Re-designing a temporary pavilion into a NZEB open lab for a university campus

During the Milan Design Week 2018, a temporary pavilion - “Delight The Light” – has been design and built - as press room for Officina Tamborrino - using their own products as construction technologies. This paper explains the evolution of this project from a temporary architecture into an NZEB open lab for university students. The introduction of innovative multilayer insulator materials characterized by high heat-reflecting properties and the tailored envelope design ensure the satisfaction of comfort both in winter and summer season and reduced drastically the time of constructions. The process, followed to reach the NZEB target, is based on performance-based design analysis. In particular the validation phase has foreseen a very detailed modelling steps on the building model through dynamic thermal simulations with finite element method to validate its thermal and hygrometric performances, coupled with daylighting and fluid dynamics simulations to consider also the users behaviour and well-being during the design stage.