Cemento Armato

Cemento Armato (Reinforced concrete) is an overview of a normal day on the outskirts of Catania, in Librino. In 1970 the municipality of Catania entrusted to the group Kenzo Tange and Urtec Tokyo drafting a detailed plan for the construction of an upscale neighborhood. It also involved the construction of some green areas, specifically dedicated to different groups of residential buildings and a large park of 31 hectares, an area, therefore, of a size to become a destination for outings for the citizens of Catania. Librino was intended from the beginning as a kind of new town, connected to the center by a road axis. The result was largely unexpressed. Today the neighborhood has about 80,000 residents, all Italian, with a very high unemployment rate and has become sadly organized crime and not a symbol, which reaches its peak in the "Concrete Palace", the center of the main criminal acts (drug dealing, murder, illegal arms trafficking, stolen goods). A concrete monster, like many around the world, in which there are no rules of civilized life but only those of the fittest, this is Librino. Zen, Librino, Secondigliano, Corviale, to name just a few of the Italian reality, have become neighborhoods useful only to the growth of social rage phenomena. These cities are worlds apart, two cities in the city, where the creation of agglomerations did nothing but increase the gap between people, preventing a true inclusion, natural osmosis, fueling that gap made of habits, customs, culture, laws different moral and ethical. It almost seems like the realization of the famous John Carpenter film, 1997: Escape from New York: “In 1988, the crime rate in the United States rises 400% The once great city of New York becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country….The United States Police Force, like an army, is encamped around the island. There are no guards inside the prison, only prisoners and the worlds they have made….”