BAUKIS: What happens when the city dies?

Participation in the workshop W.A.V.E. held in Chania in collaboration with the I.U.A.V. of Venice:
BAUKIS, The Invisible Cities of Italo Calvino “The tiny stilts that stand up from
ground, at a great distance from each other and they are lost in the clouds, they support the city. (…) Nothing from the city touches the ground outside
from those long palm-like legs to which rests and, in bright days, that perforated and angled shadow drawn on on the leaves of trees.There are three versions for the inhabitants of Baukida: that they are equal to the Earth, that they respect her so much that they avoid any contact with her, that they love her as she was before they appear and with binoculars and telescopes downward do not get tired of it inspect, leaf by leaf, stone by stone. “ This is how Italo Calvino describes the city of Vafkida in his book “Invisible cities”. We use the quote as a point reference on how to highlight the Roman grid, using a long urban plan that reproduces him important elevation. During Phase 1 we indicate where we will make the raised additions, with slim, temporary platforms that do not obstruct possible excavations. Phase 2 is a transition period where construction of buildings begins giving priority to what frames them Cardo and Decumanus Maximus axes. Phase 3 is the theoretical completion of the project in the distant future, where the grid and the buildings are included in it they completely replace the existing ones. The purpose of the project is to restore the city in its Roman roots thus achieving one theoretical leap into the past.
Team: Koletsis Evangelos, Mantzouneas Eleftherios, Lountzis Georgios Dionysios, Nikolaidi Galini, Kyriakopoulou Naya, Fouskas Petros, Mparnasas Sotiris, Giannkara Despoina, Beatrice Beer, Gian Marco Palmucci