Sewing a Small Town | summer school

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Located 15 km from Turin, in the center of Piedmont, a region internationally known for prestigious wine (such as Barbera, Moscato, Barolo and many others) and the slow food concept, one hour by train from Milan (host of Expo 2015), three hours from the town of Genoa, in Liguria, and only an hour and a half by plane from Paris, Gassino Torinese is characterized by a medieval historic center waiting for a new reuse. The summer school will explore the possibilities of conscious interventions in the historic center of Gassino Torinese through contemporary sustainable architecture. Addressing the new buildings within the residual spaces, the re-utilization of buildings (public and private) and interventions at the seam between the old core and the peripheral parts are the main goals of the projects developed by the participants during the two-week workshop. The activities consist of theoretical evening courses and a design workshop for 20 participants, selected through the evaluation of portfolios and curriculum vitae by a scientific committee.

Organizers: Associazione Per l’Architettura della Città (Giacomo L. Beccaria, Alberto Bologna, Cinzia Gavello)

Tutors: Graciliano Berrocal-Hernandez (studioata), Josep-Maria Garcia-Fuentes (Newcastle University), Paolo Mighetto (ACMArchitetti), Alberto Rosso (studioata), Matthew Skjonsberg (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)

Assistants: Alberto Bottero (bam! bottega di architettura metropolitana), Patrick Giromini (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Matteo Malandrino (Politecnico di Torino), Fabio Vignolo (bam! bottega di architettura metropolitana)

Critics and lecturers: Armando Baietto (Politecnico di Torino), Paola Boarin (Università degli Studi di Ferrara), Nicola Braghieri (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Jean-Francois Cabestan (Université Paris 1-Panthéon-Sorbonne), Manuel Cresciani (Northumbria University), Fortunato D’Amico (Politecnico di Milano), Philippe Daverio (Università degli Studi di Palermo), Pietromaria Davoli (Università degli Studi di Ferrara), Filippo De Pieri (Politecnico di Torino), Franz Graf (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Daniele Guglielmino (Manens-Tifs spa), José Ignacio Linazasoro (Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid), Subhash Mukerjee (MARC), Luca Ortelli (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne), Sergio Pace (Politecnico di Torino), Dario Parigi (Aalborg University), Edoardo Piccoli (Politecnico di Torino), Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi (Università di Roma-Sapienza), Roberto Rosset (Studio Rosset & Associati), Paolo Scrivano (Boston University), Marco Trisciuoglio (Politecnico di Torino)

Application deadline: March 31, 2015.

For info and subscription: summerschool@comune.gassino.to.it

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