05 Sarno Advanced Design Studio

Abstract

The work carried out in the city of Sarno represented, for the students of the last year of the 5UE Architecture degree course, an experiment of great relevance from a design point of view, dealing with a fragile, complex, heterogeneous territory, trying to combine an approach aimed at seeking an adequate response to the multiple needs posed by the context. The publication collects the results of the work carried out during the 2022-2023 academic year. The structure of the book reflects an experimental approach which, from the “Essays” section to the “Projects” section, explores the city starting from some emerging themes and issues: through the filter of wastescapes in reference to the territorial, environmental, and social context; in the openness to comparison at the occasion of the presentation of the results of the work and the design reflections to the institutions and the community; arriving at the systematization, through a synthesis, of the information and investigations carried out through the project proposals. Together, the different project experiments try to provide possible transformative scenarios about open questions for the city, with the aim of remedying existing critical issues, but also of enhancing the potential and the different heritages that characterize the city of Sarno and the surrounding area, such as the river landscape, the historical and archaeological heritage, the areas at risk, the public facilities in a state of abandonment. The projects were in fact built starting from a mechanism of reuse and grafting into the existing, extending and incorporating urban pieces of different nature. Scenarios of new possible re-significations are, therefore, the result of this work, linked to the idea of Sarno as a multi-landscape city.