Heritage protection and enhancement: knowledge, understanding, communication
The restoration interventions have a limited duration respect to the life of the architectural heritage,
which is affected above all by everyday life. The text emphasizes the need for restoration interventions
to make the monument easily understandable and enjoyable: an appropriate use becomes a guarantee of
safeguarding, as more effective and appropriate will be the ways in which citizens will be made aware of
the value of the historical heritage and will feel responsible for it. The understanding of the socio-cultural
context is fundamental, to define a way of using the historical heritage that derives from the analysis of
its natural and anthropic environment and consider the local economic and socio-cultural dynamics, so
much to foresee the impacts they will have on physical space and on safeguarding. In this perspective, the
architect becomes an interpreter and a tool to design an enhancement to return to the monument the
capacity to communicate himself and transmit to citizens an adequate awareness of its value to facilitate
its conservation.
