Luftschlöss

We found Ex-Poste Monteverdi like a monstrous body, stripped bare and floating in Turin’s urban sea—no longer architecture, yet not quite ruin. A relic of lost infrastructure, its exposed skeleton now anchors a bold transformation: part bridge, part street, part civic machine. This is not restoration—it’s contradiction. The building remains in limbo, its voids activated with water sports, martial arts, therapy, cafés, and rooftop beaches. It connects districts without resolving them, embracing fracture as strategy. Ex-Poste Monteverdi is a living purgatory—architecture that refuses to belong, yet insists on being essential.

Authors
Shadi Masihi Pour, Kosar Mohammadi, Jessica Sagar, Laura Zotaj

Course
Adaptive reuse of the built legacy

Professors
Matteo Robiglio, Toma' Berlanda, Amedeo Domenico Bernardo Manuello Bertetto

Master's degree
Architecture for Heritage