Conservation of historical memory is usually neglected in current building renovation practice, which involves the remodelling of plasterwork, floors, window frames and finishings in general. However, it does constitute the key element of certain renovation projects that have kept visible the traces of previous lives, rejecting the idea that new finishings should cancel all traces of the past. Terms such as "unfinished" and "imperfect" concur with an attitude of openness to the possibility that the renovated building could be subject to new modifications, with knowledge of its past conditions offering great opportunities for the relative design. Moreover, the display of the untreated materials and the procedures undertaken corresponds to a frank, sincere, and truthful way of operating that may indeed have an ethical impact. England and the Switzerland are the countries where you can find most cases of this tendency of refusal to smooth aver and camouflage. In these contexts we see the greatest evidence of that influence exercised by the neo-brutalist architecture of half a century ago, and by the As found tendency which, together, have contributed to mark the end of orthodoxy in the Modern Movement.

Osservazioni sul non finito nel recupero in architettura

PIETROGRANDE, ENRICO
2016

Abstract

Conservation of historical memory is usually neglected in current building renovation practice, which involves the remodelling of plasterwork, floors, window frames and finishings in general. However, it does constitute the key element of certain renovation projects that have kept visible the traces of previous lives, rejecting the idea that new finishings should cancel all traces of the past. Terms such as "unfinished" and "imperfect" concur with an attitude of openness to the possibility that the renovated building could be subject to new modifications, with knowledge of its past conditions offering great opportunities for the relative design. Moreover, the display of the untreated materials and the procedures undertaken corresponds to a frank, sincere, and truthful way of operating that may indeed have an ethical impact. England and the Switzerland are the countries where you can find most cases of this tendency of refusal to smooth aver and camouflage. In these contexts we see the greatest evidence of that influence exercised by the neo-brutalist architecture of half a century ago, and by the As found tendency which, together, have contributed to mark the end of orthodoxy in the Modern Movement.
2016
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