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The contribution to be presented summarizes the objectives of a research in progress, on behalf of the Metropolitan City of Naples, on the school building heritage in order to evaluate the actions to be taken, starting from the knowledge and analysis of the recurring types. The latter can be traced back to the main periods of impulse to the school building sector, for which the real estate assets currently in use have characteristics of constructive familiarity that can be attributed to a few main reference models, all the more simplified due to the intrinsic modularity of buildings for school use. The database of school buildings prepared by the former Province of Naples, the current Metropolitan City, is the starting point of the research as it provides the state of the art of the Neapolitan school heritage: address, property, surface, volume, period of construction plant, period of structural adjustment. In particular, in this territory, the schools were classified in seven periods: before 1919, from 1920 to 1945, from 1946 to 1972, from 1972 to 1984, from 1984 to 1996, from 1996 to 2008, from 2008 to today. Overall, from a functional point of view, the school buildings purposes were considered attributable to these categories: historical, early twentieth century, post-war, financed by Falcucci law, post Falcucci law. In recent decades, no innovation has been introduced in the functional distribution of schools, but only recently have been introduced educational information systems that, until now, have not led to architectural innovation, but only technological, with the consequent increase in energy costs. The authors will present the most critical, especially energetic, problems and, consequently, the foreseeable interventions for each recurrent building type, with reference to some school buildings of the Metropolitan City of Naples, identified as exemplary case studies of their design, functional and construction typologies.

This contribution presents the results of a complex interdisciplinary research on the theme of the “reflexive city”, which interacts emotionally with its inhabitants and makes readable and understandable the archetypes of public space. It is a technological reading, aimed to offer a methodological approach for the meta-design phase of the transformation process in a historical context. Via Sopramuro in Pendino neighbourhood in Naples is the case of study. In this urban area, the eco-oriented analyses, carried out according to the RUROS method, show that it is a strategic place to preserve the historical market activities, improving environmental quality with an appropriate technological design as added value. It follows the sustainable design principles especially related to the water sources saving, as a part of a most complex urban design integrating strategies in order to improve the visual quality of this urban space. The expected result is not only the design response in a technological key, but the hypothesis of reproducibility and adaptability of this model to urban transformation process also to other sites in the Mediterranean area

The objective of valorization and protection of rural architecture and landscape leads us to turn our attention on the tools which support the planning and construction activities, starting from the identifying values of the local heritage and building culture which represent the potential territorial resources to be transformed into development opportunities. Since the second half of the 20th Century, this objective has been pursued mainly in terms of studies and research aimed at reading the landscape and the typological classification of the artifacts, sometimes even systematically. The purpose of this research transcends this early result achieved and, starting from the “knowledge”, it strives to define “good practice” to regulate the approach to the built landscape. Therefore, the aim here is a reconnaissance analysis of the suggested and/or executive actions developed in different territorial areas of the Campania region with a high environmental and naturalistic value, with reference to manuals and projects, environmental plans and natural park plans, and the feasibility indications produced thus far, such as guidelines and action strategies, urban plans and building codes, and implementation and development plans.