A new inclusive housing model for sustainable actions in recycling buildings

To address the complex issue of housing dynamics, in the light of current demographic trends and the progressive increase in life expectancy, it seems appropriate to include new social categories. Among these, the category of over 65 seems to have a significant weight and attract the attention of many social policies in vogue on the European continent and beyond. The inclusion of this category within already consolidated investment and intervention processes, aimed at an increasingly smart and sustainable re-cycling of the existing buildings, causes a revision of the parameters involved in the various thematic areas: construction, economic, urban and social. Hence the need to define a new management model for the building re-cycling process through the construction of an open and implementable system that has as its main components the operators involved and their needs, the tools and sub-processes to satisfy them, the potential solutions offered by the internal and external context and, finally, the physical components into which they translate. All these components, with the set of relationships and connections between them, are elements of a matrix which represents the graphical-analytical translation of the model. This result, which represents the first step of an evolving research that includes the over 65 category, can be seen as a useful tool for any operator involved in the process, from economic operators to senior users, from care givers to citizens.