Strategie e approcci sostenibili per l’edilizia universitaria: la rigenerazione dell’area degli Istituti Scientifici di Pavia

The Italian universities are enjoying a particularly favorable period in terms of funding, which is allowing them to renew their building stock and research infrastructure, after years of scarce resources. Different approaches are implemented depending on the size, degree of conservation of the buildings and expansion policies of the universities. The paper shows the regeneration project developed by the University of Pavia for the “Istituti Scientifici”, an area between the downtown and the Campus Cravino (where there are some Scientific Departments such as Engineering and Natural Sciences) developed in the XX Century to host some Departments closely connected with the Main Hospital of the town. The design approach is oriented to the regeneration declined according to different actions depending on the degree of obsolescence of the buildings considered and taking in consideration the entire university building heritage. Some design principles, oriented towards sustainability and functional efficiency, can be a reference for similar initiatives in which buildings for learning and research and their open spaces stand as the fulcrum of the regeneration of entire sections of the city.