The reconversion of parts of the city that have now reached the end of their production cycles and are gradually joined and metabolized by the residential, commercial and tertiary fabrics is a topic that has long been present in the European debate; at the same time in recent years, this very topic is experiencing a new season, due to some radical transformations of the contextual conditions.

The phenomenon assumes particular relevance within the metropolitan territories, where the appearance of a new administrative level capable of expressing phisycal territorial planning, assigns to the marginal areas of the municipal territories - often the subject of poorly controlled building developments in the second half of the 20th century  - a new role of possible areas of transformation and regeneration of metropolitan value. The chosen work area, Basse di Stura, located on the northern edge of the municipal territory of Turin, will primarily involve these issues.

It is a large area of about 300 hectares, which in the southern area hosts residues of twentieth-century productive fabrics (in some cases also linked to major environmental problems) and in the northern area, it's substantially unbuilt up to the bed of the Stura. The entire area is characterized by major problems linked to heavy pollution but also, at the same time, by significant environmental potential.