Silenzi complessi nelle trasformazioni dei luoghi della vita pubblica urbana

Abstract

In its permanence over time, architecture welcomes variations in the meaning of places and the way of experiencing urban space in adaptation processes that, by realigning form and function in their ‘being in a place’, offer themselves to today’s need for living. This framework has explored how the dualism ‘silence / non-silence’ has characterised some of these processes and how, in its complexity, it has proved fruitful in the contemporary design of places of public life. Cases of transformation of buildings and open urban spaces, created to host forms of life in silence, into places of a non-silence respectful of the original vocation, have thus appeared of particular interest. They are new ‘urban rooms’ that take on new roles in the city, giving new meaning to the geometries desired by the ancient use model through acts of civitas and creativity.