Cantiere periferie
TITLE
Cantiere periferie, alla ricerca di una città normale
CLIENT
Ministero dei beni Culturali e del Turismo
TIPOLOGY
Exibition
STATE
Temporary exibition
The exhibition “Cantiere periferie, alla ricerca di una città normale” took place in the spring of 2016 inside the Palazzo dell’Archivio Centrale dello Stato all’Eur in Rome. The building, designed by the architects De Renzi, Figini and Pollini for the Universal Exhibition of 1942, has a monumental facade with a double colonnade and is in close visual relationship with the Church of SS. Peter and Paul along the same route of Viale Europa.
The idea of the exhibition focuses on the theme of the journey through Italy to discover the districts of public initiative born during the urban expansion of the last 50 years.
A journey through Italy’s suburbs: spaces to rethink, transform, and experience together
The journey is represented metaphorically by a ramp-path consisting of a metal tube structure that becomes the common thread that from the outside to the inside accompanies the visitor to the discovery of the suburbs of Italy; the use of tubular steel, used for scaffolding in construction sites, symbolises figuratively the “construction site of the suburbs” to be redeveloped and rethought.
The route starts from the access staircase to the Palace and invites the visitor to walk a red carpet until you get to the monumental hall where, the large iron scaffold that supports the ramp, crossing vertically all the central space, becomes the fulcrum of the setting; it is a narrative and compositional element and at the same time gives shape to the design choice that allows you to use the large room 13 meters high welcoming the exhibition and the visitor.
Reuse
Once you enter the Palace you will find, on the one hand, a large map of Italy showing the stations of the journey through the Italian suburbs and, on the other, an info-graphic with the time-line of 70 years of house laws; We pass through a section dedicated to the original drawings, kept at the Central State Archives, which document some of the neighborhoods exposed in the exhibition, and then arrive at the central hall where the ascending path hosts the journey between the Italian suburbs.
At the first level, the documentary material, organized by regions, can be visited in a succession of rooms where, in a collected environment, the visitor finds in addition to a card with the data of the intervention and a critical text, a selection of images and photos of the selected districts.
The journey, which starts from the South of Italy to get to the North, continues and, through the path of the ramp, arrives at the second level: here the register changes totally, a 10-meter-high space is interspersed with a series of large hanging vertical elements that tell, through some qualifying project themes, possible scenarios of reflection and transformation of the suburbs.
The second level, in fact, is strongly characterized by the presence of hanging vertical banners that narrate, through large photos with captions reasoned, the five design themes identified and introduce the visitor in the dimension of the present.
The relationships with the city and the urban and natural landscape; the different ways of living; the transformations over time; public equipment and services and the articulation of open spaces are the themes that, organized through the declination of key actions, accompany the visitor along the path around the gallery. Finally, complete and offer moments of reflection areas for listening and viewing video contributions, a space for reading and one for debates. The exhibition continues to climb the ramp of another floor, symbolically leading to an overall view of the space and the exhibition, a vision “from above” that projects the visitor towards the future for the suburbs.
Credits
EXHIBITION DESIGN
Guendalina Salimei – T-STUDIO, Giulia Giampiccolo, Andrea Laganà, Luisella Pergolesi, Lucilla Di Paolo, Martina Di Pardo, Gianni Carletti
RENDERING
Francesco Trimarchi
STRUTTURE
Alessio Blasi
GRAPHICS
Altocontrasto di Mimosa Bolatti Guzzo e Marco Varriale
GRAPHICS PRODUCTION
Pubblilaser S.r.l.
COMMUNICATION
Francesca Martinotti, Studio Martinotti, Roma Maria Luisa Bisi, ACS
Metamorfosi. Quaderni di architettura 1/2016, Cantiere periferie. Alla ricerca di una città normale. Lettera Ventidue, Siracusa 2020 ISSN 1590-1394
Cantiere periferie
TITLE
Cantiere periferie, alla ricerca di una città normale
CLIENT
Ministero dei beni Culturali e del Turismo
TIPOLOGY
Exibition
STATE
Temporary exibition
The exhibition “Cantiere periferie, alla ricerca di una città normale” took place in the spring of 2016 inside the Palazzo dell’Archivio Centrale dello Stato all’Eur in Rome. The building, designed by the architects De Renzi, Figini and Pollini for the Universal Exhibition of 1942, has a monumental facade with a double colonnade and is in close visual relationship with the Church of SS. Peter and Paul along the same route of Viale Europa. The idea of the exhibition focuses on the theme of the journey through Italy to discover the districts of public initiative born during the urban expansion of the last 50 years.
A journey through Italy’s suburbs: spaces to rethink, transform, and experience together
The journey is represented metaphorically by a ramp-path consisting of a metal tube structure that becomes the common thread that from the outside to the inside accompanies the visitor to the discovery of the suburbs of Italy; the use of tubular steel, used for scaffolding in construction sites, symbolises figuratively the “construction site of the suburbs” to be redeveloped and rethought.
The route starts from the access staircase to the Palace and invites the visitor to walk a red carpet until you get to the monumental hall where, the large iron scaffold that supports the ramp, crossing vertically all the central space, becomes the fulcrum of the setting; it is a narrative and compositional element and at the same time gives shape to the design choice that allows you to use the large room 13 meters high welcoming the exhibition and the visitor.
Reuse
Once you enter the Palace you will find, on the one hand, a large map of Italy showing the stations of the journey through the Italian suburbs and, on the other, an info-graphic with the time-line of 70 years of house laws; we pass through a section dedicated to the original drawings, kept at the Central State Archives, which document some of the neighborhoods exposed in the exhibition, and then arrive at the central hall where the ascending path hosts the journey between the Italian suburbs.
At the first level, the documentary material, organized by regions, can be visited in a succession of rooms where, in a collected environment, the visitor finds in addition to a card with the data of the intervention and a critical text, a selection of images and photos of the selected districts.
The journey, which starts from the South of Italy to get to the North, continues and, through the path of the ramp, arrives at the second level: here the register changes totally, a 10-meter-high space is interspersed with a series of large hanging vertical elements that tell, through some qualifying project themes, possible scenarios of reflection and transformation of the suburbs.
The second level, in fact, is strongly characterized by the presence of hanging vertical banners that narrate, through large photos with captions reasoned, the five design themes identified and introduce the visitor in the dimension of the present.
The relationships with the city and the urban and natural landscape; the different ways of living; the transformations over time; public equipment and services and the articulation of open spaces are the themes that, organized through the declination of key actions, accompany the visitor along the path around the gallery.
Finally, complete and offer moments of reflection areas for listening and viewing video contributions, a space for reading and one for debates. The exhibition continues to climb the ramp of another floor, symbolically leading to an overall view of the space and the exhibition, a vision “from above” that projects the visitor towards the future for the suburbs.
Credits
EXHIBITION DESIGN Guendalina Salimei – T-STUDIO, Giulia Giampiccolo, Andrea Laganà, Luisella Pergolesi, Lucilla Di Paolo, Martina Di Pardo, Gianni Carletti
RENDERING Francesco Trimarchi
STRUTTURE Alessio Blasi
GRAPHICS Altocontrasto di Mimosa Bolatti Guzzo e Marco Varriale
GRAPHICS PRODUCTION Pubblilaser S.r.l.
COMMUNICATION Francesca Martinotti, Studio Martinotti, Roma Maria Luisa Bisi, ACS
Metamorfosi. Quaderni di architettura 1/2016, Cantiere periferie. Alla ricerca di una città normale. Lettera Ventidue, Siracusa 2020 ISSN 1590-1394
