Trasformazioni incompiute.La restituzione dei progetti non realizzati di Jappelli per la città di Padova

Result of fruitful collaboration between the labs and research of Drwing and History of Architecture at the University of Padua, the proposed study intends to show, through an approach established by the disciplines of information technology and of representation, projects never built by Giuseppe Jappelli, in the nineteenth century, for the city of Padua. Through the reading and interpretation of original drawings - sometimes small or incomplete - it was possible to reconstruct a series of buildings (completelly, by reading the interiors, the exteriors, the supposed urban relations) who have never seen the light: of each, were studied the respective placements in the urban context, making immediately obvious to the observer the project culture of the each building not realized and highlighting, in many cases, the possible rupture of the historic fabric for adoption of those “out of scale” that in Padua take palce only in the early decades of the twentieth century (apartments in Corso del Popolo, Antonianum, etc.). This reconfirms the scientific value of the representation and of what we now call “computerized modeling”: on one hand, in fact, the architectural and urban representation contributes to the knowledge of existing or virtual configurative structure, on the other hand representation allows the understanding of the set of relations and relationships involved in the correct study of an intervention at urban scale: qualitative and quantitative relations and relationships that the only graphic foreshadowing can highlight.