APPROACHING A DISSONANT ELEMENT: THE CASE OF FORMER ARCHAEOLOGICAL MUSEUM IN TBILISI, GEORGIA

Nowadays, it seems more (and more) relevant to understand how to deal with testimonies of the past. In this sense, the role of the architect, and especially the one involved in architectural restoration, is not to erase the signs and traces of the history, as traumatic as it could be, but rather to re-discover and enhance the potentiality of an architectural heritage, placing it inside the current urban and social context with a new use, integrating it with the environment. Through a selection of several approaches used during the “Heritage Without Frontiers” workshop organized in Politecnico di Milano, the aim of the paper is to show the relevant need of a multidisciplinary approach concerning the different kinds of analysis, vital for the conservation and rehabilitation of dissonant monuments.