architectural project
Group leader: Marco Dezzi Bardeschi
Architects: Gnosis Architettura Cooperativa di Progettazione , Renato De Fusco, Alessandro Castagnaro, Laura Gioeni, Marzia Dezzi Bardeschi.
structural design
Ingegneri: Giampiero Martuscelli
installations
Engineers: Domenico Trisciuoglio, Fulvio Capuano
consultants
Architects: Alessandra Angeloni, Mario Bencivenni, Giovanni Coppola, Sabino Giovannoni, Giorgio Picconato, Ferdinando Zaccheo
Others: Monsignor Ugo Grazioso, Dott. Furio Sacchi.
creation of a shaped total glass facade
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On the remains of the Augustan Temple, which had resurfaced after the fire of 1967, a partial anastylosis intervention had been developed by Ezio de Felice, one of the best known Italian museographers, which was interrupted at the end of the 1970s. The earthquake of 1980 had then led to the abandonment of the Rione Terra by the population, leaving the construction site at the mercy of looting.
The project - entitled "In praise of the palimpsest" in the competition won in 2003 - set out to confirm the Temple's historic function as a Cathedral: the single nave of the new Cathedral was set up in the cell and in the atrium of the Augustan Temple and confirmed the late Baroque liturgical spaces of the Presbytery (altar, bishop's chair, ambo, choir), of the Chapel of the Blessed Sacrament (baptistery), of the Chapter and of the Sacristy; the ancient pronaos has become the open-air entrance hall to the single nave of the new Cathedral, while the lateral intercolumns of the Temple have been closed off with high walls in structural glass; the ancient Sacristy, with a new central open staircase inside, has assumed the role of connection with the underlying paths of the Archaeological Museum.
Particular attention was then dedicated to the design of the new bell tower, whose slender structure was covered by a canopy with a perforated cap which, in homage to the epochal landing in Pozzuoli by Paolo di Tarso, recalls the exact astronomical position of the starry sky on that auspicious day. The intervention from the Cathedral was extended to the arrangement of the surroundings and the activation of the underlying archaeological itinerary in the rooms of the Roman settlement, creating a widespread archaeological museum and a lapidary museum of the inscriptions found in the city.
Video: Gnosis Coop
The conservation and maintenance intervention concerns the protection of the entrance to the temple with glass panels that:
a) trace the shape of the columns, thanks to laser cutting technology;
b) perceptually reconstruct the capitals, the shape and the position of the columns (in whole or in part), thanks to the satin-finishing process of the glass.
In the central area we have a reconstruction of the columns with a total glass system (facade and columns shaped in glass).
In the lateral parts, instead, a structure with tie rods and struts to support the facade was installed.
Besides the final effect, certainly of great integration, our staff together with the designers had to take into account the demands of the Ministry of Cultural Heritage related to both the aesthetic impact and the methods of installation and fixing.
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