What future for lesser historic centres? Teaching experiences and future directions

The matter of the Italian historic centers depopulated or to became depopulated, is critical: The amount of the phenomenon is quiet high. The historic centers are approximately 20’000 and 6’000 are depopulated. The primary goal is to train architects able to intervene to prevent and improve the building heritage. This architects should operate with competence and respect the social and cultural contexts. During the years the core of restoration’s classes and master’s degree attended in Faculty of Architecture at the University Roma Tre is to study the historic centers of small village through dedicated workshops. The theoretical basis are the teaching of Paolo Marconi and Antonino Giuffrè, and the studies on the buildings types attended by Gianfranco Caniggia. The purpose of the workshops was communicate to students how to represent and interpret the historic buildings and urban landscape in order to recognize the typological and constructive character of the cultural heritage and in order to restore them properly and to prevent the seismic risk. The students can take successful possession, of the technical of survey and classification. The survey was extended to the components of construction, architectural and historical artifacts: detailed drawings of the walls and vertical partitions, stone and tile roof, wood and iron finishes, allowed to highlight the technological complexity of traditional construction and material. Finally, students have grappled in defining the criteria for action using the same construction techniques detected, consistent with improvements, still for the purpose of preserving the authentic characteristics, ensure the conservation and ensure safety. This paper aims to present the teaching experiences and research attended in different contexts, both national and international, united by few things: small historic centers in high seismic risk areas and buildings type that characterize the local identity.