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• on national and international scale for the experimentations on the urban, environmental and
energetic processes it could favour.
These aspects define the need of a project that would collocate didactic and research activities in
the district, constantly inspiring to:
• the recognizability, the functionality and the energetic efficiency of the single buildings;
• the reduction of the inefficiencies connected to the students and teachers mobility and the
dispersion of the services;
• the functioning of the district according to a highly integrated logic of facilities and mobility
systems to ensure the maximum accessibility from the outside [from the international accesses (as Grottaglie airport) and national ones (as the Bari-Taranto highway and the railway)] but
also the maximum dynamicity, logicity and ease for moving people, as well as the sustainability of internal mobility;
• creation of an open university settlement, permeated and animated by public and private
spaces, that would use the education and cultural diffusion functions of the university as instrument for the benefit of the town and to favour the integration in the relational life.
In the pole will have to be collocated research laboratories and training activities, but also activities connected to innovation, technological transfer towards the small and middle businesses
and territorial services, making it a place of contiguity and permeation between industrial and
academic research, social and student aggregation and, then, the driver for urban regeneration.
Within such context, the architectonic quality, the sustainability (containment of the consumption of resources, energy saving, use of renewable energy, employment of eco-compatible materials, reduced environmental impact, reduced operational and maintenance costs should surely
become primary strategic objectives) and the technologic innovation of the buildings, in order to
return the image of high level architectonic and technological culture, would become important
strategic objectives. In this respect the actions aimed at the technological enhancement of the
new venue will have to take into account specific aspects and impacts that could be summarised
as follows.

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