Redevelopment of the Precacore Ancient Village

How can beauty, history, and narratives of this community be preserved intact – of a community that, through a reciprocal exchange of human and natural events, has woven with this landscape an ancient construction?

This is the hypothesis that guides the project for these places: a reading of a past marked by continuous inscription – of floods, “fiumare”, abandonments, returns, and reconstructions – that constantly overlap and reflect one another. The site expresses a profoundly unsettled condition, a paradigm of a much broader state affecting society and the act of dwelling at these latitudes.

It reveals the image of a deeply living landscape – incised, scarred, rewritten – yet still appearing mythical and precious. A slow process of deconstruction first, followed by substitution and an equally languid physical and psychological reconstruction, returns to us pieces, fragments, ruins of a peculiar land: Calabria, which “seems made of debris”… objects, both physical and cultural, that are no longer useful or seem to lose their meaning. Ruins. [Vito Teti, 2017]

The ridge of Precacore thus confronts the powerful “fiumara” La Verde and the Santa Caterina ravine, within a context rich in resources rooted in landscape, nature, its environmental condition, and its intangible heritage.

The project connects, enhances, and communicates memories and knowledge through a network of places and elements, in order to transmit memory, culture, image, and landscape – fostering a renewed beginning that strengthens the deep ties between the settled community, its roots, and its future.