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Le città della Valle del Belice in Sicilia a cinquant’anni dal terremoto
2018
In seguito al drammatico terremoto che nel 1968 devastò 14 comuni della Valle del Belice, fu avviata una complessa macchina della ricostruzione, in cui le scelte non furono dettate da linee programmatiche omogenee ed univoche, determinando in alcuni casi la ricostruzione in situ dei centri distrutti, in altri il trasferimento in aree anche distanti dall’insediamento originario. La ricostruzione fu occasione per la comunità scientifica e professionale nazionale per sperimentare soluzioni progettuali che però, il più delle volte, non hanno tenuto conto della tradizione insediativa, tradendone le radici identitarie. Following the dramatic earthquake that devastated 14 municipalities in the Bel…
GIBELLINA: VANGUARD OF A COSMOPOLITAN CITY
2021
Gibellina is a city formed by orogenesis. It was reborn after a dramatic earthquake and shook the sediment off urban theory, becoming a city open to the world and to the worlds of contemporary culture; of architecture, art, theatre. To understand its revolutionary force, we must immerse ourselves in the context of 1968, when an earthquake hit the Belice Valley with a violence capable of damaging fourteen cities and razing four of them—including Gibellina— to the ground. The earthquake marked a sharp break in the historical continuity of the small, rural centre of Sicily. The original site of the town was abandoned and another city was built from scratch for the surviving inhabitants. The ci…
LARGE LANDSLIDES AND NEOTECTONICS: A CASE STUDY IN WESTERN SICILY
2009
The study area is located in the western sector of the Sicanian Mounts where the superimposition, consequence of the Miocene and Lower Pliocene tectonic transpressive phases, of different geologic bodies, having vergence to the southern quadrants, can be observed. In this area, the neo-autochthonous deposits are given by marly-clayey sediments of middle-upper Pliocene, pertaining to the “Marnoso-arenacea” Formation of the Belice Valley, and by Pleistocene calcarenites. The recent extensional tectonic crisis (neotectonics) have further dissected and dismembered the original structural edifice, involving also the Pleistocene calcarenites, which show tectonic displacements mainly NE – SW orien…
Restauri in Sicilia: gli interventi sui beni architettonici danneggiati dal terremoto del 1968 nella Valle del Belice
2020
Questo contributo mira ad integrare lo scenario culturale delle eterogenee esperienze incluse nella sessione “Protezione, pratica, codici e norme” del secondo Convegno Internazionale della SIRA Società Italiana per il Restauro dell’Architettura. L’articolato ventaglio dei casi studio, che spazia dal tema della tutela dei siti d’interesse ambientale alle normative settoriali in Italia e Francia, ed include le questioni tecniche e metodologiche riguardanti il cantiere di restauro, è completato dall’esperienza del restauro dei beni architettonici nei centri urbani danneggiati dal terremoto che interessa la valle del Belice in Sicilia nel 1968. Dopo aver inquadrato i luoghi danneggiati dal viol…
A regional-scale discontinuity in western Sicily revealed by a multidisciplinary approach: A new piece for understanding the geodynamic puzzle of the…
2015
The results of an integrated stratigraphic, structural, geophysical, and geochemical study reveal the presence of a crustal discontinuity in western Sicily that, at present, runs roughly N-S along a band from San Vito Lo Capo to Sciacca. The boundary between the two zones of this discontinuity is nearly orthogonal to the main thrust propagation of the Sicilian thrust-and-fold belt. The different Permian to Tertiary sedimentary evolution recorded by the two zones appears related to this discontinuity, with thick carbonate platforms in the western sector facing deepwater successions in the eastern one. The presence of Upper Triassic reefs, huge megabreccia bodies, and widespread submarine vol…