Sustainability 2.0: place, energy, water, health+happiness, materials, beauty and equity. Towards a new paradigm for architecture.

Modern times, defined by the Dutch chemist Paul Crutzen as "Anthropocene" are characterized by a strong human impact to which are assigned the greater responsibility for climate, territorial and environmental change, this urges us to carefully reevaluate the approach to the project for both new construction and urban and environmental regeneration. About this matter, research will study and analyze the new protocol Living Building Challenge (LBC) 3.0, proposed by the International Living Future Institute, and its application in the design process, through the analysis of studied case, in order to define a new paradigm that interests all phases of the architectural design in relation to a new concept of sustainability. Facing more and more deep and interdisciplinary problems, from energy and economic crisis to social inequity, Architecture is dealing with a"challenge" that finds more and more difficult to identify solutions able to reduce the impact of man on built environment and at the same time to give back a cultural and educational value to the architectural project. From this point of view LBC protocol, in addition to constituting a rigid certification program represents an attempt to apply logic to the interdisciplinary project of architecture, among all scales of intervention, trying to go beyond the mere principle of energy conservation. More specifically, the protocol consists of seven main categories called "petals" which are: place, energy, water, health + happiness, materials, beauty and equity and a number of requirements pertaining to each macro category: the achievement of all requirements, with their specific areas of influence, allows to get certified LBC. Nowadays, a lot of projects around the world have achieved this certification and is growing the network of professionals that through seminars, workshops and conferences are trying to spread this new type of interdisciplinary approach that seeks to combine energy resources savings with cultural and social logic. The research wants to underline the innovative aspects of the Protocol LBC in particular the macro areas, "petals", seeking to overcome the most popular programs of certification processes (eg LEED): issues such as happiness, beauty and equity represent new paradigms to be pursued in order to make the architectural project 360 degrees "sustainable". Talking about sustainability, in fact, means adding to energy and environmental aspects, with no doubt essential if we analyze the consumption for the entire building process and the lack of resources, social and economic aspects in order to bring man to the center of the process and the project.