The Vital Structure
Hydrogeological Threat
and Infrastructure within the Spluga Valley.
Strategies, methods and initiatives
for securing and regenerating a selected mountain territory.
Italy is a susceptible nation, consistently uncovered to the chance of hydrogeological issues, the place the obsolescence of infrastructures tends to more and more develop into trigger for concern, threatening built-up areas in addition to environmental, historic and cultural heritage. Landslides and floods take the very best toll by way of casualties and damages, ranging second after earthquakes.
Due to an growing variety of research and the drawing up of detailed catalogues and inventories, it’s now doable to comprehend the complexity and geographical extension of this emergency. The focus of such phenomena is paramount in interior areas, particularly these the place mountains are current, thus exposing transport routes to fixed hazard.
Our testing space is an Alpine highway (a bit of state highway SS36 connecting the small city of Chiavenna and the Spluga go within the Sondrio province), the place it’s essential to mitigate the chance of site visitors disruption.
Making use of a case research, our thesis places ahead an implementation methodology in conditions the place hydrogeological danger and renovation necessities coexist as parallel emergencies. The purpose is fixing security issues and concurrently attempting to construct architectures able to regenerating native areas, going past the purely technical and infrastructural intervention, solely aimed on the instant answer of the protection downside, whereas disregarding long run prospects and different wants of a given space.
Making use of a case research, our thesis places ahead an implementation methodology in conditions the place hydrogeological danger and renovation necessities coexist as parallel emergencies. The purpose is fixing security issues and concurrently attempting to construct architectures able to regenerating native areas, going past the purely technical and infrastructural intervention, solely aimed on the instant answer of the protection downside, whereas disregarding long run prospects and different wants of a given space.
Securing is an important precedence to ensure accessibility, nevertheless it actually just isn’t the one want of inner areas: the prevalence of mitigating the specter of hydrogeological danger is exploited in an effort to outline areas, features and artifacts serving to folks to stay in these areas due to the instruments and methodologies of structure.
Gallivaggio: by way of the ruins of a Sanctuary
The primary venture is a part of the SS36 state highway close by the Gallivaggio Sanctuary, courting again to the fifteenth century, right now in a state of full devastation and abandonment after repeated landslides, since Could 2018.
The urgency to guard the elemental stretch of highway by way of a synthetic gallery, turns into a possibility to create new areas for up to date vacationers on the Through Spluga and reinterpret the third panorama between nature and spoil, crossed by infrastructure. The gallery is split in to a few primary our bodies linked collectively by the use of stairs and ramps. Going up the highway, a coated market opens for the non permanent sale of native merchandise, accessible by vans and geared up with accent areas.
Near the outdated historic wall, partially used for the help of the roof, there may be the parking for guests: a synthetic climbing wall, a ramp that results in the coated market by way of an underpass and a hidden staircase main to some extent of remark of the ruins, they characterize an area that in any other case would stay merely useful. In conclusion, on the most secure level from falling rocks, a refreshment space opens onto the valley.
The structure seems monolithic, each for structural wants, and to recreate the spatiality and notion of the rock and inside it to say no the weather and supplies of the rockfall infrastructure.
Lirone: rediscovered chic
The second venture is ready on an enormous expanse of rocks threatens site visitors and inhabited areas between the village of Lirone and Cimaganda. On the most looming level, the place the chic and the disorientation given by the rocks are most felt, a wall is made. After a damaged sections, the trail continues throuhg a slim coated passage, after which reopens in a trapezoidal room, oriented in direction of the ruins of Gallivaggio. Huge nets with intertwined rings cling embedded into an inclined bolstered concrete wall. A steady seat marks the decrease facet of the wall and the flooring is thrown irregularly across the large boulders. The venture hybridizes two options for the containment of hazard and tries to dare a poetics by way of an structure that aspires to the Sacred.
Cimaganda: in direction of the mountains
The third venture develops alongside a curve, after the village of Cimaganda, which owes its title to the paleo-landslide that characterizes the encircling wild panorama. The brand new mass fall occurred in 2012, reducing off all communication with the valley and subsequently organized with an embankment. The village has all the time attracted sportsmen and hikers heading in direction of the Spluga go. The theme of the discovered rockfall now turns into a possibility for small help areas and conviviality for passing guests. The brand new architectures host a small cycle-workshop do-it-yourself and a fountain, which acts as an entrance door and hyperlink to the trail to Avero.
Analysis Ebook
242 pages ebook, 25×19 cm
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