Design strategies for sustainable residential buildings:a quantitative method for morphology optimization

The paper presents some results of a research on the definition of new sustainable residential building types. Starting from the identification of the contributing factors of definition of sustainable buildings, a simplified method for defining the optimal morphology that subsequently, allows us to explore the possibility of designing new building types, is in the phase of being validated. The method is based on a dimensional analysis that allows us to describe and simplify a complex physical system by reducing the number of variables by bringing them together in dimensionless numbers, obtaining a comparable parameter that allows the designer to identify the optimal design solution.