This research undertaken as part of the master's thesis in architecture sought to illustrate how depopulation of rural areas is a global process with serious implications on a local level, which affects everyone, directly or indirectly. The lack of basic services, such as health and education, means that more and more people in working age are leaving their homelands and moving to urban areas where facilities, infrastructures and opportunities exist in greater number. This widespread exodus generates highly degrading processes, associated with loss of cultural and built heritage, aging population and the marginalization of rural areas as clearly seen in this thesis’s case study. On the other side, in urban and suburban contexts, to where rural migration flows, it makes way to enormous political and social pressures, making their management extremely difficult and expensive, urging for new paradigms that are now facing architects and urban planners.