Centuria Medical And Wellness Park

Centuriation is the soil tracing system used in the Roman world for the division of the lands assigned to settlers of proven Roman or Latin citizenship, sent to guard conquered territories and establish new settlements. From the design point of view, the division of the territory was based on the layout of parallel and perpendicular streets called decumani and cardines. The decumani were usually arranged either along the main axis of the territory or were parallel to a large communication route. Decumani and cardines were called limites, while the terms decumanus maximus and cardo maximus identified the main axes, wider roads, that crossed at a point which was the ideal centre of the centuriation. The centuratio from an ancient agricultural division of the soil, of Roman origin, becomes a system of “great territorial ordering design”, an assumption that inspired the project of the “Centuria Medical and Wellness Park” which was created as a design experiment of a cardo-decuman system of a city of services. A Park for the care and well-being of man, with the pilot project being in the Agro-Aversano, in the province of Caserta, but designed as a repeatable project even under different environmental conditions, adaptable to the shape and characteristics of the places. The idea is inspired by Superstudio’s Continuous Monument and exploits the characteristics of the infrastructure for crossing a place, such as an Architectural Viaduct, in the form of a monumental square structure that resemantizes the old route of the Roman centuriation.