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venerdì 20 luglio 2012

NEW CONCORDIA ISLAND CONTEST

New Concordia Island Contest

is a competition for ideas responding to the shipwreck of the Costa Concordia, a cruise ship of the Costa Crociere company, out from regular service after the shipwreck on the night of January 13, 2012 on the Giglio Island. The competition has the aim of stimulating new future visions for the Giglio Island and the shipwreck which will become as part of the same landscape and with the same identity.

Recently the news reports that the exploration in the shipwreck to finding survivors and the phases of removing fuel have been concluded. The cleaning of the seabed around the shipwreck is currently underway and the final plan for the removal of the shipwreck will be released soon and could last for more than a year. At the same time faults in the movements of the hull are neither reported, nor in the research environment survey results of any pollutants escaping from the shipwreck and dispersed in surrounding sea. How to rethink the future of these places? What could the shipwreck become if it remains aground for a period longer than a year? How to program the steps for disassembling and dragging the parts? How to work with the shipwreck to build a form of memory? Is there any way to reconsider the Giglio island with this new outcropping rock that has changed the coastline?

Panel

Cristina Díaz Moreno - Efrén García Grinda AMID (cero9) _ Madrid
Andrea Bartoli FARM CULTURAL PARK _ Favara
Luca Emanueli SEALINElab _ Ferrara
Eva Franch i Gilabert STOREFRONT Director _ NY
Joseph Grima DOMUS Director _ Milan
Kamiel Klaasse NLarchitects _ Amsterdam
Geoff Manaugh BLDGBLOG _ Los Angeles
Marco Navarra NOWA _ Caltagirone
Lori Nix _ NY
François Roche R&Sie(n) _ Paris
Italo Rota _ Milan
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto Atelier Bow-Wow _ Tokyo

Awards

1st place € 1500,00

FARM Special Prize € 1000,00
Special Prize € 500,00
and 7 Honorable Mentions

download notice of competition and submit your proposal www.icsplat.org
DOMUS is media partner www.domusweb.it

sabato 2 giugno 2012

HERE WE GO!

PICCOLA CAVA instant design lab

martedì 29 maggio 2012

WORKSHOP PICCOLA CAVA 31/05-03/06

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martedì 22 maggio 2012

WORKSHOP PICCOLA CAVA

INSTANT DESIGN LAB FOR THE VALLEY OF THE TEMPLES, AGRIGENTO

Archaeological and Landscape Park of the Valley of the Temples

The broad and unresolved question of the archaeological sites in Sicily needs an approach that is both pragmatic and visionary. On the one hand we must confront the current economic and social conditions worsened by the current crisis, on the other it is necessary to imagine other forms of architecture and dwelling places, cities and landscapes. We need a way of designing that is going to focus on the long-term vision but at the same time develops itself in the areas beside the individuals interested in a continuous dialogue.
In these circumstances it seems necessary to try a different model of production of architectural and urban design, imagining other ways and times in the relationship between client and designer.

Piccola cava

Piccola cava approach a field of exploration where architectural and archaeological practices overlap and mix with contemporary art. The activities on site are coordinated by a technical project instant Lab wich aims to build a space organized as a place for rest and reflection, dedicated to outdoor activities like reading and listening to music. The formal patterns become construction tools for project ideas in a process that aims to integrate the economic and technical level with architectural and landscape quality in order to imagine new ways of living.

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sabato 19 maggio 2012

NEW CONCORDIA ISLAND ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Collapse is the measure of erasing.

Can architecture suspend the erasing at the margins of disaster? Otherwise, can it trigger mechanisms of metabolism and coexistence with everyday life?

Why the reaction to the trauma is the removal of objects that can evoke the image of tragedy?

Why we use to rebuild previous states, totally ignoring that every tradition is a cultural invention?

Why do the answers to the tragedies exclude the possibility of transforming traumatic events in new visions for the future?

Why don't the erasure and the dispersion offer new scenario of intermediate transformation?