Living in comfortable, identity and evolving spaces

Current sensitivity is geared towards psychophysical well-being and the pandemic crisis we are experiencing is amplifying the search for answers to health, on one hand, and to connection on the other. We are increasingly projected to the virtual dimension, often forgetting concrete reality. In fact, a planning or a design risk, also favored by technological advances, is that it responds more to the rules of the market and to the emerging virtual needs of the community rather than to the resolution of real and priority problems, modifying the evolution of the city, which shapes up to be a system. The management of the territory can no longer be exercised, in actual fact, on individual areas, but rather implies an overall, holistic vision in consideration of the "principle of absolute uniqueness" of the landscape in all its components, including cultural heritage. In this sense, the design response has to resemble a process which, by emulating the regenerative and resilient mechanisms of nature, tends to integrate and optimize both the cultural heritage and the specific resources of local contexts, in order not to lose the interaction between man, built and environment, with the additional risk that urban spaces are not perceived as their own and, therefore, not used. Bioclimatic design strategies and passive solar systems can play a decisive role, also because they maximize energy efficiency and concretize the search for health solutions.