PROCESSUAL TYPOLOGY, A KNEW TOOL TO SUSTAINABLE HABITAT

The planet is getting urbanized following a rhythm were humans are loosing control. This rapid and quasi total urbanization presents disadvantages at different levels; social, psychological, perceptual, climatic and environmental etc. Due to the serious consequences observed in the world’s ecological equilibrium related to the present urbanization model, a big movement towards sustainability is happening and getting stronger all over the world. Our contribution in this general frame of sustainability concentrates on a particular aspect of the urban phenomenon: that is, its morphological expression We shall demonstrate through this essay that typological knowledge can help improve reading-understanding cities, and thus, produce models which are able to “re-conciliate” the city with its territory, through the definition of new urban models inserting values; the insertion of the water as value with an impact on morphology for example, as well as energy and natural building materials.