The project describes a decision-making tool for energy reconfiguration, used for evaluating solutions to increase energy and environmental performance, but also for the purpose of analyzing the conditions for climate resilience in urban areas.
The Energy Atlas type tool proposes the graphic transposition of the results obtained following the numerical simulation of the energy scenarios analyzed in order to achieve the objectives of the nZEB time horizon 2030, 2050. The project refers to a multi-criteria approach to the energy reconfiguration programs of urban areas, including assessment for the resilience of existing buildings.
The conclusions of the study showed the vulnerability of the analyzed buildings under climatic risk conditions, which led to the proposal of a support strategy in the form of a hotel for temporary resilience (intended for vulnerable people) used during the major renovation works, after which the existing housing units will be able to ensure conditions for passive survival. It is important to understand the complementarity between the concept of renovation for urban sustainability and renovation for resilience considering the fact that human health corresponds to the quality of the built environment.
The project as well as the results obtained for the analyzed urban area located in the Municipality of Bucharest were developed as part of the doctoral thesis, “Green Atlas of Romania, applications in local architecture of buildings with nearly-zero energy consumption (nZEB)”, University “Ion Mincu “Bucharest.