Architecture, Archaeology and
Tourism
The Val di Noto Territory
Between Ancient and Contemporary Landscapes
Università degli Studi
di Catania, SDS Architettura Siracusa
Siracusa, Ancient Noto, Palazzolo Acreide Italy
5th international architecture workshop
31 August > 05 September 2018: Field trip in Sicily
06 > 14
September 2018: International Workshop
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Promoted by
Designing
Heritage Tourism Landscapes
international network of schools of
architecture
project coordinators
Bruno Messina, Università degli
Studi di Catania, Struttura didattica Speciale di Architettura Siracusa
Emanuele
Fidone, Università degli Studi di Catania,
Struttura didattica Speciale di Architettura Siracusa
Mauro Marzo,
Università Iuav di Venezia, Dipartimento di Culture del progetto
participating schools
Università di Camerino, Scuola di Ateneo
di Architettura e Design “Edoardo Vittoria” Ascoli Piceno – Universidade de Évora, Departamento de
Arquitectura – Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II – École Nationale Supérieure
d’Architecture de Paris-Malaquais
–Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio
Calabria, Dipartimento dArTe – Università degli Studi di Roma Sapienza – Università degli Studi di Roma Tre – Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Facultad de
Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Diseño – Universidad de Sevilla, Esquela
Técnica Superior de Arquitectura – Università degli Studi di Catania, Struttura didattica Speciale di
Architettura, Sede di Siracusa – Università Iuav di Venezia (network leader)
– École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles
scientific committee of the Designing Heritage Tourism Landscapes
Network
Darío Álvarez Álvarez, Universidad de Valladolid, Escuela Técnica Superior de
Arquitectura – Roberta Amirante,
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II – Roberta Borghi, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Versailles – Gustavo Carabajal,
Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Facultad de Arquitectura, Planeamiento y
Diseño – Luigi Coccia, Università di
Camerino, Scuola di Ateneo di Architettura e Design “Edoardo
Vittoria” Ascoli Piceno – Ángeles
Layuno, Universidad de Alcalá, Escuela de
Arquitectura, Departamento de Arquitectura – Mauro Marzo, Università
Iuav di Venezia, Dipartimento di Culture del progetto – Cristiana
Mazzoni, École Nationale Supérieure
d’Architecture de Strasbourg – Bruno Messina, Università
degli Studi di Catania, Struttura didattica Speciale di Architettura, Sede di
Siracusa – João Rocha, Universidade de
Évora, Departamento de Arquitectura – Maria Salerno, École Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture
Paris-Malaquais – Antonio Tejedor Cabrera,
Universidad de Sevilla, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura – Fabrizio
Toppetti, Università degli Studi di Roma Sapienza,
Dipartimento Architettura e Progetto – Marina Tornatora,
Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Dipartimento dArTe
scientific committee in Sicily for the 5th
international workshop
of the
network
Emanuele Fidone, Università degli Studi di Catania, Struttura didattica Speciale di
Architettura Siracusa – Mauro Marzo, Università
Iuav di Venezia, Dipartimento di Culture del progetto – Bruno Messina,
Università degli Studi di Catania, Struttura didattica Speciale di Architettura
Siracusa – Pietro Militello, Dipartimento di Scienze Umanistiche, sezione
Archeologia e scienze dell’antichità, Università degli Studi di Catania – Rosalba Panvini, Soprintendente Beni Culturali e Ambientali di
Siracusa
patronage
Comune di Palazzolo Acreide, Comune di Noto, Comune
di Siracusa, Soprintendenza Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Siracusa,
Assessorato Beni Culturali e Ambientali della Regione Sicilia
sponsor
Consorzio universitario Archimede
professors
Ottavio Amaro, Università degli Studi
Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Dipartimento dArTe Roberta
Amirante, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico
II – Roberta Borghi,
École nationale supérieure d'architecture de Versailles – Francesca
Bruni, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico
