An atlas of "architectural design for existing buildings": towards a definition of founding design actions

Abstract eng:
The proposal illustrates the results of a research project focused on the creation of an atlas of “architectural project for existing buildings”. This inventory aims to present itself as a rational and critical analytical instrument, allowing an overall vision of the various, current philosophical-practical approaches, adopted throughout different geographical areas and concerning projects of rehabilitation and adaptive reuse of historic buildings, through an extensive mapping of international selected case studies. This atlas is not, merely an instrument of knowledge, but, above all, an opportunity to rethinking of the idea of intervention on existing buildings, emphasizing the need to combine the readability and comprehensibility of the building in its historical evidence to the reality and the redefinition of its functional characteristics, with the purpose of an renewed use, with particular attention to his issues of habitable space. The Atlas offers a critical reading of innovative projects that reveal the presence of arrays of recurrent conceptual attitudes identified as "founding design actions". These actions put highlights in convergent and founding mode and complementary attitudes, sometimes even antithetical, present in the process of buildings revitalizing.

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