IMM® Lab www.immdesignlab.com is an international multidisciplinary design laboratory based at ABC Department at Politecnico di Milano with the aim to transform through an innovative methodology existing urban context, into a more energy efficient form. IMM® is the acronym of Integrated Modification Methodology, an innovative design methodology based on a specific process with the main goal of improving the CAS’ (complex adaptive systems) energy performance, through the modification of its constituents and optimization the architecture of their ligands. In this methodology, the city is considered, as dynamic Complex Adaptive System comprised of superimposition of an enormous number of interrelated components, categorized in different Layers or ‘Subsystems’, (also complex adaptive system for their own) which through their inner arrangement and the architecture of their ligands provide a certain physical and provisional arrangement of the CAS.
