Giuseppe Amoruso A code for the lost cityThe historical centre of European cities is, by its own nature, a complex place whose image and urban culture must be preserved by the use of appropriate guidelines. The codified representation of the traditional city, of historical centres, of their urban shape and typological components (architecture and technology of the façades, materials, and colours) is devised to encourage a process innovation and to facilitate the restoration and maintenance of the urban patrimony. Th e colour plans for the historical centres of Meldola and Morciano di Romagna The “Colour Plan - An Architecture, Material, and Colour Design Code for the Historical Centre ” is an urbanistic tool whose prescriptions act as fixed guidelines for all the interventions carried out in the area covered by the Plan itsel f, i.e. the historical centre. The aim of the Colour Plan is to regulate all interventions carried out on the façades, with specific reference to their composition, to the technology and materials that must be used, up to the colour palette for the finish of all surfaces. It is a tool which can guarantee the requalification of the urban image as integration of key and residential buildings. A further goal of the Plan is the protection of the urban décor. The guidelines it provides facilitate the preservation and safeguard of the architecture of the historical centre on all levels (building typology, morphology, colour, and aesthetics), as well as the best possible preservation oftraditional building models, in good harmony with the specific techniques for historical centres. The Plan makes use of the following methods of urban survey in order to draw a critical cognitive map:
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8/6/2019 Amoruso Venezia Centristorici.con Immagini