Progetto e processo nel recupero delle aree navali in disuso. Project and process for the recovery of disused naval areas

Towards the end of the 1960s, the transition from a development phase linked to industrialization to a new post-industrial phase created new economic scenarios that made port areas and the industrial areas connected to them the starting point for vast processes of urban transformation. Moreover, the modal change in product storage and transportation that occurred a few years later, from mixed shipping to single-product container shipping, further slowed down the activity of central ports, making warehouses, hangars, docks, and all the empty spaces annexed to port areas places to be reconsidered as soon as possible, to integrate them into the life and functional needs expressed by the adjacent urban fabric. The slow pace of urban regeneration - often motivated by contexts bearing the sedimentation of decades of underuse or abandonment - has in some circumstances created the conditions for experimenting, especially in the initial phase, with the idea of 'light infrastructure'. Through this writing, we would therefore like to recall the reuse experiences initiated at the NDSM dock in the port of Amsterdam and at the PopUp Darsena in Ravenna, following which 'bottom-up processes' are developing on solid cultural foundations, suggesting a significant integration into traditional design activities.