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Belen Onecha
Architectural Technology Department, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya—Barcelona TECH, 08028 Barcelona, Spain

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Conference paper
Published: 01 July 2021 in EDULEARN21 Proceedings
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Montserrat Bosch; Almudena Pérez; Mireia Bosch Prat; Còssima Cornadó; Belen Onecha; Joan Ramon Rosell; René Cabrera; Xavier Casanovas. SMART REHABILITATION 3.0 PROJECT: NEW TRAINING STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION SECTOR. EDULEARN21 Proceedings 2021, 9817 -9826.

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Montserrat Bosch, Almudena Pérez, Mireia Bosch Prat, Còssima Cornadó, Belen Onecha, Joan Ramon Rosell, René Cabrera, Xavier Casanovas. SMART REHABILITATION 3.0 PROJECT: NEW TRAINING STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION SECTOR. EDULEARN21 Proceedings. 2021; ():9817-9826.

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Montserrat Bosch; Almudena Pérez; Mireia Bosch Prat; Còssima Cornadó; Belen Onecha; Joan Ramon Rosell; René Cabrera; Xavier Casanovas. 2021. "SMART REHABILITATION 3.0 PROJECT: NEW TRAINING STRATEGIES FOR BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION SECTOR." EDULEARN21 Proceedings , no. : 9817-9826.

Journal article
Published: 21 April 2021 in Sustainability
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The understanding of habitability conditions of existing housing stock plays a central role in the quantification and qualification of sustainability from the architectural field. This research assessed habitability as a fundamental social benefit by means of a multiscale approach to the case study of the Raval neighborhood that can be replicated in other settings. We described a sample of six hundred dwellings located in two urban blocks spatially and typologically. This analysis of architectural features incorporated information on the current occupancy and use of spaces and the assessment of the state of conservation and maintenance of building envelopes and common elements. Although the scale of most analyzed aspects was larger (building, urban block or urban fabric), the discussion of results by housing unit provided a close picture of the existing diversity and heterogeneity of socio-spatial and architectural realities within buildings and urban blocks. Results from this paper allow for the valuation and discussion of substandard housing cases that call for an immediate improvement and adaptation, while providing evidence that most dwellings fail to fulfill residents’ right to adequate housing. In conclusion, the results obtained highlight the importance of designing rehabilitation programs and instruments to improve existing spaces with a focus on current use, occupancy, and residents’ needs.

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Sara Vima-Grau; Còssima Cornadó; Pere-Joan Ravetllat; Pilar Garcia-Almirall. Multiscale Integral Assessment of Habitability in the Case of El Raval in Barcelona. Sustainability 2021, 13, 4598 .

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Sara Vima-Grau, Còssima Cornadó, Pere-Joan Ravetllat, Pilar Garcia-Almirall. Multiscale Integral Assessment of Habitability in the Case of El Raval in Barcelona. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (9):4598.

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Sara Vima-Grau; Còssima Cornadó; Pere-Joan Ravetllat; Pilar Garcia-Almirall. 2021. "Multiscale Integral Assessment of Habitability in the Case of El Raval in Barcelona." Sustainability 13, no. 9: 4598.

Review
Published: 09 March 2021 in Buildings
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This article reviews rehabilitation programs in Barcelona, focusing on aspects such as the intervention model, actual public investment, and results. Programs of this type are not exclusive to Barcelona; however, similar examples can be found in other European cities, especially where European Union (EU) funding is present. After analyzing these models, we reached a series of general conclusions that may be of interest. Thus, an eminently practical and reflective analysis is presented, aimed at technicians and those responsible for the design of intervention policies in urban regeneration. Rehabilitation programs are increasingly focused on vulnerable settings, and in this context, the participation and service function of public administrations are particularly relevant. The general model for rehabilitation subsidies rarely takes into account the specific characteristics of disadvantaged urban settings, as the article will show. After analyzing the different policies presented in this research, we identified two essential requirements: detailed knowledge of the affected neighborhood, and ongoing evaluation of the development of programs—beyond simple management indicators—so negative effects can be corrected in time such as gentrification, real estate speculation, and other by-products that the intervention itself can promote. This study confirms that not all public investments have the expected results.

