Oltrepassando le barriere dello spazio e del tempo: l’ex monastero-prigione di Sant’Agata a Bergamo = Crossing the edges of space and time: the former monster-prison of S. Agata in Bergamo

Following their decommissioning, historic prisons offer their bodies to the city as condensers of heterogeneous values and spaces. Combining the demands of conservation with those of economic sustainability and in the light of the pandemic crisis, the necessary reuse can reconnect architecture to the urban fabric, responding to the opposing needs of isolation and the sharing of open spaces, paradoxically redeeming the fierce blame to which prison architecture has been subjected