy saving and seismic safety on the one hand and, on the other, the great flexibility of solutions even for emergency housing situations.

Universities have been exploring this last field of intervention for some time and recently Iuav and the University of Padua have activated the project HELP (“High efficiency Emergency Living Prototypes”) which aims to design and build an adaptive housing unit….

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