Lampedusa. Architetture per l'accoglienza

The experience, carried on in the architectonical design laboratories, in the faculty of Architecture in Palermo, has had the aim to qualify the teaching of the project with the introduction of important ethic and social contents. If, on the one hand, hospitality is one of the most important value for architecture, on the other hand, it asks us about anthropological and social meaning of the project, its inescapable role to converge in form and space all living inquietudes. The way illustrated in these pages get a sense of how the forms of cohabitation among different ethnic groups are necessary and above all they are a resource. Indeed, traditions of immigrants, but they also offer useful solutions to the unresolved spatial conditions of the city. finally, the city is able to provide itself new centralities, places, functions and spaces which are necessary for now. In this way, the hospitality current necessities create the opportunity to offer quality to the urban space, across the theory of coherence and beauty.