How can design address the tension between a central point and its edges?
For example, the relation between the center and periphery of a place, the core and margins of a group, the established knowledge and the cutting-edge experimentation, or the advantage and the disadvantage?
The Red Land of Asni Vibrates
Reconstruction Following the 2023 Marrakech-Safi Earthquake
TEAM
Sara Michelotti
Vittoria Ugazio
CONTEXT
MSc Architecture and Urban Design
Graduation Project
2024
PROFESSORS
Andrea Campioli
Letizia Dipasquale
Federica Parlato
Stefania Viti
The village of Asni is situated along an epistemological boundary where the notion of centrality contrasts with the fluidity of the border. The earthquake of September 2023 intensified the deep tension between permanence and change, between rootedness in memory and the need to redefine its future. In this context, the project of redesigning an applicable settlement model takes shape as an act of deconstruction and redefinition of spatial meaning, where the center dissolves into the fractures of the crisis, and the border emerges as a space of rewriting, where informal dwelling assumes new forms and functions, becoming a plural point of reference.
