ARCò società coperativa is in the Italian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale inaugurated on May 27th 2016.

TAKING CARE is the keynote that TAMassociati (Massimo Lepore, Raul Pantaleo, Simone Sfriso) has chosen in keeping with the theme of Reporting from the Front proposed by Alejandro Aravena to recount an architecture created with communities and capable of sharing needs and aspirations.

The theme is divided into three sections, ‘Thinking‘, ‘Meeting‘ and ‘Acting‘, resting on three specific issues involving the common good.

We have been asked to participate in the "Agire" section, the culmination of the exhibition, is embodied in a concrete call to action. ‘Acting’ presents 5 displays of the mobile devices designed for direct intervention in marginal areas of Italy. They are mobile units mounted on trailers, designed by 5 Italian firms in collaboration with 5 associations long engaged in seeking to curb social and environmental degradation. ARCò, in collaboration with "Legambiente", has designed U.M.A. Unità di Monitoraggio Ambientale, is set up as a mobile laboratory able to detect, access and communicate the environmental condition of a specific Place.

The formal design choices are intended to accommodate the principles of environmental sustainability shared by Legambiente and ARCò. The comfort of U.M.A. has increased through the ventilation and the use of natural insulation materials, it has improved the values of drag coefficient and made U.M.A. energy independent.

With private sponsors and a civic crowdfunding campaign (Taking Care – outer cities in action, the first in Italy dedicated to the outer suburbs: www.periferieinazione.it), the devices will be built and take to the roads to become concrete instruments of preservation and social redemption.