IMMdesignlab
Massimo Tadi
Associate Professor at Politecnico di Milano. Director of IMMdesignLab, www.immdesignlab.com
IMM is an International and multidisciplinary Design Laboratory based at Politecnico di Milano, ABC department for Urban Sustainability. Our work is driven by the principle that urban design can directly affect the quality of our environment, improve the energy performances as well as the quality of our lives making our future more sustainable and responsible. IMM is the acronym of Integrated Modification Methodology, an innovative design methodology based on a specific process with the main goal of improving the CAS’ (complex adaptive systems) energy performance, through the modification of its constituents and optimization the architecture of their ligands. Its approach is fundamentally Holistic, Multi-Layer, Multi-scale. In this methodology, the city is considered to be a dynamic Complex Adaptive System comprised of the superimposition of an enormous number of interrelated components, categorized in different Layers or ‘Subsystems’, (also Complex Adaptive Systems) which through their inner arrangement and the architecture of their ligands provide a certain physical and provisional arrangement of the CAS