Protection and valorization of the modern rural heritage: ICT methodologies, rehabilitation projects and reuse of agrarian land reform villages in Basilicata

The topic of rediscovering and systematising the knowledge of historical and testimonial value examples among the rural hamlets of the agrarian land reform in Italy currently acquires particular relevance for the purposes of their protection, possible rehabilitation and compatible reuse of the existing settlement and building heritage. Starting from a preliminary recognition of the particular cases of interest, the proposed contribution focuses mainly on the projects that took place in the land reclamation and transformation area of Basilicata, and in particular in the Middle Bradano Valley subregion in the province of Matera. In this area of reference, about thirty colonization settlements, including residential-type villages, service centers and scattered-type settlements, were built by the Land Reform Authority sometimes with the UNRRACASAS agency. According to the evaluations carried out on the current state of conservation of this heritage, in many cases abandoned, altered or in an advanced state of decay, possible methodological approaches are proposed, aimed at surveying the existing architectural typologies also through the use of digital tools pertaining to the ICT field (in particular GIS and HBIM technologies), at the basis of possible project proposals for the recovery, reuse and completion of these settlements. Specifically, a number of case studies, as the result of different research works, will be analysed: the villages of Santa Maria d'Irsi and La Martella.