To mark its 25th anniversary, Park publishes Reinventing Heritage – A Design Compass on Adaptive Reuse, a collective reflection on the transformative power of reuse. More than a monograph, the book is conceived as a design project in itself — an exploration of how reinterpreting the built environment can generate new meanings, values, and opportunities.

Led by founding partners Filippo Pagliani and Michele Rossi, Park draws on its extensive experience in adaptive reuse — a field that has long defined the studio’s architectural approach. Over the years, Park has explored transformation as a way to engage with the past while envisioning the future. In Reinventing Heritage, this practice becomes both subject and method: an investigation into reuse as a design strategy and a cultural and ethical act — a conscious response to the challenges of climate change, resource scarcity, and urban inequality. Reuse emerges as a tool for awareness and innovation: a way of reading what already exists and transforming it into something new, relevant, and shared.

The book intertwines theoretical insights and architectural practice, presenting fifteen of Park’s projects in Milan through a renewed photographic and graphic interpretation. Completing the volume is the Design Compass, a conceptual and strategic tool developed by Park to map architectural actions along two key axes — body and program — offering a framework to define, replicate, and share approaches to transformation.

Reinventing Heritage marks both a milestone and a new beginning. It is an invitation to act responsibly, to create public value, and to rethink architecture as an open practice — one that bridges memory and innovation, aesthetics and ethics. As a Supporting Practice of HouseEurope!, Park shares the commitment to promoting a renovation-first culture across Europe — one that values the reuse of existing buildings as a political, environmental, and social act.

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