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The author explains the scientific reasons for the decision to create an editorial series dedicated to the printed publication of archival descriptive tools. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

n this paper the author tries to broaden the conceptual field of the unrealised artwork to include thefate of that which is subject to inevitable processes of transformation.Like any vital process, transformation introduces new elements of meaning and new possibilities ofcognitive connections together with, sometimes spectacular, physical changes in the material of whichthe work is composed. One can question the idea that the work of art must have a finite andimmutable material configuration, as well as a determined historical-critical interpretation. One canthink that the artwork is alive, precisely because it is not realised.

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Near Piazza Armerina (Enna), at the beginning of the cen. XX, the remains of the Roman Villa del Casale (4th century AD), with rich mosaic floors, were discovered. After the first restoration, in the mid-fifties of the cen. XX, the architect Minissi and C. Brandi designed a stable protection and system for the use of the remains of the villa. The roof was made with modern materials: aluminum profiles and sheets of glass and perspex, which evoked the ancient volumes, while maintaining the authenticity of the remains. The arrangement, due to lack of maintenance, has been a source of deterioration for the mosaics, and in fact since 2007 the works for their destruction and replacement have begun, according to a project (commissioner V. Sgarbi, arch. G. Meli) that requires a vision both external and internal unsatisfactory. Even if the problems related to water infiltration and microclimatic data appear solved, as well as those of enhancement and use, thanks to the implementation of the Management Plan (2012), the overall vision refers to warehouses or deposits that cover remains of extraordinary beauty.

Montecatini Terme, emblematic city for the close combination between thermal baths and urban structure, has been recently enrolled in the list of the Unesco Heritage. It becames particularly urgent to deepen the knowledge, in an appropriate way, of the building ensemble that can be considered the key features in the enrollement, for the purposes of their protection and safeguard. Among these, the Tettuccio bath assumes a particular relevance with regard to the complex architectural articulation, the richness of the decorative characteristics and the variety of the materials used. For this purpose, a laser scanner survey combined with photogrammetry was carried out, thus obtaining a high level of instrumental data, integrated by accurate in-place information. This approach highlighted the materials, traditional and modern, and the decay of the building, founded by the grand duke Pietro Leopoldo and almost completely refashioned about a century ago.

The conservation risks associated with climate change to which heritage is subjected represent one of the most significant issues arising from the adoption of the 1972 World Heritage Convention. The Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of World Heritage Listed sites and the conditions of integrity and authenticity, which were essential requirements at the time of their nomination and inscription, may be compromised or no longer be met over time as a result of the effects of climate action on heritage assets. While the value of sustainability has assumed a predominant role in the multiple social, cultural, economic and environmental contexts and is in affinity with many of the theoretical premises within the discipline of restoration, this study aims to reflect on some of the systemic principles and parameters through which a restoration product can be defined as sustainable, considering the material authenticity and uniqueness of World Heritage architectural artefacts, and the spatial-temporal implications related to the conservation of cultural heritage.

The Casa del Fascio e dell'Ospitalità of Predappio is a significant case study of an iconic building that, more than others, has materialized the “architectural propaganda” of the fascist regime in Italy between the two World Wars. The project by Arnaldo Fuzzi (1891-1974) was supposed to be the manifesto of the architectural and technological progress of the Fascist regime, but it will become instead an expression of the failure of its management skills. In the post-war period, this building fell into a state of neglect, due both to the fact that it was one of the most symbolic architectureS of the regime and to the inability to find an adequate re-use – becoming a sort of “dead monument”. In 2010 the former Casa del Fascio was appointed a “listed building” giving a boost to the preservation of this architecture as a document of a “difficult heritage”. The present contribution matches historical research and preservation, explaining the path that leads up to the current restoration project (2019-2020). The intervention methodology searches for a balance between the preservation of the building identity and the necessary adaptation to the current needs, choosing a multidisciplinary and coordinated approach.

Gio Ponti has proposed in his writings a significant reflection on the relationship between architecture, time and construction materials, where architecture does not presuppose immutability and does not associate time with decay. Ponti’s statements introduce us to an apparent contradiction with respect to the famous assimilation of his architecture to crystals. Indeed, Ponti is aware of a paradox of modern architecture: it requires time to be alive, but it is constantly forced to oppose it because it seems unable to age. The paper discusses the two alternatives that Ponti proposes (technical architecture and natural architecture) and discusses his ideas in the cultural context at the time on restoration, durability, care and new modern materials. Finally, a contribution is proposed here to a conservation perspective in which the aging of the Modern could be a matter of cultural appropriation.

