Flooded Settlements in the Italian Mountains as Consequence of the Construction of Dams – Case Studies and their Relationship with Vernacular Architecture
This work is part of an international research with a principal aim to study and understand the pro-cesses related to heritage caused by the massive construction of dams and reservoirs during the central decades of the past century in Spain and Italy. We studied the repercussions, not only from a building restoration perspective, but also associ-ated fields - such as memory, politics, geography, sociology or anthropology - in order to manage all the “reactions” that engage the topic of collective memory. Furthermore, the study constitutes an op-portunity to build new concepts with which to ana-lyse (and design) contemporary fields of study for the improvement of strategies for the conservation of the values of villages in areas with high seismic risk or hydro-geological instability. We present different examples of flooding pro-cesses that are significant in understanding the complexity of these operations acted in a differ-ent way, one with a negotiated reconstruction, the other one with demands on the part of the inhabit-ants that made the operation infeasible or the most extreme case, the last one without reconstruction of the villag
