Abstract
This paper tries to demonstrate the transmissibility of a prototype for primary care in several marginal areas through the historical awareness of the reference context. The role and the concept of the prototype in architecture has been investigated for its critical function and its potential assignment in defining a conceptual and experimental structure of space. Firstly, the article defines the prototype as a synthesis operation addressed to a shareability, repeatability and transmissibility of the design concept ideas, both from the theoretical point of view and its physical construction. Its conceptual attitude in being more open to acquire different operative solutions (according to the place, context, material or construction's methodology) more than a single proposal (such as a completely defined project) involves one of the possible analytical and experimental ways of dealing with the practice of creativity in some circumstances of precariousness. At the current juncture, it is more than ever necessary to propose a strategic vision. Moreover, the goal of sustainability, at the center of the interests of international research institutions, requires overcoming modelling solutions. On the contrary, it is about identifying solutions on elements that have generalizable characters (starting from those of the chosen sample area) and which must guarantee the replicability of the approach in similar situations.
Secondly, the location of the prototype in a particular context can be achieved through an organic approach that involves simultaneously both the aesthetic field connected to the figurative and spatial aspects and the technical field linked to the constructive aspects. In other words, the related areas and structures are a "resilience reserve" able to preserve, in the first place, the characteristics and settlement values of the places. In this respect, it is necessary to experiment with a revitalization strategy that intervenes as well as on the single product on a larger scale with a more inclusive strategy of the economic and social aspects and not only on architectural capital. Then, the essay tries to verify the generalization of the prototype in a rural area of Brazil paying attention to some aspects of the context, such as the typological aspects, the cultural and social conditions and the local building techniques, the traditional material and technologies, so as to involve in the proposal all the opportunities that can arise from the specific site. Finally, it can be said that the construction of the prototype was made trying to bring together the figurative and constructive aspects according to a scale that is no longer local, but which can be generalized in its main base, and declined with respect to local resources.