Reflecting about the documentary heritage of artists requires the consideration of archival, legal, historical-artistic and museological factors. If the analogue productions of artifacts and the correlated documentation have been studied, transferring the creative perspective into a digital environment asks to face a reality in turmoil: the ways of expressing and representing contemporary art, in balance between digital and crypto art, require new visions in the production and management of works. In this redefinition of roles and relationships, which almost exclusively concern the documentary structure and the technological and digital components, document systems assume a primary role. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Near Piazza Armerina (Enna), at the beginning of the cen. XX, the remains of the Roman Villa del Casale (4th century AD), with rich mosaic floors, were discovered. After the first restoration, in the mid-fifties of the cen. XX, the architect F. Minissi and C. Brandi designed a stable protection and system for the use of the remains of the villa. The roof was made with modern materials: aluminum profiles and sheets of glass and perspex, which evoked the ancient volumes, while maintaining the authenticity of the remains. The arrangement, due to lack of maintenance, has been a source of deterioration for the mosaics, and in fact since 2007 the works for their destruction and replacement have begun, according to a project (commissioner V. Sgarbi, arch. G. Meli) that requires a vision both external and internal unsatisfactory. Even if the problems related to water infiltration and microclimatic data appear solved, as well as those of enhancement and use, thanks to the implementation of the Management Plan (2012), the overall vision refers to warehouses or deposits that cover remains of extraordinary beauty. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Montecatini Terme, emblematic city for the close combination between thermal baths and urban structure, has been recently enrolled in the list of the Unesco Heritage. It becames particularly urgent to deepen the knowledge, in an appropriate way, of the building ensemble that can be considered the key features in the enrollement, for the purposes of their protection and safeguard. Among these, the Tettuccio bath assumes a particular relevance with regard to the complex architectural articulation, the richness of the decorative characteristics and the variety of the materials used. For this purpose, a laser scanner survey combined with photogrammetry was carried out, thus obtaining a high level of instrumental data, integrated by accurate in-place information. This approach highlighted the materials, traditional and modern, and the decay of the building, founded by the grand duke Pietro Leopoldo and almost completely refashioned about a century ago. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The conservation risks associated with climate change to which heritage is subjected represent one of the most significant issues arising from the adoption of the 1972 World Heritage Convention. The Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of World Heritage Listed sites and the conditions of integrity and authenticity, which were essential requirements at the time of their nomination and inscription, may be compromised or no longer be met over time as a result of the effects of climate action on heritage assets. While the value of sustainability has assumed a predominant role in the multiple social, cultural, economic and environmental contexts and is in affinity with many of the theoretical premises within the discipline of restoration, this study aims to reflect on some of the systemic principles and parameters through which a restoration product can be defined as sustainable, considering the material authenticity and uniqueness of World Heritage architectural artefacts, and the spatial-temporal implications related to the conservation of cultural heritage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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In an age like the present one, marked by a growing sensitivity towards the issues of recovery and enhancement of minor historical centres, abandoned or in the process of depopulation, the case study of the medieval village of Craco is a practical example of the settlements in Lucania affected by this phenomenon. In 1963 a landslide undermined the survival of the village, so much to cause a progressive depopulation and transfer of all the inhabitants in the nearby village of Peschiera. A condition of geographic marginality, together with the state of decay of the village, now deprived of its original vocation and constant maintenance, has become an attractive note for an ever-increasing number of visitors. In 2013, the Scenographic Park of the ruins was established in Craco, which determined the securing of part of its buildings along a well-defined itinerary to secure part of its buildings along a welldefined itinerary. The precarious geological nature of the site makes the hypothesis of a complete recovery of the settlement unthinkable. Towards a valid proposal for conservation and enhancement of the village has been undertaken, whose results made it possible to formulate Guidelines, weighted between the two current antithetical visions: a positive one that considers possible the recovery, at least partial, of the built environment through new forms of anthropization, and a more cautious one looking to a museum display for tourists. Il borgo medievale di Craco: la “reinvenzione dei luoghi” tra nuove forme di antropizzazione e musealizzazione In un’epoca come quella attuale, contraddistinta da una crescente sensibilità verso le tematiche del recupero e della valorizzazione dei centri storici minori in abbandono o in via di spopolamento, il caso studio del borgo medievale di Craco rappresenta un esempio pragmatico delle realtà insediative lucane interessate dal fenomeno. Nel 1963 una frana ha minato la sopravvivenza del borgo, causando un progressivo spopolamento e trasferimento dell’intero abitato nella vicina località di Peschiera. La condizione di marginalità geografica e l’attuale stato decadente del borgo, privato della sua originaria vocazione e sottratto ad una costante manutenzione, ha finito per divenire la nota attrattiva per un sempre maggior numero di visitatori. A partire dal 2013 è stato istituito a Craco il Parco Scenografico dei ruderi che ha determinato la messa in sicurezza di una parte dei suoi edifici lungo uno studiato itinerario di visita. La precaria natura geologica del sito rende impensabile l’ipotesi di un completo recupero dell’insediamento. In vista di una valida proposta di conservazione e valorizzazione del borgo è stato intrapreso un iter conoscitivo i cui risultati hanno permesso di formulare attuabili Linee-guida di intervento, ponderate tra due attuali antitetiche visioni: quella possibilista che ritiene praticabile la strada del recupero, almeno parziale, dell’abitato mediante nuove forme di antropizzazione, e quella più cauta che propende per la musealizzazione ai fini turisti.

