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4257. Evaluating social impacts of adaptive reuse of public buildings: a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis approach

Invited abstract in session TC-47: MCDA and urban planning 2, stream Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis.

Tuesday, 12:30-14:00
Room: 50 (building: 324)

Authors (first author is the speaker)

1. Marta Bottero
Department of Urban and Regional Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino
2. Alessandra Oppio
Department of Architecture and Urban Studies, Politecnico of Milano
3. Danny Casprini
Tiresia, POLITECNICO OF MILANO
4. Giulio Cavana
DIST, Politecnico di Torino
5. Federico Dell'Anna
Interuniversity Department of Regional and Urban Studies and Planning, Politecnico di Torino

Abstract

Adaptive reuse in architecture and urban planning refers to the repurposing of existing buildings for new uses. Several and diverse sustainability benefits are associated with this practice, including prevention of soil consumption and natural resources depletion, limiting construction and demolition waste production, and saving costs.
With specific reference to social outcomes, adaptive reuse of buildings can generate positive effects such as revitalizing local communities, valorizing cultural heritage, providing new services for the inhabitants, creating new jobs, to name a few. These effects are even more relevant in the case of reuse projects concerning public buildings, where there is a strong need to guarantee the legitimacy of the decisions made according to a social purpose.
The present contribution explores the evaluation of social impacts in adaptive reuse of public buildings, and it proposes a multidimensional framework based on Multi-Attribute Value Theory (Keeney and Raiffa, 1976) for the construction of a synthetic impact score to rank alternative projects.

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Status: accepted

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