An earthquake represents a profound trauma for the territory and a pain that will condition the lives of the inhabitants over time. To heal this trauma, the reconstruction of Amatrice should avoid total erasure with a standardized building that has little to do with the place, or proceeding with a complete reconstitution of the same heritage without critically questioning its value. These principles guided the proposal to recover the former church of San Giuseppe, a building severely damaged by the earthquake.

The design building seeks to preserve the spatial quality of the original structure by maintaining the height, width, and depth of the nave and the remains of the surviving walls, with their members marking the ground connection of the new space. The large hall, open and illuminated mainly from above, can be flexibly arranged and appears as a suspended, almost metaphysical space. In the large wall, stairs are carved to access the various artist workshops on the upper levels, projecting into the central hall.