The ARCò School is a nomadic educational system that focuses on real problems and establishes an open dialogue with the participants to find plausible solutions.

The system of the self-construction educational workshop is open to all. It adapts to the participants to convey the knowledge of building and the enthusiasm of the bricoleur.

ARCò workshops work on the principles of self-construction applied to natural and recycled materials. In some cases, they include design phases; most of the time-sharing occurs through the construction act.

Self-construction generates participation. Whoever is involved in the workshop becomes a craftsman, becomes a builder, and creates something with their own hands.

The creative act becomes an act of possession and an act of love, which generates a sense of ownership. Taking care of one's heritage becomes a collective and community act, which transcends architecture.

With sacks of earth, with recycled windows, scaffolding boards, with raw earth, with bottles, with straw with cardboard tubes, everyone can build if they learn to read materials and techniques.

During the workshops, ARCò alternates personal experimentation phases (in which everyone can try to do as they wish) and conveyed phases. The use of the tools is explained first and then the characteristics of the material.

We often start with predefined projects, even if only in draft, which may vary, in details and solutions, based on the participants' inventiveness and involvement.

The ARCò school has been active for years and collaborates with the most important universities in the country and small associations or private entities.

The goal is not only in the quality of the architectural responses but in establishing a cognitive process that leads the workshop participants to be the first staunch defenders of this quality based on the interaction between people.