ERSILIA CASAinterfaccia
Home for inclusion
Via Pianell, Milan, Italy
2014—2015: 1st phase
Beneficiaries 10 families living in a squatted house
Partners DAR=CASA società cooperative, ARCI Milano, Comune di Milano
In 2014 we started ERSILIA CASAinterfaccia, a project of self-building housing renewal for 10 families who were previously living in a squatted house in Milan. The project aimed at facilitating social inclusion by fostering a self-promoting process. The idea was to renovate and refurbish a vacant old public building by self-building. Involving the future inhabitants would have meant both to save on construction costs and to empower their working skills. The renovation aimed at transforming the building in a mixed-use one, providing housing, as well as collective and commercial spaces, so to facilitate relationships between the 10 families and their neighbors.
