Countless Are Abandoned Industrial Buildings That Dominate the Skyline of Today's Urbanized
Areas and Which, Thanks to Their Imposing Size, Have Now Become Part of All Those Intrinsic
Characteristics That Make Up the Identity of a Place. For Many, These Buildings Are Part of a Historical
Moment That Saw Them As a Symbol of Progress and Wealth, But Following the Awareness of Planetary
Pollution and the Need to Reflect on the Theme of Environmental Protection, the Situations In Which These
Industrial Complexes Have Been Abandoned Have Become Increasingly Common. to Prevent These
Buildings from Being Left In a State of Neglect, a Mere Memory Now Without Function, How to Redeem Them
Giving Industrial Buildings a New Life In the Changing Society? Often a Demolition and Reconstruction
Process Deprives a Place of Its Collective Identity, Which Could Instead Be Maintained In a Strategic
Operation of “Adaptive Reuse”. Will Be Proposed a Reflection on some Examples of the Successful
Redevelopment of Industrial Complexes In Europe Will Be Illustrated a Study of the Regeneration of The
Industrial Area Ex-Sarom on the Dock of the City of Ravenna, Aimed at the Integration of Its Two Cooling
Towers into a Multifunctional Park. the Hammon Towers, Visible from Every Point of the City, Have
Become For the Inhabitants an Essential Landmark, But They Are Located Within the Disused Factory Area
Which Makes Their Integration Impossible into Everyday Urban Life, Giving Us an Ideal Example to Work O ...