Bologna

Space to Culture

YAC’s third competition offers participants a chance of practicing solid research in redesigning and rethinking a disused industrial park

    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.

    YAC’s third competition offers participants a chance of practicing solid research in redesigning and rethinking a disused industrial park.

    Nute Partecipazioni ltd (www.nutepartecipazioni.com) deals with revamping and enhancing valuable but disused industrial buildings. Nute owns an exquisite building in Quarto Inferiore (Granarolo, Bologna)  which used to be an important factory. Due to market’s contractions and thanks to the building’s unique features, Nute’s CEO is currently aiming to radically transform the former 15.000 m2 industrial park into a space for leisure time, culture and arts.

    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.

    Winners

    First Prize

    Bruxelles

    Francesco Quadrelli, Stefano Privitera

    Second Prize

    MiPa

    Alessandro Benetti, Emanuele Romani, Francesca Coden, Margherita Locatelli

    Third Prize

    Fosbury

    Antonio Buonsante, Claudia Mainardi, Giacomo Ardesio, Marco Taccagni, Nicola Campri

    Gold Mention

    maa arch

    Alessandro Seccarello, anna valandro, marco bernardello

    Gold Mention

    PPM

    Ilias Pitsios, Thanassis Manis, Yorgos Pantazis

    Jury

    Partners