Approccio metodologico per il recupero del patrimonio edilizio esistente. Esempi di buone pratiche.

As the future of residential architecture should include the restoration and re-use of inherited buildings and parts of cities, it seems necessary to develop more specific design and construction guidelines which assist the selection of the best option while ensuring that a balance of technical and cultural characteristics of the built heritage will be achieved in the process of its conservation and transformation. In other words, there is a need to ensure that the rehabilitation project provides a balanced synthesis of the dichotomy between conservation, transformation and use. The design should meet the needs of an appropriate new function, which is compatible with the historical and technological characteristics of the built heritage, and the requirements of the current life style. The aims is to reconsider and “re-read” the system of rules and shared procedures in which technical and technological variables don’t neglect the conservative instances and the need for integration, combining them with the technological, design and production aspects of the recovery process.