Whole building design for energy-efficient interactive building

Zero-energy, smart, green and sustainable buildings: there are many design approaches to design buildings but not to design building as enablers to transition of cities in smart cities, playing a central role in smart cities paradigm as nodes of a (energy) networks. Energy transition, sustainability and innovative solutions within smart cities and districts are key elements for next future built environment and - at building scale - still is missing consciousness how buildings will modify their characters when smart cities will be real. To deliver the objective established in Horizon 2020 smart buildings are channelled towards a range of predominantly technology-related energy efficiency R&D topics such as materials for building envelopes, self-inspection techniques and quality check measures, integrated solutions for building and thermal energy storage for building applications; but, no attention is given, at the moment, on innovation needed in building design as well as to define systemic approach to transition to smart cities or district at built environment scale. Thus two main action are needed at R&D topic level: innovation in building design (i. e. implementing whole building design approach for Energy-efficient Interactive Building); advancement in systemic approach for transition towards smart cities (i.e. Energy-efficient Interactive Buildings as city nodes for built environment scale).