L'architettura del moderno in Sardegna. Il caso di Arborea. Analisi delle tecniche costruttive e interventi per il recupero

This research concerns the analysis of a case study, the city of Arborea in Sardinia, from the specific perspective of technologies and construction tecnhiques used at the time of the establishment of the settlement, which took place between the ‘20s and ‘30s of the twentieth century, as a result of an extensive reclamation of a portion of Terralba’s Campidano conducted by Società Bonifiche Sarde. The town, already known under the name of Mussolinia di Sardegna, was born as a services centre for people who used to live in that territory - people were mostly placed in farm-houses or in productive centres of the company - and plays a role of a great importance. The foundation of the settlement represents a sort of snapshot of the level of the Sardinia’s technological development during the 30’s and, most of all, it’s very important from the construction history’s point of view, because it provides informations that make up a progress tile, if compared to the actual level ok knowledge, about how technological modernization took place in a transition era from traditional technologies to modern ones, that are mostly represented by the introduction of reinforced concrete. This work has been developed starting from some reflections about restoration of modern architecture and from the role that construction history and the knowledge of material aspects of the XX century’s architecture play in this field of study; it has been carried on mostly by means of archival research on original and fresh documents, and supported by field surveys. Collected information, so specific because of their intimate relationship with the context, has been compared to the Sardinian and Italian technological context of the first decades of the XX century; thus, this work provides tools for the comprehension of the level of novelty that Arborea’s establishment represents. As a result, this research is the first step as well as a knowledge base, for further surveys and studies directed not only to a more in-depth analysis of technological aspects but also to define, in the future, tools functional to recovery and restoration intervetions on this architectural heritage, so important and so representative of a period characterized by great changes, in Sardinia.