Conversions and Resilient Materials

Nowadays different and various forms of resilience draw our attention but, there is no doubt that, among all the inflated meanings of this term, we are greatly attracted by the one concerning the ability of the material itself to regenerate in a different present when it is widely employed both in sophisticated technologies and also in very simple methodologies to support Man in his research, his knowledge and his production in a world still to be planned far from the logic of the brutal beton. Today the anthropic world of what has already been built must be reconsidered in terms of redesign, systemic rewording, methods and results employed in the making (even in the case of new artifacts). The present environmental emergencies force us to adopt the principle of “Circular Economy” applied also to Architecture, never before considered as a complete cycle, that is, at the time of its birth ( project), its life (realization and durability), its death ( deconstruction and re-use). Dry construction systems and other parallel techniques allow easy interventions with the purpose of building on what has already built, of redesign, of re-cycling, all actions able to give shape to different resilient urban sceneries, so able to be reborn, to defend themselves and to become active again in the face of adversities( earthquakes, natural calamities and anthropic emergencies). This essay proposes an excursus of housing typologies, of research, of methods, of on-site controls, of re-used materials both in the domestic field and the urban one, also related to off-grid energetic issues.