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Alberto Calenzo, architect and PhD student in Environmental Technological Design at La Sapienza, Rome. In 2018, he graduated in Architecture at the same university with a Master’s thesis focused on architectural, environmental, and energetic redevelopment of a marginal area of Rome through the design of a new mixed-use building in X-LAM technology. After graduation, he was selected to attend the 6th edition of ENEA Summer School in energy efficiency in collaboration with the Ministry of Economic Development. Since 2018, he has worked as an architect and collaborated within a community-based interdisciplinary Research-Action group. He has contributed to a chapter in the publication entitled “Urban Health”. In 2020, he obtained a Post Graduate Master’s in “Valorisation and enhancement of small Historical Centres”. In the same year, after winning a self-employment assignment, he collaborated in research and teaching support at the Technological Design Laboratory at the Architecture Faculty of La Sapienza. In 2021, he will start his PhD.
It is notable that indoor environment quality plays a crucial role in guaranteeing health, especially if we consider that people spend more than 90% of their time indoors, a percentage that increases for people on low income. This role assumes even further significance when dealing with distressed urban areas, vulnerable areas within cities that suffer from multiple deprivations. The community-based interdisciplinary research-action group of the University La Sapienza focused on a complex in the outskirts of Rome. The aim was to assess the correlations between architectural aspects of the indoor environment, socio-economic conditions, such as lifestyles and housing conditions, and eventually health outcomes. The intent of providing a comparative methodology in a context where official data is hard to find, led to the integration of social, health, and housing questionnaires with various environmental software simulations. What emerged is that underprivileged housing conditions, characterized by mold, humidity, unhealthiness, thermohygrometric discomfort, architectural barriers, and overcrowding, are often associated with recurrent pathologies linked to arthritis, respiratory diseases, and domestic accidents.
Alessandra Battisti; Livia Calcagni; Alberto Calenzo; Aurora Angelozzi; Miriam Errigo; Maurizio Marceca; Silvia Iorio. Urban Health: Assessment of Indoor Environment Spillovers on Health in a Distressed Urban Area of Rome. Sustainability 2021, 13, 5760 .
AMA StyleAlessandra Battisti, Livia Calcagni, Alberto Calenzo, Aurora Angelozzi, Miriam Errigo, Maurizio Marceca, Silvia Iorio. Urban Health: Assessment of Indoor Environment Spillovers on Health in a Distressed Urban Area of Rome. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (10):5760.
Chicago/Turabian StyleAlessandra Battisti; Livia Calcagni; Alberto Calenzo; Aurora Angelozzi; Miriam Errigo; Maurizio Marceca; Silvia Iorio. 2021. "Urban Health: Assessment of Indoor Environment Spillovers on Health in a Distressed Urban Area of Rome." Sustainability 13, no. 10: 5760.