REGENERATION OF URBAN SPACE THROUGH THE RECOVERY OF INDUSTRIAL ARCHEOLOGY

The main topic in this article is the research on regeneration of urban spaces through retraining inactive spaces in the city and generating, in certain settlements, a new urban tissue which can be not only material but also social. The aim of this article is to investigate on a series of strategies and designing instruments that targets the regeneration of urban areas that have lost functionality or never had one, causing this way the malfunction of an entire urban tissue. The initial hypothesis is that through increasing the permeability, a minimal spatial transformation and creating several functions, which are consistent to the contemporary needs of the society, the image and the quality of the urban areas can be retransformed, affecting this way directly the perception of the society on a specific settlement. The methodology followed to confirm this hypothesis will be based on the study of two cases of "industrial archeology" and also on extracting from them a series of intervention instruments (results), which will be applied then to a project. Conclusions will emerge from that specific project. So, they will emerge from an "in vitro" experiment and not by direct application of those instruments in a real context. This research is divided in two main parts: the first one investigates how two ex-industrial areas are recovered – "Le Albere" in Trento and a former industrial area in Rosklide, Denmark – and the source of instruments and intervention strategies; the second part will focus on the implementation of those instruments and strategies in a no-longer functioning industrial reality, such as the former "Dinamo e Re" plant in Tirana. Through the application of those strategies in the project of the former "Dinamo e Re" industrial area, the hypothesis put forth earlier should be verified. The importance of this research lies in the effort to provide solutions for those former industrial areas which have been included during such city expansion, but have lost their functionality, appearing this way as impenetrable and not anymore useful areas for the society and the city.