The twenty-seven buildings of the Littorio rural hamlet in Candiana, Italy. Hypotheses of recomposition

The paper refers to the current state of a rural hamlet built in 1938 in the Municipality of Candiana, under the political context of the time of improving living conditions in the countryside. Located in the low Padua region, the Littorio hamlet comprised of twenty-seven buildings in which lived fifty-one families. The buildings, equal in size but different in the lay-outs of their façades, were built on the sides of a specially-designed road, 630 metres long and 7 wide. The houses, with a rectangular layout, looked out at one another on both sides of the new road, hosting two families each one behind the symmetrical facades. The building complex can still be visited today, but little remains of its original appearance that may be gleaned from photographic evidence of the time. Many of the houses, having each been developed consistently, are now unrecognizable, and at least one has been demolished and been replaced by a featureless villa. The main issue addressed here is how the systematic tampering of these houses can be stopped, and how to promote compensatory operations that might take into account their original general order and particular form.