"Guidonia Montecelio (Rome) is characterized by huge travertine extraction fields, which over the centuries conditioned its territory becoming.. We intend to verify the recurrence of a typological and constructive model - “casale (house) + quarry” - and how the spreading of this model over a vast area produced a reticular framework of infrastructures related to the basic stone production needs, where each casale + quarry unit is a sensitive ganglion.. Littered with partly active and partly abandoned industrial plots, quarries and buildings for stone extraction and processing, this built environment today is largely illegible.. To give value to the place identity and to manage its current weaknesses and contradictions should be the aims of an urgent redevelopment project, that should make clear the network of physical and intangible relationships between buildings and quarries, from landscape to architecture and viceversa, with a retrospective as well projective point of view. The site has lots of environmental and cultural layers that need to be investigated through multi-disciplinary and infra-scales approaches and tools: integrated survey, historical and iconographic analysis, maps of physical items and perceptive values.. Preservation, regeneration and innovation in the field of heritage, architecture, landscape, are the main themes of this study, taking as sample the Bernini house, checking its potential for recovery and for new uses in a specific landscape context like that of the leaving off quarry.. . "
Farroni, L., Metta, A. (2013). The quarry landscape of Guidonia Montecelio in Lazio. Knowledge, Survey and Project of a built environment. In Heritage Architecture Landesign. Le Vie Dei Mercanti. XI Forum Internazionale di Studi (pp.1220-1229). NAPOLI : La Scuola di Pitagora.
The quarry landscape of Guidonia Montecelio in Lazio. Knowledge, Survey and Project of a built environment
FARRONI, Laura;METTA, ANNALISA
2013-01-01
Abstract
"Guidonia Montecelio (Rome) is characterized by huge travertine extraction fields, which over the centuries conditioned its territory becoming.. We intend to verify the recurrence of a typological and constructive model - “casale (house) + quarry” - and how the spreading of this model over a vast area produced a reticular framework of infrastructures related to the basic stone production needs, where each casale + quarry unit is a sensitive ganglion.. Littered with partly active and partly abandoned industrial plots, quarries and buildings for stone extraction and processing, this built environment today is largely illegible.. To give value to the place identity and to manage its current weaknesses and contradictions should be the aims of an urgent redevelopment project, that should make clear the network of physical and intangible relationships between buildings and quarries, from landscape to architecture and viceversa, with a retrospective as well projective point of view. The site has lots of environmental and cultural layers that need to be investigated through multi-disciplinary and infra-scales approaches and tools: integrated survey, historical and iconographic analysis, maps of physical items and perceptive values.. Preservation, regeneration and innovation in the field of heritage, architecture, landscape, are the main themes of this study, taking as sample the Bernini house, checking its potential for recovery and for new uses in a specific landscape context like that of the leaving off quarry.. . "I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.