BRIC(K). A project for the Sustainable city of Turin.

The Vanchiglia freight yard, in the project, becomes the first case study of an areas system where the redesign of urban void and "decommissioning" contributes to re-propose, also in its functions, a new kind of city founded on work and capable to promoting social, cultural and housing transformations.

BRIC(K) is a recovery center project for aggregates and waste materials, coming from the construction sector, capable of reviving the production activity in Turin. The collection, disposal and reuse of the large amount of debris, rubble and other types of waste produced today by the construction sector, represents, in fact, for Italy and for the rest of the European community, an open question which seeks a solution, but at the same time it's a challenge and a great opportunity for development. The necessary correspondence to an international regulatory framework and the development of new technologies, increasingly interested in and sensitive to the issues of disposal and recycling of aggregates and building waste materials, allows - in a period so characterized by a massive production divestment and the consequent work crisis - to bring the productive activity back to the city; return which becomes the focus and the fuel of the transformation proposed by this Thesis Project. The disposal and recycling center for the building trade, BRIC(K), with its new training activities, trade spaces, offices and residences, also aims to be a positive reference to the diffusion and the affirmation of a development model based on the "circular economy" principles, which are strongly promoted by the European Union. The project is a sort of urban "quarry" from which to extract useful materials for a truly sustainable new production activity, which turns into resources what the city has always generated and will inevitably continue to generate in the future: waste. From an architectural and urban point of view, the great challenge of this project was represented by the integration of production activities, historically removed from the city, with others functions of public and social nature. As already mentioned, the Center wants to be an exemplary model of a new type of development in which the "clean" production of new resources, through the recovery of waste, becomes the engine of different transformations, even urban and social ones.