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3. The building replacement such as opportunity for urban-social regeneration and
such as solution to new contemporary housing needs.
Experimental project in L’Aquila
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3.1 Methodological aspects
Carlo Lufrano
The seismic event in the city of L'Aquila in April 2009 has provided a useful and
necessary opportunity to reflect on issues of housing and urban redevelopment. In
particular, it has emerged the need, in the face of a series of sometimes irreversible
damage, to choose which strategy to implement, repair or replace, for a congruent
response to the demands of contemporary life. The answer to that question can not be
separated from a systemic approach, which is not achieved only by considering aspects
of the technique (if you choose to repair or replace only by the degree of damage to the
building manufacturing), but encourage them to compose the instances arising from the
physical, architectural, urban, geomorphological, and especially environmental and
socio-cultural in a unified and complex problematic framework.
The project has a responsibility to establish itself as a necessary tool to develop, even
before the physical solution, the method to detect the real needs of contemporary life.
Figure 1: perspective wiew of the experimental project
The house is built space within which, in a relatively short period of time, no more than
50-60 years the average life cycle of a family, events occur that lead to continuous
changes in the framework of requirements. These needs change over time and space,
especially in our time in progress, but without finding appropriate responses in spatial,
technological and ambiental fields.
Housing should therefore comply with the user as a membrane or a second skin, should
actively adapt to the evolution of our ever-changing needs and changes that are
activated in our lives made from continuous environmental and human relations. In
synthesis should fulfill our desires for habitability and change over time in relation to our
needs.
To emphasize the variability, decisive and representative character of our time, involves:
- the multiplicity of housing demand, intended as the definitive undermining of the
established concept of the traditional family, stereotyped and fixed, that since
World War II to today, was the only reference for the design of living spaces;
