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This paper explores the enhancement of adaptive reuse (AR) of buildings through the lens of the sustainability protocols within the context of circular economy (CE) in Italy. Cities and the built environment can play a key role in the transition to a CE, especially considering the documented negative global impact due to resource consumption and waste generation. This is recognised among the principles of circularity defined by the European Commission towards a general strategy for a sustainable built environment, which encourages initiatives of building reuse and land consumption reduction. It has been proven that the AR of vacant buildings can bring environmental, social, and economic benefits towards an urban strategy based on CE principles by generating useful values to support innovative development dynamics. In this perspective, the sustainability protocols can be identified as useful tools to pursue strategies for spreading the culture of sustainable build environment. Considering the huge vacant Italian architectural heritage, this paper aims to analyze how the most widely used sustainability protocols in the Italian context currently address the enhancement of the reuse of buildings, to improve environmental, social, and economic quality in the built environment. We discuss the results highlighting how and which sustainability protocols better intercept these issues, providing grounds for future development.
Gaballo Marika; Mecca Beatrice; Abastante Francesca. Adaptive Reuse and Sustainability Protocols in Italy: Relationship with Circular Economy. Sustainability 2021, 13, 8077 .
AMA StyleGaballo Marika, Mecca Beatrice, Abastante Francesca. Adaptive Reuse and Sustainability Protocols in Italy: Relationship with Circular Economy. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (14):8077.
Chicago/Turabian StyleGaballo Marika; Mecca Beatrice; Abastante Francesca. 2021. "Adaptive Reuse and Sustainability Protocols in Italy: Relationship with Circular Economy." Sustainability 13, no. 14: 8077.
Sustainability is an inherent urban and architectural problem. It is simultaneously characterized by many different dimensions, pursuing heterogeneous and often conflicting objectives. To help address these complexities in a structured way, this paper illustrates an integrated assessment framework to tackle social sustainability, in order to support the decision-making process towards sustainable architecture. This integrated decision support framework was applied to a case study concerning a new cultural centre at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy. The aim of this paper is to propose a decision support methodological framework for the analysis, graphical visualization and evaluation of social sustainability of architectural projects. It combines three methods first, Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats (SWOT) analysis, to get a guided understanding of the project and detect the best design strategies; second, the Stakeholder Analysis (SA), to develop a strategic view of the actors involved; third, the Social Return of the Investment (SROI) as a methodological tool for social impact assessment. This framework, presented through the discussion of some project solutions, helps us analyse the architectural material effect of social sustainability and answer the question: Are we investing properly and creating spaces sufficiently functional to build better conditions for our community and our city?
Isabella Lami; Beatrice Mecca. Assessing Social Sustainability for Achieving Sustainable Architecture. Sustainability 2020, 13, 142 .
AMA StyleIsabella Lami, Beatrice Mecca. Assessing Social Sustainability for Achieving Sustainable Architecture. Sustainability. 2020; 13 (1):142.
Chicago/Turabian StyleIsabella Lami; Beatrice Mecca. 2020. "Assessing Social Sustainability for Achieving Sustainable Architecture." Sustainability 13, no. 1: 142.
The paper shows how multiple criteria decision aiding (MCDA) tools can support the analyses of six hypotheses of adaptive reuse of an iconic historical building in Turin, Italy (called stock exchange) to identify the preferred alternative. In the last 2 years, the debate around the requalification of the building has been huge for several reasons: it is perceived as a “monument” by citizens; it shows architectural and typological values nationally recognized; it involves public and private interests. In this context, we tested the applicability of a recently proposed multicriteria decision making methodology to architecture field. This decision support approach is a conjunction of four MCDA methods, namely: multiple criteria hierarchy process (MCHP), permitting to consider structural relationships between criteria; ELECTRE III, considering three types of interaction effects between criteria (strengthening, weakening and antagonistic effects); the imprecise SRF method, supplying an easily understandable approach to collect information from the Decision Maker; and stochastic multicriteria acceptability analysis (SMAA), providing robust recommendation, in terms of rankings and relations of preference, indifference and incomparability between project alternatives, at each level of the hierarchy. We propose a modification of the SRF methodology, called SFR-II, to increase the reliability of the decision aid procedure, which could constitute a significant advance for the same SRF method.
Francesca Abastante; Salvatore Corrente; Salvatore Greco; Isabella M. Lami; Beatrice Mecca. The introduction of the SRF-II method to compare hypothesis of adaptive reuse for an iconic historical building. Operational Research 2020, 1 -40.
AMA StyleFrancesca Abastante, Salvatore Corrente, Salvatore Greco, Isabella M. Lami, Beatrice Mecca. The introduction of the SRF-II method to compare hypothesis of adaptive reuse for an iconic historical building. Operational Research. 2020; ():1-40.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancesca Abastante; Salvatore Corrente; Salvatore Greco; Isabella M. Lami; Beatrice Mecca. 2020. "The introduction of the SRF-II method to compare hypothesis of adaptive reuse for an iconic historical building." Operational Research , no. : 1-40.
