Raising awareness about Urban Heat Island effect and Urban Stormwater. Limit their impact on Italian cities through the installation of ROOF GARDENS and other “nature-based solutions”, currently available.
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URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT
Urbanisation has considerably increased the percentage of paved and impermeable surfaces, depriving the Natural Soil of its capacity to absorb heat and, therefore, Plants of the possibility to cool the environment through evapotranspiration.
“Impermeable Cities” are producing more and more heat due to the high power consumption of cooling and heating systems and various other activities. Rising temperatures and pollution make the air increasingly unbreathable and harmful to human health.
This phenomenon, recognised and studied worldwide, is defined as the “Urban Heat Island Effect”.
VEGETAL CITIES
“Vegetal Cities” reduce the impact of urbanisation on the local microclimate and mitigate the Urban Heat Island Effect.
Green Roofs and Walls transform cities into healthier, more comfortable and attractive places; they lower the temperatures, reduce air pollution and regulate the local water cycle.
Vegetated buildings that adopt Roof and Vertical greening techniques help cool their surroundings.
This thermal effect is a combination of several natural plant processes: evapotranspiration, Albedo change, shading and a reduced wind speed on the building’s surface.
The vegetation also captures fine dust, absorbs CO2 and produces Oxygen.
PLANT’S COOLING EFFECT
The Urban Heat Island Effect and devastating effects of extreme rainfall in cities can be reduced and compensated by exploiting the extraordinary cooling and water management capacities of Plants and the Soil. Find “free space” to build conventional gardens is difficult, so we can use the building’s surfaces to develop GreenRoofs and Walls.
The natural combination between Soil and Plants, can thus be recreated.
VEGETATION IN THE CITY
Today, Green Roofs and Walls are feasible solutions.
The vegetation cools down the surrounding environment and converts the carbon dioxide produced by vehicles and home heating systems, into carbohydrates and oxygen.
RESEARCH ACTIVITY
The association has produced different studies in this field. It also monitors and, where possible, adopts evolving experimental updates through collaborations with leading northern European companies and research institutions.
They believe in Breathing City and offer their Time and Experience
