Il recupero dei manufatti rurali del Salto-Cicolano

Until the first half of the last century, have departed from the plateau Rascino and from the mountains Duchessa, flocks of sheeps owned by a few wealthy families. Such activity has a long history and a vast territory, which also includes other plateaus, among which the Aquilente. The paper exposes the first campaign of catalogation, surveys, energy modelling, and constructive analysis, of the many ancient farmhouses located in the country. They have been used during the good seasons, for the recovery of the animals, and to permit high altitude farming in the plateaus. They represent simple architectures for a complex landscape and the investigations confirmed the presence of ancient techniques, related to the local material, and to the history of construction of the furthest reaches of the kingdom of Naples. The strategy is based on the institution of a Rural Pastoral Park, and the objective of the manual is to contribute to the atlases of ancient construction techniques and to offer tools for improving the buildings energy behavior. Compared to the first and to the last generations of the Manuals, this study contributes to link re-use and territorial strategy, and confirm the necessity to study and rehabilitate the single building as a part of a network. Thus the work is also supported by a GIS referentiation and by a territorial catalogation of properties and current uses.