Monitoring and Storage: Integrated Survey of the Old towns "Crater"

This contribution aims to present the experience gained by the emergency created by the earthquake that struck L'Aquila in 2009 and several neighbouring towns. This event represented the reason why we began our research at the Faculty of Architecture in Pescara. Specifically, our research refers to surveys, targeted monitoring and conservation of some municipalities of the “crater”, including those belonging to the homogeneous in area n.5. This area contains of seven historical centers. We have surveyed the effective damage, with its representation topics, bidimensional and tridimensional studies. Priorities dictated by the knowledge and documentation of the damage caused by the earthquake have structured the different phases of our research, articulating them within an operating system specifically designed with integrated methodologies. The draft survey and the related interventions have been planned in accordance with the prefixed objectives and purposes. Furthermore, the have been organized in stages and in different levels of detail, established according to the urgency of the first actions of intervention regarding the "emergency phase" and the subsequent stages decreed by the reconstruction policies. This strategy aimed to provide the technical assistance in view of the reconstruction plans, pilot projects and strategic plans to re-evaluate the territories affected by the earthquake in a new cultural perspective of sustainable development.