Historical Cloisters and Courtyards as Quiet Areas
Searching for renovating and/or constructing quiet areas in historical urban sites, along with the conservation and valorization policies of the tangible and intangible value of historic urban sites are goals that can be combined into a unique sustainable strategy for the preservation of the sense o...
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doaj-e52f6b275d47492baef28661c2e973222020-11-25T02:34:45ZengMDPI AGSustainability2071-10502020-04-01122887288710.3390/su12072887Historical Cloisters and Courtyards as Quiet AreasMassimiliano Masullo0Francesca Castanò1Roxana Adina Toma2Luigi Maffei3Department of Architecture and Industrial Design, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 81031 Aversa (CE), ItalyDepartment of Architecture and Industrial Design, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 81031 Aversa (CE), ItalyDepartment of Architecture and Industrial Design, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 81031 Aversa (CE), ItalyDepartment of Architecture and Industrial Design, Università degli Studi della Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”, 81031 Aversa (CE), ItalySearching for renovating and/or constructing quiet areas in historical urban sites, along with the conservation and valorization policies of the tangible and intangible value of historic urban sites are goals that can be combined into a unique sustainable strategy for the preservation of the sense of place and identity of communities as well as their well-being. Historic cloisters and courtyards are examples of such sites. Due to their physical, architectural, environmental and cultural features, they present restorative capabilities that could qualify them as quite areas. This paper aims to establish a new procedure that, through the exploration and analysis of past and current aspects of these sites, makes it possible to classify them and understand whether they still preserve a restorative character. A graphic representation, obtained from a historical analysis and an objective description of past and current historical/architectural, environmental and cultural scenarios, has been used. The results were compared with those of the Perceived Restorativeness Scale (PRS-11). A diamond shape represents highly restorative sites, while deviations from this shape were found to be weakly correlated with a restorative nature. This has also been shown by the high positive correlation of analytical parameters with the PRS-11 score and, in particular, with the component of Fascination.https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/12/7/2887cloisters 1courtyards 2quiet areas 3soundscape 4restorativeness 5preservations 6 |
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Massimiliano Masullo Francesca Castanò Roxana Adina Toma Luigi Maffei Historical Cloisters and Courtyards as Quiet Areas Sustainability cloisters 1 courtyards 2 quiet areas 3 soundscape 4 restorativeness 5 preservations 6 |
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Historical Cloisters and Courtyards as Quiet Areas |
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Searching for renovating and/or constructing quiet areas in historical urban sites, along with the conservation and valorization policies of the tangible and intangible value of historic urban sites are goals that can be combined into a unique sustainable strategy for the preservation of the sense of place and identity of communities as well as their well-being. Historic cloisters and courtyards are examples of such sites. Due to their physical, architectural, environmental and cultural features, they present restorative capabilities that could qualify them as quite areas. This paper aims to establish a new procedure that, through the exploration and analysis of past and current aspects of these sites, makes it possible to classify them and understand whether they still preserve a restorative character. A graphic representation, obtained from a historical analysis and an objective description of past and current historical/architectural, environmental and cultural scenarios, has been used. The results were compared with those of the Perceived Restorativeness Scale (PRS-11). A diamond shape represents highly restorative sites, while deviations from this shape were found to be weakly correlated with a restorative nature. This has also been shown by the high positive correlation of analytical parameters with the PRS-11 score and, in particular, with the component of Fascination. |
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cloisters 1 courtyards 2 quiet areas 3 soundscape 4 restorativeness 5 preservations 6 |
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