II, Dipartimento di Ingegneria civile, edile e ambientale – Renato
Capozzi, Università di Napoli Federico II,
Dipartimento di Architettura – Luigi Coccia, Università di Camerino, Scuola di Ateneo di Architettura e Design
“Edoardo Vittoria” Ascoli Piceno – Marco
D’Annuntiis, Università di Camerino, Scuola
di Ateneo di Architettura e Design “Edoardo Vittoria” Ascoli Piceno
– Orfina Fatigato, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II – Marco
Ferrari, Università Iuav di Venezia, Dipartimento di Progettazione e pianificazione in ambienti
complessi – Emanuele Fidone,
Università degli Studi di Catania, Struttura didattica Speciale di Architettura
Siracusa – Fabrizio Foti, Università degli Studi di Catania, Struttura didattica
Speciale di Architettura Siracusa – Luigi Franciosini, Università degli Studi Roma Tre, Dipartimento di
Architettura – Gianfranco Gianfriddo,
Università degli Studi di Catania, Struttura didattica Speciale di Architettura
Siracusa – Mercedes
Linares Gómez del Pulgar, Universidad de Sevilla,
Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura
de Sevilla, Departamento de Expresión Gráfica Arquitectónica – Rafael Magrou, École nationale supérieure
d'architecture Paris-Malaquais – Mauro Marzo, Università Iuav di Venezia,
Dipartimento di Culture del progetto – Bruno Messina, Università degli Studi di Catania, Struttura didattica
Speciale di Architettura Siracusa – Federica
Morgia, Università degli Studi di Roma Sapienza,
Dipartimento Architettura e Progetto – Luigi Pellegrino, Università degli Studi di Catania, Struttura didattica
Speciale di Architettura Siracusa – Claudia Pirina, Università Iuav di Venezia, Dipartimento di Culture del
progetto – Carolina Rainero, Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Facultad de
Arquitectura, Planeamiento y Diseño – João
Rocha, Universidade de Évora, Departamento de
Arquitectura – João
Soares, Universidade de Évora, Departamento de Arquitectura
– Emanuela Sorbo, Università Iuav di
Venezia, Dipartimento di Architettura, Costruzione e Conservazione – Antonio Tejedor
Cabrera, Universidad de Sevilla, Esquela
Técnica Superior de Arquitectura – Fabrizio
Toppetti, Università degli Studi di Roma Sapienza,
Dipartimento Architettura e Progetto – Marina Tornatora,
Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Dipartimento dArTe – Francesco Viola, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II,
Dipartimento di Ingegneria civile, edile e ambientale – Federica
Visconti, Università di Napoli Federico II,
Dipartimento di Architettura
general organization
Viola Bertini, Università Iuav di Venezia, Dipartimento di
Culture del progetto
Fabio Guarrera, Università
degli Studi di Catania, Struttura didattica Speciale di Architettura, Sede di
Siracusa
tutors
Manuela Antoniciello, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II – Viola Bertini, Università Iuav di Venezia,
Dipartimento di Culture del progetto – Dijana
Bukvic, Università di Camerino, Scuola
di Ateneo di Architettura e Design “Edoardo Vittoria” Ascoli Piceno
– Ernesto Alberghina, Università
degli Studi di Catania, Struttura didattica Speciale di Architettura, Sede di
Siracusa – Sara Cipolletti, Università di Camerino,
Scuola di Ateneo di Architettura e Design “Edoardo Vittoria” Ascoli
Piceno – Chiara Circo, Università degli Studi di Catania, Struttura
didattica Speciale di Architettura, Sede di Siracusa – Sofia
Franciosini, Università degli Studi Roma Tre
– Ludovica Grompone, Università Iuav di Venezia – Fabio
Guarrera, Università degli Studi di Catania, Struttura
didattica Speciale di Architettura, Sede di Siracusa – Lucia La Giusa, Università degli Studi
Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, Dipartimento dArTe – Marina Lopez, Universidad de Sevilla, Esquela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura –
Maria Maccarone, Università Iuav di Venezia – Alessandro
Mauro, Università degli Studi di Catania, Struttura
didattica Speciale di Architettura, Sede di Siracusa – Rebeca Merino Del
Rio,
Universidad de Sevilla, Esquela Técnica Superior de
Arquitectura – Serena Pappalardo, Università
degli Studi di Catania, Struttura didattica Speciale di Architettura, Sede di
Siracusa – Hugo Pires, Universidade de Évora, Departamento de Arquitectura – Claudia
