The volume collects the results of the project PORFSE entitled “S.O.L.E.H. (Sustainable Operation Low Cost Energy for Hotels). Innovative tools and Guidelines for the Sustainable Renovation of Hotel Buildings” involving in 2020-2021 the University of Padova, Iuav University of Venice and the University of Thessaly.
The research challenged the topic of the hotels energy refurbishment as a flywheel for the upgrade of the building stock in the Mediterranean countries, focusing on the regions of Veneto (Italy) and Central Macedonia (Greece). Various stages of the communication of the re-development project addressed to professionals, owners, investors and companies, developing the tool aiming to enhance the efficiency of the stakeholders to operate within the Smart City.
The medium-term goal was to provide an efficient and dynamic tool to evaluate and program the energy efficiency of a building and, at the same time, to draw some guidelines of intervention encouraging hoteliers to decide for the refurbishment or not. The longterm objective was to stimulate the construction sector introducing innovative and smart technologies to facilitate the refurbishment process.
The hotels energy refurbishment topic was the pretext to widen the interest towards the crucial role of architectural design of touristic facilities in the Mediterranean region. The project studied new touristic models to face the actual climatic and energetic crisis.
This has been considered a fundamental approach to preserve and valorise local environments and landscapes, since they are the main resources of Mediterranean countries. The thematic have been challenged within the international workshop “Tourism Landscape. The Re-use of the Abandoned Xenia Hotel in Tsagarada, Pelion”, held in Volos in 2021.

Angelo Bertolazzi trained at the Department DAUR (University of Padova) and the Department DA (University of Bologna), at Ecole Doctorale Villes Transportes et Territoires (Université Paris-Est), where he achieved his PhD in Architecture and Engineering (2013), and at Départment GSA (ENSA-Paris Malaquais). He is Assistant Professor at the Department DICEA (University of Padova).

Fabiano Micocci graduated from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Roma Tre in 2002 where he also specialized in History of the Design Process (2003). He obtained his PhD degree in Architecture and Urban Design from the University of Florence (2010). ?e is Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture (University of Thessaly, Greece), where he also teaches at the Postgraduate Program Reuse of Buildings and Complexes.

Umberto Turrini trained at IUAV in Venice. He is associate professor at Department DICEA (University of Padova) since 2018. His main research topics are: historic building refurbishment, techniques reversibility for reuse, innovative technologies and materials within the cultural heritage conservation, building sustainability and the reuse of building materials.