TRANSITIONS OF CULTURAL LANDSCAPES, RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DRAWING, SHAPE AND CONTEXT

The fortifications draw the territory through a deep cultural stratification emerging interpretations of images with different and unique in shape and conservation condition have come down to us. Each historical period is characterized by methods and technologies available to designers: the representation is child of its time, from simple pencil sketches to "elevations" to the seventeenth-century prints perspective views to the current three-dimensional views. In order to better understand the nature of fortifications is essential to observe the changes of the project, from architecture "drawn on paper" to "drawn on the ground" from drawing to reality. The perfection of the geometric rule is applied on imperfect orography territory. They are fortresses, castles and fortifications born with functional and economic reasons that they cannot be reactivated today. However they can be modified and they can to transit to the topicality by acquiring new meanings and values.