The concept of structural becoming in the project of the historical fabrics of Gozo and Aachen

Leaving aside the paroxysical outcomes that characterize the concept of transformation as a condition of complete interruption of historical continuity and concomitant adoption of a principle based on the semantics of "non-space", the theme of the contemporary project in the inherited city seems to find - often in recent critical outcomes that look to the problem of congruent mutations in the historic built - a binary meaning of research of ‘the becoming’ which however produces very different results. On the one hand, the concept of synchrony as the only truth of the historicity meaning read in the Hegelian sense of living the contemporaneity as an expression of the being revelation of own time; thus the project expressed with a language compatible with the temporal phase in which the propositional action come true; on the other hand, the overcoming of this "transient fixity" which implies a ‘doing’ not as a spirit of time but as an "organism", i.e. as a limit to the condition that identifies the fulfillment of its time preferring a research field pro-positive coherents with the constituent phase of the body (urban, aggregate and building) in which it intervenes. The aim of the discussion will be therefore the comparative research of the various theoretical and design conditions that express this dialectical binomial, punctuating that the design experiences described are part of a research experiment inspired by a cultural horizon pivoted on the second theoretical-methodological assertion, based on the coherence principle in the mechanics of becoming, which produces organic results which are spatially and temporally depending from the structural character of the construct in which they fit in. The bin-up case study of the semi-spoiled fabric in the medieval citadel of Gozo and the search for the reorganization of the Frankenberger district of Aachen - a semi-peripheral area built between the end of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries - will show the diversity of critical orientation that leads to design a coherent built with the langue which is proper of the languistic context.