Sustainable Urban Morphology Emergence Via Complex Adaptive System Analysis: Sustainable Design in Existing Context

How to plan and design new elements in the city context in a way that the new elements improve the entire neighborhood energy performance and its sustainability is the main question to be discussed in this paper. In order to achieve this goal, different urban morphological factors, which have great influence on energy consumption of the city as a single entity, are investigated as based on complexity analysis. In this analysis, the urban morphology is considered as the microscopic emergence of the city element's transformation in time. Much research has been carried out regarding sustainable buildings and the energy performance of single edifices; however, there are few studies which have been carried out with consideration of the cities as a single unit. Ultimately, the aim of this paper is to elucidate a novel method to design a new urban element, architectural project for instance, towards achieving a sustainable urban form.