Paesaggio come palinsesto

As defined by the European Landscape Convention, the landscape is a widespread heritage that includes urban and agricultural areas, territories of everyday life, degraded sites of exceptional value. The rural landscape, in particular in Apulia, is paradigmatic of the interweaving of relationships that nourishes the everyday landscape, in which the relationship between nature, man and culture constitute a significant synthesis. According to this writing, the landscape is a complex and articulated structure, an active surface, capable of preserving, and promoting, processes of transformation. The idea of landscape as a palimpsest underlines the question of modification, understood as a continuous process of writing, and therefore of narration. The case study presented, the landscape and architectural redevelopment of a large rural settlement located on the Ionian coast of Apuglia, considers the landscape as a system in fieri, in which the design action has the task of knowing and revealing the deepest meanings of the places, interpreting them in the architecture and landscape project.