Master Thesis Work
This Thesis work starts from a FARB research (Fondo di Ateneo per la Ricerca di Base, Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani), entitled “Management methodologies and innovative mapping tools for Cultural Heritage Digital Heritage FOSS (Free and Open Source Software) Tools, OpenWebGIS, Open-Data”.
The research, took place from May 2015 to April 2017. Its subjects of investigation are the territories characterized by a slow and constant economic and settlement decline in the presence of a partially visible cultural and widespread landscape .
The rediscovery of these territories, gives the chance of renewing the methods of analysis, mapping, representation, information management and communication. The research group is composed by: prof. Bertrando Bonfantini, prof. Marco Bovati, prof. Maria Enrica Marica Forni and prof. Daniele Villa, research coordinator.
This thesis work’s aim is the definition of a reuse and regeneration strategy for Corte Sant’Andrea:
a small rural village, partially abandoned, which is placed on river Po’s shore, in Senna Lodigiana municipality, which was taken as a case study by the FARB research itself. The term reuse is defined, in architecture, as the transformation, the different functional destination and the consequent new fruition, of an existing building or underused one. The term regeneration refers to a larger-scale, and may be translated into recovery or reuse operations of individual buildings.