Destiny (not Allegory): Re-Designing Samonà’s Mediterranean : An (im)Possible Mapping between the ‘Masserìa’ and the House

The world of Giuseppe Samonà is a world of profound destinies, of furrows that mark the surface of the island in order to move along the marine routes of the Mediterranean and arrive to distant places. Palermo, Naples and Venice thus seem connected by an invisible trace that links childhood gazes to his academic and professional activities. The link between historical imaginary and geographic imaginary finds an echo in the world of the invisible and of architectural composition. A world of forms that clashes with a precise construction of the landscape as succession of thresholds and remembrances, of architectural memories. In this system the space of the house, the domestic space, is recomposed as fragment and relation of the ancient Sicilian masserìe whose images and mappings persist intact in an elitarian and spiritual organism of compositional relationships. The traces unearthed by the author re-initiate an interrupted dialogue with the Sicilian territory, involving an archetypal adaptation that invests Mediterranean and Atlantic relationships in the re-founding of spatial hierarchies. The article is to be understood as an exploratory document which, based on “provocation” as analytic tool, leads to a possible spacial codification. A device that plays with the role of the image and of construction as premises for a narrative of the architectural project.