Energy Performance Planning in Historical City Centers: GeoCluster Approach

The theme of energy performance planning in historical city centers is discussed, starting with an innovative vision that requires coordination and an interdisciplinary approach in order to organize and correlate existing knowledge and new information. The research aims to apply the concept of “geocluster”, which includes a group of buildings, sufficiently homogeneous to be treated like a system; the studied buildings are associated through a series of indicators and parameters. The final goal is the development of a tool for managing the energy and environmental performance of the buildings/monumental heritage through computational analysis, with measurement campaigns and simulations to help understand the energy requirements of the context analyzed, thus allowing to identify the best strategies and management actions.