Il restauro di un'architettura funeraria nel cimitero monumentale di Messina. Note a margine dell'intervento.

The restoration intervention concerns a funerary architecture that is located inside the monumental cemetery of Messina. The Chapel of the Arciconfraternita dei Catalani (1895) consists of a single room, built in mixed masonry, endowed with a crypt. The state of abandonment of the artifact had favored the proliferation of shrubs which, together with the collapse of the roof that had dragged most of the niches, threatened to cause the overthrow of the protiro. The particular condition of conservation of the artifact, the regime of private property that presented itself as an undivided good among all the confreres of the Arciconfraternita dei Catalani and, above all, the location of the same, inside the monumental cemetery, determined particular conditions foreseen by the contract. In fact the construction of the site in a narrow space, the absence of electricity at 220V, the opening and closing times and the impossibility of using some equipment in a minimum space, are just some of the problems that have been highlighted during restoration process. The private contractor came to an agreement with different companies for fixed price for fixed time of work, thus allowing a more appropriate relationship between the contruction management and the workers,in order to respond better in relation to the particular workings envisaged by the project. It was decided to limit the intervention to a minimum that was necessary, considering it as a simple support to the well functioning of the chapel, while making it easily distinguishable in order to allow the reading of the occurred transformations.