Urbanie & Urbanus

Issue 2021 Dec

Regeneration

Issue 6, P.36 - P.47

Energy-driven urban regeneration: investigating strategies for net-zero energy neighbourhoods in compact textures

Federica Fiacco

MArch at the Sapienza University of Rome, PhD student in the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering at the City University of Hong Kong.

and  Gianni Talamini

Associate Professor at the Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, City University of Hong Kong

Figures


Figure 1 Radiation map indicates the most suitable areas to build new tower prototypes, depending on solar exposure —source: author.


Figure 2a-2b Two suitable configurations. There are 28 tower prototypes out of 34 suitable individuated positions in each scenario.


Table 1. Pout: wind-generated power


Table 2. Energy production