Caporciano a small rural village set in the italian region Abruzzo. Year after year people left the village, looking for work and homes elsewhere. A fate that many rural towns share, not just in Italy, we can call it an european phenomenon. This narrative clings to the idea of before, to the yesterday.

After the earthquake in 2009 and the resulting partial destruction of the villages, many where confronted with the actual presence, and of course with their future.

Seemingly Caporciano focused on a classical reconstruction, the before was supposed to be the future.

Since the numbers of inhabitants has significantly decreased the question of an alternate reconstruction arises.

What to do with perfectly but empty renovated houses? Do people return just because the walls are painted and roofs reconstructed?

 

We would like to examen an alternate approach to simply rebuilding houses, an approach that focuses on the spatial qualities of public space. That takes its ideas from fragments, from the idea of density and its reduction, that imagines destruction as a chance.

Unused housing can be understood as a potential for the community, as an extension for all.

Architecture as a tool for the superposition of private and public to create individual and reformed spaces.

The idea of how to transform the accessible parts of Caporciano into spaces for joint use, into a plattform for public and individual life prompted the following spatial interventions.




Starting point where those many green spaces, gardens, uncultivated land, and their relationship with the surrounding housing structure. This strong connection, the juxtaposition between the dense built space and it open counterparts is the central idea for formulating a new idea of social spaces in Caporciano.




Intervention 01: Garage

Intervention 02: Garage

Intervention 03: Tower Gardens

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