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WWF Observation Cabins

YAC invites architects to play a crucial role in defending the planet by designing observation points and a visitors’ center. Such elements will stand for a perfect combination of species, training place and beauty. This place will be a space to protect and safeguard nature.

WWF Observation Cabins

Soil consumption, deforestation, poaching. If the numerous species living on Earth had a voice, there would be a deafening cry of pain rising from deserts, mountains, burning forests and polluted skies.

In the fight for the protection of ecosystems there are no winners or losers. Yet, human beings seem to linger. While the delicate balances supporting this planet are eroding, anachronistic economic systems linger over reversing course of a race for a progress with no future and a wealth with no tomorrow.

This is the awareness at the base of WWF’s initiatives. For sixty years, WWF has been giving voice to the silent cry of those who have none to ask for help. WWF’s oases were created to achieve this goal. They aim at protecting the abundance of this planet and the right to exist of every living creature.

Protecting means giving access to the wonders of Mother Nature.

However, there is no protection without knowledge. There is no conservation without access. Protecting means giving access to the wonders of Mother Nature. This is because only by enjoying the existing beauty one can fall in love with it and only by falling in love with it one can become an active player in defending our planet.

Create a place where to raise awareness, where visitors can reconcile with nature.

This is the goal of WWF Observation Cabins. This is YAC’s and WWF’s competition to support one of the most ancient WWF’s oases. Such competition aims at creating a place where to raise awareness, where visitors can reconcile with nature by enjoying and acknowledging the beauty that lies where human beings manage to remain silent and listen.  

Thanks to this competition architects will have the opportunity to play a crucial role in defending the planet designing observation points and a visitors’ center. Such elements will stand for a perfect combination of species, training place and beauty. This place will be a space to protect and safeguard nature. 

This competition aims to rediscover the main identity of architecture, namely being a “tamed” nature where human beings can be moved by bright sunsets, be amazed by flying pink flamingos or tremble at the freezing touch of west breezes.

YAC thanks all the architects who will take part in this challenge. 

Winners

First Prize

Fingers Crossed

Gioia Romani, Filippo Marconi, Simone Passaro, Lorenzo Bacci

Fingers Crossed

Second Prize

three times K

Weronika Klaus, Joanna Klejment, Aleksandra Kreft

three times K

Third Prize

Felipe Astudillo + Fernando Contreras

Felipe Astudillo, Fernando Contreras

Felipe Astudillo + Fernando Contreras

Gold Mention

V|K

Verena-Julia Klemm

V|K

Gold Mention

SLIM

Stefano Lacala

SLIM

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.

WWFSou Fujimoto ArchitectsSANAABjarke Ingles GroupFoster and PartnersHHF ArchitectsNational GeographicSnohettaBlue Società di gestione del risparmioMariana de Delas StudioRaulino Silva Arquitecto

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