“I vuoti si allargano” explores the multiple parallel realities coexisting in the Valley of Belice (Sicily, Italy): the ancient balance between town and countryside, and the contemporary architecture that emerged after the 1968 earthquake. This project imagines a synthesis between countryside and construction, juxtaposing agricultural forms and architectural geometries. Through the surface of the images, it reveals how the structure of contemporary architecture echoes the contours of the land, and how the countryside still emerges as an architectural presence within the valley’s landscape. In the urban landscape of the Belice Valley, large architectural works stand out as foreign bodies, unable to connect with the pre-existing historical-agricultural context. These structures, many of which are found in Gibellina Nuova, were created to mend the fracture caused by the earthquake, yet they now stand as symbols of an incomplete utopia: empty spaces that testify to the failure to reconcile historical-territorial identity with urban ambitions. Within this urban dimension, which today seems irreconcilable with human experience and space, lies a deeply valuable human and collective story: the struggles of the Belice community led by the pacifist Danilo Dolci. This story speaks of the powerful desire of the inhabitants to reconstruct an urban space where they could recognize themselves. Architecture, city, and countryside thus appear as complementary yet irreconcilable visions—parallel realities inviting us to imagine a possible dialogue between past and future, between humanity and the spaces it inhabits. Exploring the tension between the failed utopia of Architecture and the reality of a territory deprived of its right to self-determination, Dolci's protests echo the idea that choices made for and about the city leave marks that endure longer than any other political act. As Danilo Dolci wrote: “The voids expand, and the risk is that fragments, without meaning, will remain fragments.” This is the fatal sensation clinging to the brutalist cement and the clods of earth—a sense that, once again, a line of division has passed through this territory, drawn by opposing forces that have decided the existence and the future of the people living there, without them.