Rural heritage preservation, connected with traditional agricultural production, cultural-didactic, and agritourism uses, stands as a significant component of the environment-sensitive safeguard strategy for Neapolitan district, even within the super-urbanized zones. Across East Vesuvius’s plain it could be effective also within urban interstitial and fringe areas, in which maintaining material, cultural deposits could contribute to realise such a multifunctional network to dispense huge environmental performances. Starting from R. Pane’s fundamental works on rural heritage, its functionalistic, typological frameworks by D. Ruocco, A. Baculo’s morphological investigation on its urban contemporary transitions, and its historical development dynamics as traced by C. de Seta and B. Gravagnuolo, this study on Vesuvius settlements was developed, focusing on the building-culture oriented approach, such as to compatibly preserving material culture deposits. Dealing with historic farms, hamlets, houses, and lands scattered across Pompeii’s district, they were considered both the strategic, cultural potentiality they involved - as this city also maintains UN-ESCO archaeological site and the worldwide-known Sanctuary of the Virgin - and the relevant features since Pompeii’s modern rural heritage have been particularly ignored by critics and main safeguarding programs. The investigation encompassed the buildings, functional fabrics, and sites standing on Vesuvius and Sarno’s plains, diversely marked on the natural, geological, historic, agricultural, and architectural standpoints. As being more dependent on natural factors, agriculture, land-property and urban historic developments, the rural artifacts knowing tools have to combine building, territorial, and landscape data collecting, historically framing them too. Therefore, the study approached Pompeii’s traditional heritage using the methods indirect (documentary, iconographical and cartographical) and direct (metrics, building-technique, and stratigraphy-based) of the restoration discipline methodology, even when the material integrity of these deposits has been widely compromised. After having compared, and temporally retraced, the historical backgrounds, the infrastructures and the agricultural qualities of each landscape units (Vesuvius’s and Sarno’s plains, as both belong to real Pompeii’s city limits, building and environment characteristics and real states of conditions were assessed by critically cataloguing them. Fabric and site origins and phasing were also so determined. Thus, a varied range was depicted of historic, prevalent architecture and landscape morphologies, surveying features and real conditions, not forgetting main environmental-sensitive problems. Pompeii’s rural heritage characteristics and vulnerabilities were so ascertained, to contribute in addressing criteria and orientations of preservation and enhancement policies, focused on the compatible management of Vesuvius’s cultural landscape.

Masserie e paesaggi rurali storici: metodi e indirizzi per la conoscenza, la protezione e la valorizzazione sostenibile del patrimonio vesuviano

D'APRILE, Marina
2017

Abstract

Rural heritage preservation, connected with traditional agricultural production, cultural-didactic, and agritourism uses, stands as a significant component of the environment-sensitive safeguard strategy for Neapolitan district, even within the super-urbanized zones. Across East Vesuvius’s plain it could be effective also within urban interstitial and fringe areas, in which maintaining material, cultural deposits could contribute to realise such a multifunctional network to dispense huge environmental performances. Starting from R. Pane’s fundamental works on rural heritage, its functionalistic, typological frameworks by D. Ruocco, A. Baculo’s morphological investigation on its urban contemporary transitions, and its historical development dynamics as traced by C. de Seta and B. Gravagnuolo, this study on Vesuvius settlements was developed, focusing on the building-culture oriented approach, such as to compatibly preserving material culture deposits. Dealing with historic farms, hamlets, houses, and lands scattered across Pompeii’s district, they were considered both the strategic, cultural potentiality they involved - as this city also maintains UN-ESCO archaeological site and the worldwide-known Sanctuary of the Virgin - and the relevant features since Pompeii’s modern rural heritage have been particularly ignored by critics and main safeguarding programs. The investigation encompassed the buildings, functional fabrics, and sites standing on Vesuvius and Sarno’s plains, diversely marked on the natural, geological, historic, agricultural, and architectural standpoints. As being more dependent on natural factors, agriculture, land-property and urban historic developments, the rural artifacts knowing tools have to combine building, territorial, and landscape data collecting, historically framing them too. Therefore, the study approached Pompeii’s traditional heritage using the methods indirect (documentary, iconographical and cartographical) and direct (metrics, building-technique, and stratigraphy-based) of the restoration discipline methodology, even when the material integrity of these deposits has been widely compromised. After having compared, and temporally retraced, the historical backgrounds, the infrastructures and the agricultural qualities of each landscape units (Vesuvius’s and Sarno’s plains, as both belong to real Pompeii’s city limits, building and environment characteristics and real states of conditions were assessed by critically cataloguing them. Fabric and site origins and phasing were also so determined. Thus, a varied range was depicted of historic, prevalent architecture and landscape morphologies, surveying features and real conditions, not forgetting main environmental-sensitive problems. Pompeii’s rural heritage characteristics and vulnerabilities were so ascertained, to contribute in addressing criteria and orientations of preservation and enhancement policies, focused on the compatible management of Vesuvius’s cultural landscape.
2017
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