“PROGETTARE IL PROGETTATO”, IL RIUSO DEGLI EDIFICI EX-CLERICALI A ROMA. L’ANTESIGNANO CASO DELLA CAPPELLA ORSINI

Today Orsini gallery looks like one of the most sophisticated and worldly cultural circles of the center of Rome, permanently offering a space that in the spirit of the place changes appearance according to needs. After a historical exursus, through which it will attempt to offer a rather complete reading of the events that for nearly two centuries concerning this interesting architecture, you will go to illustrate the current situation of the church, examining improvements, perspectives and critical issues of the new internal arrangement of space, convenient for multifunctional use and at the same time suffering for some problems such as the lack of natural light, visual inaccessibility of some parts of the original masonry and the current fragmented visual aesthetic of the place. The undoubted quality of architecture persuades to a depth that tends to shed light on the many changes that over the last three hundred years have distorted the original structure in multiple sessions, thereby giving to the place unexpected metamorphic features. The survey considers the possibility of dialogue between the ancient and new architecture, and compares them with the situation of current usability, in order to provide guidelines, however to be reconsidered in individual cases, necessary for adjustments to conservation, reuse and enhancement of the Italian Cultural Heritage.