COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN FOR THE PRESERVATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF HISTORICAL HERITAGE. A PREFABRICATED COVERING PROTOTYPE FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN RURAL CONTEXT

In recent years, the growing debate at national and international level about the musealisation of archaeological heritage has highlighted the need of safeguarding an archaeological finding and publicizing it in order to enhance it as a communal heritage. The archaeological heritage has the added value of memory, involving the territory and its landscapes. In this sense, the landscape itself becomes not only object of research, but a real museum of cultural evolution. Today, we are witnesses of a contradictory phenomenon: on the one hand, we try to evoke the cultural context exposing the archaeological findings in a museum, on the other hand no efficient expedients are adopted in situ to encourage the visitor to understand forms, contents and transformations of the archaeological findings. In this paper, we aim to present a first study for the development of a prefabricated covering prototype for archaeological sites in rural or peri-urban areas, with the function of both protection and musealization of COMPUTATIONAL DESIGN FOR THE PRESERVATION AND ENHANCEMENT OF HISTORICAL HERITAGE. A PREFABRICATED COVERING PROTOTYPE FOR ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN RURAL CONTEXT