YACademy has launched high-level training courses in Architecture for Wellness, in collaboration with Massimo Bottura, Unipol, National Geographic and Technogym, as well as its other corses in Architecture for Food, Workplaces and Exhibition. The courses are given in Bologna, Italy. Application deadline is: 11th October 2019. 

YACademy started as a training project, a result of collaboration between YAC – young architects competitions – and the most prestigious international architectural firms. The courses are destined for young designers and aim at completing and updating their skills by guaranteeing an efficient connection with the most important studios of international scenery.

With this regard, the courses are defined as a prestigious training experience aimed at in-depth studying of the technical compositive architectural subjects related to specific courses.

Every course, open to 25 students, 8 of whom will receive a scholarship that partly covers enrollment fee, guarantees from 102 to 115 hours of lessons, 30 hours of workshop and a training period at one of the renowned studios, among them Snøhetta, Barozzi Veiga, David Chipperfield, Lombardini22, Partisans, Clive Wilkinson Architects and many others.

The application is open till 19 July (Architecture for Food/ Workplaces) and 11 October (Architecture for Wellness/ Exhibition), while the courses will take place in September- November (Architecture for Food/ Workplaces) and November-January (Architecture for Wellness/ Exhibition); internship period will start within three months after the end of the course.

The Course

Body is the main character of our times: it is the attire of our personality, the tool we use to measure ourselves against the world, the image with which we present ourselves to society.

Cinema, fashion and photography are only the most recent narrators of a model of the body that has always been the object of human reflection. The modern man has simply renewed this model according to the ideals of style and beauty that are world-renowned and chased through fitness and nutritional programs. In a society that is more and more aware of bodies, there is an increase in the demand for places where the body is nurtured, taken care of, where a person can reach their longed for psychophysical wellness. Both at a public and at a private level, there is an always increasing number of gyms, spas, wellness centres and wellness facilities.

The course of “Architecture for Wellness” was created on these premises, with the aim of shaping designers who are able to give life to refined and captivating architectural experiences that can facilitate and support the search and the achievement of the psychophysical wellness. Studying the perceptive and clinical fundamentals of wellness and the planning and technical characteristics of the different elements of wellness spaces, the students will focus on compositional strategies for wellness, leisure and fitness facilities.

The course will be made up of 115 hours of lessons, a 30-hour workshop and multiple lectures by well-renowned professional architects.

Program

115 hours of Lessons + Company Visits

See the detailed program on YACademy's website. 

Special Lectures

SPAS OF THE FUTURE: wellness and design / Simone Micheli | Simone Micheli Architectural Hero

GROTTO SAUNA: between relax and landscape / Pooya Baktash | Partisans

THE CALDARO BATHS: architecture becomes fun / Ernst J. Fuchs | tnE Architects

STADTLOUGE: a new parameter of urban wellness / Carlos Martinez | Carlos Martinez Architekten

SPORT SPACES / Andrea Maffei | Andrea Maffei Architects

FROM MOSCOW TO DUBAI: spas of the world / Alberto Apostoli | Studio Alberto Apostoli

WELLNESS AND MOUNTAINS / Ralf Dejaco | Dejaco + Partner

TERME DI MERANO / Paolo Volpato | Matteo Thun & Partners

WELLNESS ACCORDING TO ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS / Paolo Matteuzzi | Zaha Hadid Architects

Workshop

Wellness Home

Design Of A Home Concept For Technogym

The workshop will be carried out in collaboration with Technogym, the global leader in designing fitness, wellness and sport spaces. The wellness universe is increasingly oriented towards a domestic dimension: homes, villas and hotels are integrating wellness accessories that were once only used collectively. For this reason, the course will focus on the development of a design concept that aims at becoming the wellness home model of the future. Through the workshop, students will be -provided with a unique opportunity to offer their creativity to the largest player in the wellness industry. They will design the residential concept (according to the typologies of hotels, apartments or villas) where every element enhances the wellbeing of the guest. This project will aim at becoming the architectural international model dedicated to wellness.

Internships

At the end of the course, YACademy’s Placement office will ensure participants a proposal of internship or collaboration in one of the partner studios.

Language: Italian (interpreter for foreign students)

Max no of students: 25

Period: 18.11.2019 / 15.01.2020

Attendance: 3 days/week - Full time

Costs: 2.450 € + VAT, 8 scholarships for the most deserving students

Professors

See all Professors from here. 

YAC Academy

YAC is an association which promotes architectural competitions aimed at fostering culture and design research. Over the years, YAC has broadened its experience of work and collaboration with the main architectural firms of contemporary architecture, dealing with diverse and numerous topics of architectural design. Nowadays, YAC’s expertise can serve young designers better, providing them with the creation of high-level educational programs aimed at polishing the skills of the students and offering them a valuable connection to the labor market. Thanks to the close relationship with internationally renowned professional and academic actors, YAC is the perfect frame within which complete or specialize one’s skills and create a significative link with the most internationally-renowned architectural practices.

You can start your registration from here. 

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