Over 200 guests, out of which more than half members of the Order of the Architects in Romania, participated at
RIFF Architecture Conference on November, 16 2010. Starting from the architect's perspective over thermal rehabilitation,
the event made voices be heard on behalf of all the factors involved in the process of thermal rehabilitation and responsible at the same time for Romania's facelift: architects, constructors, designers, company managers, representatives of the public administration, representatives of professional associations, authorities.
RIFF Architecture Conference proved that
thermal rehabilitation represents a process of great complexity and responsibility, not only an aesthetic and energetic efficiency related problem, but more of an
ethical problem, on which the image of the urban landscape depends, which is not just a caprice, but directly affects the economic appeal of the cities, as
Anca Ginavar, the Director of the Direction for Territorial Development, stated.
In the perspective of
Arch. Serban Tiganas, President of the Order of the Architects in Romania, co-organizer of the event, the thermal rehabilitation should not have a one-sided approach, only from the energetic efficiency point of view, but from a general perspective. That is why the quality in architecture has a role at least as important as the energetic efficiency.
The call launched at RIFF Conference was for everybody involved to engage responsibly in the thermal rehabilitation process.
The program of the Conference included theoretical presentations, good practice examples and architectural failures, presentations of efficient products and services for the rehabilitation of the buildings. There were approached topics such as "the degrees of sustainability in achieving energetic efficiency" and the quality in architecture, even the "architectural energetic rehabilitation", the rehabilitation as a mutilation process, the urban image, the technological and cultural opportunities when rehabilitating the patrimony buildings.
RIFF Architecture Conference has created
the premises for a correct approach of the thermal rehabilitation in Romania.
