Submission: July 21, 2014
Registration: July 17, 2014 (40€ – 60€)
Language: English or Italian
Location: Leverano, Italy
Prizes: 1st Prize € 1.500 2nd Prize € 1.000 3rd Prize € 500
Type: Open competition for architecture students and young architects under 32.
International architecture competition Leverano Horizon Tower which goal is to make the most of the landscape of Arneo by promoting the projecting of tower observatories located close to rural tracks and roads leading from Leverano to the sea, able to reinterpret in a modern way the tradition of the typical towers of Salento.
The new observatories will have the double function of new privileged observation points of the local landscape, allowing the visitor to have a 360° complete vision on the referred territory, and of stop areas (rest zones, selling points for local products, shops for sustainable means of transport) hosting services for tourists going to the sea.
The main objective is to encourage a new idea of touristic development for the territory, thanks to an innovative model of accommodation facility crossing and regenerating the territory in all its aspects (villages, rural ares, coast).
The competition promotes the projecting of a refuge from which it is possible to go beyond the height of the crown of olive trees forming the countryside and to watch the territory from a
privileged point of view.
The towers will be located in the part of the Territory going from Leverano to the coast (7km) and will be far 1 km from each others.