Progettare sul costruito: la strategia dell’Aikido di Herzog & de Meuron
According to Herzog & de Meuron
approach, intervention on historic
fabric produces potentially a new
construction that draws energy from the
existing buildings, whose role proves to
be subordinated to the project issues and
requirements. Such an approach has been
referred, by the architects themselves, to an
interesting comparison to the Aikido martial
art strategy. The goal is not to attack but to
use the enemy’s energy to reach the own
aim. Conservation assumptions are actually