Temporary cultural facilities as an element of rebuilding strategies for cities affected by earthquakes / Aleksandra Rogulska // W: NordSci International Conference on Social Sciences, 19-23 August 2019, ... więcej

Temporary cultural facilities as an element of rebuilding strategies for cities affected by earthquakes / Aleksandra Rogulska // W: NordSci International Conference on Social Sciences, 19-23 August 2019, Athens, Greece : conference proceedings. Book 2, Vol. 2, Sections: Architecture, Design and Urban Studies, Business and Management, Economics and Tourism, Finance, Law, Political Sciences. – Sofia : Saima Consult Ltd, 2019. – (NordSci Conference on Social Sciences, ISSN 2603-4271). – S. 97-105 : fot., mapy, plany, rys. – Bibliogr. 15 poz., Abstr. – Na publikacji błędny nr DOI: 10.32008/NORDSCI2019/B2/V2. – Section: Architecture, Design and Urban Studies. – ISBN 978-619-7495-06-5

The Apennine Peninsula is one of the most densely-populated and mostseismically active regions of Europe, possessing a wealth of cultural heritage.Historical cities and buildings are a part of this heritage. ... więcej

The Apennine Peninsula is one of the most densely-populated and mostseismically active regions of Europe, possessing a wealth of cultural heritage.Historical cities and buildings are a part of this heritage. The earthquake damage prevention programme implemented in Italy does not cover existing buildings,and reconstruction plans for damaged cities, because of the threat's specificity, arealways prepared after a disaster. In the case of heritage buildings, particularlythose of super-local significance, decisions involving a complete reconstructionof their original form are typically made, erasing all traces of the tragedy.Reconstruction can take years, during which society is left without culturalfacilities that are key to good morale. Opportunities provided by the phase between a disaster and restoring the buildings are too often underappreciated,while the time spent making the decision what and how to rebuild should be spenton action.
Strategies involving temporary buildings allow to prevent the disappearanceof public functions during the period preceding the reconstruction of majorcultural facilities. These buildings should be designed as resilient, assuming acapacity to adapt to changing conditions and upholding or rapidly returning to afunctional state after a disaster. They can enable the time between the disaster andmaking the decision about reconstruction to be used to identify and test newrelations in the surroundings created through the loss of a section of substance.They provoke a debate about what must be rebuilt and at what cost, they facilitateunderstanding of the goals of a planned reconstruction. But most importantly, theysustain the genius loci , in order to affect the city's reconstruction process in itssocial, psychological and economic aspects.
By analysing temporary cultural facilities built in Italian cities damaged by earthquakes, the study discusses methods of building temporary public buildings and features an attempt at assessing interventions that precedereconstruction. Based on the experiences of the city of L'Aquila severely damagedin 2009 and drawing conclusions from mistakes made during the implementationof pre-reconstruction strategies in the town, the author developed a proposal of atemporary intervention for the Basilica of St. Benedict of Nursia, which collapsedon the 30th of October 2016 as an effect of the Amatrice-Visso-Norcia seismicsequence. The proposal stresses the preservation of the previous function of thecomplex at its original site. This is meant to maintain the occupancy of Norcia's centre by the Benedictine monks, whose tradition is strongly linked with the cityand makes it a major pilgrimage destination that is important to Christians. As aconsequence, it is meant to prevent the depopulation of the centre of Norcia andcausing its ruination as a place.