Designing Transects through Complex Values

The paper is part of a volume that reports a year-long advanced studio program carried out in the Master’s degree in Architecture at Federico II in 2018-2019. As an interdisciplinary course, the advanced studio is a challenge for students who have to deal with different forms of knowledge and design skills to deliver a transformation project for a complex context. Castel Volturno, a coastal town on the western shore of Napoli’s urban region, is the target area where the program has been implemented. The context’s main features are a growing migrant community from Africa, established in the area given the large amount of abandoned homes available for letting, a series of major environmental concerns, such as flooding, pollution and unplanned buildings, and a quite extraordinary natural landscape made of wetlands, green and farming areas, and marine environments. The volume presents the students works, with a methodological foreword from the faculty of the program.