5. Anipemza Village’s Adaptive Reuse Design

This Fifth Chapter presents the adopted methodology and the results of the Adaptive Reuse Design that, starting from the outline of a social-oriented System Design Masterplan and the priority list of suggested operations is dedicated to the presentation of the case-studies that compose the mosaic of those interventions needed to build a possible social and economic reactivation strategy of Anipemza. Five case-studies for five different existing buildings will in fact virtuously match the user needs of locals and visitors alike, following preservation priorities to pursue the conservation of the integrity and the authenticity of the pre-existences, a minimum intervention approach and contemporary interventions identity’s awareness. The aimed attraction of a larger number of tourists into the discovery of the architectural, but most importantly the human qualities of the village will endorse decisive new social relationships as long as the village micro-economy reactivation, thus endorsing the future itself of this community, the historical memories and the architectural palimpsest. In this sense the Adaptive Reuse Design is intended as the final stage of the Conservation Process.