Environmental Data-Driven Design for the Management of Climate-Adaptive Environmental Design Processes of the Built Environment

Technological and environmental design for climate adaptation in urban areas today cannot be separated from the generation, collection, and use of data (big data) and ICT tools for modeling and simulation and the built urban environment, identified as measuring devices and for the knowledge of the impacts of climate change on buildings and open spaces. The integration of low and smart enabling technologies and ICT tools dedicated to design practice, which increasingly upstream define the role of technical information as the cornerstone of an assisted decision-making model, while directing information, therefore the idea, in a conception of design practices increasingly based on an approach environmental data-driven. The object of the study is the definition of a framework for the evaluation of environmental health and comfort parameters applicable to simulation tools, with a specific focus on thermal and environmental exchanges, for the definition of those factors that condition the perception of the well-being of users in conditions of thermal stress (e.g., heatwaves) and outdoors, and indoors. Through the introduction of smart technologies within data exchange and simulation processes with ICT tools (Rhino, Grasshopper+LadyBug+Honeybee+Dragonfly, EnergyPlus, ENVI-met), such as sensors connected to hardware platforms(Raspberry Pi) for site-specific environmental and microclimatic monitoring, the aim is to optimize and make similar to real conditions the results obtainable from processes of simulation of the energy behavior of buildings and the environmental performance of open spaces, with particular reference to the increase in urban temperatures, and the simulation of the interaction between outdoor and indoor performance, also through the administration of a daily survey for the collection of perceived thermal sensations, to confirm the validity of the data obtainable to design experimentation of climate-adaptive urban regeneration.