Sant'Anna d'Alfaedo
Data Landscape
YAC launches a call for ideas aiming to imagine a new generation of datacentres which fit in the landscape to generate magnificent and iconic architectures.
“Data will be the new oil”.
Alec Ross.
“Data will be the new oil”.
Alec Ross.
Metaverse, avatar, cryptocurrencies. The digital world is just as real as the material world. Whatever the activity we carry out online, its ultimate and univocal implication in the empirical world will be data.
Despite their apparent volatility, digital data have deeply material roots. Physical spaces are needed to file them, technologies are needed to secure them and huge quantities of energy are needed to access them at any time.
Datacentres are the material trace of the digital world. The more this world grows, the more they multiply, thus acquiring an essential value and playing a key role for the society of the future.
Datacentres are the material trace of the digital world. The more this world grows, the more they multiply, thus acquiring an essential value and playing a key role for the society of the future.
For a long time, they have been considered infrastructures rather than architectures. Yet, numerous recent experimentations show that datacentres can become landmarks of modern cities. They can be an opportunity to repurpose abandoned architectures and places that are no longer in use in an innovative way.
This is the case of a former military bunker along the Venetian Prealps. It is an architecture that is considered difficult to reuse due to the presence of isolation segments and underground spaces – characteristics that, in fact, turn out to be advantages when building a datacentre.
How to make the most of the characteristics of a military architecture in designing a modern datacentre? How to integrate this function into the jaw dropping landscape?
These are the underlying questions of Data Landscape. This is Manni Group’s competition to imagine a new generation of datacentres which fit in the landscape to generate magnificent and iconic architectures.
Datacentres are the sign of contemporaneity. They are intended to change the face of cities just the way railway stations, factories, and large buildings have always done in order to meet the needs of the time. Taking an interest in datacentres today means writing a significant chapter of the cities of tomorrow.
Taking an interest in datacentres today means writing a significant chapter of the cities of tomorrow.
Manni Group thanks all architects who will take up this challenge.
Jury
Each jury is nominated with utmost care and is composed by professionals of the highest repute whose activity is consistent with the theme of the competition.
- Patrick Lüth
Snøhetta - Wahlström Walter Mats
Ateljé Ö - Enrico Frizzera
Manni Group - Lorenzo Bottinelli
BASF - Alessandro Adamo
DEGW Lombardini 22 - Fedele Canosa
Mecanoo Architecten - Giorgio Ventre
Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II - Apple Academy - Gianandrea Gazzola
- Samuele Tommasi
Comune Sant'Anna d'Alfaedo - Jelena Vucic
BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group
Prizes
All awarded projects will be sent to websites, magazines and architectural platforms. Furthermore, they can be displayed in national and international architectural events.
€ 4.000
€ 2.000
€ 1. 000
€ 1. 000
€ 1. 000
€ 1. 000
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Timeline
Complying with deadlines is a fundamental requirement to take part in the competition. All architects are encouraged to pay the utmost attention to the timeline and to complete each phase in advance.
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€ 85 / team*Late Registration
€ 115 / team*Material Submission Deadline
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Rules
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2D Drawings
3D Model
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FAQ
Shall all the areas listed in the program (datacentre and offices, training centre and classrooms, services, residences etc.) be designed or is it up to the designer's decision?
Where will the datacentre be located?
Is it mandatory to compensate for the activities of the datacentre through sustainable energy?
What should be the dimensions of each function mentioned in the program?
Can a team submit more than one proposal?
Is there an age limit to take part in the competition?
Is it possible to participate without a team?
Partners
YAC thanks all the people who have been engaged in organizing the competition by sharing time, materials and resources to make the experience of architects unique.