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In this framework, the need to relate the technical equipment to the variability of context,
researching the rules and limits of a «compatible» performance improvement, leads to a
“craft dimension” of the project
and of construction detail, done case-by-case, in a
searching between tradition and innovation. A technological approach therefore
sensitive to the scale of the
"micro-intervention"
(Tosone 2008): in investigated built
contexts the component (both existing and new design) is not assessable as "product",
but on the contrary, as "artifact", implying the view of its nature of craft object related to
materials, treatments and processing, installation and including consideration of life cycle.
This logic allows avoiding an exemplified use, so conventional and uniform, of repertory
techniques capable of inducing homogenizing phenomena and serialization of pre-
existing.
Figure 9. Control of linguistic and technological quality of the component.
«A different technological project for controlled transformation of components in the
historical building of small centers has in itself the search "(...) of those consolidated
invariant in the relation form- context, through which it’s possible reduce the complexity
of design decisions as the range of possible options ". The definition of "a technological
possible" implies a co-evolutive interpretation of material culture and of constructive
traditions, for which the controlled transformation of a building component can assume
the character of an adaptation process of its elements and of its constituent materials
that does not tend to optimization, but to the compatibility in relation to the conditions of
context, and that induces changes in accordance with the rules of the place, with an
outcome where are still legible original and specific characters. To resolve in a different
relationship the opposition amongst local techniques, taken from a material culture and a
constructive practice consolidated, and industrial techniques connoted by atopic
characters, it seems appropriate to define "operating protocols" able to ensure
recognizability to defined variables as significant elements of intervention, and outline
rules to address aimed to ensure (...) an appropriate balance between invariance and
emergency, between universalistic requirement of the industrial technical and
particularity of the place. " »
(Tosone 2008)
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