RECONVERSION ACTIVITY OF AN "ARCHITECTURE FOR THE MEDICINE" OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI. THE CENTER OF RECOVERY OF POLIO-AFFLICTED PERSONS (1947-1958) AS "COGNITIVE BUILDING"

In the immediate post-war period, in the city of Cagliari the great Polio Recovery Center (1947- 1958) was designed and buil. It is an architecture with a strong symbolic charge, both for its great social value and because it marks the start of the "Great Reconstruction". It is a building that completely innovates the typology of Architecture for Medicine. Preliminary activity for the conversion of the building into an academic center is a great "knowledge process", which ranges from the construction history to the compliance of a historicized building with the actual functional requirements and with the new energy performance and safety rules. The first results highlight constraints and opportunities of a reuse that has, as its premise, the structural rehabilitation of reinforced concrete, but which develops with the use of digital technologies and sensors, in order to transform the "traditional" building into a " cognitive architecture”.