Submission: November 30, 2013
Registration: October 30, 2013 (€20)
Language: French or Italian
Location: Romr, Italy
Prizes: 1st Prize € 3.000 2nd Prize € 2.000
Type: Open competition for architecture students
Ideas competition for architecture students organized by the Foundation Mechitar that considers, in the context of the future European City of Memory and Armenian heritage , the creation of a Memorial Museum of the Armenian Genocide at the surroundings of Paris, along the Seine, Cultural Valley of the Hauts de Seine department . It will be located opposite of the Seguin Island in a sector experiencing a full urban renewal destined to become one of the jewels of the Grand Paris.
The site carries a symbolic charge: since 1928 , a number of students from five continents have been formed in the city and the boarding school Moorat Samuel residing in the area. This is the elite of the Armenian Diaspora – intellectuals, artists, ministers , businessmen – who went through Sevres.
The European City of Memory and Armenian heritage , along with all the activities taking place there, will be a unique area and unrivaled in Europe outside Armenia.