Abstract
As Werner Bätzing (2003) points out in his book on Alpine geography, producers who do not emigrate and stay in the Alps do not act from an economic perspective but for social and cultural reasons. To resist the climatic, morphological and settlement difficulties, Alpine producers have always been driven to innovate, experimenting with new models, combining various forms of activity and independently creating the services necessary for their activity and social life. Today, after decades characterised by the abandonment of productive activities in the mountains, inventions as a form of resistance is once again one of the main themes of contemporary Alpine spaces. This chapter explores the issue of innovations in equipment, services and production in the Alps from two points of view. The first is that of a new generation of producers, entrepreneurs and project developers who are changing the way of producing in the mountains, by creating networks, sectors and services in the territory. The second is that of architects who experiment with new typological variations and constructive processes on the theme of production buildings in line with recent developments in ways of producing and working.
Highlights
Traduttrice di istanze complesse, essa si ritaglia piccoli spazi di movimento nelle trame delle realtà socio-economiche locali, portando innovazione nei modi e nelle tecniche, interpretando con rigore critico le peculiarità dei territori e dei patrimoni
Far from the accommodating clichés of the international architectural mainstream and the easy certainties of consolidated and repeated rhetoric, contemporary architecture in the Western Alps seems to be making its way with courage
As a translator of complex instances, it carves out small manoeuvring spaces in the plots of local socio-economic realities, bringing innovation in both ways and techniques and interpreting with critical rigour the peculiarities of territories and heritage
Summary
I servizi e la produzione nelle Alpi / Invention as a form of resistance. Profundius, suavius, tre coordinate dell’abitare contemporaneo / Lentius, profundius, suavius, three coordinates of contemporary living
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