Contracting Authority: Superintendence for the Archeological Heritage of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae

Financing: public

Date of realization: 31/12/2015

Contractor: Consorzio Arte’M – Partners: Syremont s.p.a – Altair 4 Multimedia s.r.l. –  Centrica s.r.l. – D’Uva Workshop s.r.l. – L’Erma di Bretschneider s.r.l. – Prismi Editrice Politecnica Napoli s.r.l.

Description: The operation performed by Syremont is part of a wider program of interventions aimed at the implementation of the project for the improvement of the tour arrangements and to potentiate the cultural offer of the Pompeii archeological site through the construction of outfittings, physical and virtual installations, multimedia production and software applications that, all together, contribute to structure and articulate the new system of the archeological site.

The intervention of Syremont affected the Ekklesiasterion area, an area of about 100 square meters near the Temple of Isis. The space is circumscribed by archeological masonry, which is in part original and in part a reconstruction, of variable height between 2.70 m and up to a maximum of about 4.50 m.

The peculiarity of the intervention was to have designed and built an infrastructure intended for use within an archeological area that is part of UNESCO’s World Heritage. Approved by the Superintendence of Pompeii, Herculaneum and Stabiae and the Seismic Commission, the structure is lightweight, self-supporting, detachable but statically verified according to the requirements of the category of User Class III, as required by the Technical Regulations for Construction of 2008. The foundations are superficial and consist of an adequately dimensioned ballast that did not require excavation nor anchorages for the existing structures.

The supporting structure is made entirely of truss frameworks, covered in an insulated package and finished with an extrados of copper foils and copper gutters.

A double package of perforated and not and projecting and not PVC screens, allowed us to visually integrate the structure in the archeological contest and create a confined environment inside that is suitable for daytime screenings.

Contracting Authority: Sicilian Region, Division of Culture and Sicilian Identity, Department of Culture and Sicilian Identity – Superintendence for Cultural and Environmental Heritage of Messina

Financing: public

Period of work execution: August 2014 – October 2015

Description: The project for Archeological Park of the Aeolian Islands and the archeological areas of Milazzo, Patti and neighboring municipalities was created with the aim of setting up a Center for contemporary art in the Archeological Park of the Aeolian Islands through an open tender in accordance with of Legislative Decree no. 163/2006.

Syremont oversaw the overall final design, the technical and accounting coordination and as group leader was responsible for the general management of the contract. In particular, Syremont oversaw the restoration work, the outfittings, the video production, and the website and social networking activities for promotional purposes. Il Cigno, main partner, oversaw the artistic direction of the temporary and permanent exhibitions.

The intervention was focused on the area of Lipari Castle and in particular on three sites that are subject to historical and artistic constraint: the former Church of St. Catherine, the former prison of Lipari, the ground floor of the former hostel of Lipari; Prismi Arte’M oversaw the communications, catalogs, the exhibition, and the hospitality.

Today Lipari is equipped with infrastructures to potentiate the offer of services to the public:

• a permanent Contemporary Arts Center at the former prison;
• an area fitted, air-conditioned and lit, with remote video surveillance for the organization of temporary exhibitions;
• an auditorium equipped with all the necessary conference technology;
• a permanent exhibition dedicated to Bernabò Brea;
• a reading room equipped with publications on contemporary exhibitions selected among the most important Italian publishers.

Areas of interest where Syremont intervened:

• executive project and general management;
• construction reclamation work;
• arrangements for temporary and permanent contemporary exhibitions in the area of Lipari Castle (former Church of Santa Caterina, former prison);
• construction of a temporary exhibition dedicated to Bernabò Brea and Madeleine Cavalier;
• Systems: video surveillance with remote monitoring; microclimate control and air conditioning, electrical, lighting.

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Description: cultural infrastructure for the enhancement of the archaeological area through the creation of a system of works, supplies and services designed to expand the cultural offer

Intervention Objective: the will of the municipal administration of Terracina was to exploit their assets through the creation of an integrated system of services, works and supplies designed to expand and qualify the cultural offerings of the site.

The archaeological site is subject to the supervision of the Superintendence of Archaeological Heritage of Lazio and architectural Superintendency of Lazio is NaturalMonument and Site of Community Interest (SCI) subject to constraints hydrological and landscape .

The goal then create a system of cultural infrastructure required a complex co-ordination with the requirements of environmental protection and conservation. A work so that required close collaboration of specialists in multidisciplinary fields and an intense collaboration between the public and private sectors.

