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La définition d’une stratégie d’intervention.
La definición de una estrategia de intervención
Defining a strategy for intervention
characterized urban contexts.
To grasp the importance of these centres is crucial for a policy of the
territory where the historic settlement heritage plays a central role.
Therefore, where differences are a reason of identification, recognition
of values and possibility to start projects aiming at the restoration and
revitalisation, the actions of development must involve a more precise
definition of the morphological, environmental, cultural and settlement
characters, as well as of the presence of monuments.
For a deeper knowledge of Calabrian historic centres, the research has
adopted the method which was elaborated for the Regional Planning
Scheme and which allowed to make a “classification” following three
parameters: morphological situation, urban environment, architectural
characteristics.
As a result, eighty-two centres were recognized and grouped in five
ping a considerable recognizability, compactness and
integrity of their historic tissue, with a presence of numerous
particularly valuable architectural monuments;
which have kept a substantial compactness and with a presence of
some significant architectural monuments;
where the present architectural monuments still communicate their
historic and stylistic qualities;
XVII Ith , XIX th and early XX -century reconstructions following natural
disasters;
particularly, by landscape and morphological aspects.
architectural elements (undoubtedly richer since they are destined to
more complex typologies).
There exist many possibilities of re-use and re-functionalisation of
the examined contexts, but, to assure the survival of these tissues, it
is indispensable to build a logic of network, of “specializations”, where
historic centres are meant as containers of an endless series of cultural,
social, commercial and craft activities.
The final remarks show that, in their ex-ante phase, the interventions of
restoration and revitalisation of Calabrian historic centres must include,
besides a significant financing, a territorial project identifying a possible
middle-long term scenario based on the recognition of the intrinsic
potentials of each territorial context which could play a decisive role in
the policies of development of local contexts.
In a global context, where competition is no longer only between
companies, but also between territories, to attract investments and
trigger virtuous circles of development depends on the qualities of
local systems. Moreover, the need to pursue a sustainable development
on an environmental, economic, social and institutional level must be
expressed through new policies for the territory and adequate tools of
method and of organization of resources aiming at an integrated vision
characterized by participatory paths and a delicate balance between
local and global level.
The construction of a “vision” inevitably implies an interpretation of
the change and the identification of possible prospective scenarios.
From this point of view, it is a tool of communication with the double
function of supporting the comprehension of the elements structuring
the Calabrian territory and of representing future political strategies.
At the end of the cognitive phase, it has been noticed that the project
of restoration and revitalisation of these settlements must start from
the awareness that each of them is a continuously changing living
organism. As a result, an intervention tending to fossilize those centres
and to leave them unchanged in time cannot be considered, since it
would imply their progressive decay.
On the contrary, it is important to think of projects of restoration
including the possibility to introduce new urban and architectural
elements in the tissue which has become consolidated in time and
where the new interventions can be in tune with the identity character
of the centre itself. Thus, they can organically enter the process of
transformation marking the evolution of the settlement, which is
guided, on its turn, by its own genetic code that must be known to
intervene adequately.
In the practical part of the research a deductive sequence has been
carried out to relate large-scale space references with the small-scale
ones, that is, the relationships of the centre with the urban, building
and architectural territorial context.
As a consequence, it was possible to read the genetic code of the
centres through the consistency and continuity existing between their
territorial roles and the shape of their single architectural elements. For
instance, the agricultural character of a settlement can be read through
the serial character of its tissue, of the composition of its façades, of
the shape of its single elements. In the same way, the function of
commercial node of another centre can be read through its tissue
(marked by the presence of several nodes destined to the market), its
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