Abitare la transizione nei Centri minori in Sicilia

Abstract

The proposal aims to develop concrete experience on possible ways of living from a framework of national and international references on the theme of the Social Housing Community to define a specific methodology on strategies to be tested on the theme of residence temporary in small towns in Sicily. The provision of minimum and adequate space for short and long periods of welcome is thus intended for new temporary residents (returning young people, migrant families, the elderly, travellers in transit) which can also be used to meet the needs of migrants, under the public direction of the municipal administration. The issue of residency is back in the disciplinary debate after the health emergency of Covid; the research-action proposed by LabCity Architecture (DARCH-UNIPA) for the Summer School Workshop 2023 CAMPUS_Asia: SUAE_Asia Program entitled 'Valledolmo Paradise 2030. Inhabiting the transition in the small towns in Sicily', is directed towards forms of urbanization shared, versatile and adaptable, oriented to a rational use of soils and resources, where the component of the inhabitant is central. It happens that the collective residence returns to reshape the built environment, relating to the stratified urban tissues and its territory. The priority objective of the program is to allocate to social, spatial and energy mixitè, the redevelopment of the district Roccafanara in Valledolmo, with the reconfiguration of the existing blocks, many of them now in a state of ruin, and with the redesign of the public space for pedestrian use for commercial and recreational activities, to establish a community of residents and transient inhabitants. Flexibility of the space of the housing and temporality of the use in function of a sedentary increasingly dynamic are the characteristics of temporary housing that the program of the Social Housing Community intends to address with concrete proposals that may become possible responses to the theme of depopulation and the prevention of the flight of young people from the small towns.