Archeology and urban transport: the metropolitan line in Athens and other contemporary projects to enhance archaeological spaces and subway-stations

Abstract

Athens is a city that, since the creation of the Greek state in 1832 as an independent entity, has undergone strong economic, demographic and urban growth, which has been subject to archaeological heritage and its protection. In this study, the different interventions carried out in this regard in the city of Athens until the first decade of the s. XX in which a strong economic crisis devastated the country. Specifically, we will focus on the subway stations that are proposed as an archaeological exhibition space inside or around its perimeter, such as the Syntagma Station, Monasteraki, Evagelismos, Keramikos, Panepistemio and Acropolis, taking into account the establishment of typologies; the projectual becoming; the interaction between past and future; the exhibition methodology, the social reaction or the state of conservation. We will also insert them into the international scene with the intention that they are taken into account as an example for future projects.