The “community” is here defined as a “set of people joined by social, linguistic and moral relationships, organizational constrains, common interests and habits”, and, by analogy, in ecology, “the set of organisms living in the same geographically limited ecosystem (interacting each other and with the system as whole)”. In this context, resilience is the capability of a system, natural or anthropic, to return to its initial condition. The latest studies correlate the word resilience also to the concept of adaptability, according to Y. Jabareen “resilience means the ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, to absorb, to adapt and to recover from the effects of those hazards in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions”. The theoretical approach to this study starts from a historical-iconographic investigation that contemplates the relevance of images relating to “human” resilience in the conception of the city as an “organism” and cultural document, exploring the first representations by Bruegel, the drawings of ecological cities by Paolo Soleri, the vernacular architecture, Koolhas’ Junkspace and Aldo Rossi’s conceptual predictions of the analogous city comparing all these ideas with the analysis of interesting structural contexts found in the marine environment. Darwin, for example, in his travel diaries, had already identified in the work of millions of small polyps the key to the resilience of coral reefs: the incessant constructive work of each of them contributes to a very effective defense against the destructive action of the wind and of the sea waves. Today, however, we know that a small increase in sea temperature frustrates these adaptation strategies and the great barrier reef dies. By analogy, our cities have developed a great resilience to certain changes by virtue of their traditional growth dynamics, but at the same time they have found themselves very fragile compared to other induced environmental changes. With this approach, three “stories of resilience” of marine animals that build biostructures (corals, Savalia savaglia and Arctica islandica) become an inedited comparative example of anthropogenic environmental resilience models.

Submarine bioconstructions as an example-model of environmental resilience

Giovine Marco;Pellegri Giulia
2023-01-01

Abstract

The “community” is here defined as a “set of people joined by social, linguistic and moral relationships, organizational constrains, common interests and habits”, and, by analogy, in ecology, “the set of organisms living in the same geographically limited ecosystem (interacting each other and with the system as whole)”. In this context, resilience is the capability of a system, natural or anthropic, to return to its initial condition. The latest studies correlate the word resilience also to the concept of adaptability, according to Y. Jabareen “resilience means the ability of a system, community or society exposed to hazards to resist, to absorb, to adapt and to recover from the effects of those hazards in a timely and efficient manner, including through the preservation and restoration of its essential basic structures and functions”. The theoretical approach to this study starts from a historical-iconographic investigation that contemplates the relevance of images relating to “human” resilience in the conception of the city as an “organism” and cultural document, exploring the first representations by Bruegel, the drawings of ecological cities by Paolo Soleri, the vernacular architecture, Koolhas’ Junkspace and Aldo Rossi’s conceptual predictions of the analogous city comparing all these ideas with the analysis of interesting structural contexts found in the marine environment. Darwin, for example, in his travel diaries, had already identified in the work of millions of small polyps the key to the resilience of coral reefs: the incessant constructive work of each of them contributes to a very effective defense against the destructive action of the wind and of the sea waves. Today, however, we know that a small increase in sea temperature frustrates these adaptation strategies and the great barrier reef dies. By analogy, our cities have developed a great resilience to certain changes by virtue of their traditional growth dynamics, but at the same time they have found themselves very fragile compared to other induced environmental changes. With this approach, three “stories of resilience” of marine animals that build biostructures (corals, Savalia savaglia and Arctica islandica) become an inedited comparative example of anthropogenic environmental resilience models.
2023
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