The quality of living: the requalification processes of the public housing in Brindisi

This paper aims to describe, starting from the preliminary analysis of the urban and housing context, a methodological approach to the requalification and social rehabilitation of nineteenth century residential districts with a strong historical value. This operates simultaneously on the retrieval of the complex relationships (functional and social) on the town scale and on the improvement of the constructive-technological, typological-functional and energetic-environmental parameters on the building scale. The case study is represented by the residential INA-casa district located in Viale degli Abruzzi in Brindisi. The district, which represents an important stage of the history of social housing in Brindisi. It has been constructed in the 50s, during the second seven-year of Italian INA-Casa period, by the architect Gaetano Minucci and it reuses almost blindly the planning criteria indicated in the national guidelines provided by the institute INA-Casa. The research proposed a performance enhancement of the districts in energetic terms and typological-functional but also paved the way for a functional rehabilitation of the urban district aimed at the achievement of a higher quality of life for its inhabitants.