Rigenerazione urbana e neutralità climatica: un’esperienza di progettazione per il quartiere Navile a Bologna

According to the goals of the European Green Deal, Member States are preparing strategies to achieve climate neutrality by 2050. Currently, around 60% of the world’s population lives in cities, which have a crucial role in reaching global sustainable development goals, combating climate change, and fostering energy transition. This study, developed within the course of Urban Planning, at the School of Engineering and Architecture of the University of Bologna, aims to reach climate neutrality, by achieving a balance of CO2 storage, in the district of Navile in Bologna, which has been recently selected as one of 100 neutral cities by 2030. The CO2 demand analysis consisted of an estimation of building emissions, taking the remainders from percentages supplied by PAESC (Bologna’s plan for climate and sustainable energy). Starting from the current CO2 balance of the area, design solutions were calibrated to potential future scenarios, proposing actions which could be resilient over time. Design solutions focus mostly on reducing emissions and increasing storage, through the implementation of existing green and blue infrastructure and the use of NBS.