Strategies for small town centres regeneration: proposal for Mondonico Village

The article deals with the retrofitting of minor historic town centres in its diverse aspects offering a contribution to the debate on building within abandoned minor historic centres mainly with reference to “building on built”. The paper describes the methods used to recognize the values to be assigned to pre-existence through the knowledge phase and the indicators, originated from the collected data’s critical elaboration, in order to hypothesize new functions compatible with the existing and capable to link the physical renovation to the territory development and the local community. The paper illustrates the retrofitting strategies considered most appropriate to the referring context and the ways to select materials and technologies to be used in view of the intervention’s sustainability, having as reference the case study of Mondonico Village regeneration in Dorio (Italy), developed by Politecnico di Milano.