Collaro, Carolina | Italy

Carolina Collaro is a PhD candidate at Nova Gorica University, ETCAEH (Economics of Environmental and Architectural Heritage Conservation) joint post graduated program in collaboration with IUAV (University Institute of Architecture of Venice) Italy. She graduated in Architecture at University of Naples in 1992. She received the European Master in Territorial Planning at Polytechnic of Turin in 1993. Her research is focused on potential effects of climate change and sustainable strategic planning considerating energy supply and efficiency of buildings in historic context and cultural landscape.

Her research interests are on the relation between spatial and energy planning and climate change, and how to implement climate change strategies, if they are considered as sectorial planning, or autonomous ones, analysing the experience of some public administrations in Italy.

The thesis is focused on the following aspects:
a) The conservation theory and the environmental impacts due to climate change scenarios. What are opportunities and conflicts? Is it possible to think of a modern conservation of heritage, integrating environmental aspects?

b) The relation between urban ecology, spatial planning and climate change, analysing models and GIS tools.

c) The energy planning and technological choice for a better efficiency of buildings. How to framework this energy vision for climate sensible and vulnerable landscapes, considering sustainable living and tourism.

d) The case of ecobuildings that are zero energy or self-producer of energy and their widespread impacts in particular sensible environments. How to framework this technological system facing environmental and legislative requests.

It is a two key study considering the Delta Po Region, near Ferrara town, and Alps’ region, embracing Italy, Slovenia and Austria, three nations having ratified the Alps Convention with the aim to protect the climate and the socio-economic system.

The aim is to find a best available adaptation strategy, regarding the living settlements and sustainable tourism, two economic sectors often in conflict. At the centre of discourse is the need for new energy models and practices.

The new design of building and a more strategic planning of cities and landscapes will face new demands but will be informed by principles of resource management that can not be dispelled and that must be carefully analysed both in an architectural and environmental way. The thesis will seek to establish the extent to which these buildings and settlements are still utopia and what actions the scientific community could develop to give them a framework, becoming then a system technology, approaching the world of stakeholders and policy makers.

Selected publications

Publication Proceeding of the Course ”Climate Change and Cultural Heritage ”Ravello University and EUR-OPA Major Hazards, Council of Europe, 14-16 may 2009, TITLE: “Sustainable Development and Cultural Heritage Preservation: a possible approach in a planning study history in Campania Region”. Edited by Roger Alexandre Lefèvre and Cristina Sabbioni.

Publication of acts Course “Progetto di Qualità ed Efficienza Ambientale ed Energetica” Ordine degli Architetti di Roma –Consulta per la Bioedilizia. PROSPETTIVE EDIZIONI 2009

Publication: A.B.I.T.A. (Architettura Bioecologica e Innovazione Tecnologica per l’Ambiente) Congress University of Reggio Calabria 2006: La Partecipazione Organica (Design methodologies, Technology and experiences in living spaces). TITLE: Lo Sviluppo sostenibile delle città: un progetto di cooperazione decentrata co finanziato dal Comune di Roma. Publication by FALZEA Editor

CD ROM with Ordine degli Architetti di Napoli: I Corso di Restauro delle Strutture Lignee – Napoli 2003 coorganised with Tecnosud s.r.l

Publication ”International Conference on Sustainability Measurement and Modelling - ICSMM 2009 “, Terrassa ,Spain - UNESCO Chair in Sustainability Technical University of Catalonia. The paper it’s published in the Proceedings of the Conference. Title: "The Bilan Carbone methodology, a training for combating climate change and its implications for educational practice to spread the sustainable development"