ABSTRACT
In today’s world, characterised by megacities of banal repetitive buildings, the logic is being reviewed of minor settlements and vernacular architecture, including those made of earth; sinuous, heterogeneous, ‘poor’ but virtuous, sober and eco-friendly, for decades neglected, abandoned, shattered by new cultural layouts. Still used in marginal regions, through bottom-up processes pursued through collective rules, these are increasingly being reconsidered in more advanced countries, thanks to bio-architecture and a type of development which looks at the past. This is all within project actions open not just to aesthetics and a humanly deeper dimension which can encourage relationships between people through the cohousing formula; facilitate community service; tackle abandonment of historical settlements and sprawl; avoid the transformation of the territory into a museum and, instead, regain from the past still living modern elements to relate to innovation and stimulate resuscitation of local identity. Even in a peripheral region like Calabria.
