Programma per la conservazione della componente architettonica

TECHNICAL RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE ACTIVE PRESERVATION OF THE SITE. The essential condition for launching a constant and permanent process for preserving the buildings at the Fossoli camp is planning. Current regulations and field literature define planning as the combination of measures needed to prevent and/ or reverse the deterioration and neglect that endangers or could endanger existing assets. Planning is therefore responsible for clarifying the type of checks required (visual, empirical, instrument-based), the timescale (bimonthly, quarterly, biannual, annual), the priority of repairs (not urgent, slight urgency, moderate urgency, extreme urgency) and the technical/scientific responsibility for the project. This realistically ensures that conservation work will be arranged, whilst taking into account, above all, the economic and human resources available both in the long and short term. Based on the recommendations gathered during research carried out with the first safety improvements on the pilot worksite huts (8, 4.1 and 14.5), this study attempted to provide initial recommendations that were not designed to be obligatory regulations, but rather tools for orienting planning. They were established both as regards the buildings and the landscape elements. Listed according to the amount of work required, the latter provided interesting ground for comparison and experimentation, helping to develop an increasing awareness of the issue of preventative and planned conservation. THE ACTIVE PRESERVATION OF THE BUILDINGS. Starting with the entries in the annotated chart of problems and dangerous conditions, an operational methodology was developed, aimed at maximising the preservation of what still survives of the old buildings, without denying the essential role that vegetation and ruins now play in defining the camp’s current image. In particular, the work to be carried out on the following elements was specified in detail: rubble, masonry structures, roofs, indoor partitions, cladding, flooring, paving, thresholds, pavements, plasterwork, the writings left behind by those who had been deported and fixtures and fittings.