REUSE DESIGN OF A PUBLIC ASSET IN A HISTORICAL CONTEXT TEACHING ISSUES IN AN INTERNATIONAL MASTER CLASS

A teaching experience is presented which was carried out in a master class in Architectural Preservation at Politecnico di Milano, addressed to both Italian and international students. Methodological issues will be discussed, highlighting the strong research character of the learning process, during which the students had the opportunity to deal with a tender launched by an institutional body. In the paper, the teaching process will be described, stressing the relationship between the analytical phase, during which a complex asset needs to be approached from different points of view (study of the urban context, historical archival research, direct photographical and geometrical survey, analysis of material and decay phenomena) and the reuse design process (collection of case studies, concept, meta-design, master plan, project).