TRANSITIONAL MORPHOLOGY IN THE ITALIAN CONTEMPORARY CITY.THE CASE OF RIMINI SAN GIOVANNI. Urban regeneration and Air-Rights.

The growth of the contemporary city has triggered a series of urban phenomena. Over time, some buildings become detached from the historical context of the city, showing differences in height and causing blind facades. Perhaps it is due to the uneven distribution of the population, which leads to different building densities, or the different financial situation of the buildings, with higher building owners having a better economic situation and therefore having a higher building density. No matter how these buildings appear, the city as a whole presents itself in an unsaturated state, with unused spaces and empty walls between two adjacent buildings. So there is an attempt to intervene in these buildings through the process of urban regeneration. However, we know that the space above residential buildings is private property, sacred and inviolable in urban law. How to deal with this space, which has been separated from its historic urban context, is a problem that needs to be addressed. Here the approach of Air-rights is used as a medium to develop the project in the city of Rimini through design strategies. The first volume is the study of urban regeneration, which covers the history of the Rimini, the urban texture, and analyzes it by morphological methods. The second volume mainly discusses the basic concept of Air-Rights and why the site (San Giovanni) should be viewed from the perspective of Air-Rights and provides a new way of thinking to realize the reasonable distribution of Air-Rights. In the end, it discusses the feasibility of this design method in the other site in Rimini.