BUILDING ENVELOPE REQUALIFICATION: GUIDELINES FOR RECOVERING SOCIAL HOUSING

in order to understand the recent trends in requalification, regeneration and valorisation of the envelope of social housings built in the second half of the Twentieth Century, we nec-essarily had to resort to the identification of a significant sample of case studies. The case studies have been identified in the Italian and European territory. Collected, catalogued and discriminated the results, a set of information of great interest for the entire research has emerged. The paper describes some results of the research supported by a system of guidelines for the requalification, regeneration and valorisation of the building envelope of social housing built after the Second World War.