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Rome Community Ring

YAC invites architects to design a network of leisure time facilities a hair's breadth away from the very core of one of the most fascinating cities in the world, Rome.

Rome Community Ring

Rome. Few other metropolis in the world can evoke an unconscious as rich and ancient as the one of the “eternal city”.

With over than 3000 years of history, Rome is an incredible layering of heritage, architecture and human culture. Despite many centuries of studying and debate on how to enhance such patrimony, Rome still retains unveiled treasures - forgotten architectures and monuments longing for a chance of being brought back to life and to the community.

In partnership with La Sapienza University and Progetto Forti, Rome municipality is glad to undisclosed a debate over one of its precious hidden treasures: Forte Portuense. This former military architecture belongs to a series of nineteenth-century fortifications. Forte Portuense is becoming a topic of discussion among several public and private players, who wish to establish here the first element belonging to a network of facilities for entertainment, culture and wellness.

But how to transform a former military architecture into a leisure time & cultural focal point - capable on one hand of triggering urban redevelopment & social cooperation and on the other hand to attract citizens & tourists?

This is the question YAC offers the designers, asking them to rethink Forte Portuense into a multi-scale architectural element:  Local scale - Civic Centre / Service desk Global scale - element of the metropolitan network of culture / sports facilities aimed to transform the disused military fortifications  into a "community ring".

This new urban pole shall be considered as interlaced to other similar elements through wellness itineraries and services. This is aimed to offer the city of Rome a network of leisure time facilities a hair's breadth away from the very core of one of the most fascinating cities in the world.

Winners

First Prize

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ELENI ZIOVA, CHRISTINA ZIOVALAZOU, EIRINI KARAOLI, ANGELIKI RACHIOTI, LENA MANTZIOUA (Consultant)

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Second Prize

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Davide Olivieri, Maria Pina Usai, Simone Langiu

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Third Prize

DAUHAUS

Agnese Salvati, Pierluigi Palese, Silvia Mogini

DAUHAUS

Gold Mention

TEAM IV

Dominik Kozak, Ambroz Bartol, Miha Munda, Rok Staudacher

TEAM IV

Gold Mention

RAPAstudio

Luca Abbadati, Marialuisa Rovetta, Michele Ventura, Tommaso Cesano

RAPAstudio

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.

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.

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