Water Resources Management in a Regenerative Design Approach

Increasingly scarce and less affordable, water is taking on the characteristics of a precious resource able to increase marked inequalities. The issue of water resources management at the micro-scale (building) stands as a priority field of investigation, and as a central approach in the transition to sustainable architecture, recognizable as ‘Regenerative Design’. Water scarcity represents a pending risk, derived from multilayer interferences that threatens consequences on the availability and affordability of resources, especially in the urban built environment. The proposed contribution offers an original method for building-scale water management, developed as a strategic framework encompassing mitigation and adaptation strategies.