The Reuse of Cultural Heritage: A Sustainable Strategy Between Tradition and Innovation

The paper addresses the theme of the intervention on the existing Cultural Heritage, focusing in particular on the reuse project, intended as a possible design action aimed at the enhancement, functionalization and conservation of existing buildings. The result presented here starts and develops from some ongoing research from several years within the Department of Civil Engineering and Architecture (DICAr) of the University of Pavia and the Universitat Politècnica de València. In particular, through reuse actions is possible to respond simultaneously both to the changing regulatory and performance needs and to the requirements for the conservation and enhancement of the monument in a perspective aimed at the sustainability of the proposed design solution. This action, intrinsically characterized by a great complexity, as it must necessarily consider different spheres of knowledge and different technical and scientific skills, will be addressed, more specifically, from the point of view of reading the technological and construction solutions applied for the reuse project, therefore intended as an instrument of control and balance between the needs of conservation and memory and of transformation and innovation of the building.