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Angel Uzqueda; Pilar Garcia-Almirall; Còssima Cornadó; Sara Vima-Grau. Critical Review of Public Policies for the Rehabilitation of Housing Stock: The Case of Barcelona. Buildings 2021, 11, 108 .

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Angel Uzqueda, Pilar Garcia-Almirall, Còssima Cornadó, Sara Vima-Grau. Critical Review of Public Policies for the Rehabilitation of Housing Stock: The Case of Barcelona. Buildings. 2021; 11 (3):108.

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Angel Uzqueda; Pilar Garcia-Almirall; Còssima Cornadó; Sara Vima-Grau. 2021. "Critical Review of Public Policies for the Rehabilitation of Housing Stock: The Case of Barcelona." Buildings 11, no. 3: 108.

Journal article
Published: 27 February 2020 in Journal of Building Engineering
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In recent decades, non-structural exposed brick facades have been widely used in Spain and other European and American countries. However, when they are partially supported by floor slabs, to give the image of a continuous element, they present problems that can lead to risks such as collapse and detachment of ceramic pieces. In this article, twenty-two affected buildings located in several Spanish cities were analyzed to determine the parameters that induce risk situations, and to identify the causes of each type of damage. The aim was to verify, using data extracted from real behavior of the facades under analysis, the fragility of most analytical models that have been adopted, in order to avoid anomalies. Consequently, the aim was also to obtain a more reliable starting point for future diagnosis and, when necessary, repair of such vulnerable face brick facades.

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C. Diaz; C. Cornadó; A. Albareda. Damage in face-brick facades placed between concrete slabs. Journal of Building Engineering 2020, 30, 101312 .

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C. Diaz, C. Cornadó, A. Albareda. Damage in face-brick facades placed between concrete slabs. Journal of Building Engineering. 2020; 30 ():101312.

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C. Diaz; C. Cornadó; A. Albareda. 2020. "Damage in face-brick facades placed between concrete slabs." Journal of Building Engineering 30, no. : 101312.

Journal article
Published: 20 December 2019 in VITRUVIO - International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability
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Socio-residential vulnerability is one of currently increasing challenges for cities and metropolitan areas in addressing the interaction between the vulnerable resident population and the need to improve the building stock, particularly after the financial crisis of 2008 and the consequent regression of public investments.Recent studies have measured and described the levels of vulnerability in the city of Barcelona and their results highlight socio-spatial similarities between urban fabrics that happen to be morphologically, historically and geographically very different.The present research focuses on the assessment of physical and social shortcomings of vulnerable areas in the city of Barcelona. With this purpose, a sample of buildings in some of the most vulnerable neighbourhoods are statistically analysed through a set of variables at building scale related to both the need of improvement of residential existing buildings and the characteristics of their inhabitants.An extensive sample of cases is described through several profiles according to the simultaneity of indicators both from a physical and social perspective. As a result, the cross-analysis of indicators and profiles according to each neighbourhood and urban fabric, contributes to better understanding the specificities of each area. Moreover, the cartography of results provides information on how certain indicators and profiles manifest geographically in the urban fabric and the city.The observation of the combination of shortcomings in the different urban fabrics is a helpful tool for the design of future polices that aim for the improvement of living conditions in vulnerable residential buildings from an integral perspective that aims at addressing both physical and social issues.

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Sara Vima-Grau; Còssima Cornadó; Pilar Garcia-Almirall. Socio-spatial analysis of the vulnerable urban fabric in the city of Barcelona. VITRUVIO - International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability 2019, 4, 75 -89.

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Sara Vima-Grau, Còssima Cornadó, Pilar Garcia-Almirall. Socio-spatial analysis of the vulnerable urban fabric in the city of Barcelona. VITRUVIO - International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability. 2019; 4 (2):75-89.

