costa valerio [architecture+landscape]

This work is set on a large scale; it concerns a small administrative region in Picardy in nothern France.
The idea is to understand the different social and historical dynamics that structured these landscapes to understand  such a vast territory.

In this countryside scarred by World War 1, the idea is to turn around Yves Lacoste's saying: "Geography serves, first and foremost, to wage war" into how can war produce new landscapes ?

The analysis tries to link historical and physical phenomena to a social context which is the basis for a new landscape narrative.

The landscape is the foundation of the collective feeling of "making a home".