A determining role in the performance (fulfilment)
of these initiatives and the results obtained was also played
by the population of Orvieto and the collaboration and cultural
contributions offered by the technical experts of the city. Particular
importance in this sense is the qualifying participation at the
Mayor of the city and the Municipal Administration.
The project of the Biennial sprang from a careful
analysis of all the aspects (cultural, social, economic, technological
and marketing) which condition and make it more dfficult to see
how this Present Project can be realized, and of the awareness
that only greater clarity of words and deed could favor strategies
of intervention capable of controlling in an integrated way the
processes of preservation and transformation, sale guarding values,
resources and documents, and corresponding to the principal needs
and expectations.
The objectives aimed for in the INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL
OF ARCHITECTURAL RESTORATION PROJECT fall into three levels of
extension:
a) macro level (intemational extra-European)
b) medium level (European intemational)
c) micro level (national and regional)
Biennial Project Objectives and levels of extension
objectives level
Divulgation macro
and medium
Registration macro
and medium
Formation medium
and micro
Why the Biennial
No institutionalized site a present exists where experimental
projects in the field of architectural restoration and the reorganization
of existing cities can be permanently compared and verified on
an international scale. The Biennial therefore makies it possible
to have a considered exposition of the interventions effected
or in course, dealing with themes of a cultural nature and theorical
definition, as well as aspects concerning the use of technologies
and the evaluation of the valences and residual characteristics
of the architectural patrimony.
An important field deals with the requalification and reinvention
of architectural and urban spaces, from a point of view closely
bound to the regional characteristics and the correct use of local
resources.
Why Orvieto
For the past fifteen years an important operation of environmental
and urban restoration has been in course in this city, carried
out with public funding, of European as well as national relevance,
for financial contributions have also come from the EEC.
An initial tangible result consists in the setting up of the "Observatory
of the Rupe of Orvieto", which proposes to control and monitor
the phenomena in progress, and analyze the strategies of intervention.
Consequently, those who come to Orvieto from all over the world
for the celebration of the Biennial, will find a highly suitable
terrain in which to confront their studies and expectations concerning
the requalification of the building patrimony, thanks to the experimentation
in course here and the rich cultural heritage of Umbria.
Organization of the Biennial Project
This initial hypothesis of the organization of the
Biennial provides for theorical-cultural formulation and articulation
which gravitates around the managerial technological and economical
aspects, with a highly interdisciplinary vision. As far as we
know no preceding expository exhibitions have taken the totality
of these aspects into consideration.
The character of continuity of the Biennial Project is also important
for it makes it possible to create a permanent internationally
oriented site for comparison and up dating - as in other sectors
of human activity - inexistant up to date , both in Italy and
abroad.
Priority thematic areas of the Biennial Project
A. Projects for the Permanent Maintenance
of Small Towns
The rapid changes in the socio-economical scene of Europe and
the demographic and geographic transformations today are increasing
the discrepancy between the development of human activities and
the edified environment, giving rise to different policies of
intervention, depending essentially on the economical structure
of each country. All the problems which touch on these processes
in their complexity, find methods (procedures) and permanent experimental
fields in the small towns in whose interest it is to create systems
of permanent maintenance of the local building patrimony. In taking
note of these prevalent states of affairs, a greater effort must
be made for comparison and discussion, on an international level,
concerning this field.
B. Interventions of GlobaI RequaIification
of Monumental Complexes
Contrasting reasons and interests have always marked interventions
on this patrimony. These include the necessity to an at least
partial compliance with the new standards of environmental well
being and safety (earthquakes, installation, fire, etc.) which
contrast with those of the preservation of the building shell
and the structures; or the heated debate concerning the appropriate
use of the advanced technologies and/or the reproposing of technologies
of the past. The solutions to these and other unsolved problems
can spring only from a direct comparison on an intemational scale
including all the aspects that condition the decision making process.
C. Strategies for the reappropriation
of unused bulldings located in urban and extra-urban centers and
industrial archaeology
With reference to the increasing demand for buildings and the
demographic and infrastructural transformations of the inhabited
centers, a study of global strategies for the reutilization of
unused representative or industrial buiidings (cinemas, theaters,
artisan and industriai structures, barracks, etc.) has become
critical. lt should be based ori a careful interdisciplinary interpretation
of the transformation processes of the edified environment. We
believe that strategies of reappropriation based ori interdisciplinary
approaches, favoring resources and values, cari emerge only through
a rich backlog of ideas and obligations, such as that offered
by ari international biennial or restoration.
D. Interventions on the building heritage
of our century.
The interventiori criteria in this class of buildings are always
established on the basis of specific technical and legislative
norms, open to question or completely absent, and as a result
considerable space is left to private initiatives and gratuitous
interpretation.
Nobody expected, moreover, to have to use the buildings in reinforced
concrete built immediately after World War Il for more than ten
- twenty years; the great post war reconstruction of the 1950s
was undertaken in the conviction that soon everything would be
redone better and with more modern technologies.
These buiidings, therefore, today are in need of structural restoration,
adequate power and heating instaliation and aesthetic improvement
which must be carefully regulated, in relation to the economic
and technological resources of each country. A comparison on an
international level of their residual potenitialities (safety,
aesthetic value, tecnological values, ete.) could suggest intervention
policies which would rehabilitate not only the buildings themselves,
but also restore the local economy.
The differentiated effort expended by the different countries
(the poorer ories arid those more advanced) on making these buildings
last longer, can give us an idea of the wide range of suggestions
and solutions that could emerge from a logical comparison on international
scale.
Reference structures for the Biennials
A. External private structures (temporal,
periodical) aiding the stable structures of management and administratiori.
B. Institutional structures (periodical): universities,
regional, municipal, state, Communitarian, helping the stable
structures of managemerit and the internatioriai scientific and
organizatioriai committees in defining the structural and decisional
criteria.
C. The Boards of Directors of the International Centers of
the Federation, helping the Natiorial center of Orvieto in
the organization of the Biennial and the cultural events to take
place in concomitance with the Biennial.
D. Stable management structures:
i)The directing council of the INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR
THE PRESERVATION OF THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE - ITALY, with a
commitmerit of time calculated as 50% of the allover time devoted
to the activities of the Center.
ii) The president and vicepresident of the Federation.
iii) The stable structures of the DOCUMENTATION CENTER
FOR RESTORATION, with a commitment of time calculated as 30% of
the allover time devoted to the activities of collecting and registeririg
data.
Human resources for the implementation of the Biennial Project
and the Documentation Center for Restoration
Componerit structures (unpaid) of the INTERNATIONAL
CENTER FOR THE
PRESERVATION OF THE ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE - ITALY and the
FEDERATION.
- President of the Federation
- Vice-president of the Federation
- President of the Italian Center
- Vice president of the Italian Center
- Secretary of the Italian Center
- Treasurer of the Italian Center
- Councilors of the Italian Center
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