The current memory of the events of Resistance Movement, after more than half a century, presupposes an explanation through the provision of witnesses: the value of Memory is the basis of the project. It allows to come back to one of the actual scenarios of the drama of partisan struggle -the ruin of a rural house set on fire with its occupants by nazi-fascists- in a sort of eternal return and rediscover of the site: every time it has to be fixed in the memory.

 

The project rejects the use of monumental and celebratory typologies and choose to assign the memory of the people dead in the fight for freedom to an entirely crossable living place, made for the living ones: a common place available for meeting.

 

The building contains a small museum that collects testimonies of the Resistance Movement in the Marche region, particularly focused to the mountain area of Arcevia, a meeting-conference room with its related services and a small office. The Memorial -an elongated body slightly below the floor level of the rural house's ruins - emerges from Monte Sant'Angelo and overlooks the valley.

The walkable roof is 'suspended' over the landscape. Alongside, a frame translates in elevation the ruin's planimetry, projecting it to the sky.

 

The project ideally reorganizes the ruin's stones in a wall that measures the space and crosses the building. All the structures are made in white reinforced concrete; the landscape elements and the double interior walls are covered in local stone; the interior and the exterior floors facing the entrance are made with wood and istrian stone.