Author of article: Stefania
Fabozzi (Young Member of SIG)
Authors of paper: F. Brenci
It is not a novelty that
subway of Naples is an 'underground museum' combining the past, thepresent and the future. It
still retains a precious archaeological heritage (e.g. catacombs ofbeauty) which rises with
every new project for a station. So, the 'underground' butcontemporary museum connects
with the tradition and the history of the city.
The contemporary underground
museum of Naples is famous all around the word for the Art Metro
Station that dates back to 1995, when it was clear that, beyond
purely engineering intervention, there could be spaces that would
make the difference for the citizens and the world.
Distributed along the Lines 1
and 6 of the Naples Metro network, art stations are the result of
extraordinary constructive and synergic dialogue between architects
and artists, engineers and committee. Though the architectural design
of the work is the constant dialogue and collaborative effort of all
the players - namely architects, artists, engineers and Committee.
Between the most beautiful art
stations of the city, it can be celebrated the following ones:
-Garibaldi Station: designed by Dominique Perrault, the French
architect and urban planner of Garibaldi station, was also
entrusted with the redesign of the square above it;
-Università Station: designed by Karim Rashid. The Anglo-Egyptian
architect envisioned spaces ‘that embody the knowledge and language
of the new digital age, that transmit the ideas of simultaneous
communication, innovation and mobility, ideas which characterize
their ongoing Third Technical Revolution’; -Municipio Station: When
work is complete, the Town Hall project undertaken by Portuguese
architects Àlvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura will bring metro
Lines 1 and 6 together in one large transport hub; -Toledo Station:
The project of the Catalan architect Oscar Tusquets Blanca also
affected the area above, transformed into pedestrian zone and
upgraded aesthetically.
Metro Line 1 “Toledo
Station” - Naples It is a 'traveling' art that supports the speed
of the contemporary world and fulfils what its main features are. It
becomes so familiar to the ‘travellers’: familiar and social, and
goes beyond the concept of decoration, because, as complex and
colourful it is, it strategically attracts the attention of the
citizen, which is culled during his daily routine.
‘...I would like people in
general, and not only architects, to understand that architecture is
not only what it looks like, but also what happens in it...’
Bernard Tschumi in The
Manhattan Transcripts , 1976-1981.
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