Gestire la complessità che è nei dettagli. Studi per il riuso della ‘scuderia’ del castello di Calendasco / Managing a complexity of details. Studies to re-use the stable of the Calendasco’s castle.

In 2003 the so called “Scuderia” (stable) in Calendasco, once upon related to the close-by castle and eventually a farmhouse, has become a public property. Unused but not disregarded, it is proposed to arrange cultural activities (like a local public library and archives collection) and to host pilgrims walking on the via Francigena which notoriously crosses the site. Such a re-use, which is now also pushed by a financing plan (PNRR), is involving a large group of professionals: the design’s mission requires a shared discussion to balance different perspectives on a building which is anyhow listed for its historical importance. Being this history almost unknown, a study has been started since 2021. Bibliographic and archival sources like stratigraphical analysis have been considered. They are revealing a set of different and subsequent building events. The paper presents these results to open a discussion and hopefully to plan a real conservation program for all the history of this battered building. Not only this architecture should be called a stable (scuderia), but a complex expression of a continuous and much more extended time course.