The complex legacy of Italian former asylums and judicial psychiatric hospitals. Case-study of the judicial psychiatric hospital of Saint Ephraim in Materdei, Naples

The present document deals with issues concerning urban voids but more precisely on those caused by the disposal of the Italian asylum and judicial psychiatric hospital heritage. In it, we try to understand the possibilities that architecture has, with the project, to systematize all the disciplines involved in the regeneration process of the latter, referring to the case study of the former judicial psychiatric hospital of Saint Ephraim in Naples