Contemporary models of co-living for ‘the three human ages’: strategie di intervento per una rigenerazione urbana e sociale del quartiere del Soccorso a Prato

The proposed study, which is ongoing, is in the vein of a research on the rehabilitation and re-fun- ctionalization of former manufacturing artifacts combined with the investigation of new ways of living, in the perspective of the European Soil monitoring Lav Directive and Next Generation EU. It’s a research developed within the Project of National Interest Contemporary Models of co-living for the three human ages, financed with PNRR funds, partners the Department of Civil, Building and Environmental Engineering - University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’, the Department of Architecture - University of Florence and the Department of Civil Environmental and Architectural Engineering - University of Padua. The aim is to identify replicable strategies across the country for the regeneration of former industrial and manufacturing areas through cohousing reuse processes, exploiting the endogenous potential of consolidated in urban fabrics brownfield areas to become places of experimentation for new forms of living related to sharing and social solidarity. This is achieved through a case studies survey of brownfield rehabilitation converted into cohousing in Europe and Italy and a design experiment in Prato in the Soccorso neighborhood, once primarily intended for manufacturing, now affected by profound social and cultural changes.