Retelling the Rural: Caporciano
Caporciano, like many towns all over Europe, is shrinking. What can we learn from the countryside with its rich cultural history and its vernacular construction techniques characterised by scarcity and resilience? A design studio at the Berlin University of the Arts is trying to find answers in close collaboration with the inhabitants and the municipality of Caporciano.
Retelling the Rural: Caporciano
︎︎︎About the project
September 2023 – July 2024
The Common In-Between: Caporciano
︎︎︎Phase 04: Design and Build
︎︎︎Phase 03: Interstitial Spaces and the Urban Fabric
September 2021 – July 2022
Retelling the Rural: Caporciano
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Exhibition, Discussions and Real Laboratory
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Field Trip, Research and Desirable Futures
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︎︎︎About the project
September 2023 – July 2024
The Common In-Between: Caporciano
︎︎︎Phase 04: Design and Build
︎︎︎Phase 03: Interstitial Spaces and the Urban Fabric
September 2021 – July 2022
Retelling the Rural: Caporciano
︎︎︎Phase 02:
Exhibition, Discussions and Real Laboratory
︎︎︎Phase 01:
Field Trip, Research and Desirable Futures
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March – July 2024
Phase 04: Design and Build
With a focus on the interstitial spaces in and around Caporciano, we returned to test our hypothesis concerning the common use of land, public and private places in 1:1 scale.
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March–July 2022
Phase 02: Exhibition, Discussions and Real Laboratory
The village became a reallaboratory, where the design ideas were visualized and made tangible with the use of the simplest methods at their specific locations, in order to create a future vision for the village in collaboration with the locals.
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September 2021–February 2022
Phase 01: Field Trip, Research and Desirable Futures
In Autumn 2021 a group of twenty architecture students of the Berlin University of the Arts travelled to Caporciano to explore the town of Caporciano and its surroundings via architectural and artistic means.
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Caporciano, a small village in Abruzzo, barely two hours by car from Rome, is becoming extinct – a fate it shares with many other small towns in the region that have been hit by migration to the cities since the mid-twentieth century. The devastating earthquake of 2009 destroyed not only many houses, but also many residents’ confidence.
In search of a new vision and to build back better, architecture students of the Berlin University of the Arts are working together with the inhabitants and the municipality of Caporciano.
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In search of a new vision and to build back better, architecture students of the Berlin University of the Arts are working together with the inhabitants and the municipality of Caporciano.
︎︎︎Learn more about the project