Sustainable Building Engineering

Considering the problem of limited natural resources, now evident since 1972 with the well-known report of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology commissioned by the Club of Rome, and the emergency related to Climate Change, an emergency both for the emergencies it is creating at global and local level, and because it is a new phenomenon, the Course addresses these issues: Lesson topics: 1) Concept of sustainability, 2) The Limits to Growth 3) UN Agenda 2030 for the Sustainable Develpoment 4) Ecological Footprint and Resilience 5) Territorialist approach 6) Planning process and Community participation 7) Structure of the city 8) Sustainable city 9) Tools for Planning Sustainable Communities 10) Swot analisys.

"SELF-ASSESSMENT" QUESTIONNAIRE At the beginning of the Course, a Questionnaire will be submitted to the students in order to know the level of knowledge of the topics of the Course itself according to a "Self-assessment" method which in any case will not affect the final evaluation.

Magnaghi A.(2005), The Urban Village: A Charter for Democracy and Local Self-Sustainable Devel- opment, ZEN BOOKS, London Cohen S. (2017), The sustainable city, Columbia University Press, New York

Class attendance

Students will have to demonstrate their preparation in both the theoretical and practical parts. For both, case studies were also presented during the lessons and there are bibliographical references that students must know.

Structure of the Course Theory Part of the lectures is dedicated to deepening or, if necessary, the introduction of disciplines that can help the confrontation with the issues explained above Two macro areas characterize this field: I. one dedicated to the technical disciplines. II. a second that communicates and refers at fields further from the canonicals sectors: it is, e.g., the case of the perception of space. Practice Facing concrete situations constitutes another important element of the course. It consists in the elaboration of a plan built that is consistent with the mentioned approach. The ability to apply the theoretical concepts learned in the course, the appropriation of the tools in the operational dimension, will be recognized in the exercitation that the student will develop. Regular reviews will verify the maturation of the student.