Normative Criteria for Relevant Evaluation

Heritage adaptive reuse practices foster the improvement of the quality and use of the built

environment in the instant surroundings of the site, by considering it closely linked of its cultural,

environmental, social and economic features and needs.

In particular, social inclusiveness is a crucial aspect of the physical and economic regeneration

process: the improvement of the quality and use of the built environment should occur in parallel to

an improvement of the social capital of the area.

Therefore, locals become more aware of their renovated neighborhood, assist and participate

eagerly in the caring of the built environment, in a continuous, suitable and compatible manner with

the site. This prevents negative effects (e.g. gentrification, real estate values rise, social exclusion,

expulsion process etc.), and intend quality, in the context of interventions on built heritage, beyond

the only physical and technical matters at the level of single area, by considering as a precondition

of quality the recognition of heritage as a common good.

KEY REFERENCES: ICOMS, 2019; PENDLEBURY, et al., 2004; BANDARIN, 2019; THE CHCFE REPORT,

2015, PERKIN, 2010, HARRISON, 2013, MACDONALD, 2013