IMM methodology awakening or common sense

City is not a mere aggregation of the energy consumption of its users.
“The whole is more than the sum of its parts” Aristotle
Politecnico di Milano holds workshop entitled “Low density urban morphology and energy performance optimization.
The Integrated Modification Methodology has helped guide architects and engineers in building skyscrapers, greenhouses, buildings and more since it was first contemplated. IMM is an innovative design methodology that aims to improve the design performance and helps creative individuals and firms to maximize their skills. To continually help with the design process, the School of Architectural Engineering in Politecnico di Milano collaborated with IMM design lab and Unitec Institute of Technology to hold an international workshop based on IMM methodology. The workshop entitled “Low density urban morphology and energy performance optimization. A new pilot project in Auckland via IMM® methodology”. Workshop will widen the knowledge of participants regarding the relationship of urban morphology and energy consumption. The said workshop will be held at at Politecnico di Milano, Polo Regionale di Lecco (Italy), from May 25 – 29 2015. Prof. Massimo Tadi (Politecnico di Milano), prof. Dushko Bogunovich (Unitec) with Eng. Hadi M. Zadeh and F. Zaniol (IMMdesignlab) will be the ones to organize the team of chosen participants.
The impact of the workshop to the design executives is not only during the workshop itself but more importantly, on the actions taken by the participants afterward. With the help of integrated modification methodology, we will be able to create a standard of building infrastructures that optimizes energy and resources. This ideology will ensure that every building in the country has the right compactness, promotes local energy efficiency, encouraging mixed-up spaces, promotes walkability and reinforcing public transportation.3
Urban morphology, the study of transformation of community, aims to understand the structure of an area through its parts.4 The further we learn about urban morphology, the easier it is for us to build buildings and communities. The relationship of urban morphology to energy consumption is being studied by many to ensure the continuous evolution of design.  People in a community consume energy everyday, and the best way to minimize that is to build a city’s design that is efficient and sustainable.
The world in general can benefit so much from the workshop. Once the architects, and building designers have integrated themselves in this study and truly learned the interdependent relationship between urban morphology and energy consumption, the design process will never be the same. The thought that urban areas are the ones who contribute so much to the destruction of the environment will be negated. Surely, every area built will not only be sustainable but efficient as well.
Reference:
1 Integrated Modification Methodology, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integrated_Modification_Methodology#Background
2 IMM Methodology Workshop https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/international-workshop-based-imm-methodology-politecnico-massimo-tadi
3 Integrated Modification Methodology (I.M.M). A phasing process for sustainable Urban Design, http://www.academia.edu/3328205/Integrated_Modification_Methodology_I.M.M_._A_phasing_process_for_sustainable_Urban_Design
4 Urban Morphology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_morphology