<strong>La</strong> <strong>définition</strong> d’une <strong>stratégie</strong> d’intervention. <strong>La</strong> 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 154
<strong>La</strong> <strong>définition</strong> d’une <strong>stratégie</strong> d’intervention. <strong>La</strong> definición de una estrategia de intervención Defining a strategy for intervention Bova Fiumefreddo Bruzio Rocca Imperiale Triolo 155