Da luoghi abbandonati ad insediamenti sostenibili: riutilizzo di edifici e materiali esistenti con il coinvolgimento degli abitanti di un piccolo borgo in Sardegna

Small towns and its inner cities, increasingly depopulated and abandoned because of lack of job and infrastructures, actually are requiring both new policies and design recovery strategies. In this perspective, a new design approach should be able to take into account social, economical and environmental aspect also involving inhabitants. Urban regeneration of small town and reuse existing buildings have to get through a design process of adaptation to new functions without erasing the traces of collective memory, not to mention the territory in which retracing the environmental values of settlements. This paper presents the first results of an experimentation carried out in small villages in Sardinia. The requalification design of existing buildings was developed together with inhabitants according with a circular economy perspective to reduce construction and demolition waste, by both reusing existing materials and discovering environmental value of these ancient settlements.