Geometrical Layout and Project for Taranta Agri-Camping at Melpignano

The research, entitled “Numbers, Shapes, Geometries, Models. From the Measure the contemporary project of re-use”, started in 2016 with a Survey-and-Project workshop of an eighteenth-century building in Castrì, a small town in Salento (Puglia). We experimented with a method applicable to various scales, which takes at its basis the analysis of the geometries and the logical-compositional structures of the pre-existing architectures, to be used as a memory for the project of reuse, as well as for the regeneration of historical buildings and sites that have lost their character over time. In this paper a project in the form of a demonstration of a research method is presented. It consists in the study of the cultural and geographical context, and description of the historical buildings and of the soundscape aspect of the places, in the following geometric analysis from which to derive the historical measure to layout the projects. The project of the agri-camping at Melpignano here presented, based on this geometric mathematic method, gives origin to a proposal to reshape the whole area in which the concert of folk music named “La Notte della Taranta” takes place in Melpignano, in the framework of a masterplan set up to be also at the base of other future projects.