URBAN CONSERVATION AND COLOUR PROJECT: VIRTUAL REALITY SUPPORTING TRADITION FOR THE PROTECTION OF HISTORIC CENTER OF LOMELLO

Aim of this paper is to describe a research project concerning the colour planning in Lomello, a small town in the Pavia province. The importance that the chromatic component covers in the architectural and environmental design revealed herself, also in Italy, in a strong attention towards all urban planning and design actions through the colour project tool. In the former attempts of urban requalification, colour in historical centre hadn’t been discussed for its intrinsic evidence of material culture, but as mere cutting edge characteristic. Today this issue is evaluated under a new point of view and colour matter is bearer of signs of the times and of local recollection. For this purpose the goal of the proposal for a façades preservation project inside a sample area in the historical centre of Lomello is the collection of the chromatic data and their analysis to establish the best strategies of intervention to be evaluated through the use of virtual reality tools.