Back to the village
Urban Regeneration. Brugnello, Italy
Urban Design Studio. Politecnico Di Milano. Proff. Stefano Boeri. 

The project aimed to spotlight the problems of rural areas and their disconnections with the cities. The big phenomenon of village abandonment in Italy and the rest of the world was the background for exploring opportunities and potentialities for rural planning to create reciprocal relationships between villages and cities. Throughout this project, we are answering three main questions.
How can we reverse depopulation?
How can we create a sustainable reciprocity between cities and villages?
What kind of infrastructure do we need to repopulate rural areas?

Exploring the potentials of Trebbia Valley, we start to develop the concept for revitalizing this area by using its biggest potentialities – landscape, tradition, and nature. It’s important to strengthen the identity of the place and focus on creating a sustainable environment in the future. I decided to focus on a product, which can have the biggest possible impact in the future – meat production. Looking at the territory of the Valley, I discovered the possibility of connecting many villages in the area and creating a sustainable cycle, resulting in development on a bigger scale. Offering the product to the cooperatives aims to achieve a mutual benefit. New products on the market that will make an impact, and the funding for developing them, in return. The aim is to change the meaning of a village. It is not anymore an undeveloped place where people only work in agriculture. It is a new type of place where professionals in various fields have possibilities of employment and life. Trebbia Valley will become an active, liveable place with opportunities only a city can offer and a relationship with nature that cannot be found elsewhere.