The issue of the historical centres is a matter of physical conservation and socio-economic managing. Physical conservation of common historical buildings needs special tools to check the vulnerability and to address intervention on them. The development of digitalization gives new and interesting possibilities to pursue this aim. The essay gives a synthetic panorama of the Geographic Information Systems that are currently available to describe the territory in Italy, starting from the institutional geoportals. These illustrate the regional urban planning and other aspects of the territory, among them sometime there are the geo-localisation of the historical centres, without no descriptions of their features and their state of conservation. The Risk Map is a GIS of the MiBACT (Ministry for cultural heritage and activities and tourism) dedicated to vulnerability and risk of loss of cultural heritage assessment. A development of this system for a new way of managing the historical centres has been studied by a research group of Sapienza with experts of the Istituto Centrale per il Restauro and Istituto Centrale del Catalogo e della Documentazione of MiBACT. This allows a detailed representation of the historical centre vulnerability through six levels of description, from the urban scale to that of the building façade. The features of the historical centres in Latium have helped us to define five different categories of settlements that are at risk or in condition of abandon. For each of them we have analysed the possible use of the Risk Map, referring to different existing scheduling models and making a hypothesis for new special development of the system to check the protection of abandoned sites. La Carta del Rischio come strumento di gestione conservativa dei centri storici La questione dei centri storici è un tema che riguarda la conservazione fisica e la gestione socio-economica. La conservazione fisica degli edifici storici comuni necessita di strumenti speciali per verificare la vulnerabilità e per indirizzare gli interventi su di essi. Lo sviluppo della digitalizzazione offre nuove e interessanti possibilità per perseguire questo obiettivo. Il saggio fornisce un panorama sintetico dei Sistemi Informativi Geografici attualmente disponibili per descrivere il territorio in Italia, a partire dai geoportali istituzionali. Essi illustrano la pianificazione regionale e altri aspetti del territorio, tra cui a volte reintra la geolocalizzazione dei centri storici, senza alcuna descrizione delle loro caratteristiche e del loro stato di conservazione. La Mappa del Rischio è un GIS del MiBACT (Ministero per i beni e le attività culturali e del turismo) dedicato alla vulnerabilità e al rischio di perdita della valutazione dei beni culturali. L’implementazione di questo sistema per un nuovo modo di gestire i centri storici è stato studiato da un gruppo di ricerca della Sapienza insieme a esperti dell'Istituto Centrale per il Restauro e dell'Istituto Centrale del Catalogo e della Documentazione del MiBACT. Ciò consente una rappresentazione dettagliata della vulnerabilità del centro storico attraverso sei livelli di descrizione, dalla scala urbana a quella della facciata dell'edificio. Le caratteristiche dei centri storici del Lazio ci hanno aiutato a definire cinque diverse categorie di insediamenti a rischio o in condizione di abbandono. Per ognuna di esse si è analizzato il possibile utilizzo della Mappa dei Rischi, facendo riferimento a diversi modelli di schedulazione esistenti e facendo ipotesi di nuovo sviluppo specifico del sistema per il controllo della protezione dei siti abbandonati.

The region of Abruzzo has been struck by several earthquakes, including those of the eighteenth century (1703 in L’Aquila and 1706 in Sulmona) and the earthquake of Avezzano in 1915, which were particularly destructive not only for monuments but also for small historic centres. In addition to the town of L’Aquila, the earthquake of 6 April 2009 struck many small villages of historic, artistic and environmental interest (there are approximately 55 municipalities consisting mainly of ancient areas) within the L’Aquila hinterland. These are smaller centres generally affected by previous, unresolved depopulation and abandonment phenomena, already recorded in literature, immediately after the Unification of Italy and that increased in particular in the post-war period. Through some appropriately selected cases, the paper aims to describe the damage scenarios caused to the small historic centers of Abruzzo, by the most significant earthquakes that have particularly struck this region since the eighteenth century. Then, feedback on the intervention strategies realized from time to time is described, which were aimed at the recovery of small historic centres. Considerations are then made on the consequences in terms of recovery of use of villages, and above all on the preservation of their constructive identity character. Centri minori in Abruzzo colpiti da eventi sismici: scenari di danno e trasformazioni del costruito storico Il territorio abruzzese è stato colpito nel corso della storia da numerosi eventi sismici, fra i quali quelli settecenteschi (1703 a L’Aquila e 1706 a Sulmona) e il sisma di Avezzano del 1915 che furono particolarmente distruttivi, non solo per le emergenze architettoniche ma soprattutto per il patrimonio diffuso. Anche il terremoto del 6 Aprile 2009 ha colpito, oltre alla città dell’Aquila, numerosi piccoli abitati dell’entroterra aquilano (si contano circa 55 comuni costituiti prevalentemente da nuclei antichi), di vario interesse storico, architettonico e paseaggistico. Si tratta di centri minori generalmente interessati da pregressi e irrisolti fenomeni di spopolamento e di abbandono, già registrati, come è noto in letteratura, subito dopo l’Unità d’Italia e con un particolare incremento nel secondo dopoguerra. Il contributo intende restituire, attraverso alcuni casi opportunamente selezionati, gli scenari di danno causati sui centri minori abruzzesi dagli eventi tellurici più significativi che in special modo dal Settecento ad oggi hanno colpito l’Abruzzo. È poi illustrato un riscontro sulle strategie messe in campo per attuare, di volta in volta, il recupero dei tessuti minori, valutandone le conseguenze in termini di ripresa o meno della fruibilità, e soprattutto di conservazione dei caratteri costruttivi identitari.

