Spiegare. Descrivibilità, trasmissibilità e qualità nel progetto di restauro

To explain means to unfold what is folded and wrapped up. Explaining a project means attributing the characteristic of being bent to it. And the project shares with things this character, which makes the one and the others related. Explaining the project is certainly the task of the designer, but it is also the task of those who have the transmissibility of their thoughts as their main objective. And the transmissibility of thought also allows the construction of a comparison between different positions and choices. On this point, it is useful to take up a reflection advanced by Torsello, where the author reasons the restoration operation as a complex operation in which the ‘creative’ phase seems to exclude any possible method that also guarantees its quality. Indeed, the present work does not claim to find a method, but to claim the need for a reflection that tries to clarify the steps that lead from the analysis phase to those formal design choices that constitute the main reasons for the existence of the discipline of the Restoration. The problem is how to describe and transmit the work that presides over these choices in those aspects that can be traced back to an ‘inventive’ dimension. It is evident that I do not intend to establish any correlation of absolute causality: freedom in the analysis, its partiality, and its interminability prevent us from thinking of a process which, starting from the same premises, leads to the same results. In this paper, it is believed that a central role in the restoration project is played by the representation because it constitutes the shaping of the analysis and the solution of the problems, as well as the staging of the figures already present in the thing. The theme of the representation of folded things inevitably leads to dealing with the temporal dimension, which will be assumed as time-space, topology rather than history. The written ends with an explanation of a master’s thesis project