Smart Interactive Buildings

The paper aims to validate innovative, competitive holistic concepts, tools for Smart Buildings, contributing to their large-scale penetration of the European market, policy and research. The human aspect represents the central focus of Smart Building design not only to the technological definition of Smart Building concept but even to the definition of building type (social housing, schools, housing for elderly), whose diffusion within the city, linked with the concept of urban energy network, could drive more easily towards paradigm of Smart City. A collaborative project management in the construction sector has become a prerequisite to develop Smart Buildings and buildings stock that are technically and economically optimized to Smart City paradigm. Design approaches have to move from a conventional linear process (from architect to engineering bureaus and construction contractors) to a more collective, yet iterative, approach which appears indispensable for an integrated systemic approach.