master thesis

in Itinerant Msc programme

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what

redesign of the Old Acropolis Museum and

detailed plan for the Acropolis

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who

Danilo Ercoli, Giulia Melotti, Antonia Razza,

Lucrezia Rossi, Silvia Rebecca Visentin

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when
march 2019

 

where
Acropolis

Athens, Greece

37°58'17.8"N 23°43'32.7"E

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The underlying theme of the entire museum intervention is that of restoring a “spiritual” value to the Acropolis, restoring and philologically tracing what represented the final stage of the Panatenaic path. The viability project on the entire archaeological platform will be characterized by the absence of an imposed and built route. On the contrary, its definition was managed through a negative intervention: the movement of the ground.

Specifically, the redesign of the landscape develops through curved and fluid lines, whose trend not only follows the traces of pre-existing terraces, but also marks those that are the most relevant foreshortenings. These slight embankments are enclosed by strips of cortèn that along their edge fold in places creating situations of pause and museological points of view. The naòs is undoubtedly the culmination of the Panathenaic journey, the contemplable, but inaccessible space and it was decided to update its envelope with the same language used for the statue of Athena Promakos, as an unfinished transcendent architecture, through the use of metal wires.