From Friday, October 4 to Sunday, October 6, 2024, the eighth edition of Architrekking presents a journey-meeting with the temporary architectures of emergency, reconstruction and rebirth in the lands changed by the 2016 earthquake events in central Italy, and even earlier by the L’Aquila earthquake. Corrado Longa, Director of the Department of Urban Planning at Stefano Boeri Architetti, will participate in the event.
The event, inspired by the “Path of the Mutated Lands,” directs its gaze toward those architectures ‘designed’ to oppose tragedy, to ‘built bodies’ intended to welcome.
A path to learn about and see how architecture can actively participate in survival and accompany rebirth.
Three paths of about 12 km, three different landscapes of the high Apennines, where participants meet designers and/or actors of the process who tell their stories. Thus, the route includes several stops, including Food Area and House of the Future, two projects in Amatrice signed by Stefano Boeri Architetti.
The new Food Area was born from the idea of giving life to a multifunctional square, capable of becoming a meeting place and social exchange for Amatrice, an intervention that was indispensable following the earthquake that devastated Amatrice and neighboring towns. The intervention is thus configured as a symbol of rebirth for Amatrice, a place of solidarity and a new space capable of offering the inhabitants the chance to start over.
The House of the Future project involves the reconstruction of the Don Minozzi Complex in Amatrice, a historic place of great importance for the city and the entire territory of Amatrice, which was hit by the 2016 earthquake. The intervention is inspired by the pivotal concept of Integral Ecology expressed in Pope Francis’ Encyclical and a dialogue with the pre-existing architecture, designed by Arnaldo Foschini in the 1920s to house war orphans and subsequently damaged very severely by the earthquake.
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