IL PAESAGGIOPARADIGMA PER IL PROGETTO ADATTATIVO: PAROLE D’ORDINE DI TEORIA E PRASSI

The Alps, stigmata of the local landscape: a severe master for an ethical and political national renewal. The mountain is a landscape laboratory, a good didactic gymnasium for “re-thinking the Planet”, in order to train for an empathetic vision of Landscape as a “tool and goal” that could internalize the Country. To adopt the landscapes of the Alps as a didactic feature of the terrain’s anthropological sequences (Mountains / Sea), of creativity (environmental settlement) in order to direct the “conflict” between nature and construction. The Alps, unbounded-limited landscapes: an “anti Promethean” instance of a critical builder. The Valleys’ economies are “shaped by the site” and the difficulties cancel the transformative hybris in their being already Landscape of the third millennium. Finding new “elective affinities” in the omni-landscape (M. Jakob), a trans-language for creating an education and research Alliance. To reconcile Cain and Abel between builders-architects-urban planners, and farmers-agronomists, economists and ecological, biological and anthropological scientists. The Alps, paradigmatic setting of the Biosphere‘s climatic collapse. Glaciers retreat, the mountain’s landscape “evaporates”. The inner destruction of the residents’ roots in the territory, an interior “aridity” to fight against for the sake of a new housing Democracy. The inhabitants must be directly reached. Reactivate people’s feelings of having roots (the new Client of the rehabilitation project)– The Alps as the iconic setting of our roots with Europe: the boundary mark of the peninsula’s shape is the possibility of the existence of differences; a renewal of the lexicon, a Habitat’s Architecture. - the mind’s ecology is a unified, complex vision of the cultures in the project within a new design ethic: our professional conduct (from Architect to Landscape Architect) should be reversed: the Alps show landscape as an “infrastructure of improvement”, with the landscape Map of the “capacity for requalification” of a territor