Kévin Mirioni

Pompeii : Renovation of the theater district and creation of additional infrastructure

The program settles down at the ancient site of Pompeii, namely in the theater district.

The main idea is to settle on the ruins an infrastructure being able to accommodate contemporary spectacles. Without touching the ruins, the project slips over them. Reversibility is a main component of the project.

Generally, the project can be divided into four interventions, the first one consisting in the deposit of a volume on the ruins. On the ground floor of this volume, technical functions (scene storage rooms, decoration workplaces, public sanitary, …) are installed, on the upper floor, a panoramic terrace and a public cafeteria can be found and in the private part, some space containing boxes, relaxation opportunities, repetition rooms etc., is reserved to the artists.

The second intervention is to cover the Odeon. An external structure and a skin slip over the little theater to cover it.

The third consists in rebuilding a stage front (for the big theater) in forms similar to those of the Pompeian era. It contains a backstage, scene boxes, a warm-up area, …

The object of the last intervention is the reuse of some of the existing ruins by allocating different functions to them: ticket desks, reception, first-aid station, bar, merchandising, …

The strength of the project is that it creates an infrastructure merging with the landscape of Pompeii without denaturizing it, tourists come to visit the ancient town and not the spectacle infrastructure, consequently the project has to be as discrete as possible, and allow an easy comprehension of the existing remains.

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