Politecnico di Milano
PaRID
Ricerca e Documentazione Internazionale per il Paesaggio
Research and International Documentation for Landscape
Protection and preservation of rural landscape
Research is geared to study the relation between the nucleus or/and rural buildings and its agricultural context in order to protect and preserve the landscape characters of the agricultural territory.
The investigation method identifies an artefact as a part of a “landscape system” which is made up of formal, functional, social, economic relations that change over time and that characterize the current landscape where they can still be read. Reading concerns the materials and building features of the artefacts, their relations with the surrounding territory, the morphology of the territory, the characteristics of crops, the arrangement of the vegetation, the water network and their visibility from close, average and far range.
Tasks include:
- defining guidelines for preserving the landscape characters with respect to rural settings and buildings (both the existing and the new ones)
- analysing and assessing the introduction of new agricultural buildings into landscape
- analysing and assessing the landscape compatibility of restoration and extension practices carried out on rural buildings.
Research
- Franco Sangiorgi, Paola Branduini, Guido Calvi, Muri a secco e terrazzamenti nel Parco dell’Adamello-linee guida per il recupero, Parco dell’Adamello e Università degli Studi di Milano, 2006 (Dry-stone walls and terracing in the Adamello Park Guidelines for their rehabilitation, 2006)
- Gli insediamenti e i fabbricati rurali – suggerimenti per la valutazione paesaggistica, , MiBAC e Politecnico di Milano, (in corso di stampa)
Didactic works
Degree theses
- Ornella Legnani, Un parco per Peschiera Borromeo e le sue cascine,2005-06
- Roberta Borsani, I mulini dell’Olona – Riqualificazione del sistema di paesaggio storico, 2005-06 (A park for Peschiera Borromeo and its farmhouses, 2005-06)
- Marta Tolli, Linee guida per il recupero e la salvaguardia dei caratteri costitutivi del paesaggio rurale, 2004-05 (Val Borbera Guidelines for rehabilitating and protecting the basic elements of the agrarian landscape, 2004-05)