Building to renew. Three resilient projects

Three built projects are presented with the intent of both revealing their conceptual bases as well as sharing their starting points and the ideas stratified and materialised within them. In the undifferentiated urban territory of the sprawling city between Naples and Caserta they oppose and resist urban decay recovering and reactivating those elements that still have meaning in their context. Through their tectonics and monolithic character they oppose the fragmentary and temporary dimension of the surrounding built context. The clarity and evocative character of their forms contrasts the indifference and the anonymity of the innumerable buildings and small houses besieging the context. They promote the primacy of space over speculative exploitation and object dominance as well as the expression of materials and the control of natural light over the homologation and the lack of expressiveness in their context. They seek ways to offer present and future relations to what is around them and contribute to the repair and bringing order to a fragmented and disorderly urban place.