Abstract
Brownfields represent complex areas that require appropriate intervention strategies. Now more than ever, the impetus for sustainable land recovery is through the regeneration of sites destroyed and contaminated by conflict or abandoned land conservation activities. These include barracks, forts, defensive and warning installations, former powder magazines, and disused military infrastructure. A forward-looking vision suggests innovative strategies for regeneration.
The essay presented is the result of research conducted on best practices for the regeneration of military areas and is entitled: “Urban regeneration of brownfield sites for future sustainability scenarios.”
The essay will present a careful review of the literature and state of the art focusing on best practices in terms of innovative responses useful for ecological transition and resilience of territories.
Through the reconnaissance of legislative and programmatic guidelines and the examination of Spanish and Italian case studies, 3 phases of the regenerative process will be identified:
1. Decontamination;
2. Renaturalization/environmental rebalancing;
3. Refunctionalization.
The essay shows how decontaminated sites will be able to be part of a single environmental and social infrastructure and will have to meet qualitative/quantitative and performance parameters.
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New headquarters of the D.I.A. - Direzione Investigativa Antimafia in Reggio Calabria (RC) (mateng.it).
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Research carried out as part of the activities of the “SS_Consumption Convention. Stop soil consumption: between reuse and regeneration” coordinated by Celestina Fazia as Scientific Responsible and Coordinator of the activities related to urban, territorial and landscape planning in relation to soil consumption, urban strategies for reuse and regeneration of land, also with reference to case studies of international level. Members of the research group are: Giulia F.G. Catania, Federica Sortino.
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Andrea Rizzardini's Twin Hangar project proposes: Coastal Cultural Park. The park takes advantage of the landscape and environmental heritage to enhance the area's territory consisting of the typical landscapes of the coastal area washed by the Stagnone lagoon, salt marshes, and typical Mediterranean scrub. Sports and educational activities. The structures of the former seaplane base will be partly demolished and partly restored; the Nervi hangars, like a monument, will be the relics of modern architecture, housing new functions. Connections - The landings at the new cultural sports center mean that the area can be reached by: car; bus; rail (the passage of the Palermo-Mazara del Vallo railroad next to the former seaplane base makes it possible to insert a stop, paying close attention to the connection with Trapani, from which it is possible to embark for the Egadi Islands, Africa or Sardinia).
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Conceptualization, methodology and supervision: C. Fazia. The authors collaborated in the drafting of the following paragraphs, in order: Abstract are of: C. Fazia, G. Catania, F. Sortino; § 1 and § 2 by C. Fazia; § 3.1 by F. Sortino; § 3.2 by G. Catania; § 4 are of: C. Fazia, G. Catania, F. Sortino.
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Fazia, C., Catania, G.F.G., Sortino, F. (2024). The Recovery of Disused Infrastructure and Military Areas in Spain and Italy, Contributions to the Regeneration of Territories. In: Gervasi, O., Murgante, B., Garau, C., Taniar, D., C. Rocha, A.M.A., Faginas Lago, M.N. (eds) Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2024 Workshops. ICCSA 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14820. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-65285-1_8
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