La sostenibilità del paesaggio agrario tra immagine e recupero The agricultural landscape: sustainability between image and revival

Human beings have always been linked with specific geographical areas, through familiarity with the landscape characteristics, self-recognition within place, feelings of belonging, and emplacement of cultures and traditions. The individual buildings of the area in turn have specific characteristics: linkages between structure and site through unwritten rules and codes, and inheritances of traditional construction techniques and the use of local materials. Learning to recognize a landscape requires a multi-disciplinary approach, and highlights the intrinsic connection between buildings and environmental characteristics. Today, buildings can be used as a valuable natural resource, in particular as “energy resources”, built in direct continuity with the landscape itself, and anticipating the logic of the sustainability. The authors describe this approach to construction through some case studies.