WATER AND MEDITERRANEAN CONSTRUCTION: HOW TO BUILD A SOFT AND CLEAN FUTURE

Giving birth to this magazine through the specific subjects of earth and water means actualizing the philosophical reflection of the Mediterranean culture and interpreting it according to an approach which, fifteen years after the initial of the new millennium, looks like the more suitable to be adopted, both as intellectual principle and as developing action.
We are talking about the new thought – so called soft – upon which, since the 80s the Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo, as well as other known scholars, founded their theory.
It does then appear acceptable to get closer to the constructive activities with a soft approach, which, being that, is not based on strong and nosy sensations, dynamics and actions towards the buildings’ users. Conversely this approach could underline the requirement of “… only alerting, a sort of accessorial consciousness”, a potential at listening and absorbing inside oneself the weaknesses, the minor emotions; and here we agree with Dal Lago when he states that “… the use of strength upsets the human order, his nature”. It will be convenient then to get closer to the project place with a sensitive soul which is careful to scan the context, by surveying also the most minute peculiarities of the site, thus observing and listening their nature and the small biodiversities. It will be suitable to forget to be powerful, and alternatively undermining “… the unity strength” and then finally “… be able to reconvert into nature the artificial elements, if we will be allowed to survive in a world which will not entirely be dehumanized”. […]