La modificazione come strumento del progetto. Il caso dei buchi di Roma

The paper identies purposes and modes in order to dene the construction method of the modication language, where the modication is intended as a conceptual instrument leading the architecture s planning (Gregotti, 1984) and, moreover, it talks about the overlap of physical - operational level, and of the linguistic - conceptual level, that the term includes. The permanence of the issue, that determines the constant actuality, mainly refers to a particular context, as the Italian one, in which the presence of environmental pre-existences (Rogers, 1955) includes the need for an inclusive act of maintaining and conservation that is opposite to the exclusive principle of tabula rasa belonged to the Modern Movement. Therefore, the project is considered as an element of investigation and coherence with the characters of the place that they involve, especially, both the presence of history, a permanent entity between collective culture and architect’s individual culture, and that of discipline, general rules and traditions system that translated and projected toward new interpretations by the modication project.The analysis of some design proposals made in the 1980s for the historic center of Rome allowed me to put an operational approach alongside the conceptual nature of the theme.