Recovery and reuse of the Carbonia’s dwellings. Proposal for a “Handbook for the Recovery of Modernist Building"

The coordinated set of policies and strategies put in place being in 2001, for the requalification of the architectural and landscape heritage of Carbonia, the autarkic company town par exellence, and recovery of the “Great Mine in Serbariu”, that won the Landscape Award of the Council of Europe in 2010-2011, was based on a close collaboration between a multidisciplinary team of the University of Cagliari and the municipality of Carbonia. “The handbook for the recovery”, whose construction is still underway, fits into this framework and coincides with an operational tool that regulates action on the built heritage. It does not provide a catalogue of standardized solutions, but merely defines a knowledge base to guide the designer towards the recognition of the buildings’ invariant aspects and towards the understanding of the original architectural expression