The site for the design task was chosen among Torino's most urgent and most generic areas. The housing district of Via Plava, where students had to deal with a complex and underused environment, operating a balanced mix of demolitions, new buildings and transformations of the existing. The course links agreed masterplanning, for the positive change of the area, with the combination of individual self-interest driven actions on the same area, funded by the energy bill savings from the retrofitting of buildings and places.