Rehabilitating a ward into a design studio: Getting in dialogue with hygienic structures, through design

The rehabilitation of a 19th century hospital pavilion as a Design Studio room for the first year of the architecture course, makes us reflect on how to highlight the architecture palimpsest as a subject for design learning, in a time of an urgent need for training in resilience and sustainability. The project fosters structural poetics as a strategy for architectural dialogues with the recent past.