Fragili morfologie. La Calabria dei borghi abbandonati

The proposed work tackles the theme of abandoned villages in Calabria and analyses, in particular, the role of representative modelling and graphic simulation as a monitoring tool for an intervention methodology that aims at recovering “morphological memory”. The proposed theme analyses intangible significances as urban archetypes that may still be renewed through practices that restore “meanings”rather than things. Through surveys and cognitive explorations the consistency of each sample’s urbanity is analysed in relation to its state of abandonment. The presented models represent different layers of research that analyse the morphological characteristics of the sites in which the global urban form in the relationship with the its territory highlights the changes in use of the housing structure according to the changes that essentially depend on natural factors, which urban structure has suffered in the course of its life. The question raised here concerns the role of representation as a tool for controlling