On Wednesday, 4 October at 4.30 p.m., the documentary ‘Terremoti Prevenzione e Ricostruzione‘ is presented in Rome. It includes the presentation of Stefano Boeri Architetti’s House of the Future project for the reconstruction of the Don Minozzi Complex in Amatrice – a historical place of great importance for the city and the whole territory, hit by the 2016 earthquake. The intervention is inspired by the pivotal concept of Integral Ecology expressed in Pope Francis’s Encyclical and the dialogue with the pre-existing architecture, designed by Arnaldo Foschini in the 1920s to house war orphans and subsequently damaged very severely by the earthquake.
The theme of the meeting is the fragile territory and reconstruction, themes presented in the documentary and pivotal for the House of the Future proposal, which is not limited to the definition of a new urban planning resulting from the set of planned interventions, but wants to solicit a reflection on the renewed strategic arrangement, in terms of new uses, endowment of equipment and services and future management of the complex, reflecting on the relative role that the territory can once again assume.
The first inspiration for the new complex was precisely to reinforce the idea of community spaces, as they were conceived by Father Giovanni Minozzi: places of worship, but also of study and aggregation, imagined as semi-collective spaces dedicated to new functions, such as civic services, community life and hospitality.
In this way, Casa Futuro once again becomes the engine of a renewed social life, as it was in the early post-war period, designed with the characteristics of a technological research incubator and permanent laboratory of a new environmental sensitivity, capable of guiding the rebirth of the area in which it is located.
The event will also be attended by Commissioner Castelli and the Mayors of Amatrice, Castelsantangelo and Arquata.