Research Article
Urban Morphology, Environmental Performances, and Energy Use:Neighborhood transformation in Rio de Janeiro via IMM
Tadi M1*, Vahabzadeh Manesh SH2, Mohammad Zadeh H2 and Gori G21Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering (ABC), Politecnico di Milano, Italy
2IMM Design Lab, ABC Department, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
- *Corresponding Author:
- Tadi M
Department of Architecture
Built Environment and Construction Engineering (ABC)
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Tel: 39 02 2399 5744
E-mail: massimo.tadi@polimi.it
Received Date: December 19, 2016; Accepted Date: December 22, 2016; Published Date: December 29, 2016
Citation: Tadi M, Vahabzadeh Manesh SH, Mohammad Zadeh H, Gori G (2016) Urban Morphology, Environmental Performances, and Energy Use: Neighborhood transformation in Rio de Janeiro via IMM®. J Archit Eng Tech 5: 180. doi: 10.4172/2168-9717.1000180
Copyright: © 2016 Tadi M, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Nowadays the environmental ramifications of urban development have become crystal clear. Subsequently, the main headline is how one should implement practical methods to tackle urban growth and environmental issues simultaneously. How should one integrate urbanization and the issue of saving natural resources? How design strategies could contribute to climate mitigation and emission reduction? Is urban morphology correlated with these issues? And eventually, how can the urban transformation be performed, retrofitted and monitored in order to achieve a more sustainable result? A strictly sectorial approach could result in neglecting mutual dependencies of these demands. Conversely, an integrated approach can help to sharpen a better comprehension of the different performances of different urban assessment.
IMM®, Integrated Modification Methodology, is a multi-stage, iterative process, applied to urban complex systems, for improving the metabolism of the city as well as its energy performance. The method has been depicted through prior publications by the authors; hence, the current paper solely focuses on one stage of the multi-stage IMM method. Due to the fact that the majority of predicted urban growth will occur in megacities of developing countries, totalling 5% of the earth population, the article presents a case study Janeiro using the IMM method to propose urban improvements on the megacity of Rio de Janeiro.
