A new paradigm for environmental energy sustainability and well-being in the perspective for climate change and urban heat island mitigation. the ESCAPOS-LIFE project for Florence.

Abstract

In the extreme environmental scenario, due to global warming and pollution, and in the necessary condition of energy saving, this research proposes an interdisciplinary methodological approach as a tool for environmental, urban/architectural and energy design, applied at an urban scale, i.e. to the complex building-plant system and its surroundings (built, unbuilt and/or green). Starting from the fundamental concept that the shape of any city, and on a smaller scale than of a single building, is an energy form, in the present research the urban environment has a shape and a structure directly connected to its energetic performances and behaviours in relation with environmental and social consequences that affect energy policies and adaptation to climate change but above all with the reduction of anthropogenic impacts. The present article shows the preliminary results of the ESCAPOS-LIFE-2023-2027 project for Florence. It is based on the concept of Dynamic Control Volume (DCV), a virtual capillary volume structured as a network that acquires information and knowledge in itself, a systemic, intelligent, and fast tool. The DCV is the operational tool with which, through a capillary network of always available and updatable, open-source information, all existing databases, urban plans, green plans, local-metropolitan agendas for sustainability, action plans for sustainable energy and climate, programs, policies, strategies and planning for climate adaptation are integrated and interfaced with each other, with a view to protecting health, biodiversity, forestation and the green energy economy.