A walk, from the village to the pond, among the clay houses. Bring back to the beauty of the past with pastel colors obtained from the use of lime putty, earth and oxides.
The inhabitants and students of the Turin Polytechnic College of Architecture, led by the green architect Luciano Pia, will arrange the facades of the road that leads from Cabras to the stretch of water just outside the town.
This is the project, “Save the Traditional Cabras”, conceived by the SinisTerrae association, which aims to further enhance the attractiveness and consequent accommodation capacity of the area.
The start next December 3 with an international workshop and a collective action that will involve the inhabitants of Cabras and students. The intervention will concern via Cesare Battisti, one of the roads that connect the center to the pond. The Turin architect, known for the "25 verde" condominium in Turin, designed and directed the works. The landscape architects Italo Vacca and Leo Minniti are also involved.
The workshop foresees that the participants carry out in six days, together with the inhabitants who own the facades, structural consolidation actions, plaster restoration, finishing and decorations of the external part of the houses. The road will then be completed, again in the first phase, with a first external layout, planting and green arrangements, with "green" road paving and urban furnishings.
"Cabras has an ideal dimension that lends itself well to the identity recovery of vital public spaces - explains architect Pia - as in the village of yesteryear, where the community finds itself and recognizes itself in the places it feels its own. For this activity we will go to use 0 km materials, compliant with bio-architecture and natural criteria such as reeds, earth, lime and local wood, which guarantee a low environmental impact and CO2 emissions, as well as a reduction in energy consumption for their production and maintenance. In setting up the green, in addition to furnishing and embellishing, we will thermoregulate the external temperature of the street by reducing the urban heat island and water-regulating the urban space in a natural way, without the need for plant equipment ".
The educational workshops will take place every day from 3 to 8 December and will alternate interventions from international and national universities of architecture, engineering, tourism and history.
In the second phase, from 11 to 17 April, the project involves the assembly of a reed pergola for the entire extension of the street and the permanent planting of the public green furniture by the landscape architects.
(Unioneonline / vl)
