Rehabilitating the parish facilities as a proximity urban heritage: the milanese experience

According to the necessity to use, improve and adapt the welfare system that cities face (especially after the pandemic), the paper focuses on the rehabilitation and regeneration practices of the urban and collective heritage. In the context of collective services and facilities, the attention to urban health and psychophysical well-being – increased following the pandemic – leads to reflect on the role of spaces for sociality and physical activity as essential features of proximity facilities. Mainly, the paper illustrates the analytical phase of the research project SPèS, which led to the following results: I) the recognition of the oratorio network as a widespread and capillary system of existing proximity facilities; II) the explanation of typological families of parishes, characterised by homogeneous urban contexts, social and physical performance; III) the definition of specific design strategies for each typological family identified through an inductive approach.