A transferable and replicable architectural mode in the context of Trieste, based on the site of Ex Fiera of Trieste, helps to recreate the local urban memory.

This project is grounded in notions of fragmentation, camouflaging, invisibility, idiosyncracies, and oddities in infrastructures.

Understanding infrastructures as one of a number and reproducible elsewhere in the territory gives way to understanding my project as an addition to the distributed, dispersed, and fragmented characterization of the so-called „unrealized infrastructures“ in the FVG region in Italy.

With this project, i would like not only to emphasize the importance of the current Hydrogen economy in the Solkan area but especially, to show a possibility of implementation in an architectural context.

The Banality of Death addresses the way the city of Mashhad deals with death. It is an attempt to architecturally translate and expose the tensions that arise between traditional values and the modern transformation of the burial process by the design of three extended rest-stops along the Bagcheh Highway that act as mediators with the goal of interweaving the territories of the dead and living. They are part of the burial ritual as well as they accommodate places for rest and leisure. The design includes a playscape at a former burial place of a persecuted minority in Mashhad where people are playfully confronted with death and its architecture (1), an ablution facility in between two highways that functions as the starting point of the burial ritual and acts as a transfer point for a mobility system, taking visitors that are not necessarily related to the burial ritual around the territory (2) and a watchtower situated on/in a forgotten site of heritage where formerly pilgrims encountered their first view towards the golden dome of the Imam Reza Shrine at the center of Mashhad, and has a role in the completion of the mourning process.

The design project based in Genova develops the possibility of reconnecting an urban void to the existing urban fabric, through the implementation of an architectural and infrastructural frame which is saturated with program, so that the new connection proposed becomes also a destination for the city.