Positive Energy Block (PEB) is an emerging paradigm to transform cities into low carbon cities. It is expected that buildings will become the main components of the future energy infrastructure. This scenario demands a structural integration of the cyclical environmental variables in designing our buildings and cities as a whole. However, such an integration continue to be rare due to the dominance of object-oriented approaches. This study contributes to reducing these difficulties by developing a process-oriented approach, focusing on the wind contribution. The assumption posed herein is that the transition towards PEBs should be an opportunity to redefine the rules to organise the built environment structure integrating energy and urban environmental qualities. A case study, involving three public school buildings located in three different urban patterns in Rome, illustrates a preliminary step in developing an integrated platform to orient strategic design solutions towards PEBs. This is done by developing and assessing three indexes: wind form index, wind thermal-loss index, and wind energy production index. The results point out the usability and limits concerning the approach adopted, stressing the relevance of an integrated platform to support decision-makers in planning the agenda to transform buildings as components of PEBs.

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开发面向正能量块的面向过程的方法：风分析的贡献

正能量区块（PEB）是一种将城市转变为低碳城市的新兴范式。预计建筑将成为未来能源基础设施的主要组成部分。这种情况需要在设计我们的建筑和整个城市时对循环环境变量进行结构整合。然而，由于面向对象方法的主导地位，这种集成仍然很少见。本研究通过开发一种面向过程的方法，专注于风的贡献，有助于减少这些困难。这里提出的假设是，向 PEB 的过渡应该是重新定义规则以组织整合能源和城市环境质量的建筑环境结构的机会。案例研究，涉及位于罗马三种不同城市模式的三座公立学校建筑，说明了开发集成平台以将战略设计解决方案定位于 PEB 的初步步骤。这是通过开发和评估三个指标来完成的：风形式指数、风热损失指数和风能生产指数。结果指出了所采用方法的可用性和局限性，强调了集成平台在支持决策者规划将建筑物改造为 PEB 组成部分的议程方面的相关性。