Recovery and reuse in the walkway architecture: looking to the future for dismissed rural buildings in Italy and France

The walkway architecture represents the interconnection between the past, present and future. Proposing the networking of dismissed rural heritage, the walkway architecture would provide a glimpse of what is currently out of everyone's sight, an insight into the vernacular structures that are forgotten and left in their rudimentary state. As a result of the fact that they have lost their function and are no longer helpful to the production chain, these buildings cease to be considered part of the territory and, therefore, adequately valued. The paper proposes a change of perspective on these elements of the Italian and French vineyard cultural landscape as spaces potentially capable of supporting slow tourism. The case of Piedmontese casòt and Burgundian cabotes will be analysed, given their position within the UNESCO heritage nomination of their respective landscapes. The recovery of some of these types of rural architecture, historically used as warehouses for storing tools or as stables, has made it possible in Burgundy to propose models of reuse for reinsertion within the landscapes system, in contrast to what happens in Italy, where the historical memory of the building is slowly disappearing.