International Prize Architecture Barbara Cappochin 2017

Description

Barbara and what she left us during her 22 years of life through the understanding of the deep and intimate connection existing between architecture and everyday life. The purpose of the Prize is to bring out the centrality and responsibility of architecture in the process of landscape modification. It focuses its attention on urban outskirts and on the use of bio-architecture, energy efficiency and sustainable urban planning.

The prize selects and awards the works dealing with urban regeneration and environmental development, with the highest quality in different fields, including environmental quality, (both sensorial and emotional), attention to the human scale, innovative design and construction, appropriate use of materials and structures, study of constructive details, combination of aesthetic and quality, functionality and sustainability.

The Prize and the International Conferences, which are the most important events of the VII° edition of the Barbara Cappochin Biennial, all meditate on the connection that strongly links the quality of life to the quality of architecture.

Characteristics

Are eligible for participation to the 2017 Edition of the “International Barbara Cappochin Prize” all works completed between July 1st, 2014 and June 30th, 2017.

All  work  must  involve  new  edification,  even  extensions  or  requalification  of  existing  buildings,  or landscape architecture planned by single architects, architectural firms of any nationality and enrolled in the professional register or an equivalent association, belonging to the following categories:

• public and private residential architecture;
• commercial, managerial and mixed architecture;
• public architecture (educational, cultural, social-health, religious, sporting, recreational, landscape architecture);
• sustainable urban regeneration/eco-districts

Competing works executed in the Veneto Region can also participate in the Regional Section of the Prize.