| dc.description.abstract | In the last decade the Housing demand has become heterogeneous and transversal: from
the socio-economic demand for job and housing, to the environmental one for energy
supply and sustainability, up to the one for the implementation of efficient networks, such
as transports, social capital, biodiversity and opportunities.
In this framework, the question of Housing strongly plays again the important role it had
already had in the postwar years so we can question about what could be the design of
the residence nowadays (both in the field of the project for urban expansion and in the one
for the requalification of existing real estate).
Considering the role that public housing programs have played in the construction of
European cities in the last century, and regarding both the inherited amount of "public city"
and the current condition of inadequacy of the overall quality of housing, it seems
advisable to focus on research materials that could help in a redevelopment able to solve
the current demand.
The research aims to focus on the relevance of the "space of mediation" within the
process of rehabilitation of public housing, particularly paying attention to three questions.
First of all, the historical and theoretical requirements that allow us to individuate the
importance of this type of space; second there will be analyzed some of the most current
approaches put in place in France (as they may be considered avant – garde pioneering in
the rehabilitation processes) by using a methodology based on critical readings of public
housing spaces for dichotomies (in | out, front | back, nature | built, private | common);
finally this methodology that opposes to a "hierarchical" logic of space, a "polar" one, will
be used to support the analysis phase as that of the project itself in a specific case-study
in Naples. [edited by Author] | it_IT |
