Archaeology and nature: hyblean cultural landscape and territorial ...

LANDSCAPE OF NEW ENERGY
Alessandra PAGLIANO,
Dipartimento di Configurazione e Attuazione dell’Architettura, Facoltà di Architettura, Università degli Studi di
Napoli “ Federico II “, Italia
pagliano@unina.it
Abstract
The domain of technical knowledge has led to a deconsecration of the beauty that traditional cultures
associated for centuries to the landscape, so allowing selfish and indiscriminately use of it, and therefore
abuses: contemporary landscape is covered with all sorts of infrastructures, arbitrary in shape, location and
size, without any reference to the image of those places.
Barely tolerated by virtue of their necessary function, mobile repeaters, antennas and iron pylons of the
power lines are domineering presences, unable to interact with the landscape.
In the same way, it was shown that, although in general there is a substantial support to renewable energies,
local communities often perceive them negatively because the installation of such systems is greatly
impacting on the landscape. The strong perception of the solar panels is now the biggest problem.
This paper addresses the problem of a visual integration between infrastructures and landscape, based on
morphological elements, color and materials, with a particular attention towards new technologies for the
production and distribution of energy, both traditional and photovoltaic, focusing on contemporary research
of companies that base their philosophy on the desire to combine innovation, technology and design for
sustainable development of energy production and transmission networks, in respect of the landscape. In
particular, is here presented a new method, based on perspective studies, that allows to place the new
infrastructure in accord to the shape of landscape.
Parole chiave: landscape, perception, perspective, infrastructure
1. Infrastructures and landscape: a different point of view
The aspect of a place is determined by its consistency of expression, by the complex units of meaning, both
symbolic and aesthetic, that characterizes unequivocally that piece of land. A set of characteristics defining
the irreducible singularity, the specific physiognomy of the place, its recognizable expression, are signs not
reducible to pure aesthetic appearance. Do not forget, in fact, that same area, same as in morphology,
climate data, vegetation, geological structure, etc.., can be interpreted in diverse ways by different cultures:
the objective data of the geographic lands set only the conditions of a possibility that can come, within
certain limits, emphasized differently, depending on the culture of the society that takes that land as its own
landscape.
The multidisciplinary considerations of recent years about such issues have led at last to distinguish, and
specifically characterize, terms and concepts such as "territory", “land”, "environment" and "landscape",
which are not synonyms: in particular, the definition of landscape provided by the European Convention
(2000) clearly specifies that landscape is always a cultural construct, related to the sensitivity of the
perceiver, while the term "environment" thus define an objective natural and ecological condition.
In particular, the Convention of the European Council extends the concept of landscape to all places, thus
overcoming the traditional aesthetic sense, certainly reductive, and so defining it as the place and the
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