Titolo della Ricerca:

Parole chiave:

earthen architecture, identity, natural risk, anthropic risk, conservation

Gruppo di lavoro:

Manuela Mattone, Silvia Rescic, Giulia Misseri, Stefania Tamea, Marco Zerbinatti, Valentina Serra, Luca Davico, Francesca Thiebat

Tipologia:

Ricerca su bandi competitivi nazionali

Ente che ha finanziato il progetto:

Ministero dell’Università e della Ricerca – Next GenerationUE

Settore/i disciplinari coinvolti:

CEAR-11/B, CEAR-08/C, GSPS-08/B, IIND-07/B, CEAR-06/A, CEAR-01/B, CEAR-08/A

Altre unità (università ed enti) coinvolti:

Università di Firenze CNR-ISPC

Anno d’inizio:

2025

Anno di fine:

2027

Descrizione

Vernacular architecture is the successful result of centuries of progressive improvements, adaptations of the construction culture to environmental conditions, local resources availability and social constraints. Preserving and transmitting material testimonies, as well as technical knowledge, are the fundamental actions needed to safeguard the vernacular constructive culture, therefore, its values of civilisation. These actions are strictly connected to the recognition of its tangible and intangible values, and on the other, to the identification of sustainable intervention methods, in order to safeguard it from anthropic, natural-related conservation problems. Widely spread in many countries all over the world, earthen constructions constitute a testimony of knowledge, skills, and human adaptation to a specific natural habitat. Nonetheless, this heritage is today at risk worldwide. On the one hand, considered unhealthy and unsafe, and incompatible with the concept of modernity, earthen vernacular architectures have been gradually abandoned. On the other hand, the push for modern building techniques has impacted on the transmission of knowledge and skills, thus causing the lack of maintenance or unsustainable interventions. The Enhance VERnacular EARThen Heritage (EVER EARTH) project intends to examine strengths and weaknesses of the actions implemented so far to safeguard and promote the reuse of vernacular earthen architecture, to study in depth the risks to which the earthen heritage is subjected and to outline strategies that, applicable also in other contexts and for similar heritage, will contribute to the effective conservation and reuse of architecture and the rural landscape in line with the missions “Digitalisation, innovation, competitiveness, culture and tourism” and “Green revolution and ecological transition” of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan.