Il ruolo degli ospedali monumentali nelle strategie di adattamento al cambiamento climatico

The reduced drainage capacity of the soils, common to various European realities, is also evident in Mediterranean urbanized contexts, such as the city of Naples, where the central areas suffer from scarce permeable green surfaces. The focus of this work is on the large monumental hospitals in the center which, due to their size, go beyond the building scale to take the form of large urban blocks. The particular conformation of these factories, organized around large courtyards and cloisters, and their size allow large-scale actions aimed at increasing permeable surfaces with consequences on surface temperatures. These interventions to adapt to climate change are part of a broader objective of reopening the internal spaces of monumental hospitals to city flows and compensating for the shortcomings of green public spaces. After a careful selection of some case studies present in the Neapolitan territory, the methodological approach starts from the evaluation of the building consistency, the incidence of the covered and uncovered surfaces and the relative permeability, using tools such as the Impact Reduction index. Building assessed before and after the intervention proposals.