EUROPIA - EST | architecture[s]platform

HISTORY OF A EUROPEAN RE-GENERATION This is the story of a process. It’s the story of a regeneration. It’s the story of a land and its community. It’s the story of an opportunity granted. It tells about people and their social relations,it speaks about cooperation, solidarity and creativity. It involves public authorities, private companies and it gives value to scientific communities and industrial associations. It spreads nature, art and it deals with new production and material/immaterial wealth. It applies ideas, strategies and it fabricates products, prototypes, generating a resilient formula of flow and outflow. It takes account of system of growth/decline and it makes hope. Everything starts from the awareness of common identity that consists of cultural and historical heritage. It goes beyond ethnic differences and gradually it spreads an unstoppable hope of rebirth. It starts from a common and shared project characterized by high-tech qualities and able to receive, analyze and update itself. It takes from through a concession to local communities of a hybrid and malleable spaces able to inseminate new activities and knowledge. In response to a depressed territory in the heart of historic city and in response to a failed industrial system, as there are many in Europe.

© EST | architecture[s]platform . Published on November 14, 2013.

SCENARIO Europe comes as a promoter of regeneration and identifies a territory to give back to the population. It designs a laboratory space, a dynamic organism that is an outcome of successes, failures, intelligence and human skills and able to evolve in different forms. This space finds its functions and activities thanks to local faculties that customize it. The receptive skin of the space analyzes information of places and the possible scenarios. It uses local skills and promotes global relations using technology, materials, triggering research and communications. This process takes its roots and grows through the production of a fabric/structure. This generates the multiplication of organism and activation of the area’s evolution. Like a bacterial culture it contaminates increasing the percentage of business, work, production, and population, it transforms the depressed areas and gives back to the receptive community material and immaterial wealth. The labs are energy self-sufficient and they promote values through local and global networks, looking forward to spread to new and upcoming areas. The different content of information and productions determines the degree of saturation and the decline of the system. Spaces and their contents dive into the sea to reach new areas of contamination. During the trip, in the mother land, model and well established strategies connect, maintain their connection with the spaces in migration. At last the process has built local/global/shared/social model and continuosnet of relations

© EST | architecture[s]platform . Published on November 14, 2013.

© EST | architecture[s]platform . Published on November 14, 2013.