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Image reintegration: Typo-morphological post-seismic design of Castelvecchio Calvisio (AQ)

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Title: Image reintegration: Typo-morphological post-seismic design of Castelvecchio Calvisio (AQ)
Authors: ALESSANDRO CAMIZ, Giulia Bertola, Özge Özkuvancı
Publisher Information: CRC Press/Balkema, 2025.
Publication Year: 2025
Subject Terms: Architecture. urban morphology, architectural design, urban design, post-seismic design
Description: The paper presents the partial results of a research conducted in 2020 and 2021 during the 1st and 2nd ISAR- Özyeğin University summer school programme in Castelvecchio Calvisio (AQ). We present here five experimental projects for the transformation of medieval houses in Castelvecchio Calvisio, a hilltop town in Abruzzo. The design proposals are the consequence of a thorough typo-morphological analysis outlining the typological process of the houses and of a LIDAR and photogrammetric campaign conducted by a team from University of Florence (Verdiani, Giraudeau and Leonardi, 2021). After recognising the typo-morphological characters of the urban organism at different scales, it was possible to define different design strategies to be applied to different parts of the walled urban core. For the inner urban tissue, the oldest one, we decided to proceed with a substantial restoration, according to Cesare Brandi’s Restoration Principles, in order to maintain the identity of the urban tissue, but applied a radical typological update to the different units, following the identified typological process, in order to improve the housing units according to contemporary needs. For the outer circle, we selected an image reintegration strategy, in order to fill the missing parts of the urban tissue with new buildings, conceived within the continuation of the identified typological process, adopting local materials but introducing some innovative technologies and contemporary characters following the principle of recognisability. Post-seismic design of historical urban tissues damaged by earthquakes should as much as possible respect the local characters, without ever assuming a mimetic intention
Document Type: Part of book or chapter of book
Language: English
DOI: 10.1201/9781003530787-3
Access URL: https://hdl.handle.net/11564/862333
Accession Number: edsair.od.....10367..893347a970d6e8becd81e99f9c039dfe
Database: OpenAIRE
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Abstract:The paper presents the partial results of a research conducted in 2020 and 2021 during the 1st and 2nd ISAR- Özyeğin University summer school programme in Castelvecchio Calvisio (AQ). We present here five experimental projects for the transformation of medieval houses in Castelvecchio Calvisio, a hilltop town in Abruzzo. The design proposals are the consequence of a thorough typo-morphological analysis outlining the typological process of the houses and of a LIDAR and photogrammetric campaign conducted by a team from University of Florence (Verdiani, Giraudeau and Leonardi, 2021). After recognising the typo-morphological characters of the urban organism at different scales, it was possible to define different design strategies to be applied to different parts of the walled urban core. For the inner urban tissue, the oldest one, we decided to proceed with a substantial restoration, according to Cesare Brandi’s Restoration Principles, in order to maintain the identity of the urban tissue, but applied a radical typological update to the different units, following the identified typological process, in order to improve the housing units according to contemporary needs. For the outer circle, we selected an image reintegration strategy, in order to fill the missing parts of the urban tissue with new buildings, conceived within the continuation of the identified typological process, adopting local materials but introducing some innovative technologies and contemporary characters following the principle of recognisability. Post-seismic design of historical urban tissues damaged by earthquakes should as much as possible respect the local characters, without ever assuming a mimetic intention
DOI:10.1201/9781003530787-3