Research, tools, teaching, and design projects by Graziano Enzo Marchesani.https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/enhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/energy-efficiency-historical-buildings-ascoli/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/energy-efficiency-historical-buildings-ascoli/On a public palace in the centre of Ascoli Piceno we measured what the envelope actually does before proposing any intervention: the 90 cm travertine walls already meet code, so the room for savings shifts to the load profile and a 25 kWp photovoltaic array hidden on the roof slope.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchEnergy efficiencyCultural heritageRetrofitThermal transmittancePhotovoltaicshttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/urban-micro-forestry-adriatic-ports/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/urban-micro-forestry-adriatic-ports/A strip of trees along an Adriatic quay does not cool the air, but in the central hours it shifts perceived comfort from 1.5 to 0.9 on the PMV scale. We simulated it for the port of San Benedetto del Tronto.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchUrban micro-forestryClimate adaptationNature-based solutionsOutdoor comfortSimulationhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/waste-composites-thermal-regulation/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/waste-composites-thermal-regulation/Designing a concrete that carries recycled PET, rubber and glass in a materials selector, then simulating it in an urban canyon to see whether it actually lowers the heat felt by people walking. At midday two composites out of three make things worse; by evening all three help.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchUrban heat islandComposite materialsWaste valorisationMean radiant temperatureENVI-methttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/facade-geometry-passive-cooling/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/facade-geometry-passive-cooling/A carved or folded façade is designed to shade the building behind it. In a hot street it also changes how much heat the wall radiates onto the people walking below — and that effect swings with orientation.Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchFaçade designMean radiant temperatureUrban canyonPassive coolingSimulationhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/bridging-theory-practice-gap/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/bridging-theory-practice-gap/A five-phase method that carries green infrastructure from city-scale analysis to a costed, buildable project, tested on one trafficked intersection in San Benedetto del Tronto.Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMTResearchGreen infrastructureClimate adaptationDesign processENVI-metUTCIhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/agenda-2030-infrastruttura-verde/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/agenda-2030-infrastruttura-verde/Green infrastructure strategies for mid-Adriatic cities, drawn from LIFE+ A_GreeNET.Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTTeachingmasterSAAD UNICAM — Master di II livellohttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/marangoni-biophilic/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/marangoni-biophilic/Biophilic design and decarbonisation, from the scale of a material to the scale of a room.Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTTeachingmasterIstituto Marangoni — Master in Interior Designhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/sos-regenerative/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/sos-regenerative/Evidence-based regeneration: automating the workflow that turns city data into environmental impact numbers.Thu, 01 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMTTeachingmasterSOS — School of Sustainability, Fondazione Mario Cucinella Architectshttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/city-rhythm-geo-temporal-platform/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/city-rhythm-geo-temporal-platform/City Rhythm overlays a modelled, hour-by-hour estimate of human presence onto Local Climate Zone and urban heat island risk maps, turning a physical hazard into a real exposure: in Ascoli Piceno, older residents concentrate in the most overheated fabric on weekday mornings.Wed, 22 Oct 2025 00:00:00 GMTResearchUrban heat islandLocal Climate ZoneHuman presenceGeo-temporal analysisSimulationhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/city-rhythm/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/city-rhythm/A geo-temporal dashboard where footfall, demographics and heat risk are read on the same timeline.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTToolsJavaScriptWebMapboxEChartsTurf.jshttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/warmish/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/warmish/Reads a FLIR thermal image and gives you the temperature behind every pixel.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTToolsPythonDesktop GUIFLIRThermographyhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/agenda-2030-forestazione/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/agenda-2030-forestazione/How urban forestry earns its place in an Adriatic city's climate adaptation plan.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTTeachingmasterSAAD UNICAM — Master di II livellohttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/codice-della-forma/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/codice-della-forma/Three seminars that walk from visual programming to a comfort simulation of open space.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTTeachingseminarioCluster Clima — Università di Camerinohttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/relive-2025-madrid/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/relive-2025-madrid/Coordinating a student group through performance-based design against green gentrification.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTTeachingworkshopSITdA / ETSAMhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/01-echo-madrid/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/01-echo-madrid/Cooling a neighbourhood counts for nothing if the people who live there get priced out of it.