OPEN ACCESS
There is architecture that could be called “timeless”: places built by ancient civilizations where transformative human interventions have been successful; in fact, despite making small changes related to new needs, they have allowed the preservation and maintenance of this architecture. The shipyards of the Mediterranean can certainly be connoted as “timeless” places; they are characterized by simple structures, as they are factories and buildings without value; at the same time, they are imposing buildings, as they include other minor construction yards for the construction of vessels. They became an economic and social way to develop the culture of a site. These buildings are witnesses of an architectural monumentality that, although medieval, nevertheless displays a contemporary conception of space: great depth, good perspective and arches that seem to chase each other. This is the reason why, despite time, these buildings have always managed to perpetuate in new and different functions. This research analyzes the role that these places currently perform; the redevelopment and recovery processes that are submitted to ensure that this architecture continues to dialogue with the historically consolidated urban contexts, responding to the needs of contemporary living (i.e. from naval factories to factories for culture). The project of “controlled modification”, to which this architecture is now subjected in order to go on living, belongs to the knowledge or methodological approach which allows space and time to be given to these places and also to their particular production and commercial importance.
mediterranean basin, recover & valorization, shipyard, space versatility
[1] Pérez-Mallaìna, P.E., La maestranza de artilleria y las atarazanas del azogue en los siglos XVIII y XIX. In: Boletín de la Real Academia Sevillana de Buenas Letras, 40,pp. 507–547, 2012.
[2] Bernardini, P.L., Fondaco Come Fondamento Di Civiltà: Rileggendo Olivia Remie Constable. Mediterranea - Ricerche storiche, 31, August 2014.
[3] Relazione Storico-Artistica/Venezia/Castello/Complesso dell’Arsenale, Ministero per i bene e le Attività Culturali, Soprintendenza per i Beni Architettonici e Paesaggistici di Venezia e Laguna (contents consulted on January 7, 2017 through the website available at http://arsenale.comune.venezia.it/)
[4] Quirós Castillo, J.A., La lettura stratigrafica dell’Arsenale Repubblicano di Pisa, in Scienza e Beni culturali XII (1996). Dal sito archeologico all’archeologia del costruito, Padova, pp. 133–143
[5] Gargano, G., Arsenali e scaria di Amalfi nel contesto del Meridione medievale. In Ricoveri per navi militari nei porti del Mediterraneo antico e medievale: atti del Workshop, Ravello, 4–5 novembre 2005, EDIPUGLIA, Bari, 2010
[6] Iborra, F. & Miquel, M., La Casa de las Atarazanas de Valencia y Joan del Poyo. Anuario de Estudios Medievales, 37(1), pp. 387–409, 2007. https://doi.org/10.3989/aem.2007.v37.i1.43
[7] Aa.VV., Recuperando las Atarazanas/Un monumento para la Cultura, Junta de Andalucia, Sevilla, 1999.
[8] Nadal, E., La Drassana Reial de Barcelona. Evolució d’unaedificació cabdal del litoral barceloní. Barcelona Quaderns d’Història, 21, pp. 95–112, 2014.
[9] Johns, J., The tersāneat Alanya and the galleys of Charles d’Anjou. In Ricoveri per navi militari nei porti del Mediterraneo antico e medievale: atti del Workshop, Ravello, 4–5 novembre 2005, EDIPUGLIA, Bari, 2010
[10] Hvar Heritage Portal (contents consulted on January 9, 2017 through the website available at http://www.hvarheritage.com/it/cultural-heritage/arsenal)
[11] AA.VV., Recuperando las Atarazanas/Un monumento para la Cultura, Junta de Andalucia, Sevilla, 1999.
[12] Colletta, T., Arsenali navali marittimi e Musei delle città potuali mediterranee. In rivista TRIA, n° 46, pp. 135–150, 2008.
[13] This is the key objective of the Office Venice Arsenal (contents consulted on January 14, 2017 through the website available at http://www.comune.venezia.it)