Marginalia. A design strategy for rural shrinking areas

Marginalia. A design strategy for rural shrinking areas: An Italian case

Vecchi, V.

Cavallo, R. (mentor)
Cuperus, Y.J. (mentor)
van de Velde, R. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Architecture

2017-02-03

The research tryes to investigate the unexplored yet complex and diffused problem of rural shrinkage as a political landscape. By analysing an Italian rural municipality, which has been took as representative European rural area, it proposes a general spatial design strategy that, by relying on local resources and local actors, is able to become site specific. As consequence of such still unexplored and uncommon design topic, the work has been a valuable opportunity also to tackle the role of the architect and the one of architecture. In a moment of transition and crisis like the contemporary one, both, the architectural profession and discipline are experiencing a radical shift towards a more open, horizontal and participated design approach. This is particularly true and effective when dealing with public spaces.

rural
shrinkage
design strategy
temporary architecture

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Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2017 Vecchi, V.