Sustainable Renovation of historical urban settlements outdoor spaces

The ecological matter sets questions and imperative assignments for architectural design. However, as pointed out by James Wines, the need to re-establish the relationship between man and nature should not only operate as an attempt to mitigate - through eco-friendly technologies, energy efficiency, use of recyclable materials - the negative human effects on the environment, but also encourage a radical cultural change with a new foundation not only technical and scientific, but also philosophical and aesthetical. As matter of fact, much of the Italian architectural heritage consists of buildings and related open spaces in a state of poor maintenance, in prevalence designed without knowing that energy would become a cutoff point of our way of life and our future. The aim is to present a study on the renovation of this heritage of urban landscape and to get a widespread environmental quality, wellbeing for the population and a decrease in the energy consumed in the public sector. Besides the issues and methodology necessary to choose the criteria to be used to achieve the objectives of the environment renovation, we will introduce some case studies of particular interest for the city of Rome.