Sansò, Università degli Studi di Napoli
Federico II – Francesca Talevi, Università degli Studi di Napoli
Federico II – Giovanni Zucchi, Università degli Studi di Napoli
Federico II
guest-experts
Giuseppe Arcidiacono, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di
Reggio Calabria – Francesco Cacciatore,
Università Iuav di Venezia – Francesco Cellini,
Università degli Studi Roma Tre – Vito Martelliano,
Università degli Studi di Catania, SDS Architettura Siracusa – Carmelo
Nigrelli, Università degli Studi di Catania, SDS
Architettura Siracusa – Andrea Sciascia,
Università degli Studi di Palermo – Santo Valvo,
architetto libero professionista
panel
Francesco
Cellini, Università degli Studi Roma Tre – Marco Mannino, Università degli Studi Mediterranea di Reggio
Calabria – Andrea Sciascia, Università degli Studi di Palermo
students
Claudia Affini
– Maria Rosaria Alaia – Anna Berto – Chiara Biondi –
Luca Bonfà – Elisabetta Bortolotto – Antonella Caroleo – Leone
Carpini – Giuseppina Ceraso – Martina Cirino – Mattia Cocozza
– Francesco Contraffatto – Sara De March – Andrea Drago
– Camille Druais Metivier – Carolina Fanelli – Giulia
Federici – Martina Floridia – Imen Ghattassi – Vittoria
Giuriolo Bello – Federica Grillante – Paola Guerriero –
Adélaïde Hunou – Mathieu Kellen – Ruben Kharat – Federica
Lanuara – Angela Le Moal – Maria Laura Leonardi – Cristina
Licciardello – Manuel Lo Presti – Luigi Lorenzon – Serena Lupi
– Nagy Makhlouf – Andrea Marano – Roberta Merciai –
Alice Michel – Michele Moliteo – Blaise Mouret – Fabrizio Noè
– Emanuele Noto – Luca Pavone – Vittoria Pennacchio – Sonia
Piscioneri – Andrea Poeta – Xiaoyu Qiu – Ignazio Roldan
– Roberta Santacroce – Angelica Scidà – Simone Squeo –
Guido Taddei – Giulia Tocchet – Sofia Tonello – Agata Tonetti
– Luca Tosini – Siiri Turpeinen – Bogdan Ursan – Simona
Ventimiglia – Andrea Ventura – Mara Vertunni – Eleonora
Zanirato
workshop introduction
South-eastern Sicily is characterised by the
presence of some of the most important ancient settlements in the Mediterranean.
These settlements include cities that developed across the centuries,
generating interesting, but also problematic, urban palimpsests. Classical
ruins coexist with extraordinary Norman, Byzantine and late Baroque buildings
(which are part of the Unesco heritage of the Val di Noto). Siracusa, Noto and
Palazzolo Acreide, the main centres of the Ibleo-Siracusan area, belong to this
context. Three cities with different dimensions, marked by some common factors
of identity: the ancient and late antique archaeology that testifies their
origin, the geographical peculiarity of the ibleo territory which is their
reference scenario, the baroque city with its most representative architectures
and its outstanding urban scenography. These values have historically attracted
travellers, scholars, artists, architects, and literate throughout Europe. The
Sicily of Val di Noto, in fact, has been one of the most important destinations
of the Grand Tour tradition. This is a territory where the phenomenon of tourism
originated in its deepest etymological sense.
workshop program
The territory of south-eastern Sicily, with
UNESCO heritage sites, including Siracusa, Noto and Palazzolo Acreide, is
characterized by extraordinary historical-archaeological heritage, but often
excluded from the contemporary urban life. We need to reconsider the
relationship between city and archaeology according to new design strategies
that can be essential for a new vision of the future of the cities. The
archaeological ruin, in this sense, should not be seen as a problem to be
circumscribed in a field of protection, often abstract and far from the
context, but as a resource that has new roles in the redesigning of the
territory and the city. The perimeter of archaeological sites, by means of a
physical boundary, emphasizes the segregation and separation of city-specific
places. These are enclave that contribute to the proliferation of urban blight.
Instead, restoring a permeability between the urban tissues and the
archaeological sites, through mediation places (and not boundaries), can be a
strategy to trigger new opportunities for urban development and regeneration.