The 2016 seismic event was exceptional due to the vastness of the territory concerned, the peculiar characteristics of the damaged historic centers and the singular commingling of architecture and context. The extension of the concept of monument to broader areas and dimensions poses new critical and interpretative problems relating to the 'sense of place' and consequently requires the adoption of appropriate intervention tools, connected to the urban planning discipline and to the methodologies of territorial planning, to be added to those of the restoration. In terms of urban memory, it will therefore be necessary to promote a reconstruction process, based on the repair, recovery and restoration of what was saved from the earthquake, even of the 'imprint' of the places (squares, roads, housing types, etc.) , avoiding complete demolition and subsequent reconstruction from scratch; the existing road and land structure, a permanent and recognizable document, constitutes the authentic testimony of the anthropic structure. The reconstruction-translation of the minor historical nucleuses and the contextual, consequent, cancellation of permanent signs, would definitively subtract every trace of their evolutionary memory and at the same time a significant cultural aspect of that region; nor would a conservation based on historical selection be valid because an urban nucleus is, by its nature, an ever-present historical present, laden with values that contribute to the definition of its identity. Ricostruzione post-sismica fra mutamenti de luoghi e conservazione della memoria L’evento sismico del 2016 ha costituito un’eccezionalità per la vastità del territorio interessato, le peculiari caratteristiche dei centri storici danneggiati e la singolare commistione fra architettura e contesto. L’estensione del concetto di monumento ad ambiti e dimensioni più ampi pone nuovi problemi critici ed interpretativi relativi al “senso del luogo” e richiede di conseguenza l’adozione di strumenti d’intervento appropriati, connessi alla disciplina urbanistica ed alle metodologie della pianificazione territoriale, da affiancare a quelli propri del restauro. In termini di memoria urbana, occorrerà dunque favorire un processo di ricostruzione, fondato sulla riparazione, il recupero e il restauro di quanto si è salvato dal terremoto, anche della sola “impronta” dei luoghi (piazze, tracciati viari, tipologie abitative ecc.), evitando modalità di completa demolizione e successiva ricostruzione ex novo; l’assetto viario e fondiario preesistente, documento permanente e riconoscibile, costituisce infatti la testimonianza autentica della strutturazione antropica. La ricostruzione-traslazione dei nuclei storici minori e la contestuale, conseguente, cancellazione di segni permanenti, sottrarrebbe definitivamente ogni traccia della loro memoria evolutiva ed insieme un significativo aspetto culturale di quella regione; né varrebbe una conservazione fondata su una selezione storica poiché un nucleo urbano è, per sua natura, un presente storico in continuo divenire, carico di valori che concorrono alla definizione della sua identità.

La conservazione e la valorizzazione di Mondonico, il vecchio borgo del Comune di Dorio ubicato sulla riva orientale del Lago di Como, è un esempio di cura e protezione del patrimonio culturale. La rivitalizzazione del piccolo centro del paese, oggi in stato di abbandono, ha generato un’analisi multidisciplinare tra Politecnico di Milano e Ball State University dell’Indiana e in alcuni corsi di studio di Ingegneria Edile-Architettura del Politecnico di Milano (sede territoriale di Lecco). L’obiettivo della ricerca è fornire un esempio di applicazione del processo di conservazione del tessuto storico del costruito finalizzata al rilancio del territorio. La metodologia utilizzata durante il percorso didattico è quella di comparare strumenti di analisi quali la documentazione storico-archivistica, la ricostruzione della trasformazione nel tempo degli edifici e dei percorsi, l'analisi visiva del paesaggio, la valutazione dello stato di conservazione, le informazioni sulla popolazione e le aspettative degli abitanti mediante l’analisi FDOM (forze, debolezze, opportunità, minacce). Per ridare vita al borgo di Mondonico e ai suoi edifici abbandonati si propone di insediare un campus universitario agro-forestale. Il progetto vuole preservare le tecniche agricole e costruttive. Il progetto mira a mantenere il “valore ambientale del borgo” cercando di trasformare ed adattare gli edifici esistenti al nuovo uso e alle normative vigenti senza dimenticare di conservare l’integrità del luogo. New Life for Mondonico: from “Ghost Village” to Agro-forest University Campus The project of preservation and revitalization of Mondonico, an ancient village of the Municipality of Dorio located on the eastern shore of Como lake, is an example of care and protection of Cultural heritage. The development of the small village that was in a state of neglect, has generated a multidisciplinary collaborative analysis between Politecnico di Milano and Ball State University of Indiana, during some courses of Architecture and Building Engineering at Politecnico di Milano in Lecco. The goal of this research is to give an example of protection of historical built landscape aimed at reviving the territory. The methodology applied during the academic course is the comparison of analysis tools such as historical-archival research, investigation on buildings and paths’ modifications over time, visual analysis of the landscape, evaluation of the state of conservation, information about people and citizens’ expectations through SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats). The proposal is for an Agro-forest university campus, which would revitalize the village of Mondonico and its abandoned buildings. The project aims to preserve the agricultural and construction techniques. The project would preserve the “environmental value of the village” by adapting existing buildings to the new use and current regulations without forgetting the entirety of the place.

