La Torre Minerva a Punta Campanella: un laboratorio di ricerca interdisciplinare per il restauro nel paesaggio lubrense. The Minerva Tower at Punta Campanella: an interdisciplinary research laboratory for restoration in the Lubrense landscape

The article presents the results of an interdisciplinary research experience carried out on the occasion of the restoration project of the 16th century Minerva Tower in Massa Lubrense in the Sorrento-Amalfi Peninsula. The study involved architects, archaeologists, engineers, and systems experts and was aimed at the conservation of the building and the surrounding area characterized by archaeological remains from different periods. The tower was built directly on the rock, nearby a pre-existing 14th-century keep, overlooking the sea. Throughout the centuries, it has undergone transformations that have partly obliterated certain elements characteristic of the 16th-century Viceregal model, such as the machicolations, as well as introduced new incompatible materials like reinforced concrete additions. The restoration project was preceded by an accurate historical and material-constructive knowledge phase that highlighted the peculiarities of the building and the current vulnerability factors. This made it possible to propose a well-aware consolidation project, carried out in the form of seismic improvement, and the surface conservation plan. The latter concerned the preservation of the still existing traces of plaster and machicolations by highlighting and revealing them through a careful evaluation of the integrations to be proposed.