A theatre as an urban knot grafted in the historical fabric

The project for the Carlo Felice theatre in Genoa, badly damaged during the latter stages of the Second World War, kept Carlo Scarpa busy for several years, near until the end of his life. However, the project never left the paper. In it there are enclosed and brilliantly solved key issues in the approach to the subject of the graft in the historical centre. The theatre is in fact thought to become a real knot between the an¬cient city, the nineteenth-century city and the most recent expansion of the old town. By overturning the traditional Italian theatre hall in the foyer you get a new, extremely distinctive public space: the theatre stages the theatre, it presents itself to the city. The study aims to retrace the two main phases of the project by Carlo Scarpa, highlighting those methodological aspects still valid today in the process of integration into the historic fabric, as well as that marked an evolution in the process of formation of modern space for the show.