Progettare i paesaggi estrattivi

The paper addresses the topic of extractive landscapes as a possible field of investigation, as vast as considerably interesting, for the architectural design at its various scales. Through the reading of four contemporary designs – David Chipperfield Architects, Arcari quarry; Pierpaolo Perra and Alberto A. Loche, Park of sounds in the Sinis quarries; Donati D'Elia Associati, Recovery and enhancement of the quarries of Fantiano; DnA_Design and Architecture, Jinyun quarries – a reflection is developed on the role that the project can play in recovering abandoned quarry areas as architectural spaces to be allocated to new contemporary uses, or in transforming the disorientation that originates from abandonment into a resource for the territories. Although far from any claim to exhaustiveness, this reading allows us to outline some ways of design intervention in extractive landscapes and to frame some issues that take on paradigmatic value for future operations in other conditions, in other contexts, with other forms of reuse.