Abstract
As in most of the important cities across Europe, also in Bozen, city administration decided to
transform the old railway workshops area into a new modern quarter near the old city centre and,
to pursue this objective, it is announced an international design competition.
Considering the high sensibility to environmental themes across the province, one of the design
team asked to Free University of Bozen to develop a systematic climatic analysis of the area.
Starting from this request, the research team developed a replicable methodology to analyse the
climatic contest of an area strictly integrated to the traditional urban planning process.
Within this context, this paper presents the planning methodology used to reduce