This is a starting point for redefining the urban space and the archaeology
landscape and questioning the dynamics of the city's development in relation to
the potential of the archaeological heritage. Thinking about how to use
archaeological sites can be a design incipit to understand how to establish a
new dialectical relationship between the past, the present and the future of
the city. A dialogue in which the phenomenon of the so-called heritage tourism
can play a main role, an economic driver for the territory and its cities, and
a driving force for urban regeneration.
general aims of the
workshop
The workshop is an opportunity to discuss the
role of the contemporary project in solving the problematic relationships
between parts that are different according to their origin, form and dynamics,
such as the contemporary city and the archaeological sites. In particular, we
want to focus on the possibilities that the phenomenon of heritage tourism can
create, taking on a mediation role between the two entities. The sites which
have been chosen in the three main cities of the Val di Noto, the Siracusa
territory (Siracusa, Noto, Palazzolo Acreide), represent different dimensions
and characteristics of the relationship between city and archaeology. Above
all, they are characterised by very different conditions concerning the
relationship between the archaeological sites and the margins of the urban,
historic or contemporary, settlements.
Through the architectural project, from the
urban scale to the scale of the small intervention, we want explore the
specific issues that characterize the problematic relationship between city and
archaeology of these sites: distance, marginality, accessibility, usability,
permeability, recognisability, conservation and innovation.
workshop sites
site 1 > Siracusa, Neapolis-Eurialo
Siracusa
was one of the most important Greek cities in the West. Today it’s listed
in the UNESCO “World Heritage List”. The city was founded in 743
B.C. by a group of Corinths led by the ecista Archia. The first colonists
settled in Ortigia island which was the first nucleus of the ancient city.
During
the Classical Period Siracusa become the great Neapolis with five
neighbourhoods being one of the most important metropolis of the ancient world.
After the Roman conquest its decline started and lasted until the Norman period
when the city was reduced in size occupying only the Ortigia Island.
Siracusa
is today a layered city that still presents the traces of its important past,
from the archaeological complex of the Neapolis Park to the Apollo and Atena
Temples which are now included in the contemporary city.
The
archaeological park of the Neapolis is located in-between the compact urban
fabric which resulted from the expansion of the city during the first half of
the XX century and the dispersed and sometimes empty urban fabric of the city
periphery which is located at the edge of one of the two main entrance routes
to the city, Viale Paolo Orsi. The Park extents for about 240.000 sq.m. and is
an extraordinary palimpsest of the history of the ancient Siracusa.
The
current system of entrances to the site is made up of two distinct parts which
are totally inadequate to the growing number of visitors that increase during
the period of the classical performances. Its isolation from the surrounding
urban context doesn’t allow for a proper integration into the vital
structure of the city. Integration which was always desired but never
implemented.
The
remains of the archaeological complex of Eurialo Castle are located in the
higher western extremity of the ancient defensive system of the
Dionisio’s Walls - long about 25 kilometres.
This was
a defensive system dating back to the V century B.C. that completed the city
walls. During the time the Castle was transformed and enlarges. Today it
presents a system of moats and complex tunnels while the ruins of the overlying
fortifications, with their geometry, represent an unicum among the defensive
systems of the classical world.
The
current entrance to the Castle doesn’t allow to appreciate the primary
functions of the complex military structure and its original functions. The
entrance, in fact, seems to be “accidental” so altering the
philological reading of the monument which is also distorted by the lack of
appropriate paths.
site 2 > Ancient Noto
Annexed to the walls are the Royal Castle with a
huge armoury and the stables and some remains of the towers, among which the
main one dates back to 1431, and the ancient prison where many graffiti and low
reliefs done by the prisoners are still visible. Many graffiti report the name
of the author and represents the boats of the time. Many time also a game with
pawns is also represented.
