The research proposes the use of structured data
systems to define by connected attributes the buildings, the users
and the infrastructure information as the kay scenario of the
future development of the Cognitive Adaptive Urban Systems
able to learn and respond to sustainable requirement, users’
behavior and anticipating and supporting their needs. In order to
test the usability and to demonstrate the potential of a
georeferenced, integrated information system on buildings in a
practical use case, Politecnico di Milano and University of
Brescia are focusing on the implementation of a district-wide
heating energy need estimation: assuming current TDB contents
as rough informational basis for energy modeling. The study
aims to progressively evaluate the benefits related to different
levels of data enrichment. Starting from rough TDB data,
building information are integrated initially with semantic data
coming from other existing datasets and furtherly with geometric
data coming from BIMs. The final goal of the research is to
measure improvements in accuracy related to a progressive data
refinement and, at the same time, evaluate costs and efforts
required for the realization of such refinement. The proposed
methodology is intended to support designers and decisionmakers,
providing a fully-integrated design process moving into a
digital environment in which to test and track the users to predict
the effects of the built environment on the human wellbeing