Green Projects: architectural design tools for nature. Planning and recovery opportunities for our cities.

The world’s urban population is growing. It is projected that by 2050, the world will be more than two thirds urban. Population growth in cities entails the need to develop new ways of design or regeneration of urban areas that consider issues such as the impacts of climate change and emissions. Buildings, cells of our cities, and the construction sector are a major source of global rising energy use and emissions. This underlines the importance of a strategy to reduce energy demand and decarbonizing the built environment through recovery the building heritage and the design new architectures and urban planning with attention to nature aspects. A “global transformation” to a highly energy efficient and low carbon building and construction sector is essential to realize ambition of Paris Agreement. It is important that the actions for recovery and design of architecture and public spaces must concern relationship between city and nature. Among the various design solutions there are actions, such as the “Urban Forestry” and the “Vertical Forest”, which are attentive to the role of nature and the ways to incorporate it into the architectural project, demonstrating concrete and positive effects on the city and climate and environmental issues related to it. These are design challenges, highly current and oriented in the professional future, also requires attention in didactic for the formation of the architecture student and designer figure.