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Workshop - SICILIAN SATOYAMA
with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow)
On the west side of the villa, an abandoned farm enclosed by old stone walls becomes the starting point for imagining a Sicilian Satoyama: a landscape where a vegetable garden, an olive grove and architecture coexist, reconnecting local resources and the elements already present on the land.
Through close observation of the site, the workshop explored how small interventions could reveal new possibilities for this future landscape. Zucca Gazebo crosses the existing stone wall, creating a new viewpoint over the surrounding landscape. An octagonal platform, supported by eight chestnut columns and covered by a colourful tent, offers a place to pause and look out across the territory.
Further down the slope, Mulberry Canopy works with an existing shaded grove, transforming it into a cool resting place through careful pruning and dry-stone terraces. Two approaches — one through addition, the other through subtraction — reframe the landscape without erasing what is already there, bringing its existing elements into a new relationship.
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
Born in Kanagawa in 1965, he co-founded Atelier Bow-Wow with Momoyo Kaijima in 1992. He is a professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo, formerly the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and directs the Small Earth association. His practice spans architecture and public space, furniture design, field research, education and curation, and is grounded in “Behaviorology” — an approach that aims to rebuild the commons by improving access to local resources. He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Architecture in 2022.
Liaison:
Alisa Hiramatsu
Hina Ota
Siena Hirao
Anna Minissale
Carlo Micheletti (structural consultant)
Participants:
Roman Lucas Biers
Vanessa Lin
Sabrina Giordano
Giovanni Graci
Pierluigi Recca
Matteo Lucanto
Giacomo Botteon
Amalia Gutman
Giorgio Martorana
Federico Pulvirenti
Supporting Partners
Dimensione Sicilia Incoming Operator & DMC @sicilian_secrets
Sicilcima @sicilcima
Bosco Colto Campus “Thinking with animals”
30 luglio - 9 agosto 2026
Pics @giulianalopre
Visual adaptation @pianeta__studio
with Yoshiharu Tsukamoto (Atelier Bow-Wow)
On the west side of the villa, an abandoned farm enclosed by old stone walls becomes the starting point for imagining a Sicilian Satoyama: a landscape where a vegetable garden, an olive grove and architecture coexist, reconnecting local resources and the elements already present on the land.
Through close observation of the site, the workshop explored how small interventions could reveal new possibilities for this future landscape. Zucca Gazebo crosses the existing stone wall, creating a new viewpoint over the surrounding landscape. An octagonal platform, supported by eight chestnut columns and covered by a colourful tent, offers a place to pause and look out across the territory.
Further down the slope, Mulberry Canopy works with an existing shaded grove, transforming it into a cool resting place through careful pruning and dry-stone terraces. Two approaches — one through addition, the other through subtraction — reframe the landscape without erasing what is already there, bringing its existing elements into a new relationship.
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
Born in Kanagawa in 1965, he co-founded Atelier Bow-Wow with Momoyo Kaijima in 1992. He is a professor at the Institute of Science Tokyo, formerly the Tokyo Institute of Technology, and directs the Small Earth association. His practice spans architecture and public space, furniture design, field research, education and curation, and is grounded in “Behaviorology” — an approach that aims to rebuild the commons by improving access to local resources. He was awarded the Wolf Prize in Architecture in 2022.
Liaison:
Alisa Hiramatsu
Hina Ota
Siena Hirao
Anna Minissale
Carlo Micheletti (structural consultant)
Participants:
Roman Lucas Biers
Vanessa Lin
Sabrina Giordano
Giovanni Graci
Pierluigi Recca
Matteo Lucanto
Giacomo Botteon
Amalia Gutman
Giorgio Martorana
Federico Pulvirenti
Supporting Partners
Dimensione Sicilia Incoming Operator & DMC @sicilian_secrets
Sicilcima @sicilcima
Bosco Colto Campus “Thinking with animals”
30 luglio - 9 agosto 2026
Pics @giulianalopre
Visual adaptation @pianeta__studio
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