Nisida and its architectures

This contribution is part of a larger study, conducted for several years now by the authors about the island of Nisida and its architectures by virtue of a memorandum of understanding signed between the Department of Architecture and Industrial Design of the Second University of Naples and the Department of Juvenile Justice of the Ministry of Justice of the Italian State (March 2014). The study here proposed constitutes a state of progress about the current knowledge of the architectures present on the island and in particular the cylindrical tower (and the originating paths to access) and of the factory buildings that constitute the Institute for Juvenile Justice (IPM) that is on the island. By comparing the data taken from the historical iconographic sources with those derived from the architectural and structural relief operations of the masonries, it has been possible to advance a number of hypotheses on the modifications of the cylindrical tower (placed on the highest point of the island and undisputed star of the image Nisida in the centuries) and of the buildings that belong to Juvenile Detention Centre of Nisida (IPM). The examined historical sources are mostly: the Mario Cartaro view (1584), the project for the expansion of the port of Nisida with the Count of Monterey signature (1635), the cartography of Giovanni Carafa duke of Noja (1775), the architectural surveys for the extension of the "House of Imprisonment of Nisida" (1890 and 1896) and the "House of re-education for Juvenile Nisida" (fascist age).