The earthquake in the abandoned historiocal centers, besides being able to cause damage even large, constitutes an event that could mark a radical turning point compared with the ongoing decline. Several factors can determine this possibility such as their architectural and artistic values but above all their capacity attractiveness in their physical, environmental and landscape context and their geographical location. When all this conditions take place together, they could have the potentials to arouse a touristic usability of the territory which could leverage on the availability of the building stock largely empty to be rebuilt. The reuse for touristic destination becames, in this sense, the driving force for an economic recovery compatible and economically sustainable, but it could be also a targeted strategic goal, for the amortization of significant public and private financial resources invested for the rebuilding. To effectively make this happen the tourist promotion of the territory has to be taken as a priority addresser factor on which we can focus the design of the Reconstruction Plan. This paper proposes a direct experience of the methodological implications of this intake of principle on the whole formation process of the Plan. An experience lived firsthand from the authors during the drafting of the Reconstruction Plan of the municipal of S. Demetrio ne’ Vestini in the district of L’Aquila (Italy) hit by the 2009 earthquake. On the project level the change of perspective, in this specific case from an historic agro pastoral economy to a tourist receptive economy, it has translated into a substantial approach methodology input that has moved the level of attention from physical rehabilitation of the single building artifact to the environmental and functional promotion in the settlement system as a whole. From this point of view the key requirement to be fulfilled in the determination of the intervention categories is the attractiveness, which goes far beyond the re-habitability. The aim is to contribute the reflection on what and how, through methodological and technical tools appropriate, a natural disaster can influence the social and economic revitalization of a territory already turned off a long time ago.

The touristic reuse of the historical abandoned heritage as a strategic goal of the rebuilding after the earthquake

FALASCA, Carmine;
2016-01-01

Abstract

The earthquake in the abandoned historiocal centers, besides being able to cause damage even large, constitutes an event that could mark a radical turning point compared with the ongoing decline. Several factors can determine this possibility such as their architectural and artistic values but above all their capacity attractiveness in their physical, environmental and landscape context and their geographical location. When all this conditions take place together, they could have the potentials to arouse a touristic usability of the territory which could leverage on the availability of the building stock largely empty to be rebuilt. The reuse for touristic destination becames, in this sense, the driving force for an economic recovery compatible and economically sustainable, but it could be also a targeted strategic goal, for the amortization of significant public and private financial resources invested for the rebuilding. To effectively make this happen the tourist promotion of the territory has to be taken as a priority addresser factor on which we can focus the design of the Reconstruction Plan. This paper proposes a direct experience of the methodological implications of this intake of principle on the whole formation process of the Plan. An experience lived firsthand from the authors during the drafting of the Reconstruction Plan of the municipal of S. Demetrio ne’ Vestini in the district of L’Aquila (Italy) hit by the 2009 earthquake. On the project level the change of perspective, in this specific case from an historic agro pastoral economy to a tourist receptive economy, it has translated into a substantial approach methodology input that has moved the level of attention from physical rehabilitation of the single building artifact to the environmental and functional promotion in the settlement system as a whole. From this point of view the key requirement to be fulfilled in the determination of the intervention categories is the attractiveness, which goes far beyond the re-habitability. The aim is to contribute the reflection on what and how, through methodological and technical tools appropriate, a natural disaster can influence the social and economic revitalization of a territory already turned off a long time ago.
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