Adaptive Design and Green Building Approach for the City of the Future

Several analyses and reports in the world of Sustainable Design are pointing in the direction of what is known as a ‘Green Building Approach’: an integrated, multi-sectorial approach to the implementation of improvements that aim to increase levels of well-being, social inclusion and longlasting development in cities, based on the now decisive aspects of the high environmental quality, efficiency and circularity of resources and on climate change mitigation and adaptation. A complete and up-to-date definition of this approach was drafted in 2017 on the basis of the methodology developed by the International Council for Local Environmental Initiatives, which was adopted by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. In Italy, this new approach has been supported by significant contributions. In early 2017, the "La Città Futura" Manifesto, presented by lecturers from a dozen universities in the world, was launched as part of the initiatives of the States General of the Green Economy in Architecture, and over the past year the development of this new approach has been boosted by the international Green City Network. For the strategic development of the research and design experimentations, a large part of the activities of the in 'Environmental Technological Design' and the Doctorate in 'Planning Design Technology of Architecture' of the Sapienza University of Rome have been dedicated in all these last years. The basic aim was to launch a research debate - with a close confrontation with the international design experimentation scenario – and elaborate Guidelines for orienting the Processes, Strategies to substantiate the Methods, Tools to make achievable the Policy Actions, fostering future significant results as regards ‘green’ growth and redevelopment.