ARCHITETTURA CONTEMPORANEA E CENTRI STORICI

Intervening in consolidated city centres, characterised by a recognisable identity, delineates a field of action suspended between two opposing criticalities: on the one hand, the risk of a protagonism of the “new” fuelled, often, by an exasperated search for self-referentiality on the part of the designer; on the other, recourse to an idea of “continuity” usually foreign to contemporary language, considered by most to be unsuitable for interpreting the project in the historic centre in that it does not adhere to the same structure. The result, in both positions, is a decalogue of prescriptions that effectively excludes any possibility of spatial confrontation with the existing. Within this premise, the hypothesis of completion of the amphitheatre of Siderno Superiore in southern Ionian Calabria, materializes in the “last line” of the constructions the characteristics of an infrastructural project that reverberates the formal, linguistic, and material themes of the fabric.