One of the problems of the contemporary city is that the existing property was generally built in accordance whit typological and technical paradigms that fall increasingly short of present-day requirements in terms energy saving sustainability and the new user profile. At the same time, however, precisely because it is nowadays characterize by multiple phenomena of obsolescence and abandonment, the urban landscape itself is capable of offering a considerable quantity of buildings and sites that are moreover located in already urbanized areas that can be refurbished and inhabited once again.
While this situation is common to most European cities, in Gorizia, for a number of known geopolitical and historical reasons, it unquestionably proves so evident as to offer a case study of considerable interest and opportunity to experiment whit methods that, once tried and tested at the local level, can then provide models and techniques applicable in other contexts.
