From l’Amérique de l’Italie to an almost non-defined identity, Turin is nowadays shrinking, striving for all sorts of things to happen – an event, an incoming possibility, a new role – that could awaken it from its state of deadlock. In doing so, the city – as planned –starts from its cumbersome, heavy legacy, perhaps the (only?) big chance of swinging from its industrial past to a new urban condition. With not that many alternatives left, the city tries to rethink itself by starting from an archipelago of large pieces, populating what can be called a patchwork metropolis. From these general premises, the research observes and emphasises a kind of internal dualism within the city boundaries.