Along the Mediterranean coasts of Turkey there are still traces, sometimes consistent and sometimes fragmented, of important urban centers now abandoned. These ruins are the result of natural events, climatic or geo-morphological changes, but also political and economic changes or religious conflicts that have affected the territories of Asia Minor for centuries. In particular, the coasts between Silifke and Mersin offer interesting causes for reflections on the dynamics of abandonment of urban settlements. In fact, here the presence of ruins that are unstable or in a condition of primary collapse demonstrate the succession, over the centuries, of numerous seismic events that forced the population to abandon these places. However, the existence of traces of different cultures (pagan, Byzantine, Islamic) add information about the abandonment of these centers due to religious or social conflicts. On these premise, and with reference to the sites of Korikos, Elaiussa, Kanitelleys and Akkale, the contribution will analyze the causes of the abandonments and the effects they have had on the architectural and urban heritage. These can be examined so as to propose conservation (excavation campaigns, appropriate studies, restoration interventions) and enhancement (dissemination of the results of archaeological research, inclusion in consolidated tourist itineraries) strategies that recognize the value of cultural testimony. Terremoti e conflitti religiosi come causa della trasformazione e dell’abbandono di alcuni antichi insediamenti in Asia Minore Lungo le coste mediterranee della Turchia esistono ancora le tracce, a volte consistenti a volte frammentarie di importanti centri urbani oggi abbandonati. Tali rovine sono il risultato di eventi naturali, cambiamenti climatici e geo-morfologici ma anche di mutamenti politici ed economici o di conflitti religiosi che per secoli hanno interessato l’Asia Minore. In particolare le coste, comprese tra Silifke e Mersin, offrono spunti di riflessione sulle dinamiche di abbandono degli insediamenti urbani. Qui la presenza di rovine dissestate o in condizione di crollo primario testimonia il susseguirsi, nei secoli, di eventi sismici che hanno indotto gli abitanti ad abbandonare tali luoghi. Tuttavia l’esistenza di differenti culture (pagana, bizantina, islamica) rintracciabili attraverso la lettura delle opere architettoniche, delle tipologie urbane e delle infrastrutture agricole, aggiungono informazioni circa l’abbandono di tali centri anche a causa dei conflitti religiosi o sociali. Sulla basi di tali premesse, con riferimento ai siti di Korikos, Elaiussa, Kanitelleys e Akkale, il contributo analizza le cause dei ripetuti abbandoni e gli effetti che essi hanno avuto sul patrimonio architettonico e urbano proponendo strategie di conservazione (campagne di scavo, studi appropriati, interventi di restauro) e valorizzazione (divulgazione degli esiti delle ricerche archeologiche, inserimento negli itinerari turistici) che ne riconoscano il giusto valore di testimonianza culturale.

The conservation of abandoned urban sites, increasingly widespread all over the Italian territory and mainly along the mountain slopes, represents a complex cultural challenge which includes cultural, psychological, economic, technical, as well as aesthetic and social issues. While the sudden or progressive abandonment has guaranteed, in some ways, the preservation of authentic material values, at the same time the possibility of exploiting the places again through the restoration of architecture and the improvement of conditions of accessibility is functional also for the protection of the built heritage and the intangible values that characterize it. Starting from this, the contribution focuses on a synoptic framework of interventions and strategies aimed at the redevelopment of partially or totally abandoned urban sites in Italy, concentrating attention on the goals of diverse choices for safeguarding historic heritage. The framework aims at defining an atlas of practices that, within the complex restorative approach, can provide useful cultural stimuli to calibrate interventions respecting the multiplicity of instances and values involved in historic heritage. Specific focus is, therefore, placed on the paradigmatic case of the abandoned village of Tocco Caudio near Benevento, the subject of a research program undertaken between 2012 and 2017 at the University of Naples Federico II, characterized by the construction of a “participatory” process of possible alternatives for intervention. Borghi storici, rovine, monumenti. Esperienze e prospettive di ricerca sui centri storici abbandonati in ambito italiano La conservazione di siti urbani in abbandono, sempre più diffusi sull’intero territorio italiano e principalmente lungo le pendici montuose, rappresenta una sfida culturale complessa nella quale rientrano istanze di ordine culturale, psicologico, economico, tecnico oltre che estetico e sociale. Se il repentino o progressivo abbandono delle architetture ha garantito, per certi versi, la conservazione della materia autentica e dei valori in essa contenuti, contestualmente la possibilità di fruire nuovamente dei luoghi, attraverso il restauro delle architetture e il miglioramento delle condizioni di accessibilità, diventa funzionale anche alla protezione del patrimonio costruito e dei valori immateriali che lo caratterizzano. A partire da ciò, il contributo intende mettere a fuoco un quadro sinottico di interventi e strategie tese alla riqualificazione di siti parzialmente o totalmente abbandonati in ambito italiano, concentrando l’attenzione sugli obiettivi che sostanziano le scelte per la salvaguardia del patrimonio costituito. Tale indagine mira alla definizione di un atlante di pratiche che, entro il complesso approccio restaurativo, possa fornire stimoli culturali utili a calibrare gli interventi nel rispetto della molteplicità delle istanze e dei valori coinvolti in tale patrimonio storico. Uno specifico focus è rivolto, quindi, al caso paradigmatico del borgo abbandonato di Tocco Caudio nel Beneventano, oggetto di un programma di ricerca condotto tra il 2012 e il 2017 nell’Università di Napoli Federico II e contraddistinto da un processo “partecipato” di costruzione delle possibili alternative di intervento.

