Edifici strategici: considerazioni sul progetto di conservazione e riuso attraverso l’analisi di edifici storici destinati a funzioni di pubblica sicurezza

Within a project concerning the evaluation of the seismic risk of buildings used for public security, the authors studied some police stations and headquarters, in some cases listed as heritage assets, analyzing the impact of the re-functionalization of those complexes, often built for different functions, and later converted for housing public forces. The research was carried out mainly in the Milanese area, considering different typologies: In the city center of Milan, the Questura in Fatebenefratelli street and the police station in San Sepolcro square represent two interesting cases, where the adaptation of pre-existing buildings produced a difficult balance between the reuse design and the preservation of the memory of those historical palaces.