We explore the responsibilities of the architect and educator in rediscovering the materiality of a territory. The redesign experience of a small building situated at the entrance of an abandoned mining site in Italy from the 1930s serves as a vehicle to reflect on architecture’s relevancy in reestablishing the primacy of the artifact and its empirical intelligence. Against the background of contemporary territorial strategies, we present a drama in four acts. Entwining the past with the present, from the unattended promises of fascist colonization to the new hegemony of algorithmic exactitude, we highlight the importance of collaborative design efforts and material operations envisaging a new phenomenology for the built.

我们探索了建筑师和教育工作者在重新发现领土实质方面的责任。从1930年代起，在意大利一座废弃矿场入口处的一栋​​小建筑的重新设计经验，可作为一种工具，以反思建筑在重建人工制品的首要地位及其经验情报方面的相关性。在当代领土战略的背景下，我们展示了一部四幕戏剧。从无人看管的法西斯殖民主义承诺到算法精确性的新霸权，与过去与现在交织在一起，我们强调了协作设计工作和材料操作对于构筑新的现象学的重要性。