Current Italian law concerning seismic risk assessment and reduction is at an advanced stage regarding cultural heritage but is minimally applied in private buildings. Multidisciplinary studies have continuously remarked how the vulnerability of historic masonry-aggregate constructions increases due to many causes other than degradation and damage, such as their intrinsic characteristics, including, stratified development, continuity of use, state of abandonment or absence of maintenance. Due to their problematic and often unpredictable behaviour during an earthquake, aggregate buildings are not frequently tested and there is a lack of appropriate instruments for their interpretation. There is a need, firstly, to invest more in studies to produce models similar to reality and secondly, to make trustworthy interpretations and predictions on behaviour and damage in the case of an earthquake. The current research focused on the proposal for a simplified method concerning seismic vulnerability assessment of aggregated buildings in historical centres. The final purpose is to support local administrations and/or owners of the buildings in strategic decision making, to define priority lists regarding structures more in need of specific analysis and, potentially, of focused interventions. The experiment was undertaken in Civita di Bagnoregio (VT), a historical centre which was gradually abandoned due to earthquakes and hydrogeological instability. Civita di Bagnoregio (VT). Applicazione di un metodo speditivo per la valutazione e la riduzione del rischio sismico di aggregati storici Le norme vigenti in materia di valutazione e riduzione del rischio sismico si presentano, attualmente, ad uno sviluppo avanzato per quanto riguarda i beni monumentali e più carenti, invece, per l’edilizia abitativa. Gli studi multidisciplinari hanno, da sempre, evidenziato come la vulnerabilità delle architetture in aggregato sia accentuata, oltreché da fenomeni di degrado e danno, dalle proprie caratteristiche intrinseche dovute alla loro stratificata evoluzione costruttiva, continuità d’uso, stato di abbandono o assenza di manutenzione. Data la complessità di interpretazione del loro comportamento, esse presentano ancora oggi un basso numero di sperimentazioni e una mancanza di strumenti di lettura adeguati. Vi è la necessità di investire ulteriormente nella conoscenza per elaborare modelli interpretativi più rispondenti ai casi reali ai fini di giungere ad interpretazioni affidabili e fondate previsioni del comportamento in caso di sisma. Nella presente ricerca si è lavorato alla messa a punto di un metodo speditivo per la valutazione di vulnerabilità sismica degli aggregati di un centro storico allo scopo di supportare le Amministrazioni locali e/o i proprietari nell’operare le scelte strategiche per la definizione di graduatorie di priorità che suggeriscano i complessi più bisognosi di analisi specifiche ed eventuali interventi mirati. La sperimentazione è avvenuta sul caso studio di Civita di Bagnoregio (VT), borgo nei secoli abbandonato a causa di eventi sismici combinati a dissesti idrogeologici.

The article illustrates two elements of conflict found in the Ndoinet Forest area (Mau complex, Kenya): the first concerns the contrasting vision of the local communities and Kenya Forest Service (KFS) of degraded forest areas. The second concerns the conservation practices promoted by the forest service, specifically reforestation initiatives and the proposal to erect an electric fence. After illustrating the most common uses of the forest by the local population, I reflect on the conflicting elements that are created between these and the conservation measures by referring to “classic” and new themes of political ecology.

The preservation and maintenance of the cultural identity of a territory passes through the recognition of the architectural landscape and anthropological peculiarities of the area, so called “recognition of the genius loci”. The risk is of the gradual loss of memory of these fundamental elements, which are being mainly replaced by standard elements, belonging to a substance of “virtual” poor, both in singularity and specificity. The study and identification of "monuments, settled in historical centres which are abandoned, or, in the process of abandonment, architectural ruins almost completely devoid of" meaning ". Their preservation with new functions can be the way to reach the goal, only if the knowledge procedure of restoration, restoration work analysis, and reuse project- in other words – the restoration and the architecture project satisfy the real needs of the users of these so-called new monuments. The real risk is that of creating ancient paradigms, recognised in semantic languages, that are gradually being lost, numerous "new" urban architectural units which are not integrated with the landscape, which are not "really useful" and which do not provide a connection to an overall masterplan. Rediscovering ancient mills located on the internal mountain areas, industrial factories existing along the Calabrian coastlines, ancient powerfully-built places such as fortresses: the restoration of these buildings can have a lasting outcome over time when completed together with a more general plan including the realisation of eco-sustainable routes and connection routes within the surrounding territory. Patrimonio costruito come risorsa culturale: esperienze didattiche di restauro architettonico La salvaguardia e il mantenimento dell’identità culturale di un territorio passa attraverso il riconoscimento delle peculiarità architettoniche paesaggistiche e antropologiche di questo stesso. È quello che è stato chiamato riconoscimento del genius loci. Il pericolo è quello della "progressiva" dimenticanza di questi elementi fondamentali, perduti per far posto ad "elementi tipo”, appartenenti ad una realtà in un certo qual modo "virtuale", e che manca di materia, di singolarità di specificità. Lo studio e l’individuazione di “monumenti, siti in centri storici abbandonati o in via di abbandono, ruderi architettonici privi quasi del tutto di “significato”, la loro conservazione con nuovi usi, può essere il modo per raggiungere l’obiettivo, solo se la procedura di conoscenza, analisi, intervento di restauro, progetto di riuso, in sintesi progetto di restauro e architettura soddisfa, dopo averli riconosciuti i reali bisogni dei fruitori di questi cosiddetti "nuovi monumenti". Il pericolo reale, è quello di creare da paradigmi antichi riconosciuti in linguaggi semantici che via via si vanno perdendo, tante “nuove “unità architettoniche, urbane non integrate con il paesaggio, che non sono “realmente utili” e che mancano di un collegamento ad un piano generale complessivo. Ritrovare antichi mulini situati sui sistemi interni montani, opifici industriali esistenti lungo le linee costiere calabresi, antichi forti posti come roccaforti: il restauro di queste emergenze può avere un esito duraturo nel tempo se si realizza insieme ad un piano più generale costituito dalla progettazione e realizzazione di vie e percorsi ecosostenibili di collegamento nel territorio.

