40°55'28.54" N 14°52'00.42" E

The housing emergency due to the violent November 23, 1980 Irpinia-Lucania earthquake was really dramatic not only for the communities in the epicentral areas, but also for the villages located relatively further away, that suffered a much lower level of destruction. This is the case of my native land, San Potito Ultra, a small village of about 1500 inhabitants in the province of Avellino (Campania region), located in the earthquake far field, where 200 people were left homeless. The dreadful situation induced the local administrations to make up for the homeless by adopting temporary measures such as the installation of various types of prefabricated buildings not far from the village centre. Among these certainly the most singular, for shape and size, were the thermo-higloos (dome house) of expanded polystyrene, which were a gift from the Sicily Region. About twenty of them were installed, and this solution that was supposed to be temporary, over time turned into almost permanent, in fact they were inhabited for over twenty years. The thermo-igloos, or rather what remained of them, were completely dismantled only a few years ago, in 2015. This book collects several photos of how were these igloos and what is still visible today in the location identified by the geographical coordinates 40°55'28.54" N - 14°52'00.42" E It shows images for our memory, in order to not completely remove the tragedy of that moment, moreover it makes a contribution to future memory. https://it.blurb.com/b/9911388