Case StudiesInstitute for Renewable Energy
# Energy retrofitVilla Castelli, Bellano, Como Lake
The private renovation and conservation of a historic villa in Bellano, on the Como Lake. This project emerged from the customer's desire to carry out the radical restructuring of the Villa's envelope while preserving the building's architectural features and improving its energy performance.
Building type
residential/rural villa
Facts
& Figures
© Eurac Research / Valentina Carì | © Eurac Research / Valentina Carì
The role of Eurac Research
In this building, our researchers provided support in relation to thermo-hygrometric simulation to examine various solutions to the construction of the building envelope, analysis of the economic costs, thermo-hygrometric monitoring and analysis of interior comfort.
Implemented technologies
Insulation on the inner surfaces of the exterior walls, windows and doors substitution, heat pump with geothermal plant, installation of mechanical ventilation system with heat recovery, double-curled aluminum sheet covering of the roof with integrated mono-crystalline PV modules, micro wind turbines on the roof, complete restauration of the façade according to the input requirements of the heritage authority.
More information
More technical and detailed information on this historic demo buildins in the Hiberatlas tool
Conference paper at AICARR Conference, Bologna
The historic building
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