Since ancient times, Italian ports served as fundamental landing places for travellers and played a crucial role in trade and tourist routes. Between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, industrial development caused progressive physical and functional obsolescence of port areas, due to the overcoming of the production models, which they were conceived for. While some structures and infrastructures were upgraded to support the new maritime traffic, others were inadequate for the modern requirements and, thus, dismissed and abandoned, resulting nowadays in assets with a poor state of conservation. From recognizing the value of such built environments related to the maritime culture and processes of cultural stratification, the definition of methods and tools to support recovery and reuse plans is paramount. The present work proposes a cognitive framework to define heritage features of port environments and set up a systematic categorisation process. To this aim, a cataloguing card was proposed and validated on 63 Italian port areas, including their relationship with the territorial surroundings, particularly the urban context, and the functions hosted within. The most recurrent types of heritage assets (over 300 items) were then evaluated, with the support of two national platforms, following a classification among modern, historical, industrial, archaeological, infrastructural and artistic heritage. At the end of the survey, it was found that the available platforms are lacking in data and non-properly meeting the specific research goals. In fact, even when heritage structures and infrastructures are catalogued, relevant information, such as the chronology of historical evolution and graphic descriptive contents, are missed. The results of this work provide some preliminary insights and a starting point for detailed analysis aimed at developing systematic cataloguing systems for the benefit of technicians, administrators and safeguard entities.
Unveiling the Water Built Heritage: Preliminary Results Towards a Systematic Cataloguing of Italian Ports / Cassano, Federica; De Fino, Mariella; Cantatore, Elena; Fatiguso, Fabio (LECTURE NOTES IN CIVIL ENGINEERING). - In: Proceedings of the 11th International Conference of Ar.Tec. (Scientific Society of Architectural Engineering) / [a cura di] Rossella Corrao, Tiziana Campisi, Simona Colajanni, Manfredi Saeli, Calogero Vinci. - ELETTRONICO. - [s.l], 2024. - ISBN 9783031718540. - pp. 167-184 [10.1007/978-3-031-71855-7_11]
Unveiling the Water Built Heritage: Preliminary Results Towards a Systematic Cataloguing of Italian Ports
Cassano, Federica
;De Fino, Mariella;Cantatore, Elena;Fatiguso, Fabio
2024-01-01
Abstract
Since ancient times, Italian ports served as fundamental landing places for travellers and played a crucial role in trade and tourist routes. Between the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century, industrial development caused progressive physical and functional obsolescence of port areas, due to the overcoming of the production models, which they were conceived for. While some structures and infrastructures were upgraded to support the new maritime traffic, others were inadequate for the modern requirements and, thus, dismissed and abandoned, resulting nowadays in assets with a poor state of conservation. From recognizing the value of such built environments related to the maritime culture and processes of cultural stratification, the definition of methods and tools to support recovery and reuse plans is paramount. The present work proposes a cognitive framework to define heritage features of port environments and set up a systematic categorisation process. To this aim, a cataloguing card was proposed and validated on 63 Italian port areas, including their relationship with the territorial surroundings, particularly the urban context, and the functions hosted within. The most recurrent types of heritage assets (over 300 items) were then evaluated, with the support of two national platforms, following a classification among modern, historical, industrial, archaeological, infrastructural and artistic heritage. At the end of the survey, it was found that the available platforms are lacking in data and non-properly meeting the specific research goals. In fact, even when heritage structures and infrastructures are catalogued, relevant information, such as the chronology of historical evolution and graphic descriptive contents, are missed. The results of this work provide some preliminary insights and a starting point for detailed analysis aimed at developing systematic cataloguing systems for the benefit of technicians, administrators and safeguard entities.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
