COLOUR AND LIGHT TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE VALORISATION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE: THE FORTE MARGHERA CASE STUDY

The need for the redevelopment of urban and peripheral degraded areas is increasingly felt as crucial. This issue mainly concerns highly valued landscapes with dismissed buildings, no longer used for their original purpose. These include the dismissed military heritage, which has a high importance from an historical, environmental and cultural point of view and thus requires a specific approach as far as its redevelopment, valorisation and management are concerned. The lack of public or private initiatives and, above all, the lack of funds represent an obstacle that needs to be overcome. This paper describes the results of a research project, funded and carried out within the scope of the “Colour&Light in Architecture” Research Unit of Università Iuav di Venezia, with two main aims: the drawing up of a technical-scientific survey about the role of the new colour and light technologies applied to the valorisation of cultural heritage and, subsequently, the drawing up of the guidelines to be applied to the Forte Marghera case study.