Sponsor: Regione Calabria - Town planning and Territorial Governance Department
Type: Open, International, single phase
Location: Italy
Language: English/Italian
Fee: None
Eligibility: Open to single professionals (architects, engineers, designers, town planners, landscape architects, agronomists, botanists, artists, scientists, researchers, technologists, economists, sociologists, geographers, environmentalists, ecologists, etc., preferably participating in a multidisciplinary group), societies of professionals or engineers, firms and students.
Timetable:
15 July 2010 – Deadline for online registration
30 July 2010 – Submission deadline
Awards:
First Prize – 20,000 Euros
Second Prize – 7,500 Euros
Third Prize – 2,500 Euros
Jury:
01 Emilio Ambasz - Architect and Designer, pioneer and theorist of “Green over Gray” > USA
02 James Wines / Site - Architect and Artist, pioneer and theorist of “Green Architecture” > USA
03 Mario Cucinella / Mca - Architect, expert in sustainability and renewable energies > ITA
04 Jörg Schlaich / Schlaich, Bergermann und Partners - Engineer, inventor of the solar tower > GER
05 Patrick Blanc - Botanist, inventor of vertical green walls > FRA
06 Vicente Guallart - Architect, Director and prof. Iaac Barcelona > ESP
07 Hans-Rudolf Schalcher - Engineer, prof. Eth Zurich, Holcim Found. Management Board > SVI
08 Jana Revedin - Architect, Curator of Global Award for Sustainable Architecture > AUT
09 Sarah Ichioka – Director of the Architecture Foundation London > UK
10 Vedran Mimica – Director of the Berlage Institute Rotterdam > NED
11 Edo Ronchi - Sociologist, Minister of the Environment 1996-2000, President of the Foundation
Sviluppo Sostenibile > ITA
12 Gianni Silvestrini - Engineer, Scientific Director Kyoto Club, President of Exalto > ITA
13 Ezio Terzini – Director of Enea Research Centre Portici > ITA
14 Tonino Perna - Economist and Sociologist, President of the Aspromonte National Park 1999-2004 > ITA
15 Rosaria Amantea - Architect, Regional Executive of Town Planning and Territory Governance
Department Region Calabria > ITA
Design Challenge:
The objective of the “Solar Park South” international competition is to stimulate concrete ideas and revolutionary proposals for the reuse of the soon to be decommissioned highway sections between Scilla and Bagnara. Participants are invited to develop their ideas-projects starting from the basic proposal to:
- Dedicate one carriageway (south-north) to the creation of a space for testing the production of energy using renewable sources, the search for and successive application of new sustainable technologies, and the implementation of measures focused on integrating the Park within the surrounding territory through the upgrading, fruition and valorization of landscape.
- Reuse the other carriageway (north-south) as an alternative to the National Highway n. 18, which is both obsolete and fragile, in order to ensure better connections between Scilla and Bagnara, and between the latter communities and the surrounding mountainous and rural territory, as strongly requested by local inhabitants, through the reuse of the service roads and technical areas related to the construction of the new highway.
Rather than completely demolishing the old route, with its extraordinary reinforced concrete viaducts, now fully integrated within the landscape and the collective imagination, the reuse and redevelopment of certain by-passed sections is proposed as a means of boosting the production of renewable energy; experimenting with new eco-friendly technologies; favoring connections between villages and access to the valuable crops on mountain crests; and, finally, developing new forms of environmental and land art capable of stimulating responsible tourism. Instead of spending approximately 40 Million Euros (the estimated cost of environmental refurbishment) to demolish the decommissioned portions of the old highway, dispose of the debris and restore the existing landscape, thanks to the creation of Solar Park South, the same money (or part of it) can be employed in productive investments.
Submission Requirements:
Online self-publication of 2 images in .JPG format (945x450 pixels, maximum size 200kb each) and of 2 descriptive texts in English (maximum length: 1000 characters each, spaces included). Prize and Honourable Mention winners must submit a detailed presentation of the proposal, composed of 10 UNI A4 horizontal pages, in pdf format.
For more information, go to: www.parcosolaresud.it
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