Solar Energy Technologies in Cultural Heritage offers a comprehensive overview of the solar renewable energy possibilities, developments, innovations, and challenges for cultural heritage applications. This book bridges the traditional boundary between research, professional practices, and policies, as well as between arts, architecture, engineering, and social science. Conservation of heritage buildings, especially in urban settings, has evolved from purely physical preservation to functional redevelopment and repurposing. This opens new opportunities for active solar energy systems in buildings, towns, and landscapes. This book presents international contributions on the integration of solar renewable energies within cultural heritage, providing detailed coverage of cultural, legislative, and social frameworks, design criteria, simulation tools, innovative materials, and technologies. This book is an essential resource for anyone interested in solar energy technologies for the built environment, including researchers, scientists, graduate students, engineers, designers, developers, and policymakers.
Table of Contents
Preface: Solar energy technologies in cultural heritage: Is integration possible?1. Regional Climate Change and Cultural Heritage: Impact and Mitigation Strategies
2. Sustainable transition of cultural heritage: Opportunities, risks, and challenges
3. Energy transition of cultural heritage: Opportunities, risks, and challenges
4. Solar energy and architecture
5. Legal system overview for the integration of renewable energies in cultural landscapes
6. Social acceptability of solar technologies in built heritage areas
7. Social practices for active solar implementation in heritage environments
8. Active solar design principles for natural and architectural heritage
9. Solar design of new additions on historic buildings
10. Solar heritage architecture: Lessons learnt from international experiences
11. Heritage Building Information Modeling and Building Performance Simulation tools as a driver for solar design in built heritage
12. Tools for assessing visual impact of solar modules in cultural heritage contexts
13. Analysis of PV Modules Integration Applicability based on GIS 3D-Model
14. Conventional and innovative photovoltaic, solar thermal and hybrid systems
15. Flexible photovoltaics for new scenarios in lightweight architecture
16. Life cycle assessment of photovoltaic systems
Authors
Elena Lucchi Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAr), University of Pavia, Italy.Elena Lucchi is a Researcher in building physics at the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAr), University of Pavia, Italy. She is an Architect with a PhD in building physics from the Politecnico di Milano, complemented by a post-Master's [EP1] degree in environmental education from the Universit� Cattolica. Her research addresses the connections between energy, environment, and architecture, with a focus on energy efficiency, climate mitigation strategies, and integration of renewable energies in historic buildings and protected landscapes.
