The waterways. The (Re) Design of River Isclero’s Landscape

This paper aims to develop an integrated descriptive path of a portion of the Campania region, between the foot of Taburno and the hills of Terra di Lavoro, characterized by a valuable landscape, typical of the Sannita territory, and the presence of rural architecture, both related to the use of water, which as the source, river and water infrastructure was an opportunity to adapt the places, as a driving force of the transformation of the landscape. The territory is abundant of many physical and environmental quality and has recorded substantial changes. Bridges and mills, together with other infrastructural work of less perceptive impact, such as embankments, slopes and roof inspection, are placed along the route of water so that it will lead an artefact landscape, sometimes absorbed by the neutrality of the land, other times able to order and correct irregularities, or to emerge clearly. These have contributed to the "design" of the surrounding landscape and have been an element of connection and mediation between the urban environment and surrounding landscape. Acknowledged the value of the territorial context, the work aims to understand, through research and critical analysis of the historical and cartographic sources, the changes suffered by the landscape. Interpreting the landscape, to know, to understand the characters, and analyze the visual qualities and the changes that have taken place over time. The analysis goes through critical operations of integrated survey that permits the knowledge of the shape and transform the site, the monitoring of their status and the recognition of its physical-environmental and geomorphological characters. The interpretation of the territory is meant to be a contribution to the enhancement of the places and an incentive to pay more attention and develop a sensitivity for the landscape and historical resource, our cultural heritage, precious and universal.