Bioclimatic and green building for the enhancement of rural architecture. Rehabilitate the Masseria Nicotera to Marigliano

After almost a century of investigation on the architectural value of rural buildings in all its connections with landscape, the recovery approach has not overcome the phase of ethic imperative. The effective possibilities to rehabilitation existing structures are left to the project that, through its interdisciplinarity, should specify the modalities, from the technical point of view as well as from the environmental, social, and economic advantages one. This paper aims to re-inhabit the rural buildings closer to urban centers. The methodological approach is based on a bioclimatic project integrated with green building, which had been tested in a rural house of the seventeenth century: Masseria Nicotera to Marigliano, in the province of Naples. Indeed, the bioclimatic matrix of rural architecture has been recovered and reintroduced, after being improved by the passive system and integrated by natural material. The project has been supported also by the assessment of the economic benefit and the estimation contributions that are not good for themselves but constitutes the beginning of a database available at the national level for the recovery of rural architecture.