Submission: March 10, 2014
Registration: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Location: Bologna, Italy
Prizes: 1st Prize € 8.000 2nd Prize € 4.000 3rd Prize € 2.000 2 x Honorable Mention € 500 each.
Type: Open competition for architects and architecture students
International ideas competition organized by YAC, that in its third competition offers participants a chance of practicing solid research in redesigning and rethinking a disused industrial park.
What kind of architecture could be proposed in order to host cultural and entertainment activities?
This is the question YAC and Nute ask the designers, offering them the chance to rethink a disused industrial place and transform it in a lively space for culture, art and public relationships. The wide and versatile open spaces are meant to provide local citizens and tourists a modern cultural / leisure time activities centre. Deepening the issues of an architecture for “culture / leisure time” is up to designers; however the core of this transformation shall focus on temporality and spatial custom-tailoring. Nute aims to promote a transformation that embodies those contemporary living axioms.
Nowadays the growing digitalization of social and economic relationships is producing radical transformations in social conventions and systems. The first victims of such process are production sites and industrial facilities; the outcome is that lots of gargantuan empty boxes are nowadays waiting for re-functionalization and new purpose.
