A “RESISTANT” ARCHITECTURE IN A HOSTILE TERRITORY

The architecture, for its disciplinary status, has to induce in reality a possible modification in order to overcome its contradictions, and it can do it in a hostile territory only by resisting to its progressive dissolution, to the precariousness of its settlement structures and by founding a plausible order extracted from the “things themselves”, from the measures, from the heritage that those lands have had. From this premise the project of a multifunctional hall1 in the town of Castel Volturno moves: it has recently been listed as a newly selected works in the National Census of Italian architecture of the late twentieth century, promoted by the DGAAP of MiBACT. The common reason for the various possibilities of use determined the typological asset of the hall-type building, a Halle, or an undivided space, "cleared away": an archetypal form capable of reifying this thematic assumption. The adoption of the hall-type follows the theme of the introduction of an element of order, in an eponymous territory of the Junk-city, of a new possible centrality capable of establishing general morphological relationships and of reversing the process of diffusion / dispersion of the rural / urban landscape of Castel Volturno, emblematic of the sprawl and phenomena of the scattered contemporary city. It is a "resistant" architecture because it tries to oppose such a wide dissolution of form.