Environmental design in historic sites

The identification of the methods to analyze the environmental characteristics of the empty spaces and, therefore, the criteria to improve the comfort conditions of the users who live in them, is the aim of this research. The survey follows the branch of research that studies the methods of intervention in historic centers. The need to carry out project interventions in historic urban fabrics pushes the researchers to develop the methods to introduce the comfort levels of contemporary users while respecting the values to pass on to our posterity. The choice of a strategy rather than another one, involving a certain degree of invasiveness and reversibility, depends on the designer's knowledge of the specific context of the intervention. For this reason, the project carried out in a context having important values as it is a minor centre requires an accurate cognitive analysis that, inevitably, will limit the designer's freedom.