Alina Ganescu

ARCHAELOGICAL CENTRE – POMPEII, ITALY

The Archaeological Centre is developing its shape as the final sequence of the journey to Pompeii ancient city, and it takes its architectural form in the metaphors of the unique history of Pompeii. It aims to identify the archaeological site of the ancient practice of excavation, to assist in the preparation of publications and convey knowledge. The building combines these functions and is composed of three units within each, with an independent access and functioning system, thanks to some changeable elements. It can adapt and change its interior over the time.

- A department for archaeological analysis and restoration.
- A unit for research, treatment discoveries and administration.
- The last unit is designed for the public and it has two conference rooms, as well as a library and a public book-shop.

The choice made for his establishment has helped to define the architecture as a living event that can be complete only by the public participation. This methodology is appropriate to architecture; because it creates forms that are configured in order to respect the environment while trying to keep one minimal intervention on the existing landscape and are also determined by a close relationship with the user.

Openings cut in the walls and copper roof leaves filter the light and seem to reaffirm the physical nature of architectural space, taming capturing light and views, highlighting a tension between openings and opaque surfaces.
A series of roof openings as the shafts of light, pierced in the skin of copper, are building a stratified body by alternating the lightness and darkness, inside as well as outside it.

The changing shape of the building is growing such as the knowledge of the individual, as the questioning in the discovery, he expands his knowledge and his memory as he would eventually communicate their knowledge and look to the future.

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