The San Marino Declaration, UN guidelines for the cities of tomorrow
There San Marino declarationalso symbolically signed by two architects among the best known in the world and among the most sensitive to the environmental cause, Norman Foster And Stefano Boeriincludes a series of “Principles for urban design and sustainable and inclusive architecture” which should accompany the different phases of the conception and implementation of all buildings and urban developments, helping to improve the now multi-thousand-year model of the city.
“Architects and urban planners, at this moment in the history of the human species on the planet, have a fundamental responsibility: that of minimizing carbon dioxide emissions and energy consumption, maximizing devices that capture renewable energy, integrating ever greater shares of surfaces into buildings biological and plant, and suitable for a sustainable, electrified mobility model based on the public transport system “, he has declared Boers. “We will appeal to the architects this declaration at COP27 in Sharm El Sheik in November, pledging to collect as many adhesions as possible”.
The key values to which these are inspired guideline they are respect, the environments promoted by the charter but also of the cultural identity of the people who find themselves living in the spaces, efficiency and circularity. Architects and other urban planning and construction professionals, for example, always be aware of the impact of their work community welfare adopt a Human-centered approach based as much on listening to individual and collective needs as on the integration of diversity.
On the more technical front, they will take care to limit the use of energy and natural resources as much as possible by resorting to reuse and recycling Where possible, reusing rainwater or encouraging the production of zero-kilometer food in urban gardens and orchards or in edible forests (also called “food forests”, they are artificial ecosystems with different species of plants and animals, studied in order to operate independently, without the need for maintenance or periodic interventions).
Climate neutrality will have to be pursued through urban design and redevelopmentby integrating systems for the creation of clean energy directly into buildings or by adopting “Creative solutions capable of reducing pollution and energy consumption”. The new environmental awareness required their designers also to insert careful assessment of the ecological impact in the preliminary stages of any project, to allocate spaces to greenery and urban biodiversity and to guarantee accessibility to pedestrians or the availability of sustainable means of transport. Among the issues addressed there is also the resilience of buildings and infrastructures, to withstand extreme climatic events that risk increasingly affecting even temperate areas such as Europe.