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Abstract
The intervention on ruins and monuments of Antiquity, aimed at
recovery and rehabilitation, is a physiological practice in the history
of architecture and cities. Modernity has rather brought four
particular connotations: first, the critical problem of the continuity
and discontinuity between old and new and the need to introduce
the concept of difference of the new intervention from the old in
terms of form-material. Second, the contemporary opinion that such
interventions are related only to processes of musealization. Third,
the introduction of the concept of reversibility as a moral principle
aimed at the preservation of the original building and consequently
as an involute real “fear of failure”. Finally, the critical relationship
between old and new as a key for the interpretation that contemporary
Western society has given herself to find an historical identity.
From the eighteenth century till the present day, this relationship
moves from a mainly cultural plane to the one of a cultural policy.
This study and its analysis strategies started up during the International
Seminar of Villa Adriana - Piranesi Prix de Rome since 2003.
In 2010 and 2011 the Seminar has banned two international calls
for built architectures whose the most important objective was the
analysis and understanding of the state of the Art in architectural
design for cultural heritage sites by way of a competition intended to
recognize the best built projects globally. The results are a collection
of case studies, whose here twelve projects are quoted as an example,
consist mainly of archaeological museums or musealizations of archaeological
sites located in urban and suburban environments and
have been classified according to three main areas of contact between
the project, the existing environment and the nature of the site that
describe different conditions: Landscapes, Contexts, In between.
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