BUILT ENVIRONMENT SUSTAINABILITY: AN EDUCATIONAL PROPOSAL

The theme of the sustainability of the built environment is the basis of the educational path proposed in this paper and refers to a Master's degree thesis activity in Architecture carried out at the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of the University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”. Since this is a particularly topical issue, the professors, in the role of supervisor and co-supervisor respectively, guided the student in identifying a sustainable transformation process that would aim at refining the built environment and the well-being of citizens through an environmental approach to improve climate resilience, water control, and biodiversity [1]. The thesis work started from the consideration that urban voids generated by disused production activities represent a fundamental resource for sustainable urban development as they are areas often located in strategic points of the city that return to citizens a panorama of degradation and absolute neglect. This premise gave rise to the need for research into nature-based solutions to use the principles of nature as a model to counteract the effects of climate change but also to enhance the suburbs so that they represent the cities of the future.