Francesca Garbi

Finding Harmony between Past and Present: Adaptive reuse of historic buildings

This thesis analyses the adaptive reuse strategy used to transform historic Italian buildings into art galleries. It aims to evaluate its success at re-evaluating existing structures to prevent building decay or demolition.

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