CAMPO LIBERO (The Innocent House).
Off-Grid Pavilion for the Reactivation of Lands Confiscated from the Mafia.

Campo Libero (The Innocent House) is a mobile device designed to reactivate agricultural lands confiscated from the mafia in southern Italy.
The project takes the form of an off-grid rural pavilion developed for Libera, an Italian organization committed to promoting legality through training programs, legal support, and the protection of vulnerable workers, including refugees employed without rights in agricultural contexts.
Rather than functioning as a symbolic monument, Campo Libero is conceived as a spatial apparatus that directly occupies contested land. By overlooking the surrounding fields, the pavilion reclaims the archaic lyricism of the southern countryside while simultaneously asserting a visible, lawful presence in territories historically shaped by illegal control and exploitation.
The structure is designed as an expandable volume. An integrated scaffolding system provides access to the roof and enables the construction of an additional level, allowing the pavilion to adapt to different uses over time. This open-ended configuration supports activities such as training sessions, meetings, accommodation, and agricultural coordination, while maintaining autonomy from centralized infrastructure through off-grid systems.

Expose - Campo Libero exposes the often-invisible relationship between land, illegality, and exploitation by occupying sites that have been structurally removed from public use.
The pavilion makes visible the conditions under which confiscated lands are abandoned, contested, or underutilized, transforming them into sites of public attention and collective responsibility.
By placing a functional structure directly within these landscapes, the project renders the conflict between legality and illegality spatially legible, without resorting to representational or didactic devices.

Activate - The project activates confiscated land by enabling immediate use through occupation, training, and collective presence.
Rather than proposing long-term masterplans, Campo Libero operates through action: it hosts volunteers, supports agricultural work carried out under legal conditions, and provides a base for social and educational activities. Activation here is not symbolic but operative. The pavilion becomes a tool that allows land to be reclaimed through use, care, and continuity, transforming a site marked by criminal control into a space of lawful production and shared agency.

Campo Libero (The Innocent House) does not propose architecture as representation, but as an instrument for exposing conditions of injustice and activating new forms of occupation. Through its mobility, off-grid autonomy, and capacity for expansion, the project constructs a spatial condition in which legality is enacted through presence rather than declared through form.