Living the spaces of post-production: design scenarios for Bagnoli

When the Italsider (ex Ilva) in Bagnoli was decommissioned and the first demolitions began in Germany the RHUR had already become the Emscher Landschaftpark area, a reference of environmental regeneration and landscape de-sign. Today we are aware of how much damage has been done by abandoning the Ilva artifacts, turned into ruins, whose demolition would produce waste to the detriment not only of the identity of the building but of the habitat in which we live. The motivation that drives us to conserve the existing comes from this dual need, cultural and envi-ronmental, but we must not forget that the main purpose of the project is to return to those architectures born for other purposes, and in the past place of polluting productions, the role of mediation between natural resources and human needs for indoor and outdoor comfort, respecting the planet as a “common home”.