Bioclimatic Planning and Innovative Skin Planting Technologies for the realization of Nearly Zero Energy Buildings: a Case Study

With the directive 2010/31/CE, the European Union imposes to its country members from the beginning of 2020, the objective of realizing buildings at zero energetic consumption. Through the analysis of a Case Study, this work shows how it is possible to reach such an objective through the combination of two fundamental factors: the use of a specific planning methodology and the appropriate use of technologies containing integrated and innovative plant designed systems. The adopted planning methodology develops and verifies the principles of the bioclimatic planning through the aid of computerized modelling and it follows a precise procedure developed by steps. The objective of this planning method is that to exploit in an optimal way the contributions of the climatic elements present in nature and to integrate the residual part, resorting to the use of integrated skin.