Contemporary cities show their own transformations and contradictions through the voids that exist within them. Avezzano’s former sugar factory, in the heart of Piana del Fucino (Fucino’s plain), is a symbol of that: a fragment of the productive heart of the city in the 1900s, it shaped Marsica’s economic and social identity and today is a space suspended between remembrance and abandonment. This thesis chooses the factory as a tool to investigate the relationship between industrial archaeology, territorial fragility, and the right to the city. The research weaves together historic-territorial analysis, socio-economic investigation and a direct listening to the local community, thus revealing the needs and vulnerabilities in this context: housing insecurity, and a lack of services and communal spaces that are able to stimulate a sense of belonging. The industrial void is reinterpreted as a space of possibilities, a space where we can redefine the relationships between housing, production and the public space. The project proposes a gradual transformation of the sugar factory complex into an infrastructure for urban welfare, where social housing, services, cultural purposes and productive spaces intertwine and integrate to create a hybrid system. The metaproject is key - it is an open framework made of principles and strategies which, through time, can steer the complex regenerative processes and which embraces the uncertainty of the future as a design condition. The reversibility of interventions, environmental sustainability and a multilevel governance define an approach that privileges inclusion and collective responsibility. Regeneration is then seen here as a practice of care and justice towards the architectural heritage and towards the right to housing. Supported by the case study, this thesis argues that by reactivating an abandoned area the relationship between memory and the future can be redefined, thus transforming the void into a social and relational infrastructure, and therefore giving centrality and dignity back to those who have been left on the fringes of society for far too long.
Le città contemporanee rivelano le proprie trasformazioni e contraddizioni nei vuoti che le attraversano. L’ex Zuccherificio di Avezzano, nel cuore della Piana del Fucino, ne è l’emblema: un frammento della città produttiva del ‘900, che ha modellato l’identità economica e sociale della Marsica e che oggi si presenta come uno spazio sospeso tra memoria e abbandono. La tesi assume questo luogo come dispositivo critico per interrogare il rapporto tra archeologia industriale, fragilità territoriale e diritto alla città. La ricerca intreccia analisi storica-territoriale, indagine socio-economica e ascolto diretto della comunità locale, facendo emergere i bisogni e le vulnerabilità del contesto: precarietà abitativa, carenza di servizi e spazi collettivi in grado di generare appartenenza. Il vuoto industriale viene reinterpretato come spazio di possibilità, uno spazio in cui poter ridefinire le relazioni tra l’abitare, la produzione e lo spazio pubblico. Il progetto propone una trasformazione progressiva del complesso in un’infrastruttura di welfare urbano, in cui housing sociale, servizi, funzioni culturali e spazi produttivi si intrecciano e si integrano in un sistema ibrido. Centrale è il metaprogetto, inteso come struttura aperta di principi e strategie, che orienta i complessi processi di rigenerazione nel tempo e accoglie l’incertezza del futuro come condizione progettuale. La reversibilità degli interventi, la sostenibilità ambientale e la governance multilivello definiscono un approccio che privilegia l’inclusione e la responsabilità collettiva. La rigenerazione viene così concepita come pratica di cura e di giustizia verso il patrimonio architettonico e verso il diritto all’abitare. Attraverso il caso studio, la tesi sostiene che riattivare un’area dismessa significhi ridefinire il rapporto tra memoria e futuro, trasformando il vuoto in infrastruttura sociale e relazionale, e restituendo centralità e dignità a chi, per troppo tempo, è rimasto ai margini della società.
Strutture produttive dismesse come infrastrutture di welfare : modello strategico-operativo per la rigenerazione dell'ex Zuccherificio di Avezzano
Masciarelli, Ilaria
2024/2025
Abstract
Contemporary cities show their own transformations and contradictions through the voids that exist within them. Avezzano’s former sugar factory, in the heart of Piana del Fucino (Fucino’s plain), is a symbol of that: a fragment of the productive heart of the city in the 1900s, it shaped Marsica’s economic and social identity and today is a space suspended between remembrance and abandonment. This thesis chooses the factory as a tool to investigate the relationship between industrial archaeology, territorial fragility, and the right to the city. The research weaves together historic-territorial analysis, socio-economic investigation and a direct listening to the local community, thus revealing the needs and vulnerabilities in this context: housing insecurity, and a lack of services and communal spaces that are able to stimulate a sense of belonging. The industrial void is reinterpreted as a space of possibilities, a space where we can redefine the relationships between housing, production and the public space. The project proposes a gradual transformation of the sugar factory complex into an infrastructure for urban welfare, where social housing, services, cultural purposes and productive spaces intertwine and integrate to create a hybrid system. The metaproject is key - it is an open framework made of principles and strategies which, through time, can steer the complex regenerative processes and which embraces the uncertainty of the future as a design condition. The reversibility of interventions, environmental sustainability and a multilevel governance define an approach that privileges inclusion and collective responsibility. Regeneration is then seen here as a practice of care and justice towards the architectural heritage and towards the right to housing. Supported by the case study, this thesis argues that by reactivating an abandoned area the relationship between memory and the future can be redefined, thus transforming the void into a social and relational infrastructure, and therefore giving centrality and dignity back to those who have been left on the fringes of society for far too long.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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