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Giuseppe Amoruso

A code for the lost city

The historical centre of European cities is, by its own nature, a complex place whose image and

urban culture must be preserved by the use of appropriate guidelines.

The codified representation of the traditional city, of historical centres, of their urban shape and

typological components (architecture and technology of the façades, materials, and colours) is

devised to encourage a process innovation and to facilitate the restoration and maintenance of the

urban patrimony.

The colour plans for the historical centres of Meldola and Morciano di Romagna

The “Colour Plan - An Architecture, Material, and Colour Design Code for the Historical Centre” is

an urbanistic tool whose prescriptions act as fixed guidelines for all the interventions carried out in

the area covered by the Plan itself, i.e. the historical centre.

The aim of the Colour Plan is to regulate all interventions carried out on the façades, with specific

reference to their composition, to the technology and materials that must be used, up to the colour

palette for the finish of all surfaces. It is a tool which can guarantee the requalification of the urban

image as integration of key and residential buildings.

A further goal of the Plan is the protection of the urban décor. The guidelines it provides facilitate

the preservation and safeguard of the architecture of the historical centre on all levels (building

typology, morphology, colour, and aesthetics), as well as the best possible preservation of

traditional building models, in good harmony with the specific techniques for historical centres.

The Plan makes use of the following methods of urban survey in order to draw a critical cognitive

map:



- Photogrammetry and chromatic survey of urban façades

- Survey of the state of preservation and deterioration of urban façades

All private projects must then act within the framework of local building codes.

The Building Code

The Plan guidelines and recommendations articulate around the “Colour Palette”, the “Code of

Architecture, Materials and Colours”, and the “Book of Façade Decoration, Techniques and

Materials”.

The “Palette” includes a selection of colours and nuances considered suitable for plaster surfaces as

well as iron and wooden elements.

The “Code of Architecture, Materials, and Colours” refers to the main homogeneous categories of

morphological, compositive, and technological elements, as well as to plants and fittings.

The “Book of Façade Decoration, Techniques, and Materials” instead offers a range of solutions

often recurring in the historical centre, all of them based on the lexicon of traditional architecture.



As such, the Plan provides all the necessary tools to reconstruct the urban image and establishes

itself as a technical and operational support for all interventions that act specifically on façades. It

also works as an incentive for projects to make a more consistent use of a comprehensive approach

aimed at salvaging and restoring, both typologically and morphologically, what was already there.

The Plan also tries to give the urban image a specific connotation, highlighting the aesthetic

component of the identity of each place and giving the urban complex texture a social as well as an

economic value.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Amoruso, G. (2006) Rural Landscape and Architectural Quality, Bologna: Patron Editore.

Amoruso, G. (2007) Rethinking the City. Projects for a new urban quality, Florence: Alinea

Editrice.

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