ABSTRACT

While the ongoing urban growth of the diffused city, its infrastructures and its networks generate more and more compromised areas, the question arises as to which strategies can be applied to transform, widen and change the conventional relationship between abuse of land and lack of use of the ground underneath it. We might think that the only panorama left intact is the one described by poets, novelists and intellectuals, or depicted by artists. Perhaps there exists a third way to make the visible invisible, which is that of simply burying the architecture. An apparently banal method, but one that permits the natura naturata of a work to blend with the natura naturans of the zone.