The general learning outcome of 01RVGQA Studio is to face climate change locally integrating knowledge and approaches of Climate planning, Urban Hydrology, and Energy Challenges. These three disciplines aim to specific learning outcomes. Climate Planning • Knowledge of the main adaptation and mitigation policies and their contribution to face climate change at local scale. • Knowledge of climate policies mainstreaming into bulk regulation of the zoning code. • How to design infill development facing hydro-climatic hazards. Urban Hydrology • An overview of urban hydrology and stormwater management considering the anthropogenic influences and the interaction with landscape in urban environments. • The phenomena of precipitation runoff and stormwater in relation to urban spatial planning. • Basic QGIS and linked water resources tools (SAGA, GRASS), for the spatial data analysis to be used for the representation of watershed characteristics in the hydrologic modelling. • Basic SWMM (Storm Water Management Model) used for both, to model and simulate surface runoff and for hydraulic transport in swales and channels in urban areas. • Other natural hazards as landslides, flooding, underground structure (soil characteristics, earthquakes, groundwater fluctuations, …) affecting the area will be discussed. Energy challenges • Knowledge of building energy modeling at urban scale, energy savings and clean energy technologies • How to reduce consumptions with high energy-efficiency solutions • How to use renewables energy resources • How to design the built environment to boost the clean energy transition and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Climate Planning None. "Get Started" section refresh the required background. Urban Hydrology • Essentials of urban climatology (albedo, and thermal admittance of building materials and standard urban land cover) • Basics GIS • Basics of pysical geography and geomorphology, mathematics, geometry. Energy Challenges • Basics of units of measure, energy systems and renewable technologies ("Get Started" section refresh the required background).

The Studio (16 credits) will mainstream climate policies into a Conceptual proposal for the development of a set of blocks in one District of Portland (OR), USA. Three components will work together to attend this outcome: Climate planning (6 credits), Urban Hydrology (6 credits), and Energy Challenges (4 credits). Climate Planning Activities are organized into three sections: A - Get started (12 hours) (Program statement, Team building, mitigation and adaptation policies in Portland, mainstreaming climate policies into local plans, local planning process, terms and concepts used in urban design (Am. English). B - Assignment one. LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) assessment of a residential or mixed-use project at block scale in California, Oregon, or Washington states (18 hours). C - Assignment two. Conceptual proposal for the development of a commercial mixed and residential multi-dwelling use set of blocks in Portland (30 hours). This section deals with mitigation and adaptation measures inclusion in a development proposal detailed at building envelope scale. Topics include cluster housing, common place, circulation element, road landscaping and safety. Written instructions and illustrated tips will support A2 development. Urban Hydrology Activities are organized into 6 sections: A - Get started (territorial hydrology, hydrologic cycle in urban environment). B - Statistical hydrology (Frequency of events, Probability of occurrence, Return time, Hazard). C - The driving variables from rainfall precipitation to runoff discharge (Losses and lagged response). D - Basics hydraulics for stormwater conveyance, control and regulation (Channel, Conduits, Ponds, Manholes, Storage, Weirs and orifices). E - GIS tricks to reveal natural flow path. F - Mitigation of urban flooding risk: Low Impact Development (LID). G - Implementation of urban stormwater network in SWMM. Readings will be supplied to supplement the software manuals and the lectures notes. Two assignments are scheduled for this module. In addition, a report showing the following issue will be requested: • Natural hazard affecting the site. • Landslide mitigation techniques. • Flooding mitigation techniques. • Underground issue and solutions. Energy challenges Activities are organized into 5 sections: A - Get started: energy and environmental challenges. B - The sources of renewable energy and their availability. C - The main clean energy technologies. D - The main energy savings interventions to reduce consumptions. E - How to calculate and optimize the use of clean energy technologies and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Spatial Planning for Climate Change Studio requests a Concept plan proposal to organize an infill development in Portland, Oregon (USA). The Concept plan operates at block scale. Climate planning, Urban Hydrology, and Energy Challenges support Students in drafting the proposal by steps, each developed through integrated assignments. To develop the Concept plan proposal, the Students organize themselves into Teams of 4 members each. Urban Hydrology Assignments concern the estimation of: - natural runoff and peak discharge from selected lots, (assignment HY1). - urbanized runoff, after first lots design and adaptation of design. - LID runoff and peak discharge (assignment HY2). - main natural hazard and mitigation procedures. Energy challenges Assignments concern the estimation of: 1 - identification of the availability of renewable sources - energy production with solar collectors and photovoltaic modules (roof-integrated systems) - energy production with biomass plants or other renewables technologies 2 - energy-related variables of buildings and energy consumptions - energy savings potential 3 - cost-benefit analysis of the interventions and selection of the most convenient scenario.

Each module offers lectures and practical assignments. Climate Planning (Lectures + 2 assignments) Urban Hydrology (Lectures + 2 assignments) and natural hazards (lectures + 1 assignment) Energy Challenges (Lectures + 3 assignments) The 7 assignments correspond to the phases needed to develop a Concept plan proposal for selected vacant blocks in one District of Portland and are consequently linked to each other. Guidelines and written tips are available at Materials folder to develop each assignment.

All the readings are freely accessible from the “Materials” folder at the Studio web page Climate Planning City of Portland Bureau of Planning, 2017. The infill design toolkit: medium density residential development Thale E. 2013, The walkable neighborhood, International Journal of Sustainable Land Use and Urban Planning, 1, 1: 42-63 Tiepolo M. 2024. Illustrated tips on safe urban roads and landscaping around roads-2024 edition Urban Hydrology Lectures and readings are available in the materials section of the course webpage for both Hydrology and natural hazards. Energy Challenges Lectures and readings are available in the materials section of the course webpage. For insights: A Clean Energy Atlas for Energy Communities in Piedmont Region (Italy), International Journal of Design & Nature and Ecodynamics, Vol. 15, No. 3, pp. 343-353 (2020); https://doi.org/10.18280/ijdne.150308. Statistical Building Energy Model from Data Collection, Place-Based Assessment to Sustainable Scenarios for the City of Milan, Sustainability 15, 14921(2023); https://doi.org/10.3390/su152014921 Urban Building Energy Modeling to Support Climate-Sensitive Planning in the Suburbs of Santiago de Chile, Buildings 14(1), 185(2024); https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings14010185 The Effects of Green Roofs on Outdoor Thermal Comfort, Urban Heat Island Mitigation and Energy Savings, Atmosphere, Vol. 11, Issue 2, 2020, pp.1-32 (2020); https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos11020123

Lecture slides; Lecture notes; Exercises;

Exam: Compulsory oral exam; Individual graphic design project; Group graphic design project;

Climate Planning Oral presentation of A1CP and A2CP assignments. Each Student is required to present the specific portion of the work carried-out for the Team’s proposal. The presentation is attributed 10% of the final grade, which is added to the evaluation of the A1CP and A2CP (40% and 50% respectively) to form the mark of this module. Urban Hydrology Referred to their team proposal, individual Students present and discuss the following: - rainfall characterization, implement in SWMM the watershed before urbanization and compute the natural runoff. - implement the proposals (SWMM), runoff calculation. - main natural hazards affecting the site and adaptation and monitoring proposal - changes to meet hydraulic (or hydrological) invariance in the computed runoff. The evaluation of the student will be 60% on team proposal (A2H) and 40% on oral examination. Energy Challenges Oral presentation of the assignments. The evaluation of the student will be 50% on team proposal and 50% on oral examination

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