Rhythm and Continuity in Interventions to Reactivate Vacant Urban Spaces. Recognizing the Stratification of Places to Foster an Autonomous Process of Integration Between the Parts

 The combination of architectural intervention for the recovery of disused post-industrial complexes—necessary to respond to urgent and necessarily impatient social demands—with work on the landscape—accustomed to slowness and natural rhythms—leads us to consider the aleatory, the sense of uncertainty, which demands respect for places and materials as well as for time, at the basis of a project in constant evolution. Landscape, as an ‘upstream condition’ of social and ecological actions, requires recognition and intervention strategies with very high standards of flexibility, dimensioned with relatively low financial resources and capable of meeting an increasingly wide range of needs. The authors examine two post-industrial landscapes as logical links of places and signifiers, ongoing processes of stratification in continuous evolution, where the recovery project infiltrates itself in a space of experimentation in the form of versatile strategies for a gradual development that can be sustainable in the long term.