Disegni e immagini di una città di nuova fondazione. Aprilia nel concorso del 1936.

Aprilia was the fourth in order of founding of the twentieth century new towns, built in the pontine area, in the province of Latina, in the work of implementation of land reclamation. It was built according to the project proposed by the group led by Concezio Petrucci, winner of the competition in 1936, banned by the Opera National Combatants. The competition for the master plan for the new center of the Pontine Marshes, notoriously the most interesting in the '30s in Italy, saw the participation of many professionals working at the time, including Free, Montuori, Piccinato, Muratori, Quaroni and others . The competition was allowed sixteen groups who managed to realize the project in a very short time dictated by the notice. The Admissions Committee declared the winner project labeled by the motto "2P.ST" initial architects C. Petrucci and M. Tufaroli and engineers F. Paolini, R. Silence. The town of Aprilia had to develop at or near the intersection of the street Nettunense and the new road called Median, designed to link the new common Littoria. In addition, the competition was expected that the new city should have characteristics largely rural and was shown a series of buildings and public services to be designed into the plan. The town center developed around a center, the square, crossed by two roads placed at right angles, one in the direction of Littoria and the other to Rome, the latter continued bayonet over the square towards the station. The plaza, designed as an urban center, was characterized by the emergencies of the Civic Tower and Bell Tower, which formed the bottom of perspective for those coming from the two streets north and south around it is developed the most important buildings like the Town Hall, Barracks, the home of the beam and the Church. The center of Aprilia it is today in very different ways. The current appearance is due to the significant changes and restructuring that took place after the war - remember that Aprilia was directly involved during the war of the Second World War - Slaughter House in the seventies of the beam and the reconstruction of the steeple of the church of S. In 1999 Michael took place. The paper aims to perform a reading of the various formal and structural components that define the image of the new city, through an analysis of design drawings, executed by the application of different methods and techniques of representation on a regional scale, urban and architectural and through the material model created for the competition. We plan eventually to aggregate project the image of the city with the city's image as Aprilia was made immediately after the competition and how it appears today, emphasizing the role of representation as a tool for analyzing and understanding the study of historical reconstruction and transformation of the city.

Aprilia è stata la quarta, in ordine di fondazione, delle nuove città novecentesche, sorte nel territorio pontino, in provincia di Latina, nell’ambito dei lavori di attuazione della bonifica integrale. Fu realizzata in base al progetto proposto dal gruppo guidato da Concezio Petrucci, vincitore del concorso del 1936, bandito dall’Opera Nazionale Combattenti. Il concorso per il piano regolatore del nuovo centro dell’agro pontino, notoriamente quello più interessante negli anni ’30 in Italia, vide la partecipazione di molti professionisti attivi all’epoca, tra cui Libera, Montuori, Piccinato, Muratori, Quaroni ed altri ancora. Al concorso furono ammessi sedici gruppi che riuscirono a realizzare il progetto in tempi molto brevi dettati dal bando. La Commissione esaminatrice dichiarò vincitore il progetto contrassegnato dal motto “2P.S.T.” iniziali degli architetti C. Petrucci e M. Tufaroli e degli ingegneri F. Paolini e R. Silenzi. La città di Aprilia, secondo il bando, doveva svilupparsi in corrispondenza od in prossimità dell’incrocio della via Nettunense e della nuova strada denominata Mediana, destinata a collegare il nuovo comune con Littoria. Inoltre, nel bando si prevedeva che la nuova città dovesse avere caratteristiche essenzialmente rurali e fu indicata una serie di edifici e di servizi pubblici da progettare all’interno del piano regolatore. Il nucleo urbano si sviluppava intorno ad un centro, la piazza, attraversata da due assi stradali disposti ortogonalmente: uno secondo la direzione di Littoria e l’altro verso Roma; quest’ultimo proseguiva a baionetta oltre la piazza verso la stazione. La piazza, progettata come polo urbano, era caratterizzata dalle emergenze della Torre civica e del Campanile, che costituivano i fondali prospettici per chi proveniva dalle due strade a nord ed a sud; intorno ad essa si sviluppavano gli edifici più importanti come il Palazzo Comunale, la Caserma, la Casa del Fascio e la Chiesa. Il centro di Aprilia si presenta oggi in modo molto diverso. L’attuale aspetto è dovuto alle notevoli modifiche e ristrutturazioni avvenute nel dopoguerra - ricordiamo che Aprilia venne coinvolta direttamente dagli eventi bellici della seconda guerra mondiale -, all’abbattimento negli anni Settanta della Casa del Fascio e alla ricostruzione del campanile della chiesa di S. Michele Arcangelo avvenuta nel1999. Il contributo si propone di svolgere una lettura delle varie componenti formali e strutturali che definiscono l’immagine della nuova città, attraverso una analisi dei disegni di progetto, eseguiti con l’applicazione dei diversi metodi e tecniche della rappresentazione a scala territoriale, urbana ed architettonica e attraverso il modello materico realizzato per il concorso. Ci si propone, infine, di collazionare l’immagine di progetto della città con l’immagine della città di Aprilia come è stata realizzata subito dopo il concorso e come oggi ci appare, sottolineando il ruolo della rappresentazione come strumento di analisi e di conoscenza nello studio della ricostruzione storica e delle trasformazioni della città. Aprilia was the fourth in order of founding of the twentieth century new towns, built in the pontine area, in the province of Latina, in the work of implementation of land reclamation. It was built according to the project proposed by the group led by Concezio Petrucci, winner of the competition in 1936, banned by the Opera National Combatants. The competition for the master plan for the new center of the Pontine Marshes, notoriously the most interesting in the '30s in Italy, saw the participation of many professionals working at the time, including Free, Montuori, Piccinato, Muratori, Quaroni and others . The competition was allowed sixteen groups who managed to realize the project in a very short time dictated by the notice. The Admissions Committee declared the winner project labeled by the motto "2P.ST" initial architects C. Petrucci and M. Tufaroli and engineers F. Paolini, R. Silence. The town of Aprilia had to develop at or near the intersection of the street Nettunense and the new road called Median, designed to link the new common Littoria. In addition, the competition was expected that the new city should have characteristics largely rural and was shown a series of buildings and public services to be designed into the plan. The town center developed around a center, the square, crossed by two roads placed at right angles, one in the direction of Littoria and the other to Rome, the latter continued bayonet over the square towards the station. The plaza, designed as an urban center, was characterized by the emergencies of the Civic Tower and Bell Tower, which formed the bottom of perspective for those coming from the two streets north and south around it is developed the most important buildings like the Town Hall, Barracks, the home of the beam and the Church. The center of Aprilia it is today in very different ways. The current appearance is due to the significant changes and restructuring that took place after the war - remember that Aprilia was directly involved during the war of the Second World War - Slaughter House in the seventies of the beam and the reconstruction of the steeple of the church of S. In 1999 Michael took place. The paper aims to perform a reading of the various formal and structural components that define the image of the new city, through an analysis of design drawings, executed by the application of different methods and techniques of representation on a regional scale, urban and architectural and through the material model created for the competition. We plan eventually to aggregate project the image of the city with the city's image as Aprilia was made immediately after the competition and how it appears today, emphasizing the role of representation as a tool for analyzing and understanding the study of historical reconstruction and transformation of the city.