4. Bioclimatic Approaches and Environmental Design. Strategies, Criteria and Requirements for an Evolution of Experimentations

Bioclimatic Approach to the project and Environmental Design are some of the potential factors involved in a possible, concrete change in trend, at the height of an epochal critical period in which the number of people living in cities exceeds the number of people living in the country; available water is constantly diminishing; most of world energy needs are still met through non-renewable sources; those resources are available for a few more years or decades at the most; the use of those sources implies real climate and environmental disasters such as first of all, the scientifically ascertained global warming process; the health of all living bodies is harmed to a greater and greater extent; the earth, water and air of this progressively impoverished little Planet are increasingly polluted. This paper investigates which logical-cognitive steps are required to bear in mind to set a proper changing action, more and more often meant to answer climatic emergency situations and taking into consideration the limits of resources; which objectives and criteria it is convenient to pursue or adopt in order to direct process, project and product choices in an environmentally and bioclimatically aware; which is the ideal framework of reference requirements which a changing action—though meant for basic environmental preservation and protection—should always respect and bear in mind.