Admission
50 participants
When
23 July - 1 August 2021
Where
Florence, Italy
Reuse the Ruin – Summer Architecture Workshop is an intensive summer course specifically oriented to provide a full experience in architectural restoration, from the theory to the details.
It is a multidisciplinary experience, meant to give you a complete framework of the issues inherent to the restoration project through various activities: lectures and reviews by international architects and Italian University Professors (Florence and Pisa); an applied workshop about the ghost town of Castelvecchio (San Gimignano), with a site inspection.
This experience gives you the opportunity to deal with the reuse of an abandoned ruin through the lens of the architectural project. Participants were asked to reuse a selected ruin in Tuscany, after a site inspection.
New knowledges acquired during the lectures can be implemented every day in the workshop sessions — learning-by-doing — under the supervision of guests and tutors coming from the academic world and from international firms.
Reuse projects
Site inspection to Castelvecchio
Workshop at Officina Creativa Monastery
Lectures at Museo Marino Marini
Program
Site inspection
The experience included a site inspection to Castelvecchio.
Lectures
The lectures provided a complete framework of knowledges about the architectural restoration, through the analysis of a few selected themes, explained by qualified professors and international firms of architeture
Workshop
Participants have developed a reuse project under the supervision of the tutors and masters of contemporary architecture
Final exhibition
At the end of the WS it has been held a final review and an exhibition of the reuse projects.
Mentors
Barozzi / Veiga
Meritxell Inaraja
Marco Casamonti
Prof. Maurizio De Vita
Prof. Marco Giorgio Bevilacqua
Prof. Paolo Bertoncini Sabatini
Tortelli - Frassoni Associati
Tutors:
Studio Totale
Filoferro Architetti
Dedalo Building Lab
Workshop location
Officina Creativa, Florence
Located in the former medieval church of San Pancrazio, the museum hosts the masterpieces of the Tuscan artist Marino Marini. The museum is a paradigmatic model of architectural restoration which perfectly combines ancient building and new additions.
Lectures location
Museo Marino Marini, Florence
Located in one of the most famous neighborhoods of the city, a former cloister recently restorated is living a new life. Today it is the headquarter of Officina Creativa, a multifunctional space which hosts craftsmen workshops and artists’ ateliers: a paradigmatic model of reuse of the abandoned heritage,
