Le isole archeologiche di Atene come arcipelago per la conoscenza

The project finds in the spirit of the archaeological islands the metaphor of the city as an archipelago; the islands take on the identity of their history, their formal, social, and landscape structure, and the whole becomes the great archaeological park of Athens. It will be a "unitary federation" of all the different and antithetical individual archaeological areas. The idea of archaeology within archaeology is realized with the "archipelago of knowledge". The project is a point of view, a tool for understanding the deep structure of this territory interpreted as a "narrative soil" of memories of landscapes under construction, systems of relations stratified in time and space: natural elements, geomorphological features, archaeological memories, settlements and timeless monuments, as a palimpsest of great and complex architecture. The ruins take on renewed symbolic values in the project and build the deepest link between authentic nature and transformative action. The physiognomy of the park consists of "islands/clumps", a set of structures extremely diverse in content and form, surrounded by the "green sea", a system of modified nature, which accommodates infrastructures, advanced mobility, and augmented reality technologies. The structure of the new museum facility makes it necessary not to underestimate all the architectural and material stratifications that have contributed to the manifestation of the profound nature and current image of the site.