Per un patrimonio dell’inumanità. Il paesaggio dei silos granari.

In the Code of cultural heritage, protection (art. 3) is designed to «ensure the protection and conservation for the purposes of public use» and valorisation (art. 6) «to ensure the best conditions for use and public enjoyment of the same cultural heritage». Thus if we can say that man is the central consideration of both protection and valorisation via his opportunity to enjoy cultural heritage, then we have to ask: and if the man cannot enter inside because the building is not designed for this? Are we in front of a building that will never aspire to be cultural heritage? Or are we in front of a legal oversight with important implications. These questions find their motivation in the case of grain silos and, more generally, all those structures for storage which are, at the same time, essential to the work of the area and an integral part of the agricultural landscape. The storage structures belong to a long tradition of construction; they are built for humans but do not provide any form of hospitality, or even transit, for man himself. If as Bruno Zevi said: «the principal character of architecture is that it works with a three-dimensional vocabulary that includes man», then it could be described as structures with inhuman destiny. It should be noted that inumano is not used here as a synonym for disumano. In, does not have only a privative meaning. In is mainly inside but also to and entirely.