2013

Il progetto inizia con una sperimentazione sul recupero di un “ciabot”, detto il “Ninin” , gettando le basi per realizzare i corsi formativi nel rispetto dell’esistente e delle tecnologie tradizionali.

Through this first recovery site the collaboration between the association and local artisans, Giovanni Bertola and Fernando Gallo, starts.

The architects Nadia Battaglio and Lorenzo Serra, besides being the designers of the intervention, are the first “students” to verify the great teaching skills and the passion of the two artisans and with them they recover the cover in petra and the wooden floors of the shed.

2015

The first thesis is realized in collaboration with prof. Andrea Bocco of the Polytechnic of Turin. Martino Pezzola, Andrea Ottaviani and Manuel Piscioneri surveyed and filed 109 “ciabot” along a 90 km trail linking the municipalities of the Alta Langa.

The thesis “Guide to the recovery of ciabòt in Alta Langa” is also a critical manual on the design approach to be considered when intervening on these buildings and on the traditional building in general.

FIRST EDITION

Thanks to the support of the Compagnia di San Paolo, the CRT and CRC foundation and the Municipality of Castelletto Uzzone, the first 7 training sites are organized, attended by about fifty Italian and foreign students. The Politecnico di Torino recognizes 4 training credits for the participants.

From June to the end of September, the farmhouse resumed its life and on the project of the architects Nadia Battaglio and Lorenzo Serra, various interventions were carried out to recover and refurbish the parts still to be recovered: the old house, the henhouse and the warehouse.

The farmhouse had already been partly renovated to be an eco-museum, but that never got to work: the spaces already recovered were used to host staff and students, turning it into a real campus.

The most important intervention was the realization of an extension with a structure and covering in local chestnut wood to house the missing toilets in the building that was once used as a dwelling.

During the construction sites various external professors and teachers were invited to intervene, including: prof. Andrea Bocco, prof. ssa Anna Marson (IUAV), prof. Alberto Magnaghi (UNIFI), arch. Donatella Murtas, prof. Carlo Luigi Ostorero (POLITO), Mastro GIlberto Quarneti of Calchera San Giorgio, the artisan Danilo Dianti, the carpenter Armando Calosso.