Restoration Ruins - Saving the Memory

Mostly wall traces that have lost their architectural connotation to take the one of the archaeological site.Often for their survival the archeological evidences need new structural works, such as roofing or descriptive panels that explain the original function. The creation of new structures to protect the old ones, which would not hold up to weather, creates a new problem of interpretation and of architectural language: it is preferable that the new covers simulate the old ones destroyed or, on the contrary, that they denounce their strangeness?

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Saving the Memory	Roman Farm of Acquarella in Camaiore
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Roman Farm of Acquarella

Camaiore (LU) ( II-I B.C.)

Commissioned by the Archaeological Superintendence of Tuscany - Ministry of Cultural Heritage - During the construction of a residential house some important ruins of an oil mill were discovered , that were part of a Roman farm dating century II-I B.C. and used until century IV-V A.D. Particularly interesting the underground “dolia” and the opus “spicatum” floor which needed a modular expandable coverage over time that gives the feeling of light and ephemeral. Hence the idea of the project to create a curved structure that recalls a sheet, a light and transparent structure, made just to cover the slender evidence of an ancient lost civilization. Due to a financial unavailability, the project was reformulated and a reticular traditional structure was created.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nicola Gallo architetto