Docomomo International would like to share the publication The Conservation Plan of the Flaminio Stadium [Piano di Conservazione dello Stadio Flaminio], published by the Getty Foundation of Los Angeles is now available online on the website of the Keeping it Modern initiative, with which the research work and the creation of the document were financed.

During three years of work, a team of 36 specialists was involved in the drafting of an in-depth historical-critical study of the Stadium and its urban context, in the development of an organic database, in the development of digital models for multidisciplinary analysis and in the management of acquisitions massive geospatial data. All brought together in 594 pages and an HBIM platform that represents an indispensable tool for the correct recovery of the stadium, designed and built by Pier Luigi and Antonio Nervi for the 1960 Olympic Games.

Thanks to the joint work of Sapienza University of Rome, PLN Project Association and Docomomo Italy it was possible to collect and make available to the Municipality of Rome, owner of the structure, and to the Italian and international scientific and professional community, a wealth of knowledge essential to plan the recovery of an icon of modern architecture in Rome.

The Plan, shared by the Special Superintendence of Rome Archeology, Fine Arts and Landscape, represents a novelty with respect to Italian legislation, as underlined by Ugo Carughi, Past President of Docomomo Italy: “the conservation plan must be considered an innovative tool. In Italy it can constitute an intermediate step between the declaration of cultural interest and the recovery and restoration project: an instrument of protection and, at the same time, of adaptation in terms of performance, economic, management, with all the necessary updates of the structure and the forecast of the activities useful for its recovery. For the Flaminio stadium, the inclusion of the work in the enhancement of the entire urban context will be of utmost importance, with particular attention to the relationships with the other sports and entertainment facilities that characterize it. The declaration of cultural interest, an integral part of the Plan, was formulated taking into account the various relationships that connect the Roman works created by Pier Luigi Nervi on the occasion of the XVII Olympics held in Rome in 1960.”
Antoine Wilmering, Program Senior Officer of the Getty Foundation, declares that it is “stimulating to see the civic support that the modern wonder of Nervi has received in the Eternal City”, and the drafters of the Conservation Plan are now looking to the Municipality of Rome, which has strongly wanted and supported the realization, and to the Mayor Virginia Raggi, waiting to soon see this essential tool used for the recovery of the Nerve masterpiece.

To know more about the publication, please go to The Getty Foundation website.