Natural ventilation and building low energy cooling as new culture for city planning design

摘要

Innovative development strategies for a "Mediterranean urban planning project" for the city of Umbertide-Umbria, organized in a new ecological, bioclimatic and energy sensitive residential/mixed-use, car free district of 1.500 inhabitants, focused on an appropriate natural ventilation system. The work involved participating with the local community on the design brief and urban comfort master-planning concept. Extensive climatic analysis and computer modelling has been carried out to test the design concepts.