city to live or a museum? – Corriere.it
The case of the interventions in some historic buildings (with famous tenants such as Piero Angela and Fiorello). Cipriani: a very complex but extraordinary city. Currency: the scale? A joy
Venice is beautiful and someone would like to live in it. Out of desperation, Piero Angela and Fiorello they have a home here – respectively a Contarini Pisani Palace it’s at Bernardo Palace – but in recent days that ancient gondolier who had inspired Richard Wagner was interrupted by the condominium quarrels, as reported by the Courier of the Veneto
. The heart of the dispute is an elevator: the one already built in Palazzo Contarini and the one (to be built but already approved by the assembly) in the other, fifteenth-century building. necessary, says some of the condominiums. intrusive, other families protest. And what apparently looks like an apartment dispute, actually hides a complex theme: the fate of one of the most beautiful cities in the world. Which today has just 50,412 residents (a pharmacy in the center has installed a counter, a visual warning to depopulation) and that people live less and less and more and more go to see, as if it were a football match, he says disconsolately. Salvatore Russo, Director of the Master’s Degree in Architecture at the Iuav University. The professor, professor of construction techniques, warns: We take this opportunity to seriously open a discussion on livability. I think Venice has been less taken into consideration as a city. it is absurd that we discuss tourism and turnstiles to regulate entrances when the issue of residents is not addressed if not marginally.
Constraints and beauty
Because if you want to get out of the city caricature of all-inclusive tourists, unforgettable scenery de The homeless lover of Fruttero & Lucentini, we must also think about the lifts. And Piero Angela agrees with Russo. The defense of the sacrosanct historical-artistic heritage – says the TV presenter -, but I believe that Venice is also a city where you can live, even if only for certain periods of the year like me with my family. Therefore it is necessary to discuss it intelligently, to seek a balance of compatibility, respectful of the constraints. Yeah, I bind. Arrigo Cipriani, who runs Harry’s Bar, founded by his father Giuseppe in 1931, says that once he wanted to put simple stone vases with flowers on the outside, but this was not possible. Too many problems. But do you have a freight elevator? No – replies the almost ninety-year-old entrepreneur – because the freight elevator kills the spirit of food, which has to make an unnatural transition from kitchen to table. Okay, but in some cases it will also be necessary, right?
Choice: hotel or home?
Not said, says Franca Coin, an important family, intelligent patron and home in Palazzo Barbaro, overlooking the Grand Canal. Not said, because it is a joy to walk the stairs of Venice. Coin goes straight to the heart of the problem: You have to decide: if you want to pass an ancient building into a hotel, then the necessary lift. But if you want to preserve the dramatic living function, sometimes the stairs are not such a solution. Vittorio Sgarbi thinks so too, who intervened in the request for the lift at Palazzo Bernardo, calling it a grotesque proposal: living in Venice involves inconvenience, you know. But the pragmatist Cipriani broadens the discussion: Venice is a beautiful city for a very complicated one. Let’s take the example of sewers: if you have a business you have to treat the drains (septic tanks, ed). If you want to put simple gazebos you have to follow a particular procedure, which is long. If you ask me, I tell you that I gladly make these sacrifices because I live in such an extraordinary place that they seem to me to be small obstacles. Of course, I understand that it is not easy for someone to think about coming to live in the center and perhaps even opening a business.
Buildings like Nike
For Ezio Micelli, lecturer at the Iuav University and specialist in research on urban transformations, we keep repeating that “beauty will save us”, but we never think about how to live here. Apart from metaphor, I think that thinking of thinking of every intervention on historic buildings as if it were a curse and not, instead, a possibility. To improve the quality of life but also the quality of the architectural assets themselves. Micelli emphasizes the possibilities offered by research today, convinced that many projects can be done respecting the ancient. But if we treat each building as if it were the Nike of Samothrace, then the resident counter of the downtown pharmacy will continue its desperate descent.
January 30, 2022 (change January 30, 2022 | 23:12)
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