Project, Heritage and Landscapes of Production

In many cases the transformations of artefacts and facilities preclude an interpretation of the cultural value of production heritage, which is often also recognisable by means of complex infrastructure systems closely related to the environmental characteristics of the areas of development, which are still able to support the change to their structural identity. The specific elements of contemporary design that need to be highlighted relate, first and foremost, to the need to revise the role of a site as part of an integrated system in the landscape, in which the architecture assumes its responsibility not only in terms of preservation or philological restoration, but as a generator of new places, which gain their value by interpreting and being part of the continuous stratification of the developments related to production processes. The social value of these developments must also necessarily relate to the need for protecting cultural heritage, which can only be achieved through good projects, capable of preserving while transforming, of renewing heritage as an active resource in its role as a space that is necessary and vital for landscapes and cities.