Architettura interrotta. Paesaggio interspeciale

Authorial ruins are more than just rubble, but their fate is often uncertain. The issue is further complicated in the presence of works begun and never completed, interrupted architectures, unfinished authorial ruins. These forms retain a paradox. Unlike the fragments of the ruins of the past, which show the passage of time and historical transformations, the unfinished ruins attest to design failures, economic changes or political instabilities, collisions between visionary ambitions and the reality that was intended to change radically. At the same time, what is retained of aborted projects measures time and space. Like the ruins of the past, they make us feel, they are promises of our existence that produce powerful emotions, and latent resources for experiencing architectural project. The theme is explored through the case study of “Pineland” a tourist village designed by Marcello D’Olivo in Forni di Sopra (Udine) in 1964, left interrupted after the first stages of construction, currently within the UNESCO Dolomites territory.