Notes on learning through building in the Open City: Body, Craft and Materiality

The presented research project was carried out through a series of international summer workshops with the vocation of being, at the same time, atelier, construction site, training instrument, and inhabited space. It thus at once presents: an alternative experiential approach to architectural learning by means of an ongoing construction project, open to transformation; a direct relationship to site, materials, fabrication, and assembly, which draws on “low-tech” cyclical and sustainable working processes and methods; and a construction that goes beyond the practical and implicates the process of cognition in a transformative experience, where body, craft, materiality, and nature are in synergy.