Urban composition: Imaginary versions of Rome inspired by memories and possible scenarios (original) (raw)

(Conference proceedings not yet published) This paper investigates the composition of heterogeneous fragments, excerpts from the inventory of collective memory, and the resulting unpredictable architecture in an urban context. The project focuses entirely on the city of Rome, its classical antiquities, its Renaissance and Baroque works and different branches of modernism found there. The freedom to assemble figures or fragments, to place them in another context, highlighted the effectiveness and decisiveness of a reading of urban design in which the figurative force is the result of consideration based on the visual relationships between objects. The experiences presented outline certain unreal circumstances, but nevertheless inspire a scale evaluation of the results of planned modifications, and suggest corrections, adjustments and new possibilities. The experimental setting, that some may deem fantastical, is derived from the superimposition of an existing environment and works introduced from other contexts. In this way, the artist can redesign and foreshadow, creating a fictional city that can, paradoxically, serve as a reference in the development of new possible urban settings.