Città della Scienza. Le componenti di una rigenerazione urbana nella riconversione di un sito industriale

The semantic juxtaposition of the terms "archeology" and "industrial" requires a in-depth study of the "signs left by the process of industrialization in daily life, culture and society" (Treccani definition). The key to this study is time that changes its rhythm towards industrial archaeologies: the careful approach of reality strongly recognizable by the conformation of the built spaces and volumes, often frozen in time, sometimes distracted by the ferment with which those urban changes were reached. It is instead in the fast and incessant dynamics of adaptation of settlement values that the signs of transformation are found, the fracture with the past and the propensity to a renewed seam, that succession of alterations which is at the origin of the diachronic process of formation of "urban interiors". The projection towards urban and social renewal characterizes the great changes designed for the western area of Naples in the 80s and 90s, sometimes betrayed by partial implementation. Among the tangible signs on the territory there is the work of Professor Architect Massimo Pica Ciamarra who, in the urban redevelopment projects for Fuorigrotta and Bagnoli, offers a process of seaming fractures and integration of contrasts aimed at interpreting the modern need for transformation and strengthening connections with the context. The logic that generated the interventions of Pica Ciamarra in this area and the architectural vision that led the reconversion project of the former industrial area of Coroglio in Città della Scienza (Science Center), have been analysed in the contribution through the texts of authoritative critics of architecture that have highlighted the main characteristics of his work and through the words of the same Professor who, with the usual approach to the dissemination, granted the authors an interview in the form of a pleasant and intimate lectio magistralis.