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A rehabilitation project for peace education. the recovery of the war wounded house of Catania.

F. Cantone
2024-01-01
2024
978-88-492-5128-9
At the 1937 International Exhibition in Paris, Le Corbusier stated that the world should not produce war but architecture, in short, create and not destroy. The Second World War was a huge tragedy; in Italy, it produced spaces with popular and propaganda purposes whose language defined buildings that distinguish our cities. Today, at a time characterized by wars even quite close, these buildings are a reminder of emotions and events not easy to manage. In the historic center of Catania, overlooking one of the most important squares of the city, in a state of neglect, there is the House of the Mutilated, a building erected as a temple of sacrifice and a place of memory, as a container of services for assistance to former invalid fighters. The research aims to study the rehabilitation of buildings constructed for specific educational-social purposes, in the period of the Second World War, to make them a social incubator of peace, culture and innovation. If the future is an eternal present, the past can direct the present not to make the same mistakes, but to use it as a lesson in life. The research, in summary, intends to propose a reinterpretation, in terms of design and technology, of the physical and social history of the building with the help of innovative communication strategies. In this sense, the theme of rehabilitation is declined starting from buildings that represented the values of an era of war and it can be the best allies for education to an era of peace.
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