Abstract
It hasn’t even been half a century since, in 1977, the famous book by Nuto Revelli entitled Il mondo dei vinti was published. A symbolic image, which summed up with powerful evocative efficacy the dramatic process of depopulation and dissolution of traditional Alpine societies during the twentieth century. A phenomenon that found its epicenter in the valleys of Carnia and in the south-east of France, and especially in the Piedmont’s valleys of the Cuneo area, with drop-out rates that will reach even 80-90% of the population. A little over forty years have passed by since Nuto Revelli’s book was published and since then a lot seemed to have changed. Today many prestigious and successful tourist and winter centers are experiencing a growing crisis of image and public, while the once neglected Valades ousitanes live an unprecedented season, focused on enhancing the trinomial of natural, historical, and cultural heritage. Maira Valley, Ostana in the Po Valley, Paraloup and Rittana in the Stura Valley, the upper Varaita Valley, the phenomena of rebirth are affecting all the Occitan valleys, with interesting resettlement processes that have their engine in who are defined «the new mountaineers». This renaissance of the Occitan valleys is accompanied by new forms of architecture that focus on the theme of the recovery and reuse of heritage, of dialectical confrontation with environmental and historical contexts, but without forgetting the contemporary and technological innovation.
Highlights
For a new inhabitability of the Alps
Maira Valley, Ostana in the Po Valley, Paraloup and Rittana in the Stura Valley, the upper Varaita Valley: rebirth is taking place in all the Occitan valleys, with interesting resettlement processes that were initiated by the so-called «new mountaineers». This renaissance of the Occitan valleys is accompanied by new forms of architecture that focus on the themes of recovery and reuse of their heritage, of dialectical confrontation with environmental and historical contexts, not forgetting contemporary and technological innovation
Between 2005 and 2014 he was vice director of «Urban Center Metropolitano» of Turin. He authored various architectural projects in the Alps. He published the work in two volumes La costruzione delle Alpi (Donzelli 2014 and 2016) that have won the «Rigoni Stern» prize and the «Acqui Storia» prize, and the book Riabitare l’Italia
Summary
Architettura e rigenerazione / Valades ousitanes, architecture and regeneration. Ostana e Topolò: hardware, software e welfare nelle comunità di “ritorno” / Ostana and Topolò: hardware, software and welfare in “return” communities. Margherita Valcanover “Senza mostrare i muscoli”: i progetti di rigenerazione di. Tao+C e AZL nel solco della “prosperosa società” della Cina contemporanea / “Without flexing one’s muscles”: the regeneration projects of Tao+C and AZL in the wake of the “prosperous society”. Par la culture, d’un village soumis à la métropolisation genevoise / The Butor archipelago. A regeneration, through culture, of a village subject to the metropolisation of Geneva
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