Affective Sustainability in the Rewriting Process of Places

Place has an autonomous specificity and strength that determines a cognitive dimension, a state of the spirit of the person who builds the space inside himself, thinks it, lives it and generates different forms of affectivity. Just as the culture of architecture is an aspect of spatial intelligence and is synergistic with the affective sphere, the life of a place is constituted together with the memory that we have or that recurs in that particular space. As a consequence, the inhabitant lives a relationship with the space that surrounds him and the affection can translate into propositions for improving, interpreting, or maintaining a status quo. In this vitalism the interpretation is open: in a conservative mode, where value is protection and defense or transformation. This attitude is interesting in the regeneration interventions of a place that are not always able to reconstruct the known fabric or a new fabric of affectivity. The rewriting intervention must, therefore, work with the places’ cultural and affective data in the same way in which it works with the spatial physical datum on which it intervenes.