Architetture di campo. L’azienda rurale come nuovo centro delle trasformazioni del paesaggio in Sardegna.

Nowadays, the dynamics of the European rural landscapes have reignited the debate on the role of the farm, as a fundamental tool for the sustainable and multifunctional management of the agro-systems. This is peculiarly true in a critical phase like the current one, where it is at stake the role of Sardinia in an increasingly unstable globalization scenario, with outgoing changes in the usual paradigms of rural societies and their ability to ‘produce’ landscapes. Thus, the Thesis aims to explores the individual, collective and reformist attempts to colonise with isolated farm units the ‘empty’ countryside of the island outside the ‘longue-durée’ settlements during the last century. After an overview of the liaison in Europe between architectural design and farming systems across tradition and modernity, this study shapes the deep modifications of the farms ‘heritage’ in Sardinia focusing on the tectonic relationship between buildings, production and landscape. Moreover, this Thesis submits an interpretation scheme of the typo-morphological variations of the agropastoral farms related to a valley-section of the rural landscapes of Sardinia. Indeed, the farm, as a unit of interpretation of the landscape dynamics, involves the management of the ground, to be considered as an operative platform of physical and temporal layers where the techniques, the nature of the biotic and abiotic elements available in the site shaped the landscapes features through a residual and adaptable approach vis-à-vis the ecological framework. As a result, it is argued that such dynamics, so similar to other marginal areas of Europe, could represent a gateway for rethinking the recursion between conservation and modification in the rural architecture, and so through the exploration of future-oriented scenarios where the contemporary Sardinian farms can overcome the specialised models towards multifunctional, poly-cultural and shared hubs for the inhabitants of rural contexts.