The project of cohabitation
Doe, John; Roe, Jane and Smith, John
Abstract:
Current widespread land-saving policies force to enhance existing and already compromised buildings or areas, prefiguring a sort of urban "maintenance". Beyond the emergencies, it is often hard to think and to implement active policies of strategic safeguard interventions. It would therefore seem appropriate to seek an alliance between these two dynamics, so as not to see them always opposed, indeed to be able to imagine the construction of new landscapes, their conservation / maintenance through prevention.
A project that is about to be implemented in the Pisa plain (Italy) has defined the hydraulic loads to be disposed of and the volumes of water to be invaded in an area destined for rolling, providing a solution that allows the creation of a Science and Technology Park.The installation of a Multipurpose Center on a stretch of coast in Olbia (Italy) has instead had to compare with the possibility of "redeeming" the area from the cumbersome and harmful presence of a foul-smelling purifier around which it wraps itself.
In Albania, planning strategies are being sought for tourism and unpredictable landscape mutations caused by climate change.
These examples demonstrate how much the architectural project today has to be able to tackle issues much wider than those proposed by its functional program, taking charge of environmental solutions and urban and landscape maintenance, far beyond the disciplinary fields.
It is possible to imagine scenarios in which the project has to be compatible with unbearable noise levels, landslide, risks of storms and erosion, flood areas and risks of forest fires ... whose intertwined solutions can develop new and interesting resources.
Keywords: maintenance; emergencies; safeguard; landscape; architecure; prevention;