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Summer Show 2026
25 June – 12 July
Summer Show 2026
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Summer Show 2026
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![The overall scheme, has 7 live-work cottages, grafted onto a long, lightweight factory containing brick-fabrication workshops, a library, classrooms, lecture theatre, common room, exhibition spaces, cafeteria and bar.]()
![Each live-work house should operate as a domestic enclave within a wider craft/industrial setting, allowing the two programmes to jut up against each other and hopefully, at points, cross-pollinate.]()
![Sponsored by the Polytechnic of Turin and by ABILI-TiAmo Mirafiori, a local charitable project working facilitate professional training for Mirafiori residents, the project will insert a new craft industry into the vacuum left by Fiat’s retreat.]()
![he use of masonry patternmaking in this project creates the programme in addition to the aesthetic and material form of the building and produces a façade quality unique to the development.]()
Crafting Resistance: Turin's Campus for Craft
The Fiat factory in Mirafiori Sud, Turin’s southerly industrial neighbourhood, is undergoing a quiet evacuation as production is reduced and employees are periodically furloughed. Inspired by the 19th century industrial model village, which reconciled the importance of high-quality housing with the demands of industrial urbanism, Crafting Resistance converts an abandoned portion of the Fiat Mirafiori Sud plant into a live-work craft campus. The programme will allow for both university-level research and personal craft, split into live-work cottages for individual craftspeople and university workshop space making recycled-material bricks. The live-work cottages will be made of these bricks, which are imprinted with a relief inspired by the architect's own printmaking. In this project, the Arts and Crafts philosophy is enacted through a contemporary lens: offering an opportunity to return to bespoke craft as a means of reinvigorating a post-industrial landscape once defined by the production line.
Plan of the whole scheme, at 1:100
The overall scheme has 7 live-work cottages, grafted onto a long, lightweight factory containing brick-fabrication workshops, a library, classrooms, lecture theatre, common room, exhibition spaces, cafeteria and bar.
Rendering of the Carpenter’s House and Exhibition Room
Each live-work house should operate as a domestic enclave within a wider craft/industrial setting, allowing the two programmes to jut up against each other and hopefully, at points, cross-pollinate.
Elevation drawing showing the Potters’ Houses and Printer’s Store
Sponsored by the Polytechnic of Turin and by ABILI-TiAmo Mirafiori, a local charitable project working facilitate professional training for Mirafiori residents, the project will insert a new craft industry into the vacuum left by Fiat’s retreat.
Hand-rendering of the bricks which are designed and made on-site
The use of masonry patternmaking in this project creates the programme in addition to the aesthetic and material form of the building, producing a façade quality unique to the development.
Photographs depicting outcomes of printmaking project
Photographs depicting outcomes of printmaking project
Inspired by the contradiction between the Arts and Crafts and the hyper-industrialism of Turin, the architect carried out a printmaking project using car design and engineering as its subject. The print later transformed into the brick relief design.
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