Al-Funduq as-Siqilli, a Sicilian school for the arts of making

Field notes

The site sets out a proposed residential craft institution in the province of Ragusa, organized around member-written rules, shared governance, and workshops for saddlery, leather, metal, wood, calligraphy, and book arts. Its unusually concrete planning includes a 23-hectare property, a masseria and courtyard, climate strategies involving shade and groundwater cooling, and an experimental wing called Dar al-Bidaya. The page repeatedly distinguishes the project from an existing finished house, presenting construction, admission, daily life, and public programming as stages still to come.