Archaeology and nature: hyblean cultural landscape and territorial ...

The design of sustainability in relation to innovative modernity and
identity features of place
Giacinto TAIBI 1 , Rita VALENTI 1 , Mariangela LIUZZO 2
1 DARC, Facoltà di Architettura, sede di Siracusa, Università di Catania, Italia
2 Facoltà di Ingegneria Architettura e Scienze Motorie, Università di Enna “Kore”, Italia
E-mail: giacinto.taibi@gmail.com, ritam.valenti@gmail.com, mariangela.liuzzo@libero.it
Abstract
The lack of a deep sense of responsibility and respect for the distinctive features of place, to which the
production of practising architecture must make reference, very often produces designs of compositional
morphologies that are not fitting and inadequate to the geographic nature of the topos, with heavy
repercussions of environmental degradation on the sustainable ecosystems.
The entire apparatus of signs that the territory manages to express must be constructive and strongly
determining in the definition of the strategies that should guide and support the whole procedure of the
stages of creative thought.
In this sense, proceeding from the first intuitions that have come about through the accurate representative
transpositions on paper, the entire successive process revolves around the compatible ratio with the ecosustainability
of the place, that unites the planned intervention with the area of land.
The materialization of innovative modernity, through the volumetric control of the parts and in relation to a
framework of systemic congruence, is realized in a frettage of iterative relationships between what is full and
its contrary.
Accordingly, given the close bond between design and plan, precisely that we are today experiencing a
moment of profound instrumental changes, the complexities of the outcomes of innovative designs, seen
within the evolution of the creative processes, become qualities to investigate and understand, in a systemic
way, with an introspective eye.
Keywords: Environment, Topos, Morphology, Sign, Sustainability
1. The design-concept process and the signic imaginary as impulse of the creative act (M.
Liuzzo)
Today more than ever, the life of the human species is conditioned, besides by the course of natural
phenomena and impact of forces of a higher order, by consequences that are not always governed by
political-decisional logic, which, from the global to the local and individual scale, are unfortunately not always
accompanied by a conscious assumption of responsibility.
Inevitably, at the manifesting of needs and requirements, in the first instance Man resorts to instinct and
cultural resources, able to trigger that logical-ideational process taking place in the complexity of the
articulate functions of the brain.
Here, a fascinating and to a certain extent still mysterious, organizational structure is housed, made up of
different interacting reticular areas, heading up on one hand a logical mind, situated in the left hemisphere,
rational, sequential, mathematical, that organizes information and communications, and on the other, an
emotional mind, that occupies the right hemisphere, irrational, intuitive, creative and oneiric. [1]
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