Outils méthodologiques pour la réhabilitation durable des batiments ruraux

This paper aims to present some methodological tools to support the recovery of traditional buildings in rural regions. We refer in particular to the G.A.L (Local Actions Groups) of Mongioie and Langhe & Roero sites in North Italy. Each “Guide” has been developed as a methodological and operating tool to support the maintenance, conservation and rehabilitation works on rural architecture and built starting with a rigorous and ample campaign of observation in the G.A.L. region, built through passages of successive depth, from the general (territorial level) to the particular (building and detail level). Both “Guides” can be configured as recommended standard instruments and were drawn up on the basis of study of the construction traditions and characteristics of the landscape in the reference area, which is largely mountainous and hilly. They are “Guides” and not “handbooks”, to avoid the risk represented by already experimented, with no good results, traditional tools like those of the “conformed solutions” chosen by a sort of a catalogue. In both cases, the projects were carried out within the Plans for Local Development financed by the EU program “Leader plus”. The Guidelines for restoration of the characterizing elements of the rural architecture of the Mongioie G.A.L. are already operational and pilot operations of applied experimentation are in progress, making it possible to "test" the instrument and provide information for its possible revision, if necessary. The Guidelines for restoration of the rural architecture of the Langhe & Roero G.A.L., drawn up on the basis of the previously concluded experience of the Mongioie Local Actions Groups have just been completed.