Methodological considerations about the worksite design for the restoration project of the church of S.Maria del Torrione in Ravenna.

The preservation of cultural heritage is, today, more than ever, a practice of remembering. Of researching the contact with the past, sometimes in very concrete forms. One of the major expressions of this linking activity is represented by the architecture, where memory becomes a visible, tangible and useful. Preserving the memory is preserving the link between our sense of civilization. Preserving, restructuring, consolidating are also productive practices, very complex ones if related with the new building productions. The practice of Restoration is very delicate and specific. This thesis aims to afford the thematic of those specificity, analyzing one case study: the Restoration of the church of Santa Maria del Torrione, in Ravenna. A little baroque church that, besides its dimensions, has the importance of a cathedral in therms of restoring the link between the objects and the city life of Ravenna.