The Sanctuary of Monte Sant’Angelo, known to many as Giove’s Temple, is an archaeological site that houses the remains of a temple of the Republican era, a fortified camp for the defense of the city, a small temple adjoining reused and modified in the Middle Ages as a monastery. Inspired by the great scenic Hellenistic architecture, belongs to the series of the ancient sanctuaries of Latium monumentally restructured in the late Republic of Ancient Rome, between the end of the second century B.C. and the beginning of the first century B.C.

The project’s goal was to tell the story of the place from its earliest human settlements along centuries of history, to create spaces for the reception and management services to the public, to provide the area of electrical, technological and lighting to allow projections, architectural lighting, special effects for the show, to simplify the accessibility and finally equipped to create paths to learn more of issues related to the history of the place.

Syremont Activity: 

creation of a dedicated space for the welcoming of visitors with Ticket bookshop, warehouse, toilet, chair control to the show room, the projection a spectacle of sound and light show that tells the history, construction techniques, the motivations that drove the pilgrims to venerate the place, the architectural forms and spaces are not the most valuable, the reuse of certain areas at different times, rituals and spirituality of the place.

a lighting system for the enhancement of the architecture survived the time

an introductory video that tells the story of the visit of the sanctuaries of Latium offers contemporary and hypothetical reconstructions and three-dimensional animations suggestive evoking the atmosphere of the holy place and the adjoining entrenched camp

works and functional facilities to the infrastructure described

supply of technological equipment at the service of the show

didactic planning

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Intervention Objective:
The project involved the design and implementation of an integrated system of services and works aimed at improving the quality of culture of the site by exploiting the potential of innovative multimedia technologies.
The project was promoted by the regional company FILAS dedicated to supporting the processes of development and innovation of the entrepreneurial fabric of the territory with the objective of revitalizing all sectors of the economy segment of the Cultural Heritage and Tourism connected to it through the use of innovative technologies.
His early actions for implementation are brought together under the brand Lazio Futouring, an integrated system of 10 pilot projects for the valorization of the cultural heritage of Lazio.
The project SPERLONGA AND THE RIVIERA OF ULYSSES articulated a set of interventions and supplies that involved Syremont s.p.a, Officine Rambaldi s.r.l. and Institute for Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage ITABC of the National Research Centre CNR – a group made up of specialists from multidisciplinary fields that has worked for the realization of the project.
The fields of application of the project required the involvement of expert computer multimedia technologies (laser scanning, multimedia applications for consultations) programers for integration of different management platforms, designers and companies specializing in works and installations for buildings subjected to historical artistic and naturalistic areas subject to landscape – the practitioners of cinematic representation and technologies for artistic outdoor performances of sound and light, scholars and researchers for the production of cultural content then articulated for its different applications.

Syremont’s Activities:

• functionalization of access to the museum by construction operations aimed at improving accessibility and ensuring the safety of the streets of hexose, facilitate the aggregation of groups of visitors (new entrance and paved area outside) ;
• provision of furnishings for outdoor rest areas;
• routine maintenance on the facades and roofs;
• insertion of sections of walkways to simplify the use of the archaeological area;
• hydraulic interventions to ensure the water level of the ancient fishponds;
• electrical and data service in the archaeological area aimed at creating a show of sound and light;
• irrigation system;
• outdoor media for the view of the archaeological area;
• provision of technology for the management of the ticket office ;
• provision of illuminated flagpoles and flags in the entrance area;
• Multimedia applications: iPhone app aims to identify areas of cultural, natural or archeological value of the Riviera of Ulysses grouped into themes and itineraries shown as paths on the map – QR code to further study the themes of the visit – digital signage host: a multimedia kiosk placed outdoors, near the entrance, offers the up-to-date information on events organized as part of the cultural offer of the Sperlonga Archaeological Museum – updates are managed by the staff of the Museum – interactive indoor projection: images projected on the wall entertain visitors with an interactive game for a sneak preview of the cultural offerings of the Museum.

