Multi-criteria Decision Aiding for Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage: An Application in the City of Naples (Italy)

The paper explores the adaptive reuse paradigm for revitalising unmovable cultural heritage assets. More in detail, this research addresses a real-world evaluation demand concerning the assessment of different adaptive reuse strategies for the requalification of the hospital building in Naples (Italy). According to the complexity and multi-perspective nature of the research topic and the evaluation demand, an integrated and multimethodological evaluation framework has been proposed. Different adaptive reuse strategies have been evaluated by combining the SWOT analysis, the Stakeholder analysis and the PROMETHEE method to address and manage the complexity, multidimensionality and multi-values nature of the evaluation demand. The obtained results underline that the final ranking of the proposed adaptive reuse scenarios is based on a multidimensional and multi-perspective evaluation, supporting thus Decision-Makers in identifying the most suitable scenario for the renovation of the unmovable cultural heritage asset according to the intervention objectives.