Mediterraneo_Migrazioni_Città_Architettura/Mediterranean_Migrations_Cities_Architecture

The study of Mediterranean housing cultures, though seen from the point of view of the houses's design, in its architectural form, cannot evade nowadays the theme of migration, at a time when the words: Mediterranean and Migration seem to be inescapably inseparable, representing death and destruction. The Mediterranean cities’ history itself can therefore be read as a sort of epistemology of the Mediterraneity, where migrations are milestones. It is, in fact, only through the easy and agile migratory flows over the centuries that the Mediterranean is what it is, and is impossible to escape from its migrant soul. In an stratified and complex city like Naples is, it’s really simple to find traces of ancient migrations, this is the reason why all Mediterranean cultures manage to find something, signs, traces, of their own and familiar. However these signs can be found only in the built heritage, in the architectures built and inherited by dominant cultures, those civilizations that historiography has recorded and cataloged, the only ones able to leave lasting signs. It’s hard to imagine basics, theatres or palaces, inherited by today’s immigrants, in a large part politics refugees or coming for avoid poverty. When a country expels its own people, as many lands in the southern Mediterranean are doing today, other countries must accommodate migrant peoples, coming with a great deal of memories, traditions, rules of settling, building techniques, urban forms and spaces, with their own modalities to relate the architectural forms with natural landscapes. The main aim has to be to transform the inevitable arose conflict in occasion of knowledge. Only through knowledge it’s possible to achieve a real inversion of glances, a knowledge directed to experiment different modalities to design urban spaces and architectures, in a way that migrant communities can recognize theirself, "feel at home " and beeing represented by.