ATLAS OF POTENTIAL

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A Grand Tour of Europe in Transformation

Through the lens of transformative potential, 40-days across Europe looking for buildings adapted to host new uses.

This journey is the fieldwork of the PhD thesis

The Potential of Form. Assessing the transformative potential of existing buildings in the post-functional Europe by Elena Guidetti.

This research project is supported by

The Future Urban Legacy Lab (FULL) and

the Doctoral Program in Architecture, History and Project DASP) of the Department of Architecture and Design (DAD) of Politecnico di Torino

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Atlas of Potential

A field work across Europe

This intensive journey collects and analyzes many adapted buildings across Europe through the lens of the transformative potential embedded in the architectural form. The evolution of buildings' form reveals multiple reuse options related to materials, morphology and decay.

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The mason was stuck by the fact that expended energy does not get lost; it remains stored for many years, never diminished, latent in the block of stone until one day it happens that the block slides off the roof and falls on the head of passerby…

A. Rossi - A Scientific Autobiography - 1981

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