LE RAGIONI DEL PROGETTO (DI ARCHITETTURA) ritrovare Santa Marta

“The buildings survive much longer than the purposes for which they were erected, the techniques by which they were built and the aesthetic canons that determined their appearance. They undergo countless subtractions, addition, division and multiplication and soon form and function end up having little to do with each other.” In many cases, despite the change, their character remains unchanged and is perpetuated by confirming their identity over time. In other cases the character is lost, the change, the new function, prevail over the building, use it as a pretext for the new, as a noble support to the birth of the “new architecture”. [1] This did not happen with the project developed for the former Church of Santa Marta in Vimercate (MB) (fig. 1). A project that took its cue and form from the material and immaterial history of the building, from its forced and drastic changes, from what welcomes valuable and historically relevant. The project returns the former Church to the city, certainly not rebuilding it, but in some way rethinking it through new signs able to renew its memory, through a careful project of conservation, fruition and enhancement.