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A. Projects of permanent maintenance of small historic towns
The rapid changes in European socio-economic scenario and the changing demographic and geographic today increase the discrepancy between the development of human activities and the "built" environment, giving rise to different policy interventions, employees mainly from the economic realities of each country.
All the problems affecting the complexity of these processes, may found modalities and permanent experimentation fields in the small towns that have an interest in creating systems of "permanent maintenance" of the local built heritage.
Taking note of these prevalent realities, more effort is needed for comparison and discussion on an international scale, in reference to this specific subject area.
B. Restoration of monumental complexes
Interventions on monumental complexes, have always been contested between conflicting reasons and interests. Among these needs adjustment, even partially, to the new welfare standards and environmental safety (seismic, plants, fire, etc ...) which contrast with those of conservation decorative elements and structures, or the heated debate surrounding the use appropriate advanced technology and / or reinvention the technologies of the past.
The solutions to these and other unresolved issues can arise only from the direct comparison on an international scale, analyzing all aspects that affect the decision process.
C. Strategies for Reclaiming disused buildings located in urban and extra-urban areas, industrial archaeology
With reference to the growing edification demand and the demographic and infrastructural transformations of the cities, has become critical individualize a global strategy for the reuse of abandoned industrial buildings or representative ones (i.e. cinemas, theatres, buildings for the craft industry, barracks, incinerators, spinning mill, etc. ...), based on a careful and interdisciplinary analysis of processes which alter the built environment.
Only through a rich scenario of ideas and ties, like the one that will offer an International Biennial of Restoration, is believed that could emerge strategies of "recovery", based on interdisciplinary approaches and focusing the attention on Resources and Values.
D. Interventions on the modern architectural heritage
The criteria for intervention on the buildings representing the modern architectural heritage, are always established on the basis of regulations that are questionable, if not completely absent, thus leaving large space for private initiative and the free interpretation.
Nobody expected also a need to use reinforced concrete buildings built in Europe immediately after World War II, for a period exceeding ten or twenty years; the largest post-war reconstruction of the fifties had been undertaken in the belief that "soon we could have do it all better and with more modern technologies”.
These buildings, now therefore require "cares” on structures, on building installations and aesthetic improvements that must be carefully regulated in relation to economic and technological resources of each country.
A comparison on an international scale regarding updating of their residual performances (safety, aesthetic, technological, etc ...) may suggest policy interventions aimed at upgrading buildings themselves, without losing sight of local economies.
The various efforts that are posed in different countries (the poorest and the most advanced) to prolong the duration of "life" of these buildings, may understand the vastness of suggestions and solutions that may result from a reasoned comparison on an international scale.
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