As focus shifts to "no net land take" city regeneration approaches
one of the main traditional elements of architecture-the roof-is
gaining renewed prominence. This book provides a survey of
worldwide experiences of city rooftop re-use strategies such as
building-on and integrating new volumes within the existing
buildings. Twenty-four case studies illustrate a multiplicity of
projects that innovate on traditional typologies by offering
multiple ways of living, working and using public services in the
city. They all share a symbiotic method that exploits the
extraordinariness of the "top condition" offered by the roof to
foster a subtle change in the whole building's urban identity. They
test new technologies for light and quick construction methods in
order to deal with structural constraints and the needs of
inhabitants. City roofscape redesign belongs to an adaptive
attitude based on knowledge of the dynamic process of
transformation of the physical realm, far removed from regressive
preservation-only behavior. It represents a remarkable way of
coping with urban regeneration issues.
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