| The Salerno-Reggio Calabria highway is the infrastructure symbol of being “Southern”. It 'a monument to the South and its contradictions, it is a highway that denies the concept itself of fast flowing traffic road, although it is the main highway infrastructure in South Italy. This is the reason why the old route was imagined as a monument, on which the architectural intervention is almost intangible, but at the same time it is able to offer a new life to an infrastructure that would otherwise have been destined to dismantling or slow decay. A monument to remember and to find old and new roots. The technological research integrates itself to the artistic research and the landscape. The motorway’s route becomes an instrument of knowledge and of exploration of the land, encouraging the tourism and the social connections between local communities. Experimenting new ways of energy production and new ways of expression, regaining the landscape and the land to rediscover the identity. |
