Veni Vidi Vici. Immersioni aptiche nelle archeologie urbane

The urban archaeologies that emerge unexpectedly inside our cities represent objects with which the human being is able to identify. The fragility hidden in their very essence can actually be reflected in human nature, which is in continuous change. Urban fragments, moreover, represent privileged places where the project can express all its creative and interpretative capacity, making them accessible and restoring the interrupted relationship with the contexts as well as with the users. The study, starting from a broad definition of the term accessibility, aims to reflect and investigate on the role that the phenomenological approach can take on in terms of accessibility and attempts to provide a methodology for analysing and controlling the project on pre-existences. This method is based on the definition of three moments, physical, perceptual and appropriational, each of which can be further divided into categories. The effectiveness of the method is then verified on a specific case study, the archaeological centre of Almoina in Valencia, a recently conserved and enhanced fragment, which is particularly suitable for study. The performed analysis also shows that the tool has a capacity to control the quality of projects, which need continuous multidisciplinary dialogue in order to be successful also in terms of appropriational accessibility.