Circular living. A resilient housing proposal

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6093/1970-9870/9068

Keywords:

resilience, circular economy, social housing, flexibility, housing distress

Abstract

The current climate change consequences, the migration phenomena, the pandemic, and the war affect the already unstable housing system situation. Implementing resilience is as necessary as ever to solve the existing housing crisis. In particular, a little number of housing units, lack of maintenance, the inadequacy of the heritage to the new housing needs, and weak attention to social aspects, characterize the Italian social housing system. Considering the possible powerful relationships between resilience, circular economy, and housing, this paper is aimed at determining whether and how CE principles can be applied in the social housing system to make it more resilient, adopting a qualitative research method. To this end, a model for Circular Living (CL) is proposed: it includes strategies at the building, neighbourhood/city, and territorial scales. It is extrapolated from the existing bibliography on housing system, resilience and circular economy; the analysis of the case study of south Salento together with its critical housing system and some emerging best practices. The use case of a 70s public building in Lecce is also presented. Although the CL Model is for the resilience of the social housing system in peripheral territories, future research could implement and validate the model in different contexts and systems. 

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Author Biographies

Emanuela Braì, Unisalento - Lecce

Graduated cum laude in Architecture at University of Chieti-Pescara, she is Research Fellow at the Department of Innovation Engineering with expertise in Building Information Modeling, Geographic Information System and urban and territorial sustainable Planning and Management. Her research focuses on multi-scalar and interdisciplinary management of complex spatial systems and sustainable urban design. She is a consultant for several Public Administrations and Private Organizations in urban planning and sustainable mobility networks, and she is responsible for writing and managing regional, national and European research projects.

Giovanna Mangialardi, Politecnico di Bari

Graduated in Building Engineer and Architect, and Ph.D. in Complex System, she is an Adjunct Professor in Urban Planner at the Polytechnic University of Bari and in Landscape BIM at the University of Basilicata. She participates in the research activities of the national “Urban@it - Centro Nazionale di Studi per le Politiche Urbane”, of PRIN 2013 “Re-cycle Italy” and PRIN 2009 "Rehabilitation of peri-urban areas". Since 2015, she has been a research fellow at the University of Salento where she was the technical manager of the regional Innolabs project "B@ARCA - BIM at ARCA" and is responsible for writing and managing regional, national and European research projects. She is Associate Editor of the International Journal of Urban Planning and Smart City and author of several articles exploring urban planning and its sustainable, resilient, and inclusive management in an interdisciplinary way.

Domenico Scarpelli, Politecnico di Bari

Graduated, cum laude, in Architecture at Polytechnic University of Bari. He now works as a freelance architect. During his studies, he acquired knowledge of economics and social sciences; he made a traineeship at Lecce Municipality, where he studied the local need for housing and he joined Erasmus+ program at University of Sevilla, where he focused his studies on constructive aspects of architecture. Currently, he is studying Urban Regeneration and Social Innovation (U-RISE course) at IUAV University of Venice. His research interests mainly focus on both public and social housing, on the Apulian territory and on urban regeneration processes. 

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Published

2022-12-30

How to Cite

Braì, E., Mangialardi, G., & Scarpelli, D. (2022). Circular living. A resilient housing proposal. TeMA - Journal of Land Use, Mobility and Environment, 15(3), 447–469. https://doi.org/10.6093/1970-9870/9068

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 3 (2022): The city challenges and external agents. Methods, tools and best practices

Section

LUME (Land Use, Mobility and Environment)

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