Accessibilità e qualità ambientale del paesaggio urbano. La matrice microclimatica come strumento di progetto

The peri-urban and subtopic urban areas landscapes suffer not only formal irresolution, lack of characterization and indifference to the sense of place, but also lack of environmental quality, which further worsens the possibility of fruition. The environmental quality is directly interrelated with the usability and accessibility of the spaces, ensuring adequate attractiveness for users in performing different activities. In this sense the environmental characteristics, different from the aesthetic ones, bind with them to form a unique, capable of becoming instrument and rule of integration between the landscape and the object of design, giving back to spaces without identity and rule a renewed accessibility. The contribution, defined this essential relationship, explains how to develop a project tool, the site microclimate matrix, able to analyze the vocational nature of spaces to be designed and redefined in a perspective of sustainable development