Restoration
From Text “Il Restauro di Villa Cardillo” by Arch. Rosario Busardò, manager of the work of restoration ofi Villa Alliata Cardillo (Rosario Busardò, Il Restauro di Villa Cardillo in Giulia Ingarao (edited by), Centro d’arte Piana dei Colli, catalog, Villa Alliata Cardillo s.r.l., Palermo, 2009)
“After years of legal wars, slow and not always easy acquisitions of parts of the villa and rounding land, owner family strongly wanted a radical recovery of the building, a goal supported by European funds (P.O.R. Sicilia 2000/2006 – measure 2.03). In 7th of July 2007 we started the repair site after having received the permissions of private building trade, of superintenency and genio civile. In the first phase it was crucial to yake safety measuress for all the precasrious parts of the building- In fact, from years the villa was in a state of run-down. One of the more indicative interventions was the demolition of an illegal small building reinforced concrete made, built up adhering to the ancient wall mantle.
The entire restoration was made following the old volumetric outines of seventeenth century building. On groundfloor, in a zone which is actually the entrance area with a filter to events hall, we respected the old ambiental morphology preserving the two ninenteenth century vaults made by terracotta bricks. Using sustaining masonry, the old already existing terrace was re-shaped on the first floor, measuring quasi 350sqm. The terrace was paved with majolica blue and white bricks, revivaling the tipical seventh century wave, rounded by a calcarenite sicilian balustrade.
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