Fourteenth International Conference on The Constructed Environment

Abstract

The city is a set of urban projects with three socials functions: housing, work, and leisure. Its various urban projects are built with the aim of accommodating one of the urban functions programmed for an economic or civic need in the territory. The allocation of a function to an urban project - housing, commerce, school, university, daycare center, hospital, means of transport, industry, and others - determines the urban form and gives a different typology from one neighborhood to another, from one city to another, with the amount of energy consumption varying according to the function allocated to the urban project. All these urban projects hold and consume energy all year round. Our new technology analyzes and calculates urban energy in several ways. A typo-morpho-energetic analysis, which studies the city at the square micrometer (μm2), our new scale of analysis introduced in urban sciences. Another model we propose, which analyzes the nesting of energy consumption by function according to urban typology, form, and morpho-energetics in an urban territory. Our research results are based on urban data obtained as part of a pilot project at Labvi of QI of Montréal. This new orientation of urban energy planning between function and energy consumption is needed in order to orientate the energy supply chain in an urban territory, achieve successful energy distribution in urban planning and reduce climate risks.