Genius non est loci.

Every landscape, every cultural heritage, every loci is not a stable and fixed inheritance that we receive from the past. They are “artefacts made through time” that generations have built with effort and commitment. A place resists when the community that inhabits it resists and that over time is able to regenerate itself, to coexist with its differences, to enhance the exceptions.

A place resists because its community changes. Only when new and old are combined and mixed, unexpected creative possibilities can emerge.

The place that the students had to remodel is currently a border between the monumental site of the Reggia di Venaria Reale and a very heterogeneous urban fabric. Through the identification of the transformative potential of the site developed applying the morpho-typological analysis and the real estate market tools, each project interprets the renewal of the site through the redevelopment of the pre-existing spaces and the insertion of new buildings and public spaces.

Each students has also developed the project of one building of the master plan.