Dear Colleagues,

We are inviting submissions of research articles, literature reviews, case reports, and short communications to the Energies Special Issue on “Algorithm and Intelligence for Optimizing Urban/Building Morphology”.

In the near future, city and building design will face new challenges, mainly due to progressively increasing urbanization, the need of fuel fossil energy reduction, and the negative effects related to the climate change. These challenges cause the design requirements for both new and retrofitted interventions to be increasingly restrictive.

On the other hand, the professionals and researchers involved in urban and building design can take advantages from computer learning and solving algorithms. Several studies in the scientific literature show the efficacy of the application of computer intelligence, directly integrating it to the design at both urban and building scales.

This approach can play a fundamental role in addressing the challenges related to the urban microclimate conditions, thermal comfort at the pedestrian level, heat island effect and air pollution. At the same time, it can help to rethink the organization of building space and architectural solutions, boosting the innovations for more and more sustainable buildings.

This Special Issue aims to investigate the potentialities related to the use of computer intelligence applied mainly, but not limited to, the following topics:

• Urban/building morphology to improve building energy needs, health, and thermal comfort;
• Effects of urban greenery (trees, rooftop gardens and greenhouse, green walls, etc.) at urban and building scales;
• New paradigms for residential and non-residential buildings (such as rural facilities, food storage buildings, etc.);
• Definition of new methodologies and indicators;
• Integration of different renewable energy sources (such as photovoltaic, thermal, and geothermal);
• Predictive models for energy need and consumption;
• Building energy optimization;
• New constructions and retrofitting.

Dr. Alberto Barbaresi
Prof. Pascal YIM
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

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• neighborhood transformation
• building design
• energy simulation
• energy performance
• agricultural facility
• envelope performances
• solving algorithms
• artificial Intelligence
• machine learning
• energy consumption prediction
• digital twins
• genetic algorithms
• urban heat island
• urban microclimate
• rooftop greenhouse