Camille de Waele Y5
Crafting Resistance: Turin's Campus for Craft
How can the philosophy of the Arts and Crafts be appropriated to reinvigorate fading industrial sites?
The Fiat factory in Turin’s southerly industrial neighbourhood is undergoing a quiet evacuation as production winds down. Inspired by 19th century industrial model villages, which reconciled the importance of high-quality housing with the demands of industrial urbanism, my project converts an abandoned portion of the Fiat plant into a craft campus. The programme will contain both university-level research and the work of individual craftspeople, being split into live-work cottages and workshops making recycled-material bricks. These bricks act as the primary vehicle for the façade’s aesthetic system, allowing for an engagement in systematic pattern-making that uses craft and print-making as a tool to produce building materials.
Ambrose Poynter Prize Winner