One of the crucial issues of the contemporary city is the enormous heritage of unused buildings and areas. Their reuse can contribute to new social and economic profits, to create new values within society and to avoid the considerable waste generated by their demolition and reconstruction. To tackle this issue an approach of adaptive reuse is proposed, i.e. the practice of inserting a new content into a new container (building, site, area), maximizing the conservation of the object of transformation, with a specific focus on culture as valuable driver to reactivate abandoned sites, areas and buildings, renewing their image and contributing to increase the level of well-being and social inclusion. In this context, we analyse six Italian cases of cultural urban regeneration characterized by different models of governance, a low intensity of financial capital and a high intensity of cultural and human capital, through a performance indicator framework in order to try to highlight which factors allowed or hindered the success of some projects.
Francesca Abastante; Isabella M. Lami; Beatrice Mecca. Performance Indicators Framework to Analyse Factors Influencing the Success of Six Urban Cultural Regeneration Cases. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 886 -897.
AMA StyleFrancesca Abastante, Isabella M. Lami, Beatrice Mecca. Performance Indicators Framework to Analyse Factors Influencing the Success of Six Urban Cultural Regeneration Cases. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():886-897.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancesca Abastante; Isabella M. Lami; Beatrice Mecca. 2020. "Performance Indicators Framework to Analyse Factors Influencing the Success of Six Urban Cultural Regeneration Cases." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 886-897.
In the recent decades, cities need to face new challenge in environmental, economic, social and cultural dimensions and the awareness of the necessity of significant intervention able to address these conditions, led to identify urban regeneration policies to tackle these problems in all their multidimensionality. Moreover, recently in this context, culture becomes to be used as a tool for improving the conditions and the changes of many cities, in order to avoid the demolition of industrial sites, urban centres and abandoned areas and to handle their new urban trajectories. Culture became the new way to renew the image of cities or districts, but the key question is how we can measure the impacts of this phenomenon. According to this, starting from a literature review of evaluation procedures in the urban regeneration fields, the aim of the chapter is to provide a proposal of evaluation in order to assess the outputs of a regeneration process based on culture. Through a combination of approaches, interfacing with experts, the chapter seek to provides a set of indicators with the aim to assess the value-added by the regeneration process according to environmental, socio-cultural and economic fields.
Beatrice Mecca; Isabella M. Lami. The Appraisal Challenge in Cultural Urban Regeneration: An Evaluation Proposal. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes 2020, 49 -70.
AMA StyleBeatrice Mecca, Isabella M. Lami. The Appraisal Challenge in Cultural Urban Regeneration: An Evaluation Proposal. Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes. 2020; ():49-70.
Chicago/Turabian StyleBeatrice Mecca; Isabella M. Lami. 2020. "The Appraisal Challenge in Cultural Urban Regeneration: An Evaluation Proposal." Blockchain Technology and Innovations in Business Processes , no. : 49-70.
The paper shows how Multiple Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) tools can support the analyses of six hypotheses of adaptive reuse of an iconic historical building in Turin, Italy (called Stock Exchange) to identify the preferred alternative. In the last two years, the debate around the requalification of the building has been huge for several reasons: it is perceived as a "monument" by citizens; it shows architectural and typological values nationally recognized; it involves public and private interests. In this context, interacting with experts involved in the ongoing discussion, we consider a recently proposed conjunction of four MCDA methods, namely: Multiple Criteria Hierarchy Process (MCHP), permitting to consider structural relationships between criteria; ELECTRE III, considering three types of interaction effects between criteria (strengthening, weakening and antagonistic effects); the imprecise SRF method, supplying an easily understandable approach to collect information from the DM; and Stochastic Multicriteria Acceptability Analysis (SMAA), providing robust recommendation, in terms of rankings and relations of preference, indifference and incomparability between project alternatives, at each level of the hierarchy. We propose a modification of the SRF methodology, called SFR-II, to increase the reliability of the decision aid procedure, which could constitute a significant advance for the same SRF method.
Francesca Abastante; Salvatore Corrente; Salvatore Greco; Isabella Lami; Beatrice Mecca. Multiple criteria decision analysis with the SRF-II method to compare hypotheses of adaptive reuse for an iconic historical building. 2020, 1 .
AMA StyleFrancesca Abastante, Salvatore Corrente, Salvatore Greco, Isabella Lami, Beatrice Mecca. Multiple criteria decision analysis with the SRF-II method to compare hypotheses of adaptive reuse for an iconic historical building. . 2020; ():1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFrancesca Abastante; Salvatore Corrente; Salvatore Greco; Isabella Lami; Beatrice Mecca. 2020. "Multiple criteria decision analysis with the SRF-II method to compare hypotheses of adaptive reuse for an iconic historical building." , no. : 1.