Cities and Buildings as Drivers for Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation: New Models and Computational Tools

Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue proposal focuses on advanced research concerning different models and computational tools that can support decision-making to plan future cities, design new buildings and adapt existing ones in response to climate change.

The different possible models for planning cities with less energy needs and designing more energy-efficient housing, in parallel with the understanding of how cities will face sea level rise, are some of the main research topics that must be investigated to elaborate faster and more effective responses to climate change adaptation and mitigation on time.

The use of computational tools provides the opportunity to model future scenarios on the impacts of climate change in cities. This approach is core to supporting decision making by anticipating environmental and social responses of buildings and public spaces, thus enabling the elaboration of strategies for compacting cities or expanding them. The revisiting of bioclimatic concepts and models for the construction of a new grammar of form is one of the possible methods that can be applied to the logical understanding that guides the design of spaces and buildings, and that contributes to the emergence of new forms and materials with better performance in a more adaptive design.

In short, interdisciplinary research on the subject is welcome, encompassing the design of buildings and public spaces, the characteristics of new materials that better respond to heat waves and the presence of the dynamic element—water—as a modeller of new spaces and geometrics within the city.

For this Special Issue, we are looking for examples of advanced research using new approaches and methods to develop new ways of designing and building the housing and future city.

Dr. Miguel Amado
Dr. Francesca Poggi
Dr. António Ribeiro Amado
Guest Editors

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