Reconstructing an ancient country. Settlement and housing models for post-quake reconstruction

The recent earthquakes that have invested some Italian Apennine regions, have highlighted the one hand the inconsistency of preventive measures and protection of our heritage and on the other the concern for their own "security" and the identity of the places affected, for the reconstruction of their beauty. The thesis is to reconstruct the collapsed city where they were, taking the permanence in the places and the survival of the places, such as choice of identity and expression of the cultural roots of the people affected to its territory, offering to the territory, the management authorities and businesses a methodological tool capable of addressing the issue of security and material and immaterial identity of the places as a whole. The objective of the research is the study of models for the construction/reconstruction of the Italian hill town, paying particular attention to issues of security and identity. The case studies considered consist of some Italian hill town on the Apennines hit by the earthquake. The research methodological framework is based on three fundamental aspects that characterize the "experimental" phase, applied to the cases study: multidisciplinary (architecture, urban planning, technology, structures), multiscale approach (morphology of the territory; urban spaces and fabrics, single buildings), complementarity between theoretical study and applied research.