Phd in ENGINEERING-BASED ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING

email: teresa.villani@uniroma1.it
phone: 0649919007
building: Via Flaminia, 72 - Roma
room: 7

TERESA VILLANI

Architect, PhD in Buildings renovation and urban restore, University Researcher in Technology of Architecture at the Department of Planning, Design and Technology of Architecture of the Sapienza University of Rome.

She is a member of SITdA, and is affiliated with the Interuniversity Center of Systems and Technologies for the Healthcare Facilities (Centro Interuniversitario di Sistemi e Tecnologie per le Strutture Sanitarie - T.E.S.I.S.) – University of Florence/Sapienza University of Rome, and she is a member of the Scientific Board of the PhD program in Engineering of Architecture and City Planning, Sapienza University of Rome.

She is been a member of the Editorial Board of the Techne Journal of Technology for Architecture and Environment, as Assistant Editor.

She carries out teaching activities at the MS Study Course in Architecture relatively to the Technology of Architecture I course, and has also carried out educational activities at the MS Study Course in Industrial Design, relatively to Experimental Technologies courses.

She has been carrying out research activities since 2002, particularly in the following areas:
- Construction Quality Control through investigative studies, quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods of the building’s performances and technological components, and Multiscale Design Technical Control tools, with particular reference to requalification interventions to the existing building stock.
- Potentiality of new materials, products, and building systems in the perspective of technical, economic and social sustainability as a function of the assembly of adequate instruments oriented to both process and product innovation.

She has conducted detailed studies on Universal Design research and on Safety and Protection of the differently able in hospitals and healthcare facilities. She has been a member of the “Safety of disabled people” workgroup (“Building Action” subgroup) of the Home Office since 2002, and has participated to the organization of several regulations and technical documents.
She has produced several essays and journals papers publications on the aforementioned subjects.