Officina Rambaldi’s Activities:

• Original videos and Hall of the Impossible Museum: the room was equipped for the screening of a video which recalls the events linked to the sculptural findings of 1956 and tells the story of Sperlonga, of Roman villas, the historic Flacca. The space also offers multimedia workstations to explore “virtual rooms” full of information, videos, objects and artefacts of art, not physically present in the museum but important elements of a process of cultural enrichment.
• Sound and light show at the Grotto of Tiberius: the “Grotta di Tiberio” is the stage of a show set in the picturesque setting of the Riviera of Ulysses and the mythical “cavern” of the Emperor, the original home of the large groups of sculptures called the Odyssey of Marble. The cave serves as a backdrop from which a play of lights and projections accompanied by stories materialize on a curtain of water, including music and three-dimensional reconstructions recalling the lost glories of the place.

CNR’s Activities:

• Historical research and coordination in the process of making the educational texts;
• Laser scans.

Intervention Objective: The municipal government of Peschici asked to carry out an innovative project to fruition with the aim of expanding the cultural offerings of the site. The Grottone Manaccora dating back to the Bronze Age, is a natural cave that goes into the bowels of the earth for over 90 meters. In the centuries it hosted populations while preserving their traces. On the promontory of Punta Manaccora you can still see a Neolithic settlement, identified by perimeter ditches of huts, a necropolis located at the extreme tip of the area, and the remains of walls brought to light by excavations.
Along the side walls of the cave, the men of the Bronze Age built subterranean structures by exploiting the natural grottos and smaller cavities that opened along the walls and on the bottom. The story begins in Manaccora, at a time of great religious fervor for the people who inhabited the region, engaged in the search for suitable places to worship, intended to accommodate rites of fertility. The site is within walking distance from the beach and is located about 25 meters from the shoreline.
The visits were organized on request and required the presence of a companion. Our intervention was to provide a structure to welcome visitors on site, prepare a memorandum to view, use the cave safely and, as independently as possible, sell books and objects on the spot.
The site has been contracted out to an operator who has been in the industry for four years.

Syremont Activity:

• historical research and production of texts for the dissemination and promotion of the site;
• elaboration of a story to accompany the view;
• engineering of special helmets with Bluetooth receivers of the signal emitted by the listening posts along the tour route;
• installation of a Bluetooth system along the tour route for audio transmission in conjunction with the approach of the visitor to the point of listening;
• the recording of the story in five languages;
• construction of an indoor space and facilities to accommodate visitors (precarious and removable structure);
• creating space equipped for watching an introductory video to the visit, for the distribution of engineered helmets, for ticket sales, for publishing and merchandising;
• promotion and communication.

Intervention Objective: The will of the municipal administration was to create a system offering sevices and places that allow them to highlight the history of Burgio, the historical and artistic heritage, the arts and crafts of the local tradition. At the same time as our project, the town had the MUCEB Ceramics Museum opened in 2012 with a collection of ancient pottery that valorized the distinctive characteristics of local production. For the application of deeper and broader projects to boost the tourist sector, the Town Council has made arrangements at an old railway station, already restored, with an adjoining garden that has become the focus of our intervention. The former railway station is now a visitor center where the tourist comes in contact with the history and traditions of Burgio, embracing the themes of the working of stone, iron, glass, bells, ceramics, cultural heritage and landscape (churches, sculptures, monuments, castle) and the popular traditions of the deep religious spirit that binds the people to the Venerable Andrea from Burgio.
Our work has allowed us to promote this heritage and to create a system of services and areas that favored the link between the various cultural attractions located in the municipal area (Ceramics Museum, shops, churches, monuments, nature park).
The ultimate goal, no less important, was to form a select group of young people for the future activities of management services to the public.

Syremont’s Activities:

• study of history, antique arts and crafts, folk tradition and the cultural and natural heritage of the area;
• production of educational content and dissemination of the entire communication system;
• photographic and video footage of the country’s cultural heritage, popular demonstrations, craft shops;
• production of a promotional video of the territory and traditions and interview with the Mayor;
• production of all means of communication (informative panels, guide, road signs, banners, texts for the video);
• preparation for a visitor center (outlet with local handicraft products – permanent exhibition – tasting area) equipped with video projections –
• tasting area, ticket office and bookshop – photographic blow-ups;
• construction of a landscaped garden adjacent to the visitor center equipped for the organization of outdoor events (exhibitions, festivals , promotional events), and for citizens’ enjoyment;
• construction of a cafeteria equipped with a kitchen for food preparation and outdoor dining area;
• a photo exhibition dedicated to the Venerable Andrea from Burgio at the Benedictine convent of Burgio;
• building and plant works preparatory to the infrastructure listed;
• training of young people on issues of management services to the public, knowledge of the history and traditions of local control and maintenance of equipped spaces.

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