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ABSTRACT
In building conservation projects, the impact of modernity on a delicate ecosystem such as that of the ‘Sassi of Matera’ can take on destructive aspects. There are many studies from which it can be deduced that there is a need to address recovery, re-functionalization and infrastructural integration, through the understanding of the urban environment and the opportunity to define a cultural orientation, that should be a sort of code of conduct that allows us to re-inhabit this architectural heritage. When giving new life to structures it is essential to respect the needs connected with modern living, but without altering their consolidated character over time, with interventions related to the original constructive, typological, functional and technological characteristics; at the same time, it is necessary to give particular attention to the integration and sustainability of the new interventions. This is the case in the reconversion of an urban context such as Matera; this city currently presents the image of a contemporary Matera, European Capital of Culture 2019, deeply involved in sustainable management and maintenance, a ‘smart’ city, and a symbol of restoration and historical heritage.
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Notes
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4 Fuentes et al., ‘Preliminary Seismic Damage Assessment’.
5 Gregotti, Il possibile necessario.
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9 A. Guida and V.D. Porcari, ‘Prevention, Monitoring and Conservation for a Smart Management of the Cultural Heritage’, International Journal of Heritage Architecture 1, no. 8 (2018): 1–10, 71–80. doi:10.2495/HA-V2-N1-71-80.
10 A. Guida and I. Mecca, ‘The Durability of Built Heritage through Tests and Experimentations on Site’, in A State of the Art Report on Building Pathology, CIB Publication 393, ed. Vasco Peixoto de Freitas (Porto: CIB – International Council for Research and Innovation in Building and Construction W086 – Building Pathology, 2013), 180–5.
11 Ramírez et al., ‘Seismic Assessment of the Matera Cathedral’.
12 Guida and Porcari, ‘Prevention, Monitoring and Conservation’.
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14 Ramírez et al., ‘Seismic Assessment of the Matera Cathedral’.
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16 Guida and Porcari, ‘Prevention, Monitoring and Conservation’.
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Vito D. Porcari
Vito D. Porcari, PhD Arch, was born in Matera (MT) on 26 December 1990. In 2015 he graduated with honours in architecture at the University of Basilicata. He is currently completing a PhD in cities and landscapes at the DiCEM Department of Matera and he is a research fellow. His personal research is aimed at innovations of/in architectural recovery, in particular focusing on smart strategies for the conservation and monitoring of cultural heritage for the innovation of planning and planned maintenance processes. These topics reflect his own scientific production, with works published in conference proceedings, and national and international magazines. In 2018 he edited the monograph ‘The Conservation of Artistic, Architectural, Archaeological and Landscape Heritage’, proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Rehabilitation of the Heritage, held in June in Matera.,organized by CICOP, the International Center for Heritage Conservation. From February 2018 to December 2019 he was the founder and Vice-Coordinator of ADI Basilicata (Association of Italian PhD students and PhDs). His professional activity is linked to his scientific interest, dealing mainly with the design, recovery, enhancement and protection of complex activities within the city of the Sassi.
Antonella Guida
Antonella Guida, Prof. Arch, was born in Bernalda (MT) on 23 February 1960. She is a full professor of technical architecture and Professor of Technical Architecture, Technology of Architecture and Projects for the recovery and renovation of buildings. She is the Vice Director of the Department of European Cultures and the Mediterranean. She is on the board of the ‘Cities and Landscapes’ Doctorate of DiCEM. Her scientific attention was developed mainly in the context of the interpretation of the methodological and design problems related to the recovery and adaptation to the changed contextual needs of existing buildings, focusing on the analysis of the interconnections between the typological and technological aspects and functional ones. Other fundamental research themes are the recovery of existing building heritage, and experimental tests to elucidate the technical and environmental qualities of particular residential contexts (Sassi di Matera) and for obtaining a level of adequate residential comfort, of the redevelopment urban and construction. She is the author of several publications. She is a member of many scientific committees of international journals and she is the scientific coordinator of national and international research projects.