Abstract
Urban regeneration currently represents one of the most relevant topics of discussion among researchers and designers being quite a prickly subject to handle especially for its interlaced and multidisciplinary character that requires a high dose of out-of-the-box thinking. In this framework, the access point to innovative answers can come from anywhere and the work on the “house-shack” of Valentino Zeichen presented in this paper aims at demonstrating this last statement. Located in the very heart of Borghetto Flaminio, inside the “cultural” axis of Flaminia Street in Rome, the house-shack of this very famous poet is a tangle of tangible and intangible values, a micro-place with a high poetic density deeply in contrast with its architectural and formal inconsistency. This powerful contrast poses some fundamental questions: what shall we document and how? How can we assess its cultural value? What kind of conservation should be performed? And especially: could such “informal monuments” be used as drivers for urban regeneration? The research developed on this cultural “topos” pushes to the limit the disciplines connected with the Representation, History, Restoration and Design of Architecture. Standard methodologies are in fact inadequate in this case being mainly oriented to the investigation of tangible material values of artefacts and not to their intangible components (cultural, social, etc.). This “extreme” research topic about knowledge, conservation, and possibly management and fruition has led to original methodologies we consider innovative to improve the typical top-down approach used in urban regeneration interventions.
Presenters
Carlo BianchiniFull Professor, History, Representation and Restoration of Architecture, Sapienza Università di Roma
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
2020 Special Focus - Advocacy in Design: Engagement, Commitment, and Action
KEYWORDS
Intangible Heritage, Urban Regeneration, Informal Monuments, Zeichen
