Ricerc@Sapienza

The  complex of Marinarsen former Military Arsenal, located in La Maddalena Island along the East side of the original military settlement, was born in 1895. Its more recent history sees first the disposal and, in the 2007, the retraining and reuse in order to host the G8 International Summit. In 2009, at almost complete reconstruction, at the cost of about 200 million euro, the G8 Summit is moved to L'Aquila so the facilities entrust to MITA Resort in order to convert it into an extra luxury tourist receptive pole (this operation was unrealized). At the present, the seabed’s failure reclamation and the related court cases do not allow the effective use and leave these facilities in a serious state of disrepair, totally unused. So the Ex-Military Arsenal reflects, in its present neglected state and the contemporary infinite opportunities, an identity’s liminality stage (suspended among a renewed ecological feeling, the development of tourism and the downsizing of military role) with which the whole Archipelago is facing today. The study have conduct to a design proposal of identity declination consistent with the limits that a territory so vital and at the same time fragile imposes and focuses on the reuse of 2 buildings of the complex: the Pavilion of the Sea/ex Carbonaia and the House of the Sea of architect Stefano Boeri. The confrontation with the site have driven to a reflection on the role of architecture and planning and on the limits of the desire to define absolute and unambiguous solutions, as opposed to adapting the project to a system of temporal reality that cannot be uniquely defined but accompanyed in its continuous evolution.