If is true that sustainability more than a philosophy, is a way of looking to the future that reinterpretsliving in harmony withnature, the rural building and the villages redevelopment on the edges of thecity corresponds to a life expectancy in which one looks at the horizon without limitations, with adimension of the living of freedom and breath.Today, 50% of Italians live in cities, and the trend is increasing. Thus the suburban city widens,strengthening connections and infrastructures and characterizing a consequent progressivetransformation in metropolis. This phenomenon, that sociologists define “gentrification”, is the result ofan expansion that takes place according to the virtual horizontal direction, because cities representeconomic and social attractors providing services, and people, especially young people, working in thesame tertiary sector, live in the suburb ring of the city where the cost of living is reduced compared tothe city centres. The rural heritage makes available, with its infinite potential, new opportunities torecover a more sustainable way of life and to finalize the rural building redevelopment in the futurelifestyle. Therefore, beyond the programs of good intentions for the rural architecture restoration, oneof the most suitable possibilities for recovery of the anthropized landscape is to experiment, withtangible materializations, a re-live as a feasible environmental recovery that rediscovers the potentialof houses and rural villages and re-read them in a sustainable living dimension.