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTProjectsworkshopNuevo Mahou-Calderón, Madridhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/02-via-milano-pescara/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/02-via-milano-pescara/A microclimate report that turns the choice between asphalt and tree canopy into numbers.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTProjectsricercaPescarahttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/09-look-up/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/09-look-up/Ten years of video mapping distilled into one abbey, one night, one audience filling the square.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTProjectsinstallazioneAbbadia di Fiastra, Maceratahttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/10-indagine-bellezza/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/10-indagine-bellezza/Visuals for an evening on how music and architecture answer each other.Wed, 01 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMTProjectsinstallazionePinacoteca Civica, Ascoli Picenohttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/envimet-automation-protocol/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/envimet-automation-protocol/A repeatable path from a Rhino model to a batch of ENVI-met simulations.Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTToolsPythonGrasshopperRhinoMorphoENVI-methttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/envireader/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/envireader/Opens ENVI-met EDX/EDT output in a browser and turns it into charts you can actually read.Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTToolsJavaScriptWebENVI-metEChartshttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/fetch/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/fetch/Classifies Local Climate Zones automatically, inside QGIS, from open geospatial data.Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTToolsPythonQGISGoogle Solar APIGeospatialhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/grasshopper-web-ui/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/grasshopper-web-ui/Opens a Grasshopper definition in a browser, so a Mac can drive a Windows model.Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTToolsC# · PythonGrasshopperRhinoThree.jshttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/spotmapper/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/spotmapper/Maps the local services in an area and exports them as clean geodata.Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTToolsJavaScriptWebLeafletGoogle PlacesOpenStreetMaphttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/streetvision/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/streetvision/Generates equidistant points along a street network and collects the Street View images.Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTToolsJavaScriptWebLeafletTurf.jsGoogle Street Viewhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/03-corso-corsico/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/03-corso-corsico/A winning proposal built around the community, not a masterplan handed down to it.Mon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMTProjectsconcorsoCorsico, Milanohttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/climate-cities-health-european-review/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/climate-cities-health-european-review/A systematic review of 110 European studies charts which climate hazards urban research actually tackles, with which strategies, and what it measures about health — and finds the field skewed towards heat and towards solutions rather than risks.Tue, 21 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMTResearchUrban heat islandClimate adaptationUrban regenerationSystematic reviewUrban healthhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/unicam-tools/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/unicam-tools/Ladybug Tools, simplified into components a design studio can use in an afternoon.Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTToolsGrasshopperLadybug ToolsUTCIhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/disegno-industriale-1/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/disegno-industriale-1/Materials, production technologies and digital tools for a first-year design studio.Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTTeachingcorsoUniversità di Camerino — SAADhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/ladybug-cyprus/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/ladybug-cyprus/A hands-on Ladybug Tools workshop on environmental and climate analysis, in Nicosia.Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMTTeachinglectureThe Cyprus Institutehttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/urban-heat-island-ascoli-piceno/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/urban-heat-island-ascoli-piceno/A trans-scalar method for Ascoli Piceno: remote sensing narrows the search to the three most exposed areas of a 1970s district, then microclimate simulation reconstructs what the heat feels like at pedestrian height.Sun, 09 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTResearchUrban heat islandRemote sensingENVI-metUTCIUrban risk maphttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/orient-3pt/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/orient-3pt/Rhino's “orient by 3 points”, missing from Grasshopper until it wasn't.Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTToolsGrasshopperRhinoHopshttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/semantic-geometry/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/tools/semantic-geometry/Attaches meaning to Rhino geometry and keeps it there through the bake.Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTToolsGrasshopperRhinoHuman pluginhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/clicche-belgrado/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/clicche-belgrado/An invited lecture on where climate and urban health cross paths.Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTTeachinglectureUniversity of Belgrade — Faculty of Architecturehttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/envimet-romatre/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/envimet-romatre/An introduction to ENVI-met for architecture students who have never opened a microclimate simulator.Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTTeachinglectureUniversità Roma Tre — Dipartimento di Architetturahttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/ladybug-arkansas/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/ladybug-arkansas/Reading Rome's urban environment through Ladybug's parametric tools, for a workshop on climate change and design.Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTTeachinglectureUniversity of Arkansas — Rome Centerhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/microclimatechange-copenhagen/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/microclimatechange-copenhagen/Measure it, simulate it, design for it — the urban microclimate in one lecture.Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTTeachinglectureRoyal Danish Academyhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/modellazione-programmazione-visuale/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/modellazione-programmazione-visuale/Parametric modelling and visual programming, applied to reading a city's climate.Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTTeachingseminarioCluster Climate — Facoltà di Architetturahttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/scanner-stampa-3d/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/scanner-stampa-3d/3D scanning and printing, taught as tools a classroom can actually use.Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTTeachingcorsoITT “E. Divini”https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/06-mobilit-ap/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/06-mobilit-ap/An architectural project on the mobility infrastructure of Ascoli Piceno.Sat, 01 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMTProjectsricercaAscoli Picenohttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/coupling-microclimate-and-buildings/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/coupling-microclimate-and-buildings/The same wall is the last surface of the room and the first surface of the street. A review of coupled simulations that model both sides at once — the engines, the validation, and what still escapes them.Wed, 08 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMTResearchMicroclimateCoupled simulationBuilding energy modellingENVI-metOutdoor thermal comforthttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/disegno-industriale-3/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/disegno-industriale-3/Taking a design from digital model to physical prototype.Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTTeachingcorsoUniversità di Camerino — SAADhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/outdoor-comfort-leipzig/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/outdoor-comfort-leipzig/How to actually go about investigating the microclimate of an open space.Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTTeachinglectureHTWK Leipzig — Faculty of Engineeringhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/04-tor-bella-monaca/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/04-tor-bella-monaca/Not demolition, not restyling — upcycling a Roman housing block as the raw material of the project.Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTProjectsconcorsoRomahttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/05-cartout/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/05-cartout/A doctoral thesis that treats cardboard as a structural material, not packaging waste.Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTProjectsricercaUniversità di Camerinohttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/07-sos-ceramic-district/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/07-sos-ceramic-district/Simulating the environmental future of a ceramic industrial district, in drawings non-specialists can read.Fri, 01 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMTProjectsricercaEmilia-Romagnahttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/density-intensity-urban-quality/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/research/density-intensity-urban-quality/We describe an urban fabric with a handful of surface ratios, feed them to a microclimate simulation, and watch the urban heat island change sign: vertical density helps in winter, horizontal density hurts in summer.Fri, 18 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTResearchUrban heat islandUTCIUrban Weather GeneratorSimulationUrban morphologyhttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/grasshopper-zerotohero/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/grasshopper-zerotohero/From a blank Grasshopper canvas to parametric modelling, one seminar at a time.Tue, 01 Jan 2019 00:00:00 GMTTeachingseminarioUniversità di Camerinohttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/cad-3d-calzatura/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/cad-3d-calzatura/Turning a shoe into a three-dimensional model, with CAD instead of a sketchbook.Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMTTeachingcorsoITS sistema modahttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/08-relive-rogoredo/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/projects/08-relive-rogoredo/The first workshop of a RE-LIVE cycle that would later reach Tor Bella Monaca and Madrid.Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 GMTProjectsworkshopMilanohttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/envimet-master/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/envimet-master/The same microclimate simulation course, taught long enough to become a fixture at two universities.Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMTTeachingmasterUniversità di Camerino / Università di Firenzehttps://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/video-mapping-folli/https://grazianoenzomarchesani.xyz/fields/teaching/video-mapping-folli/From animation basics to a live projection, in one introductory course.Fri, 01 Jan 2016 00:00:00 GMTTeachingcorsoUniversità di Camerino / Compagnia dei Folli