VIRTUAL EXHIBITION

On behalf of ARQUITECTUM, a firm dedicated to the organization of Architecture Contests, we are glad to present the “Virtual Exhibition” of the "VENICE 2006" International Architecture Contest that contains all of the presented and winning projects.



SUMMARY:

ARQUITECTUM is the first International Agency dedicated to organize the best competitions in the best places of the world. Our mission is to promote excellence in design and architectural creativity, giving exposure to architects interested in these kinds of objectives. Our vision not only includes the organization of private architectural projects but also that of International Idea Competitions that stimulate architects to speculate and to create with the least amount of restrictions possible, in the most enigmatic, unique and beautiful settings around the world.
For our 1st Urban Contest we have gone too much further: we effectively brought the contest’s winning architect closer to the possibility that their project became part of the valuable studies that a city takes into consideration. On this occasion we have managed to get the authorities of Venice to review the winning proposal, and that the exhibition and awards ceremony itself takes place in Venice, at the IUAV - Istituto Universitario di Architettura di Venezia, so that it is going to be appreciated by all architects, authorities, academicians, as well as tourists and citizens of Venice from September 28th 2006 till October 15th 2006.

ARQUITECTUM carry out all the expenses for the 1st prize travel and permanency in Venice, so he –and his team- could assist to the Exhibition as well as the “Architecture Biennale 2007”.


UIAV Pavilion Entry


Projects Exhibition room


Architects Alfredo Queirolo (General Manager of ARQUITECTUM), Architect Armando Dal Fabro (jury’s member) and Architect Manuel Fernandez de Luco (winner team member)


Members of the 1st winner prize and of the 3rd prize (respectively)

The convocatory for the contest was made in March 2006. The contest started the same year in April and registrations were closed in July. The due date to present the digital projects in Venice was July 24th, 2006. The last evaluation was carried out on July and August, and the announcement of the winning projects on September 1st , 2006.Before that, we arrange so every interested architect could download for free all the necessary files that would help them to understand the place and specifically to achieve the competitions goal. Those files were:


Site Plans (.dwg)


Satellite Pictures (.jpg)


Site Pictures (.jpg)


History (.pdf)




1985  Venice Architecture Biennale documents (.pdf)


PROJECTS:

ARQUITECTUM received 484 projects (involving more of 1000 architects and teams around the world) from the next countries:

JURY:

The jury was represented by:
Representing the Venice Municipality:
Roberto D'Agostino, president of the Arsenale Society SPA (Urban Strategic Project Development) principal stockholder of the Venice Municipality (ITALY).
Representing the IUAV- University Institute of Architecture of Venice:
Arch.Gustavo Carabajal, architect: President of the Jury (ITALY) 
Arch. Gianni Fabri: (ITALIA)
Arch. Armando Dal Fabbro: (ITALIA)

Who has arrived to the next verdict:

The winning project demonstrates with clarity and coherence the idea of an “original” Venice. Taking as a starting point the pre-Palladian idea (lineal and amphibian) the project tackles the clear and simple proposal of the subject of the “inhabited bridge”. Its simplicity and composite coherence are based on the amphibious idea of the “isolated” city. The city of stone evoked in the Carpaccio painting deals with “foundational” Venice trying to recover the sense of the historic and stylistic of the “romantic” memory.
Coherence, simplicity, expressive strength: these are the elemental principals that can be seen in this project strategy.
The second project has been rewarded for its strong conceptual sensitivity. It deals with the subject of the “fragility” of the urban Venetian fabric, proposing a transparent building, strongly characterised by its constituent element (glass) and material (or immaterial). The idea of the bridge is interpreted as an imposing surprise: the project challenges the monumental simplicity of the city with “the architecture of transparency”, lightness and reflection. It is a palace of lightweight glass, “weightless” against the water, uniting two worlds without contradicting them and permitting a dialogue.
The third project distinguishes itself by virtue of being an elegant proposal of how to build, for that part of Venice, a “magnetic” and “circulatory” centre at the point where the city is suddenly interrupted. The bridge proposes itself as a “plaza of water”, not only because it crosses the Canal, creating a “node” – where the bridge and the museum are continuously fused like a vertex – but also creating, above all, an undulating ring the centre of which devours the city. In this way, through a clean solution, the project manages with a single gesture to unite the water – like a tornado – with the upper part – virtual – of the city.”

WINNERS: 

The projects selected by the jury were the following:

1st PRIZE: 3125
Arch. Manuel Fernandez de Luco
Arch. Marcelo Degiovanni.
Arch. Luis Lleonart
Arch. Milena Alessio.
Fernanda Cardona.
Ariadna Maskiver.
Natalia Sosa.
ARGENTINA

2nd PRIZE : 2503
Arch. Totan Kuzembaev
Arch. Danir Saifiulin
Arch. Oljas Kuzembaev
RUSSIAN FEDERATION

3er PRIZE : 718
Arch. Francisco Caseiro
Arch. Diego Calderón
Arch. Giacomo Brenna
Arch. Sofía Torres Pereira
PORTUGAL-ITALY-MEXICO

1st MENTION (Utopist Project): 507
Arch. Aneta Hristova-Popovska
Arch. Zivko Popovski
REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA

2nd MENTION (Poetic Project): 422 y 3053
Raphaël Gabrion
FRANCE
Anthony Coupe
AUSTRALIA

3rd MENTION (Historicist Project): 3177
Ana Valderrama
ARGENTINA

4th MENTION (Technological Project): 2806
Francisco Gomes
PORTUGAL

5th MENTION (Contextual Project): 222 y 2971
Bárbara Fernández
Bruno Campos
BRASIL
Giuseppe Vultaggio
ITALY

6th MENTION (Conservative Project): 2262
Yuval Knaani
Daniel Ohana
Gilad Lan
ISRAEL

7th MENTION ( Minimalist Project): 1034
Anibal Moline
ARGENTINA

8th MENTION (Institucional Project): 2913
Andrea Libovich
Diego Schmukler
Silvina Mocci
Virginia Hirschfeld
Diego Silva
Fabio Caracciolo
ARGENTINA

9th MENTION (Virtual Project) : 2313
Kyongsik Jun
U.S.A.

ARQUITECTUM would like to thank the generous collaboration of all the companies involved in the promotion, sponsoring and diffusion of the "VENICE 2006" contest, as well as the distinguish members of the jury, without whom it would have been impossible to carry out this project.
Furthermore, we extend our congratulations to all the winners, as well as our gratefulness to all the participants worldwide.

Thank you very much.


Architect Silvia Telaya
Professional Advisor
VENICE 2006