Rigenerare la città storica. Activating Munich Outdoor Resilience Regenerating the historic city. Activating Munich Outdoor Resilience

Abstract The joint Research presented in the text, financed by MIUR DAAD funds, is dealing with the regeneration of urban open spaces in the German city of Munich, focusing in particular on the ‘intermediate spaces dedicated to commerce’ in the historical fabric. The cooperation between the Planning Design Technology of Architecture PDTA Department of La Sapienza University of Rome and the Chair for Building Technology and Climate Responsive Design of the Technische Universität München (TUM) aimed to deepen the respective mutual knowledge and expertises, and ultimately through a cross-disciplinary approach to provide innovative, local as well as replicable sustainable design solutions for the retrofitting of urban open spaces of the historical built environment. The survey focuses on a particular type of urban open space of the city of Munich: the historic market square, the Viktualienmarkt, and uses the market square as an opportunity for an environmental urban regeneration, testing new practices in terms of traditional and innovative material’s combinations for the mitigation of the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon, the upgrade of outdoor thermal conditions and the improvement of the social quality of the square.