Andrea TARTAGLIA

Within the Technological Design of Architecture and Environmental Design area of ​​interest, research and design activities are geared toward investigating the relationship between the ENVIRONMENT - HEALTH/WELL-BEING - REGULATIONS triad at various scales and through governance, programming, design processes, and products.

Thus, consistent with the scientific approach of the Technological Design for Architecture and the Environment (Environmental Technological Design), research focuses on three main aspects:

a) The relationship between project quality and innovation, process management, and regulatory, social, and economic aspects in public works. The evolving operational landscape of interventions—increasingly characterized by high technical and procedural complexity, changing regulatory frameworks, and rapid innovation in technologies and systems—requires the improvement and updating of planning and design methods, models, and tools. In this regard, community service projects (healthcare facilities, educational facilities, collective housing) are one of the most significant paradigms and are analyzed through: Research Projects of National Interest (PRIN); research funded by public institutions; and feasibility studies.

b) Large-scale regeneration processes in relation to changing economic, institutional, management, climate, and social issues. Regeneration processes require innovative governance and planning tools to effectively implement policies and strategies into actions and interventions. These are researched and tested with particular attention to the transformation and improvement processes of contexts with high environmental and landscape values ​​through: strategic plans, territorial and urban plans (Provincial Coordination Territorial Plans, Wide Area Plans, Land Management Plans); and Urban Transformation Companies (STU).

c) Design and evaluation of urban regeneration and the quality of public spaces. The impacts of climate change require greater design capacity to anticipate the effects of intervention alternatives and effectively manage new solutions and techniques (e.g., nature-based solutions) to guide our cities and buildings toward the ecological transition and a widespread circular economy model. This is to enhance urban resilience and achieve a better quality of life for residents. Starting from a thorough understanding of degradation processes in urban systems, new ex ante and ex post assessment tools for the environmental impacts of design alternatives are being studied and applied in urban regeneration interventions, with a particular focus on the quality and accessibility of public spaces. In this regard, particular attention is also paid to the development and use of specific techniques, products, and materials to increase the sustainability of interventions. Activities are carried out through: Research Projects of National Interest (PRIN); research funded by public institutions and urban regeneration and public space projects.