10th euro-american congress on construction pathology, rehabilitation technology and heritage management.

ABSTRACT Italy's inland areas, particularly in the present case study, those in the Pescara area, are presented as territories in which we find a strong tendency toward depopulation of historical centers, with a propensity for population displacement to the suburbs or to areas close to major cities. In this perspective, the municipality of Pianella, in the province of Pescara, has taken several steps in recent years aimed at redeveloping buildings, squares and traces of the ancient city, outlining the rebirth of the historic center. Specifically, this paper aims to propose the analysis of an approach aimed at preventive conservation and applied in the restoration project of one of Pianella's seventeenth-century palaces: the de Caro Palace. Each era has an architecture connoted by values of different depth and importance, claiming a certain autonomy from all those particular phenomena that constitute its most superficial aspect. Precisely, the key component that guided this intervention was the creation of a circular internet of connections between public agency, universities, planners, individuals and citizens, creating a network of information, resulting from in-depth historiographical and archival research, laying the foundation from which to start for future reflection and research. At the same time, the various acquisitions of the building were obtained, including the laser scanner survey, endoscopic investigations, and observations of the masonry samples and construction systems; from the aforementioned analyses it is possible to extrapolate essential information in order to elaborate an effective restoration project both from the point of view of direct conservation, as an intervention related to the monument, and with respect to preventive conservation, as a result of an in-depth study of the dynamics that affected the environment in which the artifact is located. The restoration project of the de Caro palace is identified as the recovery of a fragment of the city, which, however, is deeply connected to its surroundings and pours its influence on it. The intention emerges, with reference to future research, to study a methodology aimed at preventive conservation, starting from the study of restoration projects developed from the 1980s to the present, having as the main objective the transmission of cultural heritage to future generations.