Adaptive reuse in sustainable development: the case study of Ercolano (Italy)

The research develops in the context of processes of sustainable adaptive reuse on urban scale. The document proposes a participatory methodological approach that, integrating interviews with privileged interlocutors and performance analysis of settlement processes, is used as an investigative tool in the phase of knowledge of the reuse project. The outcome is embodied in the elaboration of a vulnerability matrix that integrates the needs of the social system with the limits of transformability of the settlement system. This approach was used in the case study of Via Pugliano in Ercolano (Italy), characterized by the second hand economy linked to processes of re-use of fabrics. In this case, the adoption of multi-actors participatory process determined the identification of a framework of shared needs based on which it was possible to construct alternative scenarios of sustainable adaptive reuse. The goal integrates the physical, social and economic values expressed by local community.