Europe consists of vast amounts of abandoned rural land depleted of its meaning. The current interest in agriculture augmented by aspects of “health” lead us to approach the rural object, yet most often chasing the simulacra of a lost rural world.

I believe in a profound re-reading of this rural abandon as a multi-layered tissue devoid of caricature landscape to function as a basis for thinking about alternative uses of urban areas and to inspire new models of urban densities.

A revolutionary shift would consist of searching for solutions of urbanity set within rural historical agglomerations. This in order to generate a landscape with polycentric hyper-urbanities, inhabited by people who care for, are connected to, and understand their immediate environment and live their lives accordingly.
Why should rural European heritage be the source for inspiration for future architecture? Because farmers had to make the very most of what was available. That’s sustainability.