Piranesi Awards 2016

Piran, 18 November 2016

Von 16.11 bis 19.11. fand in Piran zum 34. Mal die internationale Architekturkonferenz, die „Piran Days of Architecture“ statt. "Surface of architectural space" ist der Titel der diesjährigen Konferenz, zu der neben den Klagenfurter Architekten Klaudia Ruck und Roland Winkler sieben weitere internationale Persönlichkeiten der Architekturszene gesprochen haben.

Im Rahmen dieser Veranstaltung wurde auch der sehr begehrte Pirasnesi Award und die höchste Auszeichnung für eine Arbeit von Studierenden - Piranesi Student's Honorable Mention - vergeben.

bridgingMzamba, das Diplomprojekt der beiden Architekturstudenten Thomas Harlander und Florian Anzenberger wurde beim Piranesi Award mit der Piranesi Student's Honorable Mention ausgezeichnet. Auch Simone Kremser hat es mit ihrem Projekt ZWISCHENWELTEN auf die Short List und somit unter die besten sechs Projekte geschafft!

 

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The international jury for the 28th Piranesi awards met on 18 November 2016 in Monfort Exhibition hall.
The members of the jury, traditionally composed of every year Piran lecturers, were:

Francisco Mangado, president of the jury
Ramon Bosch
Bet Capdeferro
Carlo Cappai
Adnan Harambašić
Lena Krušec
Tomaž Krušec
Klaudia Ruck
Armando Ruinelli
Maria Alessandra Segantini
Roland Winkler

The jury was led by Majda Božeglav-Japelj, Katarina Čakš, Anže Koren and Tatjana Sirk. The sculpture for the Piranesi Award is work of the internationally recognized Slovene sculptor Boštjan Drinovec. Each winner also receives design product of well known Slovenian designer Niko Kralj, donated by our sponsor Rex Kralj.

56 projects were exposed at Piranesi exhibition 2016. 34 architectural projects were nominated by the national selectors from Austria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia and Slovenia, and 22 students’ projects were nominated by students’ selectors from Faculties of Architecture from Graz, Vienna, Spittal, Split, Zagreb, Pescara, Trieste, Budapest, Ljubljana, Maribor and AA London. The criteria of selection for the Piranesi exhibition were:

* Considered setting in an urban or natural space
* Spatial and design accordance with the context
* Contemporary innovative spatial plan and layout
* Respectful approach to the natural and cultural heritage
* Contemporary understanding of traditional and autochthonous architectural elements
* Innovative details
* Considered use of color, materials, texture and light

After considering all the projects, jury decided that awards go to:
International 2016 Piranesi Student Honorable Mention
bridgingMzamba, Eastern Cape, South Africa
Students: Thomas Harlander, Florian Anzenberger, Fachhochschule Kärnten, Spittal
Mentors: Marlene Wagner, Peter Nigst, Mario Rinke, Wolfgang Steiner, Daniel Meyer
The jury recognizes the beauty of the new passarela (bridge) in the landscape. Long profile achieves a very precise relation between the structure and form. The jury also appreciates the social value of the new infrastructure and the capacity of the authors for being involved in this courageous and real construction with a mature result.

International 2016 Piranesi Honorable Mention
Fire station, Vierschach, 2016
Architects: Pedevilla architetti, Italy
The jury appreciates the simple yet strong architecture with very reduced program. It has attractive and intelligent section solution. With simple volume of the new object architects established a suggestive relationship with nature and topography where little church in behind keeps it dominant role.

International 2016 Piranesi Honorable Mention
Jigiya So Rehabilitation Center, Kati', Republic of Mali, 2014
Architects: Emilio Caravatti, Matteo Caravatti, Italy
The jury recognizes the capacity of architects to intelligently adapt low-budget yet perfectly designed architecture into a context of very demanding weather conditions. With very simple technical construction, use of local materials and monochromatic color the architecture sensitively responds to local context. The organization and disposition of different pavilions create very useful inner spaces that provide favorable microclimate.

International 2016 Piranesi Award goes to:
Renovation of Plecnik's House in Trnovo, Ljubljana, 2015
Architects: Maruša Zorec z/with Maša Živec, Matjaž Bolčina, Arrea arhitekti, Slovenia The jury recognizes the architectural sensibility of the intervention in protected house of cultural heritage: architects presented the evolution of the construction with new little interventions where every detail is perfectly designed. Jury appreciates the wisdom of architects for expressing new architecture through the re-use of materials. The project presents the opinion of jury that architecture is in every scale and any program, from big building to little humble detail.

 

Short list: architects
Svetice Public Swimming Pool, Zagreb, 2016
Architects: Vjera Bakić, Matthias Kulstrunk, Croatia

Kakvarijum – Aquarium and river museum, Karlovac, 2016
Architects: 3LHD, Croatia

Church of St. Janez Bosko, Maribor, 2016
Architects: DANS arhitekti: Rok Bogaraj, Miha Dešman, Eva Fišer Berlot, Vlatka Ljubanović, Slovenia

Cultural Center Federico García Lorca, Granada, Španija/Spain, 2015
arhitekti: Boris Bežan, Mara Partida, Héctor Mendoza, Mónica Juvera, MX-SI architectural studio, Slovenia, Mexico

House in house, single family house, Bernolakovo, Slovakia
Architect: Martin Jančok, Michal Janák, Slovakia

 

Shortlist: students
Rehabilitation of Zapruđe shopping center, Zagreb, 2015
Student: Irena Bakić, Zagreb Faculty of Architecture
Mentor: Tonči Žarnić

Home-made prototype of a self-made city
Student: Benjamin Aumayer, Technical University of Vienna
Mentor: Prof. Manfred Berthold, Dr. Tech DI

Renovation of Krumperk castle, 2016
Student: Tadej Bolta, Ljubljana Faculty of Architecture
Mentor: izr. prof. Maruša Zorec

(In)formal squatting, Placodji, Cotonou, Benin, Africa, 2015
Student: Luca Leonardo Preziosa, Pescara Faculty of Architecture
Mentor: Prof. Arch. Domenico Potenza, Co-mentor: Prof. Matteo Di Venosa, Alberto Viskovic, Consultant: Arch. Fabrizio Chella

INTERMEDIATE WORLD: preservation and further development using the example of an alpine settlement
Student: Simone Kremser, Fachhochschule Kärnten, Spittal
Mentors: dr. Peter Nigst, Florian Aicher