Digital survey technologies and three-dimensional modeling for the design analysis of the reconstruction of the Mirandola Cathedral after the 2012 earthquake. Verification and resizing of the wooden trusses and of the new light vaults for the construction of the roofs, for the restoration of the structures resisted to the earthquake and for the structural consolidation.

Digital survey technologies and three-dimensional modeling for the design analysis of the reconstruction of the Mirandola Cathedral after the 2012 earthquake. Verification and resizing of the wooden trusses and of the new light vaults for the construction of the roofs, for the restoration of the structures resisted to the earthquake and for the structural consolidation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The technological advances of recent decades and the integration of disciplines, such as architectural technology and restoration, are progressively improving design culture in the conservation of modern and contemporary heritage. The results of the study focus on the effects produced by a relatively short time interval (50-100 years) on a large number of buildings, encouraging a discussion on the role of technology in the conservation of exemplary cases of Modern heritage, and on the potential impact of this phenomenon on the so-called minor heritage, thus offering tools to support a widespread improvement campaign, one of the most demanding challenges of future decades. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper illustrates the results of the diagnostic analyses aimed at the knowledge and characterization of the plasters and paint on the main front of the Cathedral de la Asunción de León in Nicaragua, which since 2011 has been granted World Heritage status by UNESCO. In addition to a knowledge nature, the diagnostic campaign has set itself the goal of providing useful information to develop a proper conservation project capable of introducing a working method (based on the close relationship between architect, chemist, geologist and restorer) not yet widespread in a country like Nicaragua.

The success of the strategies for safeguarding, preserving and maintaining the precious assets of the huge European Cultural Heritage still represents a challenge that many countries tackle with limited or inadequate actions or systems, despite the fact that the international community is now aware of the serious risks endangering its heritage. The nature of this fragile context requires the knowledge of data and information other than the technical and construction characteristics of buildings. The paper describes an innovative management tool for inspection and maintenance of historical and monumental buildings, developed within the Horizon 2020 European research project INCEPTION (Inclusive Cultural Heritage in Europe through 3D semantic modelling). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The need to "renew" the historical building heritage and, therefore, the possibility of introducing innovative technologies and components capable of ensuring its optimal performance pose the difficult question of assessing whether technological intervention for sustainable performance adaptability should be considered a "threat," while acknowledging that it efficiently helps to safeguard an existing historical building in the long-term and to preserve its cultural value over time. This article presents the case study for the diagnostics, evaluation and maintenance of the Church of S. Giovanni Battista in Florence, designed by G. Michelucci after the catastrophic event of 2015 that partly destroyed its roof. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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If the road towards a progressive dematerialization of the administrative document is marked, the legislator is not always proceeding in a coherent, clear or complete way. The line of reasoning needs to be focused on the administration of documental heritage, training and preservation rather than on technological issues, involving actively local administration and taking on responsibilities on decisions, also on the relationship between costs and benefits. The way is hard due to the lack of debate and practical directions, where the preservation should not be considered as a commanding confirmation, but as an occasion to face complex and critical issues.

The establishment in 1990 of the banking institutions, constitutes a fundamental shift in the interest and commitment of the government and the local governments have led, in recent years, in support of the region through interventions of conservation and development of its cultural heritage. The Foundations funding activities have proved decisive in guiding choice policies of restoration and enhancement especially in those Italian regions which are particularly present. In Piedmont in parallel to support for large restorations, Foundations launched in the years 2000/2010, funding programs for the protection and conservation activities of the religious heritage of architectural and artistic heritage spread throughout the region. The proposed contribution presents the results of an initiative launched in 2012 by the Compagnia di San Paolo of Turin aims to enhance the cultural heritage and landscape spread in Piedmont through the planning of activities for the networking of cultural heritage.

Calamita Cosmica is the name that the artist Gino De Dominicis gave to one of his sculptures representing a gigantic skeleton. In 2001, after several relocations, the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Foligno bought the work of art and placed it into the old church of Santissima Trinità in Annunziata in Foligno. This intervention represents a particular example of re-using an ecclesiastical space, where a single work found a perfect location and an appropriate exhibition strategy. After the analysis of similar experiences, this paper proposes a consideration about the reuse of churches as contemporary art galleries and about its coexistence with the sacred place.

To pilgrims coming from the Mediterranean and Europe arrived in Asia Minor, some cities appeared real “wonderlands". The amazement reason was given mainly by Christian basilicas that rose complex and impressive in a context of the Roman ruins. These urban centers correspond to the sites of Christian communities mentioned in the Book of Revelation of Saint John. The pilgrims walked precise routes, touching devotional centers linked to the Apostle John, the Virgin, the first martyrs. But what the pilgrim felt yesterday and what remains today of these spiritual landscapes? Such as contingent valuation strategies? Based on these questions, the paper proposes a hypothesis of exploitation that do recognize, through evocations and tangible references, a dense area of spirituality and devotion that binds the past Pagan worship, Christian mysticism, Islamic religiosity

The presence on the Italian territory of itineraries of historical cult, along which have arisen networks of religious buildings, offers to the attention a very rich heritage, architectural and landscape, in good part today decommissioned if not reduced in conditions of neglect . Among other examples we note the rich abbeys system, convents and monasteries, functional to the cult of St. Michael the Archangel, widespread in the Gargano from the sixth century and supported the "sacred way" traveled by pilgrims, often on the track of the oldest routes . This paper tries to retrace the articulated story of these buildings, on the basis of first-hand documents resulting from accurate measurements of their geometry and their formal structure and residual material. The purpose is not only the networking of building actually inseparable from the territory of belonging, but also the verification of the wide horizon recovery projects.

