Historical centers rehabilitation: documentation, survey and communication achieving sustainable development and seismic protection

Abstract

Italian conservation areas are recognized as the result of a generative process that shaped their form and created a complex system of layers and local languages trough centuries. Enhance the role of traditions allows to develop a sustainable built environment, to densify towns, to make strategies for social services and to make an efficient use of conservation areas for commercial purposes. The design coding address integrated actions and the interventions in conservation areas; for this purpose it is necessary to implement a correct workflow: field survey, measured drawings, pattern books, design codes and graphic building regulations. In the contemporary practice the market of sustainability and seismic protection is addressing just technology based solutions forgetting to solve the actual issues of urban design, the social and cultural growth of communities.