Historical record an important element to the building. Most of the historical buildings in Italy can date back to the middle age, even roman period in times. The function is changing according to the age of the building, each age has its effect on the same historical building, which is the charitable historic value. Carlo Scarpa,Moneo and the other designers of Castelvechio combine these memories smartly with the new space order, and shows the existence and value of the old building in the combination of history and the modernism.
Museum of Castelvechio in Italy was first built in the middle age, about 1354 to 1356 by della scala family for the purpose of preventing the invasion of enemies and rebellion,is part of the 14th century castle…show more content… (10) It replaced the old merida archaeological museum. It was created by Royal order on march 26, 1838. (9) The five hills of that carthaginian settlement, a subsequent roman colony and byzantine outpost, are largely bare-the decaying streets between them housing the city’s poorest residents. in 1988, while carrying out a routine archaeological probe for a construction site on the most prominent of these hills, archaeologists stumbled upon the remains of a sumptuous roman theatre that, inscriptions revealed, had been built on orders of the roman emperor Augustus near the end of the first century B.C. Eleven years later, in 1999, after securing adequate funds, local officials enlisted architect rafael Moneo’s idea not only to restore the site but also to make it the centrepiece of efforts to renew the city and attract tourism. (10)
The idea of creating a museum dedicated exclusively to art and roman culture in merida was successful, as the site meridian through its monumental ruins and the museum pieces from us about the process of romanisation of his pania in all its facets. (9) Moneo has undertaken a project of civic and historic suture, he organised his intervention as an urban sequence through two museum buildings, a series of tunnels, and a wall of escalators, visitors are transported from the central city Hall plaza near the waterfront to the hillside ruins 56 feet above.
