Vulnerability is a big issue for several small inland urban centres, characterized by settlement complexity, structural fragility, typological and formal inertia, and a low population density, most of which are exposed to the risk of depopulation. In the climate of the centre-northern part of Italy, and in the context of the recent concentration of a high number of earthquakes in that area, seismic vulnerability can become the determinant cause of the final abandonment of a small town. In some Italian regions, as well as in Emilia Romagna, municipalities are strongly committed in the implementation of effective seismic vulnerability reduction policies based on the Emergency Limit Condition, which has become a basic point of reference for ordinary land planning. This study proposes an approach to seismic vulnerability mitigation based on valuation planning for implementation within the general planning framework of the Faentina Union, a group of five small towns located in the south-western part of the Province of Ravenna, Italy. This approach consists of three main stages: Knowledge, concerning the typological, constructive, and technological descriptions of the buildings, specifically focused on their degree of vulnerability; interpretation, concerning the analysis of the urban fabric and its topographic arrangement with the aim of outlining a range of hypotheses with respect to damage in case of a prospective earthquake; planning, concerning the identification of the courses of action intended to meaningfully reduce the vulnerability of the buildings as first and of the whole old town as second. This stage includes a cost modelling tool aimed at defining the trade-off between the extension and the intensity of the vulnerability reduction works, given the budget. The main concern of this study is to provide the decision makers with a valuation-planning tool able to outline a wide range of scenarios differently combining the amount of the budget, the degree of safety and the completeness of the interventions. Such a flexible tool matches the need of implementing strategic policies able to combine the prospects of different stakeholders and stockholders, the former concerned about safety, the latter concerned about cost control.
La vulnerabilità è una delle principali criticità di molti piccoli centri, in particolare quelli interni, caratterizzati da complessità insediativa, fragilità strutturale, inerzia tipologica e formale, e bassa tensione localizzativa, e spesso esposti al rischio di spopolamento. Nella temperie dei recenti eventi sismici che hanno interessato il centro-nord del Paese, e nel contesto della recente concentrazione di un elevato numero di terremoti, la vulnerabilità sismica può diventare la causa determinante del definitivo abbandono dei centri minori nelle aree interne. In talune regioni italiane, come l'Emilia Romagna, i Comuni sono impegnati nelle politiche di mitigazione della vulnerabilità sismica, basate sulla Condizione Limite per l'Emergenza, un importante riferimento della pianificazione territoriale. Questo studio si inserisce nel contesto più generale di una ricerca sulla mitigazione della vulnerabilità sismica dei Comuni dell'Unione della Romagna Faentina, e propone un approccio valutativo e progettuale alla mitigazione della vulnerabilità sismica basato sui costi parametrici. Questo approccio si articola in tre fasi: la conoscenza, riguardante la descrizione degli aspetti tipologici, costruttivi, e tecnologici degli edifici, che concorrono a definirne il grado di vulnerabilità; l'interpretazione del tessuto urbano, intesa a delineare i tipi di intervento per la prevenzione del danno sismico alla scala urbana; la programmazione, riguardante l'identificazione dei processi di intervento intesi a ridurre significativamente la vulnerabilità degli edifici e dell'intero centro urbano. Quest'ultima fase individua gli interventi di mitigazione della vulnerabilità all'interno di un range definito delineando il rapporto di sostituzione tra l'estensione e l'intensità delle opere di riduzione della vulnerabilità, dato il budget. La flessibilità dello strumento abilita pratiche di programmazione strategica in grado di combinare prospettive diverse e talvolta conflittuali di stakeholder e stockholder, gli uni più interessati alla sicurezza, gli altri alla resilienza del patrimonio architettonico urbano, alla luce della concreta fattibilità finanziaria.
Axiological strategies in the old towns seismic vulnerability mitigation planning
Giuffre M;
2020
Abstract
Vulnerability is a big issue for several small inland urban centres, characterized by settlement complexity, structural fragility, typological and formal inertia, and a low population density, most of which are exposed to the risk of depopulation. In the climate of the centre-northern part of Italy, and in the context of the recent concentration of a high number of earthquakes in that area, seismic vulnerability can become the determinant cause of the final abandonment of a small town. In some Italian regions, as well as in Emilia Romagna, municipalities are strongly committed in the implementation of effective seismic vulnerability reduction policies based on the Emergency Limit Condition, which has become a basic point of reference for ordinary land planning. This study proposes an approach to seismic vulnerability mitigation based on valuation planning for implementation within the general planning framework of the Faentina Union, a group of five small towns located in the south-western part of the Province of Ravenna, Italy. This approach consists of three main stages: Knowledge, concerning the typological, constructive, and technological descriptions of the buildings, specifically focused on their degree of vulnerability; interpretation, concerning the analysis of the urban fabric and its topographic arrangement with the aim of outlining a range of hypotheses with respect to damage in case of a prospective earthquake; planning, concerning the identification of the courses of action intended to meaningfully reduce the vulnerability of the buildings as first and of the whole old town as second. This stage includes a cost modelling tool aimed at defining the trade-off between the extension and the intensity of the vulnerability reduction works, given the budget. The main concern of this study is to provide the decision makers with a valuation-planning tool able to outline a wide range of scenarios differently combining the amount of the budget, the degree of safety and the completeness of the interventions. Such a flexible tool matches the need of implementing strategic policies able to combine the prospects of different stakeholders and stockholders, the former concerned about safety, the latter concerned about cost control.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.