The topic of the urban and regional regeneration has now become a key challenge for architects. After the earthquake in L'Aquila in 2009 - it is necessary to understand how to face reconstruction and how to manage the social and economic regeneration of the city and the region. The research is based on the idea that the reconstruction can assert itself as an opportunity for real sustainability, both social, economic, seismic and bioclimatic.

La réflexion de l'architecture contemporaine sur les méthodologies et sur la reconstruclion et la rehabilitalion des zones vulnérables touchées par de graves evénements sismiques est souvent entravée par Ies administrations locales et les forces politiques.