Generate a virtuous circle that brings wealth back to rural areas through the production of income from the implementation - not permanent - of prefabricated housing units with zero environmental impact and totally self-sufficient (with their income and management) on semi-abandoned land owned by private individuals, with the consequent re-use of a percentage of that income by allocating it to activities of value made on the land itself.
The building's historical and architectural testimonies become the protagonists in a transformation process guided by sustainable ideals, respect for the architecture's cultural heritage, and social inclusion. This creative hub project is the starting point for transforming its surrounding area into a creative village that will shape the lives of future generations.
Remnant is the place that looks at the traces of the past to inspire the gestures of tomorrow.
While flowers are beautiful, they have an incredibly short lifetime. After months of nurturing and travelling across the world, cut flowers with any sheer imperfection will be thrown away even before reaching our hands. Instead of letting the flowers end up as trash, we can turn them into bio-materials that could be used as an alternative for unsustainable materials both inside and outside of floristry.
The depopulation of rural areas has highly affected the peripheral European countries, which are less economically developed.
Using the Bulgarian village of Pomoshtitsa as a study-case, I aim to provide a theoretical and methodological model for the development of villages in the modern global context.
Using architecture as a tool for social change, the project tries to indicate the strengths of rural areas and how can they benefit modern society.
The Emergency Operation Center (EOC) gives shelter and support to refugees migrating to Mediterranean countries. The EOC is designed to be homely and beautiful. Sustainable materials (bamboo beams and frames) and innovative techniques (aerobic cooling system, collection of water into two inner gardens) are implemented. Several Sustainable Development Goals 2030 are achieved by the project. It is realized with BIM (Revit). It has an environmental and inclusive perspective.
Pula Urban Revitalisation is a vision of sustainable growth and development of the city, aimed to improve the quality of life of its residents. Revitalisation of the city has been envisioned as the Green Ring, integrating the city with its natural surroundings. Unburdening its narrow streets and solving infrastructural, communal, and economical problems, and promoting sustainable growth, symbiotic relationship with the sea, agricultural fields and environment.
Arnold is an event done on 9-11 June 2017 that exhibited 12 artists in 12 non-conventional places for art in the Nolo neighbourhood (Milan) after 6 months of co-design activities run by 50 students of the master’s degree in Interior Design of the Politecnico di Milano. They investigated, imagined and experimented with local artists and locations owners to get a larger audience, support local shops and discover a district far from being a tourist place.
What is public?
When we asked ourselves "What is a public space?" we did not find a satisfactory answer. But we found the theories about the public sphere of Aristoteles and Hannah Arendt. Our demand was to create a public forum, a roofed plaza. A place for publicness, politics and participation.
The “space of appearance” (Hannah Arendt) finds its architectural manifestation.
Atelier Riforma is an innovative startup with a social vocation born in Turin in 2020.
Our goal is to reduce the environmental impact of the fashion industry through circular economy and tailoring creativity. For this purpose, we collect clothes that people no longer use (saving them from becoming waste) and we repair and give them new beauty through a tailoring transformation. The process is called upcycling and allows to recycle a product through handmade processing and creativity.
