Architettura rurale nel Parco del Beigua. Guida alla manutenzione e al recupero.

The Guide, directly reffered to the site of the regional park f Beigua, face the vast and complex theme of the future destiny of rural architecture, which many studies have been devoted to, at least since a century, merging input from multiple disciplines. Recently there has been a renewed and growing interest in these kind of artifacts, associated with agricultural use, but a real consciousness on the complexity of the problem of its enhancement is still missing, even due to the lack of systematic studies, which date at the thirties and fifties of last century. The Guide is strongly pushing the attention of the user to the importance of the design process; the book intends to give advice without, in the meantime, interfering with specific proposals (case by case). The Guide has to be intended as an instrument that aims to define some questions and to provide possible answers, avoiding the definition of standardized detailed solutions. Authors prefer, in fact, to clarify the presence of different problems, connected together, each of which may be solved through different technical answers, chosen case by case by the Guide’s users. The book is based on the knowledge that, before putting hand on an existing building, you must have investigated its materials, constructive methods, structural logic, state of conservation, reasons and causes which have led to structural desease. The text, therefore, suggests a path through the consistency of traditional rural architecture, highlighting values and defects, required new performances and constraints, aiming to preserve and enhance, as much as possible, a fragile inheritance, in balance with its surrounding landscape. The Guide is divided into chapters, each relating to a specific part of the building (walls, roofs, floors ...) and preceded by an initial chapter on different building morphologies linked to the type of use and landscape. Each chapter follows the same structure: a description of the materials and constructive techniques, recurrent degradation phoenomena, structural desease and functional defects, performances required by new uses, information on preventive analyses to be performed. Following the description of the actual state of the building(s) or its part(s), is a description of general principles to achieve a “sustainable” recovery; this description is accompanied also by pictures and brief descriptions of some interventions considered as "critical". Once the chapter has clearly defined all the problems (defects) that afflict a buildings or one of its part and, in the meantime, what could be considered as a value to be preserved, there is a description, in text and graphic form, of different possible technical alternative measures related to the specific problems previously identified.