Abstract
The research presented in this article is embedded in the context of the on-going doctoral thesis titled The Mantua-Peschiera Railway: A Case Study for the Historical Analysis and Design Methodology of a Regeneration Project. The research focuses on the decommissioned railway that once connected the city of Mantua to Peschiera del Garda in the north of Italy and questions its possible future. Nowadays, the railway is not perceived as it was, because, without any specific or recognizable appearence, its few remains, such as the passenger stations, are in ruins. The historical data helped to reshape the original project of the line and its deep interdependence with its environment showing peculiar and original characters as a branch line. The author's research aims to create a possible scenario in which the former railway guarantees a continuous connection between the object and its territory within its new function as a Cultural Route.
Highlights
In 1905, the Italian Ministry of Transport required the submission of a preliminary draft of plans for the construction of a secondary railway line between the city of Mantua and Peschiera del Garda in the north of Italy
The preliminary draft was designed by the local engineer Arvedo Arvedi in the same year and it is the only document that has survived in which the railway is described
Retracing the route drawn in the plan, assisted by the description contained in the technical report, it is possible to rewrite an immaginario1 of the Mantua-Peschiera journey
Summary
The imagined journey is considered as »a condition of a hermeneutic activity towards the built environment« (Lampugnani Savi 1987: 14), said Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani upon the occasion of the XVIIth edition of the Milan Triennale of 1987 entitled Un Viaggio in Italia, Nove Progetti per Nove Città It is a subjective reading in which architectures, villages, and landscapes are in sequence, creating heterogeneity that, in the case of the Mantua–Peschiera experience, leads back to a contemporary unique layer of coexistence identified in the Mincio Valley and its river. An environmental redevelopment that takes issues related to the setting of architectural interventions on the remains of the former
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