Sustainable eco-architecture for Sustainable eco-tourism: the Strategic Plan and Pilot project of Asinara Island

Abstract: The project is mainly concentrated to create a wide Strategic Plan and Pilot Project for the small island in Sardinia, Italy. In the two last centuries the Island hosted several prisons but now it becomes a Natural Park, famous for environmental quality and biodiversity. Its few built-up areas represent an enormous potential and the administration is oriented to explore the impact of an eco-tourism attractive model, thinking out a Strategic Plan for a self-sufficient island, implementing energy efficiency and architectural integration of renewables, suggesting new activities and functions but with extreme care towards their cohesion with the environment and the biodiversity. The integrated approach will generate more effective architectural design strategies, green infrastructures and technological solutions: building integrated PV and mini-wind turbines, a broad water-harvesting network, waste management and mobility plan, for a deep reduction of CO2. The retrofitting building concept focused on naturalistic experience, offering beautiful and wellness luxuries, exclusive green suites and agri-therapy for children. It concentrates primarily to improve the efficiency of 3 buildings blocks, with high attention to envelopes performance, integrating green space, green roof and facade, as well as some passive bioclimatic technologies to reach a full-scale of comfort inside. Keywords: sustainable architecture, low energy building, building integration of solar and passive systems, Sustainable Tourism, Eco technologies