Salvage City

Between the closing of Porta Palazzo in Torino, Italy, and the arrival of the cleaning trucks, another world briefly exists. For just a few hours, the discarded remains of one of Europe's largest open-air markets become valuable again as a temporary community searches, gathers, and reclaims what others have left behind. It feels almost post-apocalyptic-a civilization built from the leftovers of abundance-before the streets are swept clean, washed away, and reset as though nothing had happened. This project explores that fleeting moment between the end of one day and the beginning of the next, revealing a hidden world that exists only in the hours between.