L’ex Cementificio Adriatico: struttura, contenuti e memoria nell’evoluzione urbana tra attualità e futuro

This contribution investigates the former cement factory complex in Pescara as a landscape-relational device, in which the infrastructural scale of the Asse Attrezzato and its proximity to the river create a dual perceptual regime: an accelerated image from afar, a slowed-down experience on the ground. The reading intersects three main themes: the iconic dimension conveyed by recent photographic images compared with the long genealogy of the ‘urban image’; the typological character of cement factories, linear organisms that connect quarries, conveyor belts, silos, and kilns, leaving a serial and strongly identiable gure in the city; a theoretical framework that, between modication and iconicity, proposes industrial heritage as ‘patrimoine vivant’. The knowledge and methodological analysis phase is the central part of the process of documenting the current situation, representing an objective testimony, obtained through integrated surveys and data fusion strategies, of a production plant with material and immaterial values that will soon disappear from the urban scene as it will be demolished by the company that acquired it. The result is a metric, qualitative, and perceptive atlas that will hopefully consciously support and guide new project scenarios that are not replacement but relational, capable of maintaining the memory and legibility of the industrial machine as a cultural infrastructure of the city.