Towards a Sustainable Process of Conservation/Reuse of Built Cultural Heritage: A “Coevolutionary” Approach to Circular Economy in the Case of the Decommissioned Industrial Agricultural Consortium in the Corbetta, Metropolitan Area of Milan, Italy

Mehrnaz Rajabi (), Stefano Della Torre and Arian Heidari Afshari
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Mehrnaz Rajabi: Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering (DABC), Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
Stefano Della Torre: Department of Architecture, Built Environment and Construction Engineering (DABC), Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy
Arian Heidari Afshari: Department of Architecture and Urban Studies (DAStU), Politecnico di Milano, 20133 Milan, Italy

Land, 2025, vol. 14, issue 8, 1-21

Abstract: This paper aims to explore the potentialities and systemic relationships between the ‘regenerative’ process and ‘circular economy’ concept within the conservation and reuse of a built cultural heritage framework through contextualizing the concept of ‘process programming’ of the Preventive and Planned Conservation methodology. As a case study, it depicts a decommissioned industrial agricultural silo in Corbetta—a small historic city with its hinterland located in the protected Southern Milan Regional Agricultural Park. The context includes the industrial agricultural lands of the 20th century, together with historical water infrastructure, farmhouses, and the typical flora of the Lombardy region, all evidences of Corbetta’s rural archaeological values and the sophisticated material culture of its past collective production/economy system—the locus in which the silo was once one of the main productive symbols of Corbetta’s agricultural identity. Within such a complex and challenging context, this paper argues in favor of the constructive role of such a methodology in upholding circular economy principles within the process of conservation and reuse of the silo, highlighting its broader application of the ‘coevolution’ concept from a multidisciplinary long-term perspective.

Keywords: industrial agricultural consortium; circular economy; preventive and planned conservation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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