Existing Heritage.  Future City

Francesco Iuliano; Kornel Tomasz  Lewicki; Margherita Maurea

doi:10.6093/978-88-6887-366-0

Existing Heritage. Future City

Authors

Francesco Iuliano

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8956-4776

Kornel Tomasz Lewicki

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9960-9710

Margherita Maurea

University of Naples Federico II

https://orcid.org/0009-0002-4574-9560

DOI: https://doi.org/10.6093/978-88-6887-366-0

Keywords:

Existing Heritage, regeneration strategies, interdisciplinarity, architectural design

Synopsis

Publisher: FedOA - Federico II University Press

Series: TeA / Teaching Architecture

Pages: 216

Language: Italian

Abstract: This volume presents the outcomes of three theses in Architectural and Urban Design, defended in the 2023/24 and 2024/25 academic years within the Master’s degree in Architecture (Arc5UE) at the Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II. At the core of the discussion is the transformation of existing heritage as a strategic tool for urban regeneration. Each project tackles a specific typology — silos, barracks, cisterns — structures originally conceived to contain goods, people, or water, which today are opened to new purposes, becoming spaces for community life, housing, culture, and production.The design approach transcends the scale of the standalone building to establish relationships at the neighborhood and city scale: physical restoration intertwines with social, cultural, and economic dimensions, healing the fractures caused by disuse and abandonment. Thus, existing heritage is reinterpreted as true design material, capable of generating new urban scenarios where historical continuity and formal innovation converge.The volume therefore positions itself as an observatory of the multiple trajectories urban regeneration can assume: it demonstrates how design, as a critical-operational device, can restore centrality to marginalised urban fragments, converting temporary voids into strategic hubs of connection and exchange. From this perspective, the adaptive reuse of former silos, barracks, and cisterns becomes a paradigm of regenerative continuity, capable of reinventing the ordinary and reshaping the future of contemporary cities.

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Author Biographies

Francesco Iuliano, University of Naples Federico II

Francesco Iuliano, architect and PhD candidate, graduated with honors from the University of Naples “Federico II” with a research in architectural and urban design. Since 2022, he has been engaged in academic research and has collaborated in teaching activities within architectural and urban design studios. His research focuses on the reuse and regeneration of post-war built heritage in reinforced concrete. He has been involved in the organization of publications, exhibitions, and workshops.

Kornel Tomasz Lewicki, University of Naples Federico II

Kornel Tomasz Lewicki is an architect and researcher. He is currently a Universitätslektor at TU Wien and adjunct professor at the University of Naples “Federico II”. Graduated from the Accademia di Architettura in Mendrisio, he has worked with the offices of Christian Kerez and Baukunst. In 2020, he was awarded a scholarship as an International PhD Candidate at UniNa Federico II. He has been a guest research fellow at ETH Zurich and ULB Brussels. Since 2020, he has been the co-founder, together with Lorenzo Vicari, of the architectural practice studionuvolari.

Margherita Maurea, University of Naples Federico II

Margherita Maurea is an architect and PhD candidate at the Department of Architecture, University of Naples Federico II. Her research focuses on the methodological and procedural aspects of Pier Luigi Nervi’s work. She is part of the Erasmus+ ReCube project on the reuse of modern reinforced concrete architecture and is currently a visiting scholar at ULB Brussels and the Pier Luigi Nervi Project Foundation.