Enhancing the Cultural Heritage through Adaptive Reuse. A Multicriteria Approach to Evaluate the Castello Visconteo in Cusago (Italy)

Cultural heritage can play a strategic role in developing sustainable built environment, contributing to the improvement of economic, social, and environmental productivity city. Human activities are constantly affecting quality environment altering ecosystems, which produce negative consequences also on human wellbeing. Within this context, it has been much discussed how cities counteract process by supporting more development. Adaptive reuse is defined as “a that changes disused or ineffective item into new be used for different purpose”, strongly triggers development cities. It recognized promoter economic growth, social wellbeing, preservation, given its capability both preserving past values creating ones. The adaptive matches main points circular economy, seen aimed at reduction natural resource extraction impact extending useful life materials promoting recovery, reuse, regeneration processes. Given these premises, current contribution evaluate alternative scenarios Castello Visconteo Cusago, located Lombardy region (Italy), understanding could contribute generating within economy perspective. In detail, four were proposed face needs born during COVID-19 pandemic period. Since intangible tangible must considered, multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA) applied combining qualitative indicators define most suitable function reuse. Novel Approach Imprecise Assessment Decision Environments (NAIADE) was identify best solution based opinions conflicting stakeholders. innovativeness combination methodologies, preservation memory generation values, consideration strategy achievement