UniversitĂ degli Studi di Firenze - Scuola di Architettura Corso di Laurea in Architettura Magistrale a ciclo unico Tesi di Laurea in Tecnologia dell'architettura
Thesis Title:
XL,L,M,S and backwards. Transforming invisible resources into architecture of migration. A walkthrough from the globalization of human waste to the design of a new first aid and reception centre (CSPA) in Lampedusa through the planning of resilient strategies for reception.
Student: Professor:
Guido Mitidieri Roberto Bologna
Objectives: My thesis project aims to write a technical legal instrument for projecting and building new centers for first reception of migrants in Europe using a “resilient approach�.
Project: Standardized management of people proves to be too rigid and is ultimately ineffective because of the mutability in the short period of migrations. The most appropriate strategy is one that accommodates in the project this variability. In this sense, the project proposes the RE-USE of boats with which immigrants arrive on Italian shores as temporary residences in Lampedusa. It is a decision that uses a widely available resource in the area, cheap and that would otherwise be destroyed. Resilience requires to make the most of what you have available and to transform what is potentially a loss, in a positive growth situation. Due to the unpredictable future evolution of migrational phenomenon my project for Lampedusa is able to adapt itself and respond in time to the mutability of the needs of the territory, the economy and political society. It is a solid iron framework that could host different functional spaces: in time of migration, boats and services, when migrations would end the framework could host public services for the Lampedusa community.