The requalification of Author's urban Peripheries. The envelope as a balance between sustainability and existing quality

The increasing level of attention developed over the last decades in the building sector on the energy saving issue has led us to find new approaches and new construction solutions based on a more responsible attitude in relation to sustainability aspects. The project research is therefore oriented to the identifcation of environmental strategies that consider the building product as a whole and that transform the envelope into a dynamic element, capable of interacting with the surrounding environment, internal and external. The case study of the Autor’s Urban Perpheries, an industrialized model of the big dimension designed between the fifties and the eighties by the best names of the period, appears to be of particular interest because here the building envelope becomes not only a tool through which to transmit efficiency and sustainability but also relevant quality characteristics.