Claudio M. de Rosa

Universidad Dr. José Matías Delgado | UJMD · Department of Economics

El progreso socioeconómico de un país se logra de mejor manera si se crea el círculo virtuoso donde el crecimiento económico genera recursos para el progreso social y éste resulta en personas con mejor preparación para contribuir a un mayor crecimiento económico. Por esto es tan importante que la economía crezca, porque así las empresas y las famil...

El trabajo que se presenta expone la construcción histórica del concepto de sostenibilidad a partir de explorar pensamientos, opiniones y propuestas sobre los temas ambientales, con el objetivo de que este análisis contribuya a explorar conceptos que nos aproximen a un desarrollo más sostenible. La importancia fundamental de la sostenibilidad del d...

La producción edilicia del último siglo se ha caracterizado por la creciente dependencia, para alcanzar niveles termo-lumínicos adecuados, de la utilización de equipos acondicionadores y el consecuente consumo de energía convencional, ignorando el eventual agotamiento de los recursos energéticos no-renovables y el deterioro ambiental que produce su...

Energy use in the built environment is globally recognized as a key issue for sustainable urban development. In temperate-cold arid regions with a generous solar resource, such as those of western Argentina, adequate design and technology can substantially reduce the energy demand for space and water heating in urban buildings. The solar potential...

Cities display an array of microclimates closely related to the composition of their surfaces and the relationships among their structures. The effect of the shadow cast by a high-rise building is a simple case of this situation. The incidence of the shadow on other buildings or urban spaces can be positive or negative, according to the bioclimatic...

Energy use in the built environment is globally recognized as a key issue for sustainable urban development. In tempered-cold arid regions with a generous solar resource, adequate design and technology can substantially reduce the energy demand for space and water heating in urban buildings. This study assessed the solar potential of low-density ur...

Mendoza’s Metropolitan Area (MMA), in central-western Argentina, is the result of a development model where the man-made environment and the natural one conform an intermingled mosaic, resulting in a strong insertion of green open spaces in the city. In this context, the open spaces: parks, squares and urban forests significantly modify the climati...

Mendoza's Province northern oasis, in central-western Argentina, presents environmental features that are the result of long period of investment and labour. Nowadays they are menaced by the uncontrolled sprawl of the urban area. The present expansion of the urban area, following the demand's requirements, is the cause of major problems due to disp...

The study of the solar potential of urban buildings in the temperate arid zones of central-western Argentina, contributes to the knowledge required to optimize the interrelationship between urban habitat and energy efficiency, aiming at attaining a more sustainable urban development in the near future. The main purpose of the study is to assess the...

The paper presents a method for the assessment of the permeability of tree crowns to solar radiation. It is based on the use of software for computational treatment of photographic images and was developed with the goal of counting on a tool that would allow to quantify the available solar radiation in vegetated urban environments. The method evalu...

RESUMEN: En entornos urbanos, el equilibrio entre el medio natural y el construido constituye una estrategia básica para la consecución de la sustentabilidad urbana. En el marco de esta estrategia "enverdecer" el espacio urbano y asegurar la condición de durabilidad de la forestación constituyen metas que tienden a revertir las actuales tendencias...

The massive presence of trees in urban environments, particularly in regions with dry mesothermal climates, generates a significant environmental impact on the open spaces of the public domain and consequently on the enclosed spaces of the private domain. The paper presents the development and the initial results of the utilization of an analytical...

An energy-efficient building, featuring energy conservation, passive solar heating, and natural cooling strategies, was designed and built in La Pampa, a province in the temperate semi-arid region of central Argentina. Of compact design, it houses 350 m2 of useful floor area in a roughly linear scheme, with the main spaces facing north and ancillar...

Accurate assessment of the daylighting resource is essential for a proper design of naturally lit architectural spaces. Many regions of the world, including those of South America, do not yet possess recorded data of exterior illuminance, predictive analytical models being the only available tool for such assessment. Several models were studied com...

In Argentina's Andean region, severe winters, inadequate housing, and expensive energy have contributed to degraded living conditions for a growing low-income population. State-funded social housing programs face a greater demand with dwindling resources. Quantity prevails over quality in building and the situation is rapidly worsening. The case of...

In developing countries, many meteorological stations are still equipped with actinographs, a technologically obsolete instrument to measure solar radiation, with normal errors as high as 20%[1].A simple method has been devised to improve the accuracy of readings of average daily insolation on a horizontal surface recorded by actinographs, reducing...

″Conjunto Solar I″, is a small experimental ensemble of three housing buildings with a total of 18 apartments. It will be built on an urban site in the city of Mendoza, on the arid lands of central-Western Argentina. The project has been sponsored with the following goal: To allow an experimental evaluation of the utilization of bioclimatic and pas...

RESUMEN: El estudio tiene por objetivo profundizar el conocimiento sobre la relación entre las variables morfológicas y los requerimientos energéticos de edificios insertos en tramas urbanas de zonas áridas de clima mesotermal seco. Se aporta información cuantitativa sobre las correlaciones entre las características morfológicas de las tipologías d...

RESUMEN: Se presenta la convalidación de una metodología, tendiente a determinar el potencial energético de la ganancia solar directa en medios urbanos para calefacción de espacios. Se describen tres opciones metodológicas elaboradas para calcular el área colectora efectiva en entornos urbanos de baja densidad en el Área Metropolitana de Mendoza. S...