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2021program: The museum space housed in the former Bourbon prison will host activities related to research, higher education, the school of knowledge, production and post-production activities of artistic and performance content, guaranteeing a residence for artists, students, writers, researchers
> total area: 28,000 sqm SDP
> built area: 13,500 sqm
client: INVITALIA
project: Alfonso Femia / Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia with
restoration, renovation, redevelopment of existing buildings: OD’A officina di architettura
landscape: Michelangelo Pugliese
structural, services and environmental engineering: BMS Progetti
outdoor areas of parks, agricultural areas and crops: Luca Caselli
infrastructure: RINA
scenography: Ducks Scéno
art: Didier Faustino
geology: Gaetano Ciccarelli
images: ©Atelier(s) Alfonso Femia & Diorama
Santo Stefano island is a resource for the Mediterranean.” AF
EXPERIENCE, MEMORY, SPACE, TIME
A story in four dimensions
An archipelago, an island within the island.
Santo Stefano is part of a sequence, a true poetic and mythological one with truth and power, telling the nature of our Mediterranean and its volcanic origins. After all times and in every society, each island passes the relay to the other, becomes a place of discovery and history, stages, comes and remains in the imagination when disappearing of the eyes of the one who lives it, goes across it and meets it.
The dimension and the landscape of the Santo Stefano Island make these lands be a solid, impermeable, welcoming « rock », which shelters and isolates, which creates, something discreetly. We need to give it time, with patience.
The island of Santo Stefano leads the way.
Alfonso Femia