Heritage conservation: new methodology and tools for circular re-conditioning of existing spaces

The end of social utopias, the sustainability of our life on earth, the birth of a new approach to the sciences and the advent of digital systems, have completely subverted historically consolidated parameters, leading us to search for new strategies to understand the phenomena in progress and of their possible solution. The inclusiveness of the systems leads today to activate cross-cutting, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary network-like strategies that integrate and contaminate. In this scenario also the strategies of intervention on the city and on its heritage must be rethought. The preservation of memory and culture based on notions and models that were considered universally usable, today they lose their condition of applicability and must cross new thresholds and enter new territories. We define a new strategy based on overlap and overwriting, that is on the inclusion of the various forms of identity present in the context. An architectural design method is proposed, closer to the circularity, to the recovery of existing resources and spaces. The objective is not only to operate on architectures simply by safeguarding, protecting or adjusting them, but it is to define new adaptive tools of intervention by overwriting the existing one. We propose "soft" systems, minimum interventions, which find the intervention strategy in the reconditioning, architectural and social. The result of the new architectural and social approach allows "discarded" structures to acquire new meanings, changing them into resources.