Making Room(S)

Team Point of View

”Making Room(s)” is structured around the connection of the new centrality of Caserma Montezemolo with other meaningful places, sewing up the city East-West from river to river. The plan is figured out as the result of a simulated process of collaboration with citizens and associations, with the purpose to transform the dismissed barracks in a COMMON GOOD. It is a project made of interlinked rooms, each one with a vocation, in order to 1) make visible the relation between the city and its own territory; 2) allow the creation of new spaces of centrality beyond the traditional ones; 3) experience a new way of planning the city, more conscious and inclusive. Making Room(s) starts from here: a potential involvement of local communities; a project of liveable spaces; a possible program of uses.

Jury Point of View

The project respects the new contemporary sense of living the city as a “common good”. In that way, spaces, paths and buildings, starting from a very simple basic organization and based on “rooms”, are functionalized and inhabited by the citizens spontaneously but also guided by specific initiatives (adopting a “room”, a carrot city, an artisan’s lab, an open library, etc…). It is distinguished by the activation of a “slow path” that also connects the city transversely by offering an interesting contribution to the future process of realization on the area.