Il Parco Regionale della Maremma è una area protetta di 8902 ha nel settore costiero centrale della provincia di Grosseto, Toscana meridionale. Gli habitat che rappresentano l’area protetta possono essere così brevemente descritti: foce del fiume Ombrone e zone umide della Palude della Trappola; Monti dell’Uccellina (cima più elevata: Poggio Lecci, 417 m s.l.m.); un ampio comprensorio interno e pianeggiante dove coesistono attività zootecniche e coltivazioni agricole. Lo sviluppo costiero raggiunge i 25 km circa. Sono presenti 6 Siti della Rete Natura 2000 classificati come ZSC − Zona Speciale di Conservazione − secondo la Direttiva “Habitat” 92/43/ CE e/o come ZPS − Zona di Protezione Speciale − secondo la Direttiva “Uccelli” 2009/147/CE. La maggior parte dell’area presenta una scarsa rete viaria e limitati insediamenti umani con copertura boschiva in larga parte dovuta a formazioni vegetali sclerofilliche mediterranee. In questo lavoro viene presentato un elenco commentato degli uccelli noti per l’area protetta a partire dalla sua istituzione avvenuta il 05/06/1975 sino al 31/12/2018. In totale, le specie di Uccelli rilevate sono 295 (62,1% delle specie della Toscana ed il 52,5% delle specie note in Italia), mentre le specie nidificanti certe o probabili in tempi recenti (2008-2018) sono 84. Le specie di interesse comunitario presenti nell’Allegato I della Direttiva “Uccelli” 2009/147/CE sono 88, mentre quelle classificate come SPEC 1-3 “Species of European Conservation Concern” sono 33. L’area, con le zone umide “Bocca d’Ombrone” e “La Trappola” comprese nella Macrozona “Maremma Grossetana”, ricade all’interno della qualifica di sito di importanza internazionale per lo svernamento di Anser anser e Mareca penelope; inoltre è sito di importanza nazionale per Mareca strepera, Anas crecca, Anas acuta, Spatula clypeata, Ardea alba, Platalea leucorodia, Phoenicopterus roseus, Recurvirostra avosetta, Pluvialis apricaria, Calidris alpina, Vanellus vanellus, Gallinago gallinago, Numenius arquata, Tringa erythropus e Tringa totanus. L’area protetta è di importanza per specie nidificanti in Direttiva 2009/147/CE legate agli specchi lacustri costieri e agli spazi marini, ad incolti, pascoli, così come a zone con vegetazione arborea e arbustiva sparsa su affioramenti rocciosi, margini di boschi, ambienti parzialmente allagati ed ai litorali sabbiosi, quali ad esempio, con dati minimi, Pandion haliaetus (1 coppia), Burhinus oedicnemus (7-8 coppie), Charadrius alexandrinus (1 coppia), Caprimulgus europaeus (25 coppie), Coracias garrulus (13-15 coppie), Lanius collurio (1-5 coppie), Lullula arborea (10 coppie) e Anthus campestris (6-7 coppie). Dal 2015 si segnala il consolidamento della nidificazione di Ardea cinerea, rilevandone per la prima volta la riproduzione come garzaia.

The paper presents a combination of geophysics technologies and spatial analysis methods for the analysis of an improper geographical space: the frescoe of the east wall at the Gymnasium (Pompei). This allows to construct a decay map and to quantify decay patterns found as a first step for restauration, protection and mitigation of the risk that involves the frescoe.

The work focuses on one of the major monuments related to the monasticism of southern Italy, the church of San Adriano in San Demetrio Corone in the province of Cosenza, an ethno-anthropological arbí«reshí« jewel. The study is based on the cycle of frescoes that occupy the sub-arches and the walls of the minor naves inside the church, dated between the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, which in addition to representing an important narrative complex, it refers to similar works in the major ecclesiastical buildings of the south, including Calabria. In Calabria, in fact, we find terms of comparisons in the church of the Spedale of Scalea, in the church of Panaghia of Rossano, in the Cattolica of Stilo and in the church of the Campo of San Andrea Apostolo dello Jonio. The elaborate wants to demonstrate how these representations show, although they present a different date, a technical similarity with analogous frescoes of the Norman period present in Sicily, in particular similarities with those present in the Palatine Chapel of Palermo and the Duomo of Cefalù and Monreale. In support of this thesis, we propose the image analysis of some portions of the pictorial works supported by a careful historical-artistic study, with the aim to create a union between non-invasive and theoretical-executive diagnostic investigations. The section that we want to investigate concerns the actual status of the asset and will highlight a summary of the paintings in order to provide a general overall status, that it aims to be the starting point for a more in-depth future analysis of the whole complex considered

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