Marco Medici
XXVIII Cycle - (A.A. 2012-2013)
Architecture Technology
Home Institution: University of Ferrara
Without Scholarship
Curriculum: Architecture (ICAR17)
Research Topic: BIM for existing buildings
Tutor DA-UNIFE: Marcello Balzani
Nationality: Italia
Email: marco.medici@unife.it
Profile
Biography
Marco Medici, M.Arch. and Ph.D. in Architecture, is research fellow and Adjunct Professor of Freeform Modelling at the University of Ferrara, Department of Architecture. He is collaborator of the DIAPReM-TekneHub research center since 2010, where he has been involved in several research and training projects, as well as technology transfer activities. He developed advanced skills in the digitization of built environment, focusing in particular on BIM modeling applied to Cultural Heritage. On these topics, he took part in international conferences and he is author of national and international scientific papers. In the last years, he’s also developing research activities on web-based technologies, virtual environment and algorithm-aided design for architectural modeling.
Research skills
eBIM | Refurbishment | Cultural Heritage | Semantic modelling | Freeform modelling
Scientific activities
ORCID ID:
0000-0002-9643-4721
IRIS UNIFE ID:
rp13495
Doctoral research
The digital workflow of the Smart Swap Building strategic project - Validation of information-representation methods and tools for the housing renewal process innovation
The main challenge of Smart Swap Building project, carried out in collaboration with Aster by Construction Platform of Emilia-Romagna High Technology Network, is to identify possible solutions to the crisis that is severely affecting the construction industry, through new approaches to urban regeneration based on housing refurbishment and soil consumption reduction. Investments in refurbishment now exceed those for new buildings and the residential housing stock actually needs to be adapted to new levels of energy efficiency, seismic safety, inclusiveness and comfort. The swap term, borrowed from finance field, indicates the flow exchange between two counterparts: Smart Swap Building wants to use the unsold housing stock as temporary accommodation for the inhabitants of areas in which a renewal program take place. The overall objective of this doctoral research is to evaluate the feasibility of BIM tools adoption in the Smart Swap Building workflow. These electronic tools not only allow a transparent design phase but covers the whole building process, correlating technological and structural elements with construction scheduling (4D), cost estimation (5D), certification (6D) and management of the life cycle (7D + CAFM). Trying to meet European challenges of soil consumption and emission reduction, energy efficiency and living comfort, the Smart Swap Building project has the strong need to define a set of advanced information tools to support the complex decision-making process, integrating different skills in different stages of the building life cycle. The main output of the research is a guideline aimed at digital informative tools adoption in the Smart Swap Building workflow management, and its validation through test-beds and online dissemination.
Keywords
BIM | Refurbishment | Process Innovation | Digital workflow | Smart Swap Building
