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Fig. 2.
The three topographic
platforms of the Part
Alta.
If we wanted our proposal to be realistic and possible, the answers
had to be clear and precise, avoiding singular and personal projects
and looking for a common language that allowed the concurrence of
different professionals in a process of implantation that was foreseen
to be an on-going project.
Our limit was the urban public space that was specified in some
streets and squares, where the Administration wanted a new pavement
and urban layout.
Moreover we wanted to turn these interventions into a readable
project, an open book, that chronicles the Part Alta, and if possible
being able to establish an open and flexible method, capable
of incorporating any new discovery, whose readability was simple
and immediate for any citizen, tourist or user of those urban places.
We understood then that the area of our work would be level zero
of the topography; this was understood as the flat surface defined by
the street level.
Above this level already known archaeological remains would
emerge and at the same time, below this level, we had to have the
capacity to make evident any new archaeological discovery or any
outline of the Roman city that turned up.
We focused all the efforts of our work on the pavement, with the
selection of a specific criterion whose implementation was that each
part or each platform of the Roman legacy was to be made evident.
By selecting different types of stone for each layer and with each layer
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