The seismic events that historically invest every 5 years the Italian Apennine regions, periodically highlight the inconsistency of the preventive and safeguard measures of our heritage on the one hand and the concern for the safety of the places, for the reconstruction of their beauty, to reconstruct the places distinctive and authentically identifying aspects of everyday life. The desire to remain in the places hit by the earthquake, to start new life in places that are part of their identity, instead of living in the "new towns", expresses the cultural and affective roots of the populations to their territory, directing the choice to rebuild the cities "where they were " as an identity choice. The research of the Polytechnic University of Bari entitled "Identity and Safety" to which this essay refers, has as its objective the definition of new models for the reconstruction of the cities hit by the earthquake in the so-called Italian "Inner Areas", capable of combining the theme of safety with those of authenticity and identity starting from the definition of a working method, both analytic and design. The case study identified for the analytical-design experimentation consists of the village of Trisungo in the municipality of Arquata del Tronto, a settlement on the valley floor along the River Tronto and the Via Salaria. Starting from a multidisciplinary approach, the research addresses the theme to the three main scales, that of the single building unit, the elementary aggregative unit and the urban part, identifying the conforming dimension, constructive and formal value of the unitary intervention, as indispensable elements for the reconstruction of the hit places and their identity. The project assumes that the elementary urban unity, considered as a morpheme capable of expressing in an organic way the foundational relationship between the spatial, typological and morphological characteristics of the village, in their relationship with the forms of the earth and with its stratigraphic composition, is the compliant dimension of the intervention.

Resistent forms for resilient territories. Rebuilding areas hit by seismic

Michele Montemurro
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2018-01-01

Abstract

The seismic events that historically invest every 5 years the Italian Apennine regions, periodically highlight the inconsistency of the preventive and safeguard measures of our heritage on the one hand and the concern for the safety of the places, for the reconstruction of their beauty, to reconstruct the places distinctive and authentically identifying aspects of everyday life. The desire to remain in the places hit by the earthquake, to start new life in places that are part of their identity, instead of living in the "new towns", expresses the cultural and affective roots of the populations to their territory, directing the choice to rebuild the cities "where they were " as an identity choice. The research of the Polytechnic University of Bari entitled "Identity and Safety" to which this essay refers, has as its objective the definition of new models for the reconstruction of the cities hit by the earthquake in the so-called Italian "Inner Areas", capable of combining the theme of safety with those of authenticity and identity starting from the definition of a working method, both analytic and design. The case study identified for the analytical-design experimentation consists of the village of Trisungo in the municipality of Arquata del Tronto, a settlement on the valley floor along the River Tronto and the Via Salaria. Starting from a multidisciplinary approach, the research addresses the theme to the three main scales, that of the single building unit, the elementary aggregative unit and the urban part, identifying the conforming dimension, constructive and formal value of the unitary intervention, as indispensable elements for the reconstruction of the hit places and their identity. The project assumes that the elementary urban unity, considered as a morpheme capable of expressing in an organic way the foundational relationship between the spatial, typological and morphological characteristics of the village, in their relationship with the forms of the earth and with its stratigraphic composition, is the compliant dimension of the intervention.
2018
978-88-492-3669-9
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