From House Of The Mother And Child Onmi To Youth House

The rationalist architecture in Italy, born in the Fascist period, represents an important experience in urban design. Urban areas, new residential buildings and specialistic architectures, characterize the cities and the buildings of the fifties. The applied research to teaching, studies these architectures and aims to encourage the recovery of actual architectural types, today do not conform to actual seismic and energy standards. The project of the ex House of the Mother and Child in Potenza, (built by ONMI in the fifties), is an example of sustainable rehabilitation of the disused building, not safeguarded by superintendents, but with existing potential. This work comes from a graduation thesis and consists in a sustainable "reactualization" of the building. The study, based on knowledge and survey, is aimed at urban regeneration and at reinterpretation of the architectural language. The hypothesis of reuse resumes the "original" destination but updated: a Youth House.