ORIAS. Between architecture and landscape.

The challenge of my thesis was to find a new function for an abandoned village that could be realized in a sustainable way, keeping the typical characteristics unchanged, and at the same time improving the current situation by favoring the entire community of the area.

I started with the analysis of the historical settlement, through surveys that allowed to know the hamlet in various aspects that characterize it. Then I made a manual of possible interventions consisting in good practices which can be followed in recovering Orias. The manual and the analysis then merged in the variant to give the intervention directions for each building. That part is then found to profit during the design phase. In parallel I made a research and analysis of demográphical situation and the socio-economic context in which it is going to operate, the District of 21 municipalities denominated "Alta Carnia". Such research has been done using various sources, especially institutional documents of Friuli Region and the European Community . Then I drawn the conclusion derived from the analysis of the territory and from the architecture analysis that brought to create an Albergo Diffuso. This allows to recover the stavoli, and promote them touristically, not distorting their appearance, restoring unity that for centuries had bound architecture and landscape through the recovery of meadows and surrounding fields, reintroducing the breeding and the old crops. I wanted also to investigate the funds obtained for this project as well as the start phase and the operations of the hamlet recovery and management of the hotel. Results obtained are converged on a strategy planning, embodied within the masterplan that sees recovery of terracing and the reintegration of the local crops the restoring of breeding tied with new pastures and new stables for cattle, and a room for the transformation and sale of products. Most of Orias buildings has been used to become little apartament or bedroom of the hotel, but it was considered necessary increasing mixitè addicting also a restaurant, a cafè, a little museum, a palce to rent bikes and technical equipment for mountain. As for the architectural aspects must say that the considerations taken by the new piano particolareggiato have been used within the project by applicate from time to time to resolve issues that emerged from the various buildings.