“Let the historical building speak”. Restoration of the Second Hospice in the Shrine of Nostra Signora della Misericordia in Savona
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https://doi.org/10.14633/AHR55Keywords:
Savona, Second Hospice, Main Facade, Conservation, Traces of the Past, CureAbstract
The essay traces the origins and results of a project of restoration of the so-called Second Hospice in the Shrine of Nostra Signora della Misericordia in Savona. Although being rich in masterpieces and significant works of arts, the complex is little-known. In particular, the Second Hospice, which today hosts a rest-home, was built in 1593 in order to answer to the increasing number of pilgrims visiting the Shrine, and has been variously transformed over time.
The intervention of restoration, within a vaster programme which previously involved the interior and the roof structures, concerns the facade of the historical building – which, in spite of the apparent architectural unity, is the result of many different building phases, not all well-defined – and part of the sides. For this reason, the main objective of the intervention was to preserve all the material traces of this complex and partially unknown history, trying to limit the progressive damage which has occurred over time and, at the same time, trying to ensure that the architectural peculiarities of the façade and sides are still evident, once the restoration has been completed.
Hence, the essay speaks about a restoration which is intended, first of all, as a moment of “listening” and as an act of deep “respect” toward what we have inherited from the past. This attitude implies that the intervention, far from being definitive, ought to be considered as an intermediate step in the long history of the building. To let the building talk about its history also after the restoration, the aim of the project was not to realize long-lasting interventions. On the contrary, interventions arose in the prudent, meditative, minimalistic sphere of the “cure”, and in the sphere of an attentive maintenance which will surely need to be repeated in the future.
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