Linguaggio edilizio nell'edilizia di base pre-industriale. Definizione di strumenti per la lettura del processo di caratterizzazione tecnologica e linguistica, con finalità operative per i fondi urbani della città storica. Un caso studio: Ferrara

In preindustrial basic buildings, technological solutions that a local community processes to respond to specific needs are the lexical components of building language. Such processing takes place within the limits of a spontaneous behavior - which is aimed at finding the most economical resolution in terms of material and constructive knowledge - until the gradual progress of technological possibilities and the gradual weakening of the cultural and constructive limitations caused by the local-size of each community, lead to solutions gradually more elaborate than the initial spontaneous ones. This process is particularly interesting if it’s related to the costitutive elements of building enclosure, which constitute the main vehicles of rework in construction, technology and formal solution- first relating to the local tradition and then to monumental architecture’s codes- enriched gradually by the intentionality of architectural language. This process is particularly important in historical basic buildings, where urban tissue is readable in plan and elevation as a continuous organic and enclosure, in its specific connotation of facade, plays a key role in the characterization of building units. This applies in basic buildings rather than monumental architectures, because in monumental architectures all parts of the construction, such as the enclosure, are configured as costitutive elements designed to be representative of a coded language and architectural culture that often goes beyond the local traditions. Building language, as an anthropic product at minimum scale construction, it’s a particular aspect of the spontaneous process in pre-industrial buildings that regulates transformations in building structures and urban tissues. The approach to its reading can be follows methodological criteria of morpho-typological basic buildings reading, with the aim of systematically reconstruct the logical spontaneous figurative and construction processuality of its elements. This investigation, based on a multi-scale reading of building transformations, can break free from considerations about uniqueness of building product and influence of specific actors in building process; these are evaluations that were otherwise inevitable in the case of investigations on individual building, especially in monumental architecture. It is possible to encode, and not only classify, basic building language to reconstruct systematically the figurative and construction processuality of its elements? It is possible to outline this method of analysis to develop a design tool to support cognitive actions on historical urban tissue? These are the questions that the research aims to answer.