Teaching Environmental Control Systems in Italy

It is need to initiate a change in the formation of building practitioners that supports the successful implementation of environmental considerations in the practice of architecture including issues of climatic design, choice of materials, passive and hybrid strategies, construction techniques, resource efficiency, reduction of impacts, and so on. Architecture is, by its own definition, the product of a creative process, which measures its success by its capacity to provide an answer to economic, aesthetic, ethical, sociocultural and physio-psychological human needs. To promote sustainable design in the built environment, architecture must therefore assume a further dimension, conscientiously responding to the context where it is built and to the environment as a whole. Starting from these considerations, teaching environmental control systems is principally based on the assumption that there is an increasing need to integrate environmental and energy performance considerations in the form‐making processes of architectural design.