Redevelopment program for the Castel di Useldange in Luxembourg between archaeological and
architectural restoration
Under UNESCO’s supervision, the Castel of Useldange receives a new impulse before being given back
to its community and after having being abandoned since the XVIII century. During 1934, with the
construction of a Maison de Maitre within its walls, a program of restoration
in stile
was attempted by
leaving the ruins untouched, but opening the current requalification program to new ideas, principles and
considerations.
The restauration dovetails with other complementary matters, within an interdisciplinary
complementarity and a continuous rethinking of the ongoing project. The guidelines suggested by the
Critical Restauration
and by the
Carte del Restauro, amongst which the principles of minimal intervention
and recognizability, although always fully observed, find new arguments in the program of Useldange,
becoming entertwined with the daily archeological discoveries on one side, and the implementation of
norms on security and accessibility for blind peole on the other. Outside the ancient walls of the castle,
along the slope that descends to the river, the botanical garden with the spices present and the real-size
models of the river fauna species, guide the blind visiting the castle in a new and experimental experience
tactile and olfactory for visiting the site. In Useldange, the redevelopement project, broadens its action by
making it also an instrument of social and cultural reintegration.
