AWARDS
Ph. ©S. Anzini
CITTÀ METROPOLITANE DELLO STRETTO AWARD
As part of the International Call to Action launched for the first edition of the Biennale dello Stretto, the curators, Alfonso Femia and Francesca Moraci, and the scientific board (Salvatore Greco, Francesco Messina, Giovanni Multari, Michelangelo Pugliese, Gaetano Scarcella, Giorgio Tartaro, Ilario Tassone and Luciano Marabello) deemed it necessary to indicate the noteworthy entries in the context of an overall very high-profile participation.
Different categories were identified, works and projects were selected for each, and the Strait Metropolitan Cities awards were given. The aim was to highlight the compositional and communicative value of the projects, to identify innovative formulas the thinking, and to arouse the desire to nurture the Strait area through culture.
If by “culture” we mean the complex of things and actions that affect the way people are together and influence their behavior, art, architecture, and storytelling through photography, writing, and cinema, are cultural activators, which are grafted into the individual and collective urban environment, in physical and emotional dimensions.
The Biennale dello Stretto, as a whole, is proving to be, in this interpretation, a solid cultural project open to listening, knowledge,
and experimentation.
A total of 137 architects participated in the Call to Action, including 21 under 35, 10 photographers, and 18 artists, for a total of 112 projects and works on display until December 18th at Forte Batteria Siacci in Campo Calabro.
The ability to design a vision through the different interpretative keys adopted by the participants was the discriminating factor in choosing the projects.
CASE STUDY
Studio BV36 – City of Cervia
Openfabric – City ofi Genoa
PHOTOGRAPHY CATEGORY
Jacqueline Salmon – “les et presqu’île, 1995”
Giulia Flavia Baczynski –“Nulla più del fiume scorre”;
ARCHITECTURE PROJECT CATEGORY
Bergmeisterwolf – “Boe Culturali”
LANDSCAPE CATEGORY
Osa – “Istanbul Senin Halic Kiyilari Tasarim Yarismasi”
Benno Albrecht, Lorenzo Fabian e di Jacopo Galli – “Atlante del Mediterraneo”
IMAGINARY REALISM CATEGORY
Carmelo Baglivo – BAN “Oasys City”
Laps Architecture – “I ponti dello Stretto”
DESIGN CATEGORY
Migliore + Servetto – “Texturia Mari”
Pietro Carlo Pellegrini – “Colombaie mobili”
ART CATEGORY
TechneLab Collettivo
VIDEO CATEGORY
IT’S con 8PRODUCTION e Maria M. S. Lagunes – “Il fiume che non c’è”
Studio BV36 – “Nuovo Parco Pubblico di Cervia”
LDA.iMDa – “Biolago balneabile a depurazione naturale” sezione Cities
WRITING CATEGORY
Anna Mallamo, journalist and writer
Mauro Francesco Minervino, writer and anthropologist
INTERNATIONAL AWARD LA BIENNALE
DELLO STRETTO
The Biennale dello Stretto was an exciting experience of getting to know and exchange ideas about the Mediterranean, starting with its water lines that conditioned development and experiences.
The “Mediterranean” design sensibility
is expressed in the works of architects, regardless of situations and places.
For this reason, Biennale curators Alfonso Femia and Francesca Moraci have identified four architecture studios that are characterized by a global approach of distinct “Mediterranean-ness,” understood as a global dimension in which architecture, sustainability, and compositional connection are naturally grafted, the value of landscape.
The architectural coherence of Mediterranean architecture in the countries of the three shores is a unique character that governs their the landscape even as it has been mortified and unbalanced by the outrages of speculative building since the second half of the last century.
The heterogeneity of ethnicities, cultures, religions finds a spontaneous compositional revelation through the common water line.
The choice of the four professional studies that received the award expresses the Mediterranean internationality, a substantial trait of La Biennale dello Stretto.
The award-winning studios are: