Verso un abitare condiviso: un'esperienza di riuso del patrimonio edilizio a Roma

In the last decades, the issues related to the homelessness have been getting worst due to the reduction of investments dedicated to urban welfare. Emergency is the word which describes the current situation along with the lack of infrastructures at urban level. The first step to deal with this topic consists of analysing the former design solutions and the adopted policies linked to the collective housing by identifying the best practices. When the institutions and their political and financial measures had been missing, the citizenship organized spontaneously different interventions to mitigate the bad quality of services or even their absence. In particular, the re-use of public asset by sharing spaces and DIY (Do It Yourself) practices has been the most common bottom-based action taken from the inhabitants. Those experiences were born owing to the failure of public housing projects realized after the Second World War. That period is characterized by top-down approaches and huge investments in building new neighbourhoods, sometimes large parts of cities. Nevertheless, the design failed due to it assumed social dynamics in using the built environment not aligned with the real behaviour of future inhabitants or not helped by the segregation of some social classes during the management process. In fact, typological and morphological features of the built architectures are now associated to the opposite of the original scope. The authors identified by this work the successful and spontaneous social dynamics and analysed a recent case study which has similar features. Coping with the relation between the individual and collective dimensions is the significative result of sharing re-used spaces. The case study is located in Rome. Local services were provided by the student community so that to improve the life quality of themselves and the other inhabitants. Starting from those results, this experience could be identified as a best practice to share.