Ricerc@Sapienza

In order to face increasing socio-economic challenges in a climate-change scenario, we should aim at redesigning our built environment, improving resilience and sustainability. Green infrastructure – trees in particular – play a critical role in urban heat island mitigation. Outdoor comfort simulations are useful tools to assess microclimate, and the different parameters influencing human energy balance and thermal comfort.

Landscape architecture has experienced a paradigm shift in the last two decades, requiring designers to respond with evidence-based design to the dynamic and temporal quality erosion of the urban ecosystem. The Green Infrastructure approach promotes the elements of biodiversity and organized systems that are part of natural capital in any urban area, be it valuable or derelict, including individual technological devices that leverage biodiversity and are integrated in the architecture.