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of several artifacts, variegated by type, destination and condition. Before a focus on the
individual buildings should be pointed out which are the resources and the preexisting
that characterize the park rail, in relation to the requirements necessary for the
realization of a university residence. Distributed nearby the station, in addiction to
buildings specifically dedicated to the railway - tollbooths and locomotive depots - there
is a complex of three buildings entirely destinated as dorms and residences for the trains
crew.
The wide complex could include building for the exclusive use of university and mixed
ones (Fig. 2), in which are both service of the residences and the station.This choice
finds its reason in the desire to enhance the peculiarities of railway construction.
These are inherent the opposition between the railway own local roots, the context within
which it is located and the fact that railway station belongs to a system, a network
technology. In fact, the fulfillment of the nineteenth century railway has been a mean for
the search and the affirmation of a renewed National Unity, to the extent that on the
concessionaire societies was imposed, according to the contract, the task to comply with
the prescribed regulation for the northern Italy railways. The goal to pursue was a
character of “radical unity”: in particular in countries such as Sicily, that hardly became
part of the Nation.
The railway construction conceptually wanted in fact to be not only a ground connection,
but a way that could be able to go beyond the trade routes, to take on a specific
Figure 1 : Enna Station Plan - 1930.
Figure 2: Different destinations - Halls of residence (red), Science Center (grey),
Railway station and mixed (blue)
