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Elise Wehowski - Hijacking the Hill: constructing with atmosphere
Y5 | 2025-2026
Archisource Drawing of the Year Nomination
https://archisource.org/drawingoftheyear2026/visit
Hijacking the Hill proposes a cross-generational care hub on Monte dei Cappuccini in Turin, transforming a steep hillside into a shared civic landscape. Responding to the city’s social and spatial inequalities, the project offers a first point of contact for people seeking support or connection, combining counselling, sexual health services and emergency housing with public programmes such as a kitchen, atelier, workshop and music spaces. The design is informed by Situationist ideas of dérive, détournement and constructed situations. Rather than imposing a fixed institution, it hijacks the hill through lightweight platforms, bridges, vegetated steps and terraces that sit among existing trees and topography. Circulation becomes non-linear and exploratory, encouraging drifting, pausing and informal occupation. As the building moves down the slope, the programme shifts from protected spaces at the top to porous, collective and event-based spaces below. The project proposes care not only as a service, but as an atmospheric and spatial condition: a framework for mutual support.
Y5 | 2025-2026
Archisource Drawing of the Year Nomination
https://archisource.org/drawingoftheyear2026/visit
Hijacking the Hill proposes a cross-generational care hub on Monte dei Cappuccini in Turin, transforming a steep hillside into a shared civic landscape. Responding to the city’s social and spatial inequalities, the project offers a first point of contact for people seeking support or connection, combining counselling, sexual health services and emergency housing with public programmes such as a kitchen, atelier, workshop and music spaces. The design is informed by Situationist ideas of dérive, détournement and constructed situations. Rather than imposing a fixed institution, it hijacks the hill through lightweight platforms, bridges, vegetated steps and terraces that sit among existing trees and topography. Circulation becomes non-linear and exploratory, encouraging drifting, pausing and informal occupation. As the building moves down the slope, the programme shifts from protected spaces at the top to porous, collective and event-based spaces below. The project proposes care not only as a service, but as an atmospheric and spatial condition: a framework for mutual support.
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