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Sara Vima-Grau; Còssima Cornadó; Pilar Garcia-Almirall. 2019. "Socio-spatial analysis of the vulnerable urban fabric in the city of Barcelona." VITRUVIO - International Journal of Architectural Technology and Sustainability 4, no. 2: 75-89.

Journal article
Published: 11 December 2019 in Buildings
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Awareness regarding conservation of industrial heritage is recent. Several policies have been adopted to start protecting these buildings because of their historic, artistic and scientific values. Wine cellars are an important example of industrial heritage in Catalonia due to the tradition of this product in the territory and the influence of Art Nouveau and Catalan ‘Noucentisme’ in their construction and style. The wine cellar in Falset, built by Cèsar Martinell in 1919, has recently been restored and still maintains its original function. This article analyses its history, its architectonic and construction characteristics, as well as the restoration process carried out in 2009, which consisted of recovering its original appearance and allowed to emphasize the architectural value of the building. This restoration is a prototypical example whose experience can be applied in other cases of restoration of wine cellars both for the characteristics of the building and for its good restoration practices. This restoration enabled the wine cellar to continue carrying out its original industrial function, providing suitable conditions to add a new cultural use as well.

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Eva Cuerva; Judith Urbano; Còssima Cornadó. Recovering Industrial Heritage: Restoration of the Wine Cellar Cooperative in Falset (Catalonia, Spain). Buildings 2019, 9, 243 .

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Eva Cuerva, Judith Urbano, Còssima Cornadó. Recovering Industrial Heritage: Restoration of the Wine Cellar Cooperative in Falset (Catalonia, Spain). Buildings. 2019; 9 (12):243.

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Eva Cuerva; Judith Urbano; Còssima Cornadó. 2019. "Recovering Industrial Heritage: Restoration of the Wine Cellar Cooperative in Falset (Catalonia, Spain)." Buildings 9, no. 12: 243.

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Published: 14 June 2019 in Buildings
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Concrete is a material which is widely used in architecture, not only for structural purposes but also for architectural elements for its versatility and excellent performance. However, the manufacturing of this material as a mixture of water, cement, and fine and coarse aggregate comes with a high environmental cost, such as gas emissions, among other things. This is the reason why different alternatives are being proposed in order to replace coarse aggregates with other recycled materials, as it is one of the less sustainable components of the mixture in terms of extraction. One of these alternatives is recycled glass coming from drinking bottles, crushed into small grains and mixed in the same proportions as regular aggregates. This study proposes the mechanical characterization of a new architectural concrete mixture by using white Lafarge cement and glass-recycled aggregates; this proposed concrete is made especially for architectural elements like façade panels, rather than structural elements. The mechanical evaluation of this new material is done through a set of experimental tests under compression and also bending, comparing three different ratios of glass aggregate in the mixture.

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Bernardo Tamayo-García; Albert Albareda-Valls; Alicia Rivera-Rogel; Cossima Cornado. Mechanical Characterization of a New Architectural Concrete with Glass-Recycled Aggregate. Buildings 2019, 9, 145 .

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Bernardo Tamayo-García, Albert Albareda-Valls, Alicia Rivera-Rogel, Cossima Cornado. Mechanical Characterization of a New Architectural Concrete with Glass-Recycled Aggregate. Buildings. 2019; 9 (6):145.

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Bernardo Tamayo-García; Albert Albareda-Valls; Alicia Rivera-Rogel; Cossima Cornado. 2019. "Mechanical Characterization of a New Architectural Concrete with Glass-Recycled Aggregate." Buildings 9, no. 6: 145.

