Building envelope requalification: Guidelines for recovering social housing

The demand for widespread quality is an issue that has become increasingly necessary as soon as building practices have radically changed the service behavior of building components realized with functional or quantitative priority goals. In a sense, "the intensive social housing settlements built in the second half of the Twentieth Century" have basically responded to that logic, putting into the background a number of requirements which, over time, have risen in the scale of priorities, some of them even becoming on emergency. In order to understand the recent trends in redevelopment, regeneration and enhancement of residential settlements we necessarily had to resort to the identification of a significant sample of case studies carried out recently. The case studies have been identified in the Italian and European territory. Collected, cataloged and discriminated these results, a set of information of great interest for the entire research has emerged.