ENVIRONMENT AND PLACE. Context analysis as a preliminary activity for the healthcare facilities design

Introduction
Given the complexity of urban environments and its many transformations, the process of urban regeneration is a subject of multidisciplinary studies by different scholars. It finds itself at the center of a widespread academic and political debate. The spread of collective consent with the objective of limiting the consumption of land as well as the resilience and environmental sustainability does not find an equally significant increase in the practices of reconversion of what has been abandoned. None the less, the fact remains that the practice of reusing and restoring industrial spaces and unused buildings in urban contexts has been identified as the market of the future. For some time now, an issue that emerges from the comparison between the various disciplines is to identify some leading activities that are able to influence the methods of production and consummation of individuals as well as to modify or adapt the shapes and the spaces used of existing constructions.
«When we talk about the regeneration of urban spaces, there is a common consensus that the central elements are not so much the architectural container and size of the individual initiatives involved in the installation, but rather: (i) the flow of activities and inhabitants; (ii) the overall governance of an exchange that is rich and an ecosystem built upon relationships; (iii) the economic model underlying the medium-term balance of the solution. […]