| Popis: |
The Incurables Hospital complex, defined as “the most articulated complex of the ancient center of Naples”, is an exemplary case of how signs of time can accumulate on them-selves, creating unitary spaces. Bombings, which in 1943 destroyed some parts of the complex, led to operations of demolitions and re-construction that permanently altered its relation with the ancient city walls. The traces of the walls, the “wound” of the ruined front, the new configurations brought by post-war re-construction are all pieces of a hard-ly transformable space, but a space of great interest for a contemporary architectural pro-ject. The proposed design strategy provides a spatial re-interpretation of different “layers” that characterize the complex stratified architectural “mass”: the underground level, the level of gardens and the level of terraces. In overlapped layers of historic city lies the op-portunity to recover a continuity of connections, “re-discovering” significant forgotten spaces and creating a continuous path. |
