Architectural and Environmental Compositional Aspect for Technological Innovation in the Built Environment

This paper focuses on the complex relationship between historical consolidate context and new building design projects, both from compositional and environmental points of view. In spite these two approaches often show contradictions in their nature, their integration is essential from the very early stages of the design process, both to improve and/or efficiently preserve the environmental and architectural quality of spaces. The aim of this work is to define a number of guidelines to support and inform the design process since its early stages, and eventually ensuring the quality of the built environment, both aesthetically and environmentally. To this end, the paper explores the use of climatic and microclimatic analysis as a tool to maximize the environmental and sustainability performance of future buildings. In particular, the work analyzes tools such as the site microclimatic matrix, as support to the climatic considerations about different technological choices for heating and cooling systems; and to the architectural/compositional approach definition.