The structure was built in 1091 by the Duke
Giordano d’Altavilla on the remains of a previous Arab fortress. In 1430
the Duke Pietro d’Aragona enlarged the complex which were done again in
1600 ca to host the guns. Close to the entrance of the door of the mountain the
opening for the cannons are still visible. The earthquake destroyed most of the
Castle.
site 3 > Akrai
Palazzolo Acreide is a Baroque town with Greek
origins, a settlement in the plateau of the Iblei Mountains non far from the
Anapo River and the Necropolis of Pantalica. In 2002 the town was listed in the
UNESCO World Heritage List together with the Val di Noto area, due to its late
baroque churches of San Paolo and San Sebastiano. Moreover, the town is part of
the network “borghi più belli d’Italia”. The historical and
cultural heritage of the town is enriched by the Greek archaeological site of
Akrai, on the namesake plateau dominating the town, and the site of the
Medieval Castel of Acremonte, from which the neighbourhood close to the San
Paolo Basilica was originated.
the goals
site 1 > Siracusa, Neapolis-Eurialo
Archaeological
Park of the Neapolis > project of the new entrance
to the site (Teatro Greco, Anfiteatro Romano, Ara di Leone, Latomie del Paradiso)
and project of the external area Casina Cuti with visitors’ services.
Ruins
of Eurialo Castle and Dionisio’s Walls > project
of the entrance and paths for the archaeological park sites and visitors’
services.
site 2 > Ancient Noto
Ruins of the Castle > project of the new entrance system to the site,
visitors’ services and possible new configuration for some parts of
the complex, such as the church of San Michele al Castello.
site 3 > Akrai
Archaeological site of Akrai > project of the new entrance and services.
Medieval Castle site > project of the new entrance and paths to visit
the ruins, visitors’ services.
workshop projects
(click the images to
enlarge)
Neapolis
students Carolina
Fanelli, Vittoria Giuriolo Bello, Federica Grillante,
Federica Lanuara, Angela Le Moal,
Michele Moliteo, Emanuele Noto,
Guido Taddei, Luca Tosini, Simona
Ventimiglia, Andrea
Ventura
professors Francesca Bruni, Renato Capozzi, Orfina Fatigato, Emanuele
Fidone,
João Rocha, João Soares, Francesco
Viola, Federica
Visconti
tutors Manuela Antoniciello,
Fabio Guarrera, Hugo Pires, Claudia Sansò,
Francesca Talevi, Giovanni Zucchi
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Eurialo Castle
students Claudia
Affini, Elisabetta Bortolotto, Giuseppina Ceraso,
Camille Druais Metivier, Ruben Kharat, Cristina
Licciardello,
Nagy Makhlouf, Roberta Merciai, Roberta Santacroce,
Angelica Scidà, Giulia Tocchet, Agata Tonetti
professors Federica Morgia, Luigi Pellegrino, Fabrizio Toppetti
tutors Chiara Circo, Marina
Lopez, Rebeca Merino Del Rio
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Ancient Noto
students Andrea Drago, Paola
Guerriero, Maria Laura Leonardi,
Manuel Lo Presti, Luigi Lorenzon,
Serena Lupi, Alice Michel,
Sonia Piscioneri, Xiaoyu Qiu, Simone
Squeo, Sofia
Tonello
professors Ottavio Amaro, Gianfranco Gianfriddo,
Carolina Rainero, Marina Tornatora
tutors Ernesto Alberghina, Lucia
La Giusa
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Akrai
students Chiara Biondi, Luca
Bonfà, Leone Carpini, Martina Cirino,
Adélaïde Hunou, Andrea Marano, Blaise
Mauret, Fabrizio Noè,
Victoria Pennacchio, Andrea Poeta,
Siri Turpeinen, Bogdan Ursan, Mara Vertunni
professors Luigi Coccia, Marco D’annuntis, Fabrizio Foti, Rafael
Magrou
tutors Dijana Bukvic, Sara
Cipolletti, Sofia Franciosini, Alessandro Mauro
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Palazzolo Acreide Castle
students Maria Rosaria Alaia, Anna
Berto, Mattia Cocozza,
Francesco Contrafatto, Sara De
March, Giulia Federici,
Martina Floridi, Imen Ghattassi, Mathieu
Kellen, Luca Pavone,
Ignacio Roldán, Eleonora Zanirato
professors Marco Ferrari, Luigi Franciosini, Mauro Marzo,
Bruno Messina, Claudia Pirina, Emanuela
Sorbo
tutors Viola Bertini, Ludovica
Grompone, Maria Maccarrone, Serena Pappalardo
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