Natural-Based Solution for Sustainable Buildings
A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 54
Special Issue Editors
Interests: building physics; building energy systems; envelope; HVAC; sustainability; renewable energy
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: sustainable buildings; natural-based materials; energy savings; resilient cities; climatic change; sustainable agriculture
Interests: building physics; building energy systems; envelope; HVAC; sustainability; renewable energy
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: sustainable buildings; innovative material for the building envelope; energy savings; resilient cities; climatic change
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to its intrinsic complexity, the environmental sustainability enhancement of cities requires a profound transformation and reorganization of urban spaces. It represents an ambitious goal to be achieved in the near future to promote the spread of resilient cities in which people’s liveability can improve. The diffusion of natural ecosystems and natural material components integrated into buildings goes in this direction, allowing for pragmatic solutions to effectively counteract the effects of climate changes and rationalizing the employment of energy reserves that currently find their final use just in cities. Ecosystems such as integrated greenery (even partially) and components made of natural materials in the building envelope find a natural application due to the abundant availability of surfaces and the high potential attainable in terms of the development of local bio-networks, to contrast the urban island effects, to properly manage heavy rainfalls, to improve the wellbeing of the habitants and the air quality in the city and to positively impact on energy consumption in buildings.
Prof. Roberto Bruno
Prof. Dr. Francesco Barreca
Prof. Dr. Natale Arcuri
Dr. Giuseppe Davide Cardinali
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- environment quality
- urban climate
- climate-neutral society
- building renovation
- heat island effect
- sustainable design
- carbon capture
- natural buildings materials
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