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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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How can the fragmented urban fabric of Caporciano be woven together? 
 
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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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︎︎︎ Berlin University of the Arts / KET