Alterazioni Video. Incompiuto Siciliano - Intervallo

Incompiuto Siciliano is a project in progress that aims to identify and classify the aesthetic and formaI characteristicsof unfinished public architecture in ltaly. The survey, carried out by Alterazloni Video together with Enrico Sgarbi and Claudia D'Aita, has so far resulted in tne classification of around 500 unfinished architectural projects. The Italian region with the highest number of unfinished public works is Sicily and for this reason the style identified by the researchers, widespread in Italy during the 1960s and 1970s, was dubbed "Unfinished Sicilian". The intention of the project was noI merely to expose the phenomenon, but also to promote dynamic acceptance of it in order to trigger virtuous response mechanisms.
The capital of the "Unfinished Sicilian" style is Giarre, a town of 30.000 people in the province of Catania, where a relatively small area is home to 12 unfinished architectural projects, incIudlng an Olympic-sized swimming pool, a cultural centre, a flower market, a track for model cars, a civic theatre and a polo ground. In this area Alterazioni Video and the town council have nuilt the first "Unfinished Park", which also house a foundation with the purpose of observing the phenomenon of unfinished architecture. The Park is the result of an operation designed to historicize the area, whose identity is strongly conditioned by the prsence of unfinished works.
In occasion of Green Platform, Alterazioni Video realized a workshop with students of the University of Florence. Whithin the context of the institutional cooperation between the CCCS, directed by Franziska Nori, and the Laboratorio CROSSING coordinated by Professor Giacomo Pirazzoli (from the Planning Department at the Faculty of Architecture, Florence University), the aim of the workshop was to implement the Incompiuto Siciliano project, involving the architectural declination of buildings in the park in the city of Giarre. Specific sustainability criteria were adopted in the planning phase providing for minimal impact on the existing buildings in the park and for respect for the unfinished architecture's basic stylistic features. The work on the buildings went hand in hand with research into the identification of potential cycle lanes for use by visitors to the park. The laboratory was attended by: Alessio Galasso, Aura Gneucci, Luca Mannucci, Leonardo Martini, Diana Marzo, Iacopo Mascelloni, Eric Medri, Bianca Maria Rulli, Michela Saddi, Iolanda Bianchi and Carla Petrelli.