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Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI support
Tramontin input2012
1. ( Antonio Tramontin
Professor of Architecture - Università degli Studi di Cagliari
Sardinia Region’s Committee for the Landscape and the quality of the Architecture)
Agricultural lands’ waste and the loss of identity of the Sardinian landscapes
At present, a severe warning for the identity’s loss of the Sardinian landscapes is arising in
the whole Region, comparable to the heavy coastal speculation of the Sixties.
The Regional area, even the inner lands, is affected by a huge urban sprawling, actually out of
planning control, with serious effects of diseconomy dued to the agricultural lands’waste.
Moreover, after a millennium era of agropastoral civilization, the Insular model of settlement
shaped in close textured villages (Las Villas – Sas Biddas)is going to be definitely destroyed.
Cultural and historical heritage’s lasting values may perhaps recall to common lifestyles , in a
rural word of renewed ecologies, construction materials and shared landscapes.
2. LANDSCAPE PLANNING IN SARDINIA
The new social awareness about the cultural heritage and the ecological behavior, raised
actually to a defence strategy, shared by the majority, towards a really conservative
landscape planning.
Any land reclamation inside the urban sprawl sectors, asks for a different attitude by the
people ,of rethinking their places’ identity, entrusting to contemporary landscapes in between
nature, land and dwelling communities.
3. NEW LANDSCAPES IN BETWEEN
Moving from the interstitial spaces, we can drive to landscapes in between, lying along the
land in the shape of botanical rhizomes. The rhizomatic planning may move the stratification
of the territorial marks from an invasive action (to build upon the field) to a joined activity
(living in the field).
4. URBAN SPRAWL PLANNING – GUIDELINES
ANALYSIS OF THE CONTEXT : Interpretation of the urban sprawling trends. Physical and
social evaluation of the regional networks, including historical and existing marks and paths.
EUROPEAN CONVENTION OF THE LANDSCAPE: The landscape as the result of the
human behavior and identity, between town and countryside, to sustain the ecological
biodiversity.
CONNECTION: The area suitability to be connected in the infrastructural network and in the
regional links.
IDENTITY: Sharing of the behaviours and the social choices ,related to the local and
historical traditions among plants, animals ,people and their environment.
ECOLOGY: The pervading naturality in the land, in order to reduce the fragmentation of
fields and cultivations, supporting the biodiversity.
AGRICULTURE: Soil suitability and sustainable farming, to shape and maintain the
landscape.
5. SEVEN TRANSITION PLANNING EXERCISES APPLIED TO URBAN SPRAWL
AREAS IN SARDINIA
In terms of introductory and experimental exercises, seven Sardinian exemplary areas have
been taken to consideration: the cities of Sassari, Alghero, Olbia and Quartu S. Elena, the
towns of Bosa, S. Gavino Monreale and Pula. For each of them, a diachronic comparison
has been carried out, on the basis of the photo aerial maps surveyed in the years 1954-
1977-2000-2006-2011.
In the whole Region, from the coastal settlements to the center, agricultural areas have
been consumed by uncontrolled urban sprawling everywhere, with uniform typologies, as in
Olbia, Arzachena, Sassari, Alghero, Bosa, S.Gavino Monreale, Pula, until Quartu S.Elena in
the gulf of Cagliari.
Planning guidelines have been applied, following the issued statements, in order to simulate
a possible landscape development.
6. Territorio di Sassari
Sassari centro, Piazza d'Italia
Sassari ovest, periurbano sugli oliveti di Caniga - San Giorgio
31. Territorio di Pula
Pula Centro. Chiesa di San Giovanni Battista
Territorio Ovest di Pula. Coltivazioni in serra
32. Territorio di Pula
Territorio Ovest di Pula. Is Molas Golf Club
Territorio Nord-Ovest di Pula. Vigneti della Medusa Relais. Terrazza su Porto d’Agumu
33. Territorio di Pula
Territorio Nord-Ovest di Pula. Parco Tecnologico Polaris
54. New ecologies for the Sardinian rural landscape3
The significance of Sardinian rural space is changing. Nowadays we can point out
a likely different set of landscapes related to a new ecological everyday life, to a
renewed care regarding building materials and agricultural tools.
The countryside is tending to take on the primary role of a resource of agricultural
landscapes that are again to be contemplated and enjoyed.
Peaceful scenery of open fields along the land, freedom of moving, biodiversity of
plants and animals, pure water and an average good conservation of rural
architecture.
A new market for material and immaterial goods related to nature and the
landscape, seems to become accessible for the symbolic sharing of agricultural
activities, that demand the real presence of farming along the new communities’
everyday life.
3) From a conversation with A. Aru, Cagliari, 10-2011