UN PALINSESTO DI PIETRA: IL CASTELLO E LE MURA DI TAGGIA (IM)

Francesca Buccafurri, Angela De Hugo Silva, Mirko Pasquini

Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Architettonici e del Paesaggio, ciclo 2008-2010, Facoltà di Architettura, Università degli Studi di Genova, stradone Sant’Agostino, Genova,

f.buccafurri@awn.it   innis.vitris@gmail.com    mi.pasquini@libero.it

ABSTRACT 

Taggia Castle and its Ramparts have been observed, walked upon, surveyed from the point of view of a system of knowledge and techniques which aims at the protection of the possibilities of interpretation of the work intended as a source of culture; this, to the purpose of its preservation and renovation as a permanent origin of questioning.

Each generation keeps on re-writing the book of History, leaving traces of their passage and culture as in a palimpsest stratified but in perpetual evolution; it is the same determination to grasp the different degrees and writing levels, even the most fragmented and heterogeneous, which implies the necessity of preservation as a means to understand what is already written, thus avoiding skipping lines, or worse, tearing the page.

Besides, preservation means to keep in use: this fact implies, on the one hand, consuming resources; on the other hand, bringing in new matter and new writing levels. Given that preservation may only guarantee the permanence of the existing reality, all that is added can only refer to the project, beyond the restoration, thus witnessing the needs of our time and our culture, which require to settle down as a necessary contribution to the historical becoming.

Because “It is never useless writing fairy tales…” (M.Dezzi Bardeschi)

Key-words: stone palimpsest, materia signata, writing levels, preservation, project