Representation and Continuity. The regeneration of the area, the city and the architecture.

The continuity between what was, what is, what will be, is the prelude to any problem that arises, as its goal, the critical representation of a natural or artificial place. The urban sites represent sedimentation and accumulation of continuity transformative - obvious or hidden, present or missing which, over time, helped to configure the characters identity. The comparison with the specificity of the places, the knowledge of the different sedimentary layers, the recognition of the values of witnesses, the distinction between relevant and irrelevant - to be implemented through the survey and the drawing in a perspective of logical connection between parts missing, existing realities and assumptions modificative - represent the conceptual assumptions for the construction of a new design of continuity. In this sense, a cognitive approach to graphics-based, research-based continuity, it is essential to identify those intonations architectural measures to redefine the lost harmony of the place raped by the consumer society. The town of Acerra, north of Naples, is an urban exemplum of great interest to test the responsiveness of the design with respect to the issue of continuity is due to the characteristics of its Urbis shape - of Roman origin - and because of the presence of an architectural monument, the Castello Baronale, able to enclose itself, evokes, the history of the city of belonging.