THE COMPOSITION OF CONFLICTS

In the territories of our time, the architectural project enters into a relationship with, more or less visible and intangible, traces of historical identities that have stratified the reality we live every day. They are contexts characterized by overlapping layers of various origins as artifacts, minerals and herbal products, tangible or told landscapes, places of remembrance, absences and unfinished projects. The question of the relationship between history and project is large and complex and always committed scholars from every era and, more recently, the encounter with the different involved archaeologies becames inevitable. The boundary lines of the First World War constitute archaeological complex systems involving typically large parts of territory with their imposing stage presence both physical, given by bunkers, trenches and tunnels, military forts, villages, and immaterial, transmitted by the stories of people who lived those tragic events, custodians of painful collective memories. The description of three terms has to be regarded as one of the possible interpretations of a combination of various meanings, aimed at the structuring of an appropriate approach to the redevelopment of these areas of the Lombardy region, marked by the events of World War I.