Sovraincisioni. Progetto di Residenza Temporanea a Torino / Sovraincisioni. Temporary housing project in Turin

Analysis of social and physical fabrics of the Italian cities reveals the absence of structured policies, fit to respond to housing crisis. Social Housing models, adopted across Europe have built a case literature of possible strategies able to fulfill new needs by regenerating degraded part of the urban environment. The essay presents the building rehabilitation of a housing estate located in the center of the city of Turin, oriented to the transformation in Temporary Housing. Both the project and the process are characterized by a dialectical approach as to material and immaterial aspects of the context and pretend to meet the demands of a part of the population that lives in temporary conditions of economic vulnerability. The case study represents an Italian “best practice” and proposes a strategic methodology to be employed in the absence of a regulatory framework of reference, in order to guide the entire transformation; within the process, new tools to renovate the public housing heritage are suggested.