Conference paper
Published: 23 February 2019 in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
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Fifty years after the construction of Large Housing Estates in the periphery of the Barcelona urban continuum, public administrations face the need to redesign polices and tools aimed at improving living conditions in each of these specific areas. The need to improve the current living conditions of the housing stock according to habitability exigencies, maintenance and repair of building pathology, the improvement of energy efficiency and the research of a better social integration of their population, are some of the issues that call for being addressed when aiming to improve Large Housing Estates. The current research provides a socio spatial characterization of 20 study cases according to the evaluation of both socio demographic, socio economic and spatial indicators and their evolution along 5 time periods since their construction. Even if all study cases originally had many common characteristics, their very different evolution in time calls for a specific analysis of the current state of each area. Moreover, the characterization of the different evolution of the studied indicators on each specific case is a very useful tool to identify and describe past and ongoing complex social and urban processes. The applied methodology provides a detection of risk parameters, allowing to identify the most vulnerable cases in comparison with the analysed cases as well as the city average indicators. The transversal capacity of considering simultaneously social aspects as well as urban, architectonic and technological aspects, provides an integral view on the current state of Large Housing Estates in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. A result consisting of relevant information in order to design effective integral tools that refer to the particular social and physical contemporary conditions and ongoing processes on each site.

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Còssima Cornadó; Sara Vima; Cèsar Díaz; Pere Joan Ravetllat; Pilar Garcia-Almirall. Socio spatial characterization of Large Housing Estates in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 2019, 471, 072031 .

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Còssima Cornadó, Sara Vima, Cèsar Díaz, Pere Joan Ravetllat, Pilar Garcia-Almirall. Socio spatial characterization of Large Housing Estates in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 2019; 471 (7):072031.

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Còssima Cornadó; Sara Vima; Cèsar Díaz; Pere Joan Ravetllat; Pilar Garcia-Almirall. 2019. "Socio spatial characterization of Large Housing Estates in the Metropolitan Area of Barcelona." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 471, no. 7: 072031.

Conference paper
Published: 23 February 2019 in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
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In a paradigm of raising urban economic and social inequality among south European cities, public administrations are confronted with the challenge to foster the improvement of the most deprived residential vulnerable areas. In the framework of the implementation of a building rehabilitation program on vulnerable residential neighbourhoods by the Barcelona City Council, the current research presents a technical and experimental approach on 16 of the most vulnerable areas. The aim of the study is to obtain a qualitative evaluation of the residential vulnerability as well as the identification of buildings with a most deprived physical state. The purposed methodology approaches a first pre-diagnosis of the building state and the detection of buildings that present a major need for rehabilitation actions, providing prioritization criteria. Rehabilitation is here considered from a wide and integral perspective, taking into account both socioeconomic aspects that describe the housing community and specific physic conditions of the built stock. Such methodology is complemented with the interchange of information with local actors, both from the social tissue and the neighbourhood local administration. The results of the present research provide the public administrations with the identification of data sources and a systematization of technical and social qualitative information onsite on a database, as well as the elaboration of a GIS analysis and cartography in a compendium of maps. The actualization and testing of quantitative information on specific areas provides the public administration with a set of very relevant tools in order to address specific and complex vulnerable areas and to efficiently invest public resources with the aim to improve both physical and social conditions of deprived neighbourhoods in long term.

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Cossima Cornado; Sara Vima; Estefania Martin; Pilar Garcia-Almirall; Angel Uzqueda. Methodology for the Pre-diagnosis of Residential Buildings in Vulnerable Areas in the City of Barcelona. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 2019, 471, 072030 .

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Cossima Cornado, Sara Vima, Estefania Martin, Pilar Garcia-Almirall, Angel Uzqueda. Methodology for the Pre-diagnosis of Residential Buildings in Vulnerable Areas in the City of Barcelona. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 2019; 471 (7):072030.

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Cossima Cornado; Sara Vima; Estefania Martin; Pilar Garcia-Almirall; Angel Uzqueda. 2019. "Methodology for the Pre-diagnosis of Residential Buildings in Vulnerable Areas in the City of Barcelona." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 471, no. 7: 072030.

