Refunc Workshop Intervention
The workshop program articulates a temporary architectural configuration within the public square, wherein recuperated industrial components, IBC containers, computer parts, and furniture, are transformed into functional infrastructure. The vertical intervention, a viewing tower, establishes new perspectival relationships with the existing urban context, while the production unit (pesto factory) connects the pedagogical program to material output.
The design methodology follows Refunc’s principle of material-oriented transformation: existing objects retain their material identity while new use-values are activated. This assemblage demonstrates how post-industrial residual materials generate architectural value beyond conventional production chains, with the workshop process itself explicating the epistemological shift from ‘waste’ to ‘building material’. The temporary nature emphasizes the performative dimension of circular design praxis.
