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Fig. 1.
Aquileia, plan project
of the Basilica Complex
with the new coverage on
the Chromatius room.
between different methodological and planning approaches to the
conservation and public display of archaeological remains and their
potential compatibility with daily life in the town centre. After the
assignment the first lot of works regarding Piazza Capitolo was
begun, followed by a second concerned with the delicate matter of
the in-situ protection and public display of the southern baptistery
chamber mosaics.
The leitmotif of the whole project - divided into five lots which also
include the reorganization of Piazza Patriarchi, the present car park
and the environs of the northern post-Theodoric Basilica - is the
central role of the archaeological remains as a unifying general theme,
connecting aspects regarding protection and public display, the treatment
of the remains themselves and the surface tracing of ancient
building plans which links together the surviving structures (fig. 1).
Thus Piazza Capitolo, completely pedestrian, conserves in its paving
the outline of the great post-Theodoric colonnaded courtyard,
the plan of which emerged from numerous excavation campaigns,
together with parts of the Nord-Halle and baptistery narthex. The
square is paved with split slabs and small blocks of Muggia sandstone,
laid on sand without mortar and interspersed - in an instructive
representation - with flags of Aurisina stone. An analogous
design is planned for Piazza Patriarchi, where the outline of the
large Horrea, recorded as standing monuments until the eighteenth
century, will be seen on the surface, giving form to the open area
south of the Basilica.
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