Conference paper
Published: 01 October 2017 in IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering
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In a context of a shifting environmental, economic and social paradigm, European cities face a situation that is at the same time challenge and opportunity: the need for urban rehabilitation of the vulnerable degraded socio residential fabric. Public administrations in big cities and metropolitan areas are confronted with both the undercurrent need of actualization of the built stock and the rise of urban residential vulnerability. The city of Barcelona, as many others, is the result of multiple phenomena with high urban and social consequences. The socio spatial integration of immigrant population, the touristic rise and gentrification processes are current situations simultaneously taking place in the city. In parallel, a framework of economic crisis in which public investments in urban and social matters decrease, provides a temporal juncture that results into an increase of social polarization and socio economic inequality that becomes evident and expressed in the territory. This research focuses in the case of Barcelona, and presents a methodology based on a system of indicators elaborated through the exploitation of statistical data complemented with very specific data supplied by the Barcelona City Council. The accurate knowledge of socio demographic, socioeconomic and residential and urban characteristics is crucial in order to define the very complex urban dynamics that describe in the city neighbourhoods and areas. Residential vulnerability is defined as an assembly of objective conditions that relate to residential space and indicate situations of social discrimination and structural disadvantage of the population, related to a specific time and context. Thus, it is relevant to analyse the concentration of certain indicators of vulnerability in specific places or neighbourhoods, to contrast its effect on the socio-residential situation and its temporal evolution in order to identify tendencies. The present study contributes to the identification of data sources and a system to calculate the purposed indicators, the elaboration of a GIS analysis in order to determine the characterization of neighbourhoods and census sections according to each indicator, and the identification of areas with a higher degree of problematic based on synthetic analysis. A very relevant knowledge basis that can be used by public policy makers in order to establish measures that define vulnerable areas where to carry out actions that foster urban equality.

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Cossima Cornado; Pilar Garcia-Almirall; Sara Vima; Gemma Vila Busqued; Angel Uzqueda. Methodology for the Detection of Residential Vulnerable Areas – the Case of Barcelona. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 2017, 245, 042062 .

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Cossima Cornado, Pilar Garcia-Almirall, Sara Vima, Gemma Vila Busqued, Angel Uzqueda. Methodology for the Detection of Residential Vulnerable Areas – the Case of Barcelona. IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering. 2017; 245 (4):042062.

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Cossima Cornado; Pilar Garcia-Almirall; Sara Vima; Gemma Vila Busqued; Angel Uzqueda. 2017. "Methodology for the Detection of Residential Vulnerable Areas – the Case of Barcelona." IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering 245, no. 4: 042062.

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Published: 30 August 2021
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Emma Colom; Còssima Cornadó; César Díaz. Caracterización sintética de las actuaciones de adición de plantas en los edificios históricos del Ensanche de Barcelona. 2021, 1 .

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Emma Colom, Còssima Cornadó, César Díaz. Caracterización sintética de las actuaciones de adición de plantas en los edificios históricos del Ensanche de Barcelona. . 2021; ():1.

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Emma Colom; Còssima Cornadó; César Díaz. 2021. "Caracterización sintética de las actuaciones de adición de plantas en los edificios históricos del Ensanche de Barcelona." , no. : 1.

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Published: 30 August 2021
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César Díaz; Pere Joan Ravetllat; Còssima Cornadó; Sara Vima. Formas de intervención en grandes conjuntos residenciales. 2021, 1 .

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César Díaz, Pere Joan Ravetllat, Còssima Cornadó, Sara Vima. Formas de intervención en grandes conjuntos residenciales. . 2021; ():1.

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César Díaz; Pere Joan Ravetllat; Còssima Cornadó; Sara Vima. 2021. "Formas de intervención en grandes conjuntos residenciales." , no. : 1.

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Published: 30 August 2021
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Inés Marco; Còssima Cornadó; César Díaz. Parámetros de fachada para la rehabilitación térmica. Aplicación a la edificación de Santa Coloma de Gramanet (Barcelona). 2021, 1 .

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Inés Marco, Còssima Cornadó, César Díaz. Parámetros de fachada para la rehabilitación térmica. Aplicación a la edificación de Santa Coloma de Gramanet (Barcelona). . 2021; ():1.

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Inés Marco; Còssima Cornadó; César Díaz. 2021. "Parámetros de fachada para la rehabilitación térmica. Aplicación a la edificación de Santa Coloma de Gramanet (Barcelona)." , no. : 1.