The Psychiatric Hospital "Granzette" in Rovigo (Italy) is the case-study of the course of Architectural Restoration at University of Architecture IUAV in Venice. The ex Hospital is a structure of the early twentieth century, now abandoned, created for the care of mental alienation. The themes of nature and landscape play a significant role for this kind of buildings, as they worked as a therapy for mental illness. The relationship between the elements that make up the complex (buildings, gardens, paths) went modifying: a controlled nature with therapeutic purposes, coming out from the documents of 1928, has lost today the limit which defined the relationship between pavilions - architecture - and landscape. The design conceived in the first half of the twentieth century had a deep evolution, the nature has gained ground, sometimes coming in adherence to architecture or even assaulting buildings. The intervention aims to explain a changed relationship between architecture and landscape through the reflections emerged about in the course of Architectural Restoration in the laboratory in the perspective of the preservation of the Psychiatric Hospital.
L'ex Ospedale Psichiatrico "Granzette" di Rovigo, oggetto di studio del Laboratorio di Restauro del Corso di Laurea in Architettura dello Iuav di Venezia, è una struttura di inizio Novecento, attualmente in abbandono, nata per la cura degli alienati mentali in area veneta. Il tema della natura e del paesaggio assume per questi complessi un ruolo significativo, in quanto mezzo terapeutico per la malattia mentale. Il rapporto tra gli elementi che costituiscono il complesso (edifici, giardini, percorsi) è andato modificandosi: da una natura controllata a scopo terapeutico, leggibile nei documenti del 1928, si assiste oggi alla scomparsa del limite che definiva il rapporto tra i padiglioni - l'architettura - e il paesaggio. Il disegno concepito nella prima metà del XX secolo ha subito una significativa evoluzione, il verde ha guadagnato terreno, ha reso vaghi i limiti che lo separavano dall'architettura, talvolta arrivando in aderenza o, addirittura, aggredendola. L'intervento tratta della trasformazione del mutato rapporto tra architettura e paesaggio, dove l'elemento naturale genera situazioni inedite, e delle riflessioni emerse in merito all'interno del laboratorio nelle proposte di conservazione del complesso.
Leila, S. (2015). Natura e paesaggio tra conservazione, trasformazione e riuso nell’ex Ospedale Psichiatrico di Rovigo.
Natura e paesaggio tra conservazione, trasformazione e riuso nell’ex Ospedale Psichiatrico di Rovigo
leila signorelli
2015
Abstract
The Psychiatric Hospital "Granzette" in Rovigo (Italy) is the case-study of the course of Architectural Restoration at University of Architecture IUAV in Venice. The ex Hospital is a structure of the early twentieth century, now abandoned, created for the care of mental alienation. The themes of nature and landscape play a significant role for this kind of buildings, as they worked as a therapy for mental illness. The relationship between the elements that make up the complex (buildings, gardens, paths) went modifying: a controlled nature with therapeutic purposes, coming out from the documents of 1928, has lost today the limit which defined the relationship between pavilions - architecture - and landscape. The design conceived in the first half of the twentieth century had a deep evolution, the nature has gained ground, sometimes coming in adherence to architecture or even assaulting buildings. The intervention aims to explain a changed relationship between architecture and landscape through the reflections emerged about in the course of Architectural Restoration in the laboratory in the perspective of the preservation of the Psychiatric Hospital.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
