Workshops

LICA

Informatics Laboratory for the Control of the Built Environment

This section of the DiARC, is aimed at providing methods and tools able to control thermal, acoustic and lighting comfort of cultural goods, according to a view which, by over passing the employment of a certain kind of plant systems (with high consumption of fossil fuels and hard technologies), will be compatible with the aspects and the restrictions of the built system. The research regarding the assessment of bio-compatibility and eco-sustainability of techniques and materials tends to define operative practices aimed at identifying, scientifically, those characters needed to create a good harmony between the built and the natural environment.

LASTEC

Experimental Laboratory for Rammed Earth

This section of the DiARC is aimed at carrying out a number of tests on soil samples and on dough for the studies over the ancient architectures with rammed earth in the Mediterranean tradition, and for the completion of new components in adobe, by monitoring the stabilization, the composition, the thermal Transmission, the permeability, the thermal conductivity, the Sound insulation power.

LRRM

Re-use, Requalification and Maintenance Laboratory

This section of the DiARC is meant at enhancing the built environment in both the public and private sector, dealing with the arrangement and application of simplified procedures for programming, dsigning and managing the maintenance interventions, by defining reading models of the edyfiing system and interpreting the decay and obsolescence phenomena of the built environment, and evaluating, as far as efficiency and efficacy are concerned, between various completion alternatives aimed at maintenance. The activities of this section are certified by the UNI EN ISO 9001/2000, ITLACERT.

LEAS

Laboratory of Applied and Experimental Ergonomics

This section of the DiARC carries out activities aimed at defining the ergonomics requirements for products, spaces and for new and existing systems. The main fields of the LEAS are the evaluation and the design of:

  • Usable products and environments
  • Workspaces and equipment in safety-critical environments safety critical
  • Task analysis and human performance evaluation
  • Accessibility, inclusive design, design for all
  • Human-built environment interaction
  • Sustainability and the human factor

LASA

Environmental Sustainability Laboratory

This section of the DiARC employs methods, tools and techniques for the environmental quality control, at various scales, regarding the followimg items:

  • Landscape compatibility in restricted contexts
  • Eco-sustainability and bio-compatibility assessment of building products
  • Procedures, protocols and standards for the verification of recycling actions
  • Catalogue of design solutions and technical formats for ecosustainable and biocompatible products
  • Catalogue of design solutions and technical formats for eco-sustainable and biocompatible products
  • Information service for orientation during the choice among ecosustainable, biocompatible and recycled building products