High Madonie: Innovate with building maintenance. A paradigm of thought for the care of urban and rural places

Abstract

The rediscovery of doubt invites the architectural designer to seek new realities with a curious eye. A true act of architectural design recognition to glimpse and trigger, in experiences of measured scope, a wealth of social relationships. The High Madonie groups together rather different areas, but united by constraints and opportunities in large similar parts: few services, rarefied production structures, and demographic fragility. How do we attract young people (and not only), highly skilled and highly motivated in these areas? What are the new ways to re-inhabit the high Madonie? We are aware that, before the pandemic of COVID-19, the idea of a necessary distance, physical and social, coincided only with a form of housing and work dispersion. If we think more closely about the compositional principles of the architectural project, what elements give meaning to the entire physical and visible environment? Today this experience can be considered as an opportunity. Experimenting with forms of interaction is one of the most effective ways to innovate with the maintenance of buildings and exploit the compositional potential of free spaces by looking at the spaces in between.