Exhibition on 6 April Earthquake : "Before, Immediately, Tomorrow"
“Before, Immediately, Tomorrow” is an exhibition on the earthquake that rocked L'Aquila on 6 April.The exhibition has been curated by the Civil Protection Department and set up inside the Guardia di Finanza Inspectors' Campusin Coppito where the G8 Summit is being held.The photographs are taken from the book of the same name, "Before, Immediately, Tomorrow", which contains a collection of snapshots taken in the very first few moments after the quake of 6 April, and right up to the Pope's visit on 28 April.The exhibition focuses on the solutions envisaged to rebuild and start over again in a safe environment.
A scale model of a "seismic city" in the middle of the room reproduces the impact of an earthquake on buildings built both with and without seismic isolation. When an earthquake is simulated, the skyscraper that has not been seismically isolated starts to sway while the other one does not move.
The new homes being built under the C.A.S.E. project for the citizensof L'Aquila, who are currently housed in shelter centres after their homes were wrecked in the earthquake, are seismically isolated. A large part of the exhibition is devoted to the C.A.S.E. project and to artists' impressions showing what the new homes will look like once the project has been completed.
The exhibition also offers the visitor an experience designed to bring the earthquake home in a very vivid and powerful manner in the "seismic room". This contains a platform that reproduces the effect of one of the earthquakes which have so dramatically shaken Italy's long history.
