Good practice:

URBAN RECOVERY WITH ECOLOGICAL VALUE OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD EX I.C.P. “VILLA AOSTA”

The neighborhood covers an area of 9000 sqm, consists of 7 building, 83 dwellings, now publicly and privately owned).
Located in a context of high environmental criticity (between the Bologna-Lecce railway and the State road ss 16 Adriatica), it was in a generalized state of material-architectural degradation (aging of materials, neglect, replacements, energy inefficiency) and social, accentuated by the lack of space for socialization, inadequacy and energy inefficiency of residential units. Through interventions such as:
A_recovery of buildings outer shell;
B_ recovery of external appliances;
C_ renovation of thermal plant.
The environmental and social requalification has occurred through the architectural and technical renovation of buildings and plants. The outer shell of the buildings has been the main device to apply minimal and low cost works, such as insulation of external walls and roofs, in addiction to replacement of windows, to make the buildings more passive and recover at the same time the original architectural features. For the thermal equipment, a power plant was created with district heating and use of renewable energy sources. The outdoor areas have been pedestrianized and designed in spaces for socialization. The main stakeholders and beneficiaries are the population residing, private owners of the dwellings citizens living in the neighbourhood.
Institutions involved: E.R.A.P. (Regional Public Housing Authority), Province of Ancona, Municipality .

E.R.A.P., Province of Ancona and privates contributed with own resources respectively: € 1.630.030,09; € 1.615.000,00 e € 746.677,15. The provincial funding included in favour of private individuals only € 525.000,00.

The participation of several public administrations with their own financial resources, together with private resources from the owners of the accommodation;
The redevelopment of a degraded building complex from both an architectural and social point of view;
Use of technologies based on a strong sense of environmental sustainability and energy saving: low consumption and emission heating sources, passive insulation systems of the building envelope, renewable energy from solar panels.

Before, the deterioration and lack of drawings an diversification had generated arbitrary use of these areas, with transit of cars. Original architectural features preserved. The drawing of outdoor areas in gardens and pedestrian paths led people to respect rules of playing and socializing.

It was an opportunity to test a " sustainable corpus type of interventions" which can be exported as a methodology to be reused in residential districts of considerable size and mixed ownership (public and private).
This methodology can be applied by all ERP property owners and/or managers, which in Italy can be Municipalities or Regional or Provincial Companies ex IACP (Istituto Autonomo Case Popolari), such as ERAP Marche ATER Milano itself etc;.
These “sustainable interventions” have allowed to redevelop a degraded and socially alienated historic neighborhood, having greatly improved environmental and social conditions.
The original architectural features (colored plasters and molded cornices massing), have been preserved using minimally invasive technologies to improvement of energy efficiency, such as insulation of walls and roofs, color reconstruction. The drawing of outdoors areas in gardens and pedestrians paths led people to respect rules to play and socializing.