What you need for adaptable future

Recycle the residential buildings. The case study of Zelazna Brama district in Warsaw (Poland). Project proposal: 'What you need for adaptable future'. Design team: Barbara Angi (team leader), Nadia Bertolino, Ioanni Delsante, Luca Fogliata, Emanuele Giorgi, Alessandra Peroni, Giorgio Davide Manzoni, Elisa Masserdotti, Alessandro Mensi, Giorgia Zurla. 'What you need' aims to adapt the existing residential neighborhoods on one side to the needs of the inhabitants and, on the other, to the wish to preserve the urban voids, intended as essential spaces for the development of innovative social activities. In the first instance we divided the adaptability level according to the sizes of the space and the time of use. This approach, from home to the city, helped us to define three design strategies that, in our view, can also be applied in other sites where there are linear residences. The strategies are: 'graft '- building between existing buildings - 'slab' - visual and functional connection between the new and existing - 'bay' - urban creeks accessible from a commercial front, which then tend to enlarge themselves in correspondence of residential areas. The project aims to improve the character of landmark of housing buildings observing as much as possible the existing green areas and intends to reactivate the district with economic processes of development thank to insertion of the commercial functions so from reducing the existing mono-functional nature.