Concetti e strategie progettuali per ripensare il funzionamento di un comprensorio irriguo di derivazione appenninica

Moving from the working hypothesis of reading the water infrastructure as a fundamental support for territorial construction (Viganò, Secchi, Fabian, 2016), the following essay proposes an original perspective and some new analytical and conceptual operations to deal with this research theme. This aim is carried out by using a design experience based on a very specific case study: a territory that can be defined through the image, proposed by Piero Bevilacqua (1989), of the irrigation oasis, an irrigation districit with specialized agriculture characterized es by the relationship with the Apennine mountain and with the torrential regime of its water bodies. By translating this image into a specific ecological structure – produced by a close relation between surface and underground forms of water, thickness and rationality of the soil, forms and structures of agricultural property – the essay proposes an original reading of a contemporary territory designed by water.