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As explained above, the purpose of this case study was to find ways/rules that
can mitigate and tackle the UHI phenomenon. Expected results are:
– mitigation of UHI phenomenon through the definition of appropriate construction requirements and standards (green roofs, reflective materials etc..) in accordance with urban quality,
– definition of guidelines to develop a specific project.
In this regard the Villaggio Artigiano is a suitable area to tackle UHI phenomenon, because it is part of a wider redevelopment context and regeneration process,
strongly supported by public institutions and citizens.
The main objective of the regeneration plan is to allow a redevelopment of the
housing stock in the Village, through a deep renewal of existing buildings, including
demolition and reconstruction of a new building while maintaining the shape of the
previous one, thus preserving the system of dimensional and volumetric relationships that characterizes the Village, and achieving a new building organism that
continues and updates the typical evolutionary process of the “Villaggio Artigiano”.
Given the new environmental context in which the Village is included, the plan
entails interventions aimed at fostering high-performance at the overall urban but
also environmental systems.
For this purpose, the Municipality of Modena has defined a set of environmental
indexes focused on the assessment of 3 main affecting phenomena: the Urban Heat
Island, the energy requirements and the hydraulic risk. Consequently, a new calculation methodology has been defined, to be tested in the redevelopment of the Village,
capable to measure the environmental effects and the achievement of the planning
targets and to estimate the benefit-cost ratio in the redevelopment of urban lots.
Identifying indexes to measure the multiple environmental effects of the urban
transformations is the challenge for urban planners.
6.3 Next Steps
The City of Modena is collaborating with the EELab Department of the University
of Modena, to refine the scientific approach adopted in the analysis of phenomena.
Furthermore, Modena is collaborating with engineers from ARPA, the Regional
Agency for Environmental Protection, within the European project UHI, in order to
analyze the correlation between types of intervention described in the index “rate”
and the reduction of the Urban Heat Island phenomenon
The Municipality of Modena is awaiting the conclusions from the ongoing analysis, to finally validate the experimental indexes and put them into practice.
The indexes, evaluating the achievement of valuable solutions from the environmental point of view, could be useful to set the potential reward to be given to
requalification projects. The municipality is considering to provide the use of the
indexes within the redevelopment plan of the Village, so to regulate rewards, through
6 UHI in the Metropolitan Cluster of Bologna-Modena...
As explained above, the purpose of this case study was to find ways/rules that
can mitigate and tackle the UHI phenomenon. Expected results are:
– mitigation of UHI phenomenon through the definition of appropriate construction requirements and standards (green roofs, reflective materials etc..) in accordance with urban quality,
– definition of guidelines to develop a specific project.
In this regard the Villaggio Artigiano is a suitable area to tackle UHI phenomenon, because it is part of a wider redevelopment context and regeneration process,
strongly supported by public institutions and citizens.
The main objective of the regeneration plan is to allow a redevelopment of the
housing stock in the Village, through a deep renewal of existing buildings, including
demolition and reconstruction of a new building while maintaining the shape of the
previous one, thus preserving the system of dimensional and volumetric relationships that characterizes the Village, and achieving a new building organism that
continues and updates the typical evolutionary process of the “Villaggio Artigiano”.
Given the new environmental context in which the Village is included, the plan
entails interventions aimed at fostering high-performance at the overall urban but
also environmental systems.
For this purpose, the Municipality of Modena has defined a set of environmental
indexes focused on the assessment of 3 main affecting phenomena: the Urban Heat
Island, the energy requirements and the hydraulic risk. Consequently, a new calculation methodology has been defined, to be tested in the redevelopment of the Village,
capable to measure the environmental effects and the achievement of the planning
targets and to estimate the benefit-cost ratio in the redevelopment of urban lots.
Identifying indexes to measure the multiple environmental effects of the urban
transformations is the challenge for urban planners.
6.3 Next Steps
The City of Modena is collaborating with the EELab Department of the University
of Modena, to refine the scientific approach adopted in the analysis of phenomena.
Furthermore, Modena is collaborating with engineers from ARPA, the Regional
Agency for Environmental Protection, within the European project UHI, in order to
analyze the correlation between types of intervention described in the index “rate”
and the reduction of the Urban Heat Island phenomenon
The Municipality of Modena is awaiting the conclusions from the ongoing analysis, to finally validate the experimental indexes and put them into practice.
The indexes, evaluating the achievement of valuable solutions from the environmental point of view, could be useful to set the potential reward to be given to
requalification projects. The municipality is considering to provide the use of the
indexes within the redevelopment plan of the Village, so to regulate rewards, through
6 UHI in the Metropolitan Cluster of Bologna-Modena...