ADEQUATE ARCHITECTURES FOR CORRELATED LANDSCAPE. Dry-stone rural complexes

The way objects and spaces exist in time, remain as an inseparable product of a stratified construction, stand in relation to a context, fulfill a function by fabricating frames of environment, disuse, and change in order to continue to be present in the present time, correspond closely to what architecture appears to have to be. In Italy, rural complexes made of dry stone or weak binders of earth and lime, abandoned or underutilized, take on a paradigmatic guise of such exploration. Ninety years after Pagano and Daniel’s research on “Architettura rurale italiana” (1936), the PNRR’s call for the protection and “Valorizzazione dell’architettura e del paesaggio rurale” (2022) turns out to be the first real measure aimed at safeguarding this marginal heritage. How to regenerate such objects and spaces, without betraying their proper adequate raison d’être? The issue is explored in a case study and regeneration project of three small architectures with their associated environmental frames, to be adapted to rural isolario for the knowledge and preservation of the Barbagia landscape.