New Judicial Center in Catania. Competition, 2020

Since 2013, Gabriele Corbo, Jacopo Costanzo, and Valeria Guerrisi lead WAR (Warehouse of Architecture and Research), a hybrid of mannerist architecture studio and contemporary innovation space with a peculiar vision of the creative process. Far from considering the unbuilt works as unusable rejects, they deconstruct and reassess their components to reconfigure unique scenes. The WAR partners use the collage as a working method against the clichés and lack of personality of renderized images, understanding the city of Rome, where their studio is based, as a laboratory from which to analyze urban development schemes or propose controversial architectural concepts...[+]