Memoria e Creatività

When we intervene in the existing heritage, the reference to the no-tion of memory becomes a starting point; it is also a tool that makes it possible to maintain, modify, and transform architectural artifacts, urban fabrics, or the landscape itself. Working with spaces that have their own identity is an intrinsic condition of the architectural project which clearly or subtly exposes the signs that history has inscribed in them over time. Memory is a tool that works like others in the modification process, becoming the object of a choice according to which one establishes what to maintain – and how – the way to reveal historical traces and what can be left behind. Memory – as a tool capable of reconfiguring a form – works through a link between imagination, which here assumes the active role of creativity and image. It is the presence of an absence, therefore, of an image as a recollection. Memory enters in relation to time and space: time is succession, individuality, and consciousness; space is a pure extension, static reality, and materiality. In architecture, they include their own intrinsic scale; in fact, we affirm that memory confers the “measure of time” to the things of space. There is nothing static in memory. The past is not preserved; instead, it is reconstructed through a social process. In each place full of latent signs and po-tentialities, the collective memories’ fulcrum remains the material of contemporaneity.