Like the hibakujumoku. Notes for a widespread museum of fortifications in the Nera Valley

The Nera River Valley, in Umbria, is characterized by the presence of numerous defensive structures placed to guard the villages, in close integration with the context; a heritage that, like the hibakijmoku, the trees that resisted the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has shown a high resilience to seismic events. Today it’s necessary to think of a different and new approach to these architectural testimonies, identifying them in the territory, reinserting them in a contextualized historical critique and inverting the practice of reconstructing situations, events and places, in a symbolic container. Instead, it will be necessary to design a ‘widespread museum of fortified architecture’, characterized by a significant virtual component that allows users to be provided with contextual information that can facilitate the historical understanding of a site. The use of new technologies allows the recontextualization of the work on a symbolic-reconstructive level. Through the network, links can be established with other architectures or different contexts; in this way each testimony will be returned to its context, not limited within predetermined cultural references, but rather inserted into a ‘fluid’ critical framework, variable and extendable without interruption according to a structuring network of logical, chronological relations between the different architectures and the context that will contribute to the preservation of the memory of the places.