Scott Siqi Chen Y5
Reimagining the ‘Incompiuto Siciliano Archaeological Park’. Sicily’s landscape is dotted with incomplete structures from the 20th century. There are 696 unfinished buildings in Italy that have been identified and documented to date, and around 40% of them are located in Sicily. They are the representation of political corruption and planning disasters, while also becoming a cultural symbol for the island.
Inspired by the artist proposal ‘Incompiuto Siciliano Archaeological Park’ proposed by Alterzioni Video in 2008, the project studies six unfinished sites based in Giarre, the town with the greatest concentration of unfinished public works in Italy. Through research carried out by gaming processes, the project identifies the ‘Incompiuto’ as architectural resource for new construction projects in the town. The incomplete structures are quarried into components or demolished into rubble, with 6 community buildings being presented to explore different ways of incorporating them in the construction of newer buildings. The ‘Incompiuto’ are reused to fulfill their original promises of providing community facilities, and their existing unfinished materiality and spatiality are celebrated in the designs to memorize a unique history of Sicily.
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