B9672 - PROGETTAZIONE ENERGETICA DELL'AMBIENTE URBANO

Learning outcomes

The educational objective of the course is to ensure that, within urban design, the physical and technical data necessary for creating a comfortable urban environment are taken into account. The hypothesis of intervening radically in the city entails a challenge in which quality of life is reconsidered, starting also from green design and the control of physical-environmental parameters. In this module, the student learns to manage these parameters through the use of dedicated environmental and energy modelling software.

Extract from 6 Assesment Report IPCC)

AR6 Box 6.1 | Planetary Urbanisation and Climate Risk

The scale, reach and complexity of contemporary urbanisation compounds climate risks and conditions adaptation (high confidence) (Miller and Hutchins, 2017; Rosenzweig et al., 2018b). Urbanisation manifests as a heterogeneous and plural process with varied spatial manifestations (Oswin, 2018) that extends beyond cities and settlements, defining actions elsewhere in what has been called ‘planetary urbanization’ (Brenner, 2014b). While the concept of planetary urbanisation is contested, for example for a predominantly Eurocentric focus (Vegliò, 2021), the concept has reflected human urbanisation as a mega-trend of urban expansion and landuse intensification (Capon, 2017; Lauermann, 2018).

Course contents

The Course will be developed according to a shared approach during the moments of review and monitoring of the laboratory project, in relation to the advancement of the different design phases.

The specific contents of the PEAU course are:

• Urban metabolism;
• Urban comfort and climate shelters;
• Phenomena and factors that determine the Urban Heat Island (UHI) effect and Heat Waves;
• Urban Canopy Layer, the layers of the city and the built environment;
• Energy infrastructures.

Readings/Bibliography

K. Fabbri, Misurare l'aria. Il comfort, Mimesis Edizioni, 2025, ISBN: 9791222324210

Oke TR, Mills G, Christen A, Voogt JA. Urban Climates. Cambridge University Press; 2017.

Eric Klinenberg, Heat Wave: A Social Autopsy of Disaster in Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2002,

Baruch Givoni, Climate Considerations in Building and Urban Design, John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1998

Baruch Givoni, Man, Climate and Architecture, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981

Amos Rapoport, Human Aspects of Urban Form: Towards a Man. Environment Approach to Urban Form and Design, ‎Pergamon, 2013

Kevin Ka-Lun Lau , Zheng Tan , Tobi Eniolu Morakinyo , Chao Ren,Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Urban Environment. Assessments and Applications in Urban Planning and Design, Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2022

Kristian Fabbri, La forma e la formula. La sostenibile leggerezza ovvero cosa intendi per sostenibilità, Libria Editore, Melfi,2023

Kristian Fabbri, Thermal Comfort Perception. Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2024

Teaching methods

Lesson ex-cathedra and meeting on design process and building simulation.

Assessment methods

Final project-design oral presentation and discussion

Teaching tools

Lesson, Journals and website paper.

Software Envimet

Office hours

See the website of Kristian Fabbri