The time to take time.
To give value back to heritage. It must be done with sincerity and with the passion that leads us to rediscover traces and origins of a project, of certain decisions, of a story. The desire to confront ourselves with the dimension of time, this must guide us.
It is necessary to carry out a design that coherently brings back what time has driven away a few times from the founding values of a project, transforming it into another.
It is often an inevitably physiological path, of everything that goes through time, it moves away at the passing of the moments and of the different eras, and if the following stratifications and/or the changes made have not been able to make the work evolve into another dimension of value and contents, what becomes essential is the reaffirmation of its original identity, or at least of a very near dimension of it.
All of this translates into a series of actions which aim to free the spaces, the surfaces, the architecture, the time.
Historical punctuations such as the minting machines, become non silent physical presences in their taking shape in freed spaces.
The reopened courtyards and skylights that reflect a shed grammar, with an incessant rhythm, allow us to reconstitute a delicate and sweet relationship of light within the building.
The new is not imagined as an addition or as an autonomous element, but wants to become naturally part of the project, in balance within the original volumetric relationships, without entering into competition or subordination with them, but trying to make it an integral part, by geometry, alignments, rhythms.
A unitary color and material that react to the light and the sky of the city in dialogue with the mineral materiality of the preexisting, in a continuous relationship between filters, lights, shadows and reflections. Like a watermark is discovered between the fingers that run on the paper coin, the contemporary fits into history.
The time has come to take the time in order for a cultural heritage to return and be once again part of the life and the history of the city of Rome and of man.
