SH007 - TECHNOLOGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT

The teaching of Technologies for the Sustainable Management of the Built Environment is aimed at tackling the technological-environmental problems and implications inherent in the transformation processes of the urban environment. This aspect is also aimed to provide students the necessary knowledge for the development of a sustainable and responsible technical-designing consciousness towards the management of the context's material and immaterial resources.
This objective will be achieved by dwelling on the inalienable aspects of the process of modification of the urban built environment that make possible the scenarios, visions, and conceptualizations even before the project development of the interventions, and with which to then proceed in the management, control, and verification of the transformative actions.
The meta-design approach implying these ethical and technical assumptions will follow a circular logic of management, forecasting and programming of interventions, specifically technological, systemic, and performance based. It is therefore intended to develop in students a culture of 'technologically and environmentally sustainable' management capable of anticipating and governing the implications of urban design choices and not chase the changing and evolving demand for quality living space in the city.
The training path will be aimed at understanding of:

The levels of coherence and congruence between the availability of resources, the conscious use of technologies and the definition of the environmental system of interventions.
The economic, ecological, and social impacts of intervention options on the functional, ethical, expressive, and symbolic values of the project at an urban scale.
The approaches, methods, tools, and procedures for the sustainable management and environmental technological meta-design of the urban habitat.
The environmental technological management of the urban habitat transformation processes, also in view of subsequent evaluation and certification processes of interventions.
The fundamental steps toward a reasonable use of AI tool for the scenarization, visioning and conceptualization management process.


At the end of the course, students will have to demonstrate:

To be able to recognize factors and actors interacting in the urban context (those operating in the technological-environmental system, user categories and the main environmental pressure factors).
To be able to distinguish the processes and functions of the urban technological-environmental system (what happens in the technological-environmental system, the system of uses and user behaviors).
To know how to read and frame technological-environmental phenomena on a spatial and temporal scale (where and when the processes of use and transformation of the technological-environmental system take place, the demand system).
To know how to decode the ways in which urban living space is used and transformed (how the processes of the technological-environmental system take place and evolve).
To know how to interpret the reasons and problems of the transformation of the urban technological-environmental system by foreseeing its requirements and qualitative conditions, possible construction choices in view of their design resolution (why the modifications of the technological-environmental system are implemented, the system of requirements and performance).
To know how to manage the urban living space as a technological-environmental system, in which relationships and connections are woven between design, space, and quality in a continuous co-evolution between nature, technology, and people.