We can see that the discussion that broke out after the position taken by the architects’ association on the plan to lock down Piazza Salvemini at night is due to the fact that it was the journalists who didn’t understand. Yet the letter addressed to the various editorial staff, the mayor and the various councilors, opened with an unequivocal title, “no to walls”. A concept so simple and clear that it should leave no room for interpretation, instead it is precisely the order of architects, perhaps because their letter has sparked a discreet can-can, that sends a new letter to the media, to the mayor and to the councilors . But as often happens when you think you are not understood, you prepare a new communication which, however, always goes like this, instead of dispelling doubts it risks increasing them. And it’s like that this time too. The premise, as mentioned previously, is that the message that was conveyed was not the desired one, and that the communication entitled “No to the Walls – Open Salvemini” had no polemical intent. Strange because the title itself would be enough to understand that the order of architects did not look favorably on the idea of closing the square with gates.
In the new press release from the architects’ association we read that «The letter was addressed primarily to the Condominium Administration, with which there has always been mutual respect, esteem and collaboration, and which over time has done its utmost with competence to attempt to resolve the deterioration situation in the area. We have therefore made a heartfelt appeal to it so that the proposed intervention has temporary characteristics but at the same time architectural quality”. The concept of provisionality is also insisted on in a second point, but one cannot help but notice that in our country there is nothing more definitive than what is born as provisional. From the order, in the person of president Roberto Righetto, who insists on architectural quality and at the same time does not deny the need to make a plan that brings together the public areas of Piazza Salvemini and the future ones of PP1 in order to resolve the phenomena in perspective of degradation now present.
A story that was simple in its own way ended up unleashing a storm that this new communication, we are sure, will not calm the discussions, but rather will fuel them again. It was enough to place the grids that are used to prepare the construction site and the press release from the architects’ association to turn the spotlight on an affair that has only appeared for what it is in the last few days. Hence the discussion on whether or not it is right to solve a problem with gates which obviously does not only concern the condominiums in Piazza Salvemini, given that the people we are talking about do not live in that square but it is where they have their offices.
