Percorsi ermeneutici della conservazione tra conoscenza e creatività

Restoration design is ‘understanding design’, par excellence. As ‘developing management’ instrument aimed at maximising as-found resource preservation, while responding to contemporary needs guaranteeing fabric transmission to the future, restoration, indeed, implies hermeneutics. Knowledge, interpretation and design are, thus, the restoration discipline cornerstones, along with the matched concepts of memory and creativity. Trying to focus how reality understanding is translated into restoration knowledge, which are the connections thus involved with creativity, what actually is to be considered as ‘reality datum” from which recording and understanding process starts, the study dealt with some updated philosophy and aesthetics paradigms. Referring to the New Realism as developed by philosopher M. Ferraris and the “aesthesiology of atmosphere” as stated by philosopher T. Griffero, not forgetting the Sensory Realism of J. Pallasmaa’s “peripheric vision”, it offers some possible interpretative paths to comprehend historical architecture complex set of multidimensionality and immanence. To complete the fabric understanding process as built up through the analytical-quantitative approaches usually implemented in restoration design performing, it should be necessary also adopt a mesoscopic visualization. Thus, it should better make us aware of multiple features and implications that historical architecture as a special ‘social object’ (artefact) involves.