"The caves of anthropic origin, otherwise called “artificial cavities”, are found all over the world, but a comprehensive systematic inventory is not yet available. The absence of not invasive interventions will compromise the instable balance of the historical habitat and of the territorial quality.
These interventions are focused on living the ravines, to increase the acknowledgement of the rupestrian episodes, which is generally unknown to non experts. The restoration of existing buildings can bring to the creation of new Cultural Centers. The existing accesses and corridors need to be re-evaluated to create new green connection areas for an archaeological park. Often, the exploitation of the land and the expansion of built areas have prevailed on the quality of life buildings forced environmental emergencies to constrained situations. The recovery is intended for tourist goals and to allow for a correct daily fruition of the abandoned areas in the territory, promoting a better quality of life for the inhabitants, a cultural development which improves economy. The support needs to be tangible in order to be helpful to environmental recovery and architectural restoration. The interface uses different media depending on the experts’ needs and competencies, who will enhance the database. The project has required the creation of the website eu, which is provided with a relational database, an iconic and textual interface. The project will use media in their double meanings of physical mechanical tool –“every technology that creates extensions of body and senses, from clothes to computer” – and of provocation – “the medium is the message”.
This project is about communication, in both senses of “community”: the ancient and fundamental meaning of “sharing” and “participating together” to happenings, and to recall communitarian social structures the metaphoric meaning of “making common” ideas and thoughts where community is not the centre, but individuals. Where geology allowed for excavation, where rocks were soft enough for a pickaxe, rupestrian and hypogeal sites were realized. It is only one among the different dwelling cultures, as other civilizations had the teepee (in North America) or the yurta (in Asia). There is no rupestrian civilization: it is more a dwelling culture which has been shared by different civilizations, although they could also build incredible structures. Since prehistory, man took shelter in natural caves, competing for them against animals, or at least underneath rocky spurs, to protect themselves against the severity of the weather.
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