Building a neighborhood of 300 housing means, before anything else, ask about the size. The measure is such as to bring the project to the boundary between architectural design and planning. In addition, the presence of the historic village of Figino, of which the amount at stake configure the doubling, and the isolated nature of the context to suggest an actual urban foundation. These considerations have suggested a point of view that, without
compositional schemes plan and elevation view of the neighborhood
renouncing to the reasons of the architectural design, be able to draw conceptual origin by geography and urban topography. A sort of Broadacre city that draws its forms, almost by subtraction, the encounter between the mesh and the signs of the planning area (fields, springs, existing buildings), and voluntarily waives the illusion of governing the design of the territory through the ‘imposition of a figure.