Category: Restoration

The project achieved the goal of restoring and adapting the building to its original use as a diplomatic residence, meeting all the requirements and technical requirements of current Italian and Spanish laws: static improvement of the building's structure to Class IV; complete overhaul of all systems and installation of fire prevention systems; conservative restoration of the decorative paintings (frescoes and ceiling paintings); and accessibility of all levels of the building. These requirements then had to be combined with the need to enhance the internal spatiality, which involved the elimination of surreptitious, layered interventions carried out in different periods and which often detracted from the spaces of the large rooms overlooking Piazza Navona.

The project's goal is to create new training spaces to implement learning methods in line with evolving work-related training and communication systems, optimizing knowledge transfer and reflecting Poste Italiane's values.

The current church, with its sixteenth-century layout, features fresco and stucco decoration, created from the mid-sixteenth century onwards and over the course of the following two centuries, evidence of the taste and economic availability of the Confraternity of Fruit Vendors which allowed them to hire prominent artistic figures such as Taddeo and Federico Zuccari, as well as the architect of the church himself, Jacopo Barozzi da Vignola, Niccolò Martinelli from Pesaro and finally Giovanni Baglione.

The chapel of Sant'Andrea was acquired by the Università dei Pescivendoli in 1579 and rebuilt at its expense in 1583. Governed by its own statutes, it enjoyed constant maintenance over time. Suppressed at the end of the 18th century by decree of Pius VII, it had previously been rebuilt between 1579 and 1619 and today stands next to the presbytery.

The study for the final project identified intervention on the access section to the Pincio Promenade, including the Kaufmann Ramp and the Belvedere Terrace, as a priority.

Pietro is here. On the Gianicolo hill, the Church of San Pietro in Montorio conceals the small and, fundamental for the history of architecture, the Bramante temple. This is a place of witness, a place that preserves memories, the passage and the hand of important architects and artists of Italian history. G. L. Bernini, Giorgio Vasari, Sebastiano Del Piombo, Baldassarre Peruzzi have made this church an iconic stage of the Renaissance. An artistic heritage of fundamental importance that requires a deep restoration after a long period of neglect.

The restoration intervention proposed a chromatic uniformity for the entire façade, restoring a hypothetical “stone” reading of the entire structure, in continuity with the travertine basement. The resulting image differs from both the original image and the last nineteenth-century remake, because both were based on a two-color pattern that distinguished ashlars and cornices from the bottom, attributing a figurative "structural" value to architectural scores.

The intervention, that regards the complete building, has necessitated a consolidation of the main structure: foundation, vaults, walls and floors. The intervention regards the renovation of the apartments too, in accord with the space and language of the elegant roman building, using the typical materials of the roman tradition.

The chapel of Nostra Signora di Guadalupe, the most exuberant of the chapels of the Church of Santa Maria Degli Angeli at La Gancia in Palermo, houses the tomb of Don Juan Lopez de Cisneros, the inquisitor killed in the secrets of the Steri "by the heretic" frà Diego la Matina in 1657, whose story was told by Sciascia in his booklet "Death of the Inquisitor".

The intervention originally had to foresee a banal internal redistribution of the spaces, restoring the main halls of the building, through the removal of false partitions. In the course of execution, however, from the removal of the chamber to reeds, a chestnut coffered ceiling and a pictorial top frieze emerged, both in a strong state of deterioration and severely damaged by incongruous maintenance interventions