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Emanuele Naboni | |
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| Born | May 16, 1975 Monza, Italy |
| Nationality | Italian |
| Education | Politecnico di Milano (Ph.D.) |
| Occupation(s) | Architect, Professor |
| Known for | Regenerative digital design |
Emanuele Naboni
[edit]Biography
[edit]Emanuele Naboni is a urban and architectural consultant and a distinguished professor recognised for pioneering the concept of digital regenerative design and as one of the experts in the climate change adaptation [1]of the built environment. Drawing on ecological principles, CO2 capture processes, and health considerations, Naboni’s digital work introduces novel urban forms, building typologies, and technologies to enhance adaptation to climate change. Naboni integrates advanced scripting made by Grasshopper 3D, customize Ladybug tools components and parametric workflows combining thermodynamics, biological insights, carbon-cycle analysis, and health considerations with geometry, material strategies, and operational strstegird into master planning and buildings. His research is often prototyped at full scale in collaboration with architectural firms and research institutions, resulting in projects that emphasise ecological vitality, continuous CO₂ absorption, and psychosocial well-being.
Work on Regenerative Design
[edit]Emanuele Naboni’s conception of regenerative design rests on the belief that urban design and architecture should actively restore ecological systems, decarbonise, and improve human health systematically and by leavaraging digital modelling Regenerative Design in Digital Practice: A Handbook for the Built Environment" [2], which gathers diverse contributors architects, engineers, and software developers to articulate both the conceptual underpinnings and tangible workflows of regenerative design. His competences are lended as an advisor of the Living Future Institute, the creator of Living Building Challenge
Work on Climate Change
[edit]Climate adaptation forms a central pillar of Naboni’s work, some of which approaches are in the book "Adaptation to Heat." Reflecting the urgency of global warming and the opportunities for built environments to adapt and reverse its effects. Early in his career, collaborations with Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and other built projects across continents exposed him to the frontline challenges of crafting buildings resilient to shifting weather patterns. He integrated these insights into his design framework, demonstrating how thermodynamic modelling, biological systems modelling, CO₂ modelling, and health modelling can be coupled in advanced parametric workflows, making architects anticipate today’s conditions and the extremes of tomorrow’s climate scenarios [3]. He consulted on climate adaptation in Expo 2015 Milan, the city of Gothenburg, the EPFL campus, and the city of Riyadh. He consults for the urban and architectural climatic adaptations of future train stations in Italy. Across varied geographies in America, Europe, Middle East and China, Naboni has employed computational modelling to refine design strategies for adaptation to climate change. These competencies led him to become a consultant for the European Commission TAIEX and WHO Techne programs. His role as Ambassador of BUILDUP highlights his influence in shaping energy-efficiency dialogues in European policy circles.
Education
[edit]Early in his academic life, Naboni earned a PhD in Technology of Architecture from the Politecnico di Milano, conducting three years of specialised research at the University of California, Berkeley, under the mentorship of Prof. Vladimir Bazjanac , one of the pioneers of Digital Design. He attended Building Simulation classes at UC Berkeley in 2005, including those run by Charlie Huizenga. He further received short education in urban physics at TU Eindhoven and city energy analysis at ETH Zurich. He later pursued additional post-graduate studies at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, continuing to work with Vladimir Bazjanac and collaborating with Stephen Selkowitz and the team of EnergyPlus, including Fred Buhl, with who he perfected some of the modules for facade simulation today spread internationally.
Design Consultancy
[edit]While in the Bay Area, Naboni began to refine simulation techniques while working for a few yesars with SOM, later with Loisos + Ubbelohde, and collaborated with Arup Group, Renzo Piano Building Workshop, William McDonough + Partners, and Kengo Kuma & Associates. Naboni has worked on headquarters for Lavazza in Turin Nuvola Lavazza, Telecom in Rome, and Rome Fiumicino’s new train station. He is now heavily involved in one of the world’s most significant regenerative developments: the Murabba Master Plan [4]in Riyadh, spanning 20 square kilometres and featuring the Mukab, envisioned as a 400 × 400 × 400 m structure. Emanuele Naboni has contributed to many regenerative and climate adaptive prototypes exhibited at prestigious venues, including the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry, MOMA New York, Venice Biennale and the London Building Center. He later collaborated with Autodesk and Google Google Technology on prototypes for enhanced ecological performance. His work includes facade systems developed with the Politecnico di Milano, the Laminam© Facade for high-performance ventilated envelopes, and sustainable shading systems such as Soft-cells Kvadrat Roller Blinds©. His 1:1 construction prototypes include collaborations on more than 200 architectural prototypes for climate change, supporting developments in architecture and extreme environment research at the Royal Danish Academy. Other notable projects include the Japan Climatic Prototype, developed in partnership with Kengo Kuma & Associates and the Royal Danish Academy for the LIXIL International Competition; and Thermal Comfort in Healthy Homes, focusing on solutions for Tanzania and Thailand with Jakob Knudsen. Naboni also contributed to the XLam Wood Prototype with CINARK.
Research, Publications, and Editorial Work
[edit]Naboni’s professional engagement is matched by prolific writing. His publications, often featured under Taylor & Francis, Elsevier, RIBA, and DETAIL [5], discuss regenerative design principles for climate change attuned solutions. He is the author of "Green Buildings Pay" [6] (Routledge), "Regenerative Design in Digital Practice," and "Adaptation to Heat [7](Elsevier, forthcoming in 2025). He is associate editor of "Energy and Buildings" [8] and has served on international conferences such as PLEA (Passive and Low Energy Architecture) boards. He is the director of the magazine YouBuild and is involved in several European Union-funded projects.
Media Coverage
[edit]Emanuele Naboni's work and contributions to architecture have been acknowledged and featured in various international media outlets. These include The New York Times, The Guardian, Microsoft Innovation Magazine, Dezeen, ArchDaily, IL SOLE 24 ORE, ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, DOMUS, Architectural Review, Architizer, CASABELLA, ABITARE, OTTAGONO, Radio 2 (Italian public radio channel), Arup World Annual Issue and TU Wien channel on emerging fields in architecture. A chapter dedicated to his work is in the book Computational Design Across Scales [9].
Academic Career
[edit]In Europe, in 2011, Naboni joined the Royal Danish Academy as an associate professor, where he worked and learned about sustainable design dissemination alongside Prof. Brian Edwards and Prof. Torben Dahl. Since 2015, he has been involved in the Master of Architecture in Extreme Environments, where he focuses on the digital and scientific development of regenerative architectural prototypes, collaborating with program head David Garcia. In 2020, Naboni was part of the team receiving the Global Award for Teaching from the International Association of Architects, acknowledging his innovative pedagogy. Naboni has been an invited professor at institutions including NTNU Norway, ETH Zurich Future Cities Laboratory, EPFL Lausanne, Architectural Association School of Architecture, UC Berkeley, UNSW Sydney, and Technical University of Munich. Since 2023, he is an academic at the Norman Foster Institute in Madrid (in partnership with MIT Media Lab). Naboni has delivered lectures at over 120 international universities, including TU Delft, Aalto University, the National University of Singapore, University of Stuttgart, Oxford University, and The Bartlett School of Architecture. Since 2020, Naboni has worked with Mario Cucinella as an academic at the SOS (School of Sustainability) Master Program in Milan and Unipr. In 2023, he became an Adjunct Professor at UNSW Sydney, working with orking with Prof. Mat Santamouris . In 2024, he was awarded the title of Distinguished Professor Beatriz Galindo at the University of Sevilla.