The landing of Charon. Architecture for a short-shipping terminal on Messina Strait : the forerunner of a class

According to the general topic named “Linking”, the design has as background the Mediterranean Basin in one of its very historically crucial area as the Messina Strait is. Main frame-work is the strategy planned by local Authorities to improve connections between Sicily and the Mainland, establishing a “Messina-Strait Rapid Transit System”, also predicted to develop a social and economical legacy onto the strait. To the existing situation of Messina-Port corresponds the renewal of the port-infrastructure for Reggio-Calabria, qualified as new terminal for the short-shipping service operating between the two cities. Focus is the new ferry-terminal for passengers by “Caronte and Tourist Spa” Company in its generl lay-out, here acquired to propose a “forerunner of a class”: a ferry-station designed as hub-system between land and sea, offering facilities to figure-out a gateway between Messina and Reggio-Calabria. A gathering-place, a technical device to board ferries, the design is also predicted in using as first-aid/logistic centre to host immigrants, exiles and refugees: nowadays Ulysses looking to break-off the Wait of their Penelopes. Looking to the heritage of the myth, Charon the-ferryman, is still bringing souls through-out the shores where Reggio-Calabria faces Messina and Scylla is still waiting for Charybdis.