START has launched a new ideas competition to bring housing solutions around Venice Biennale garden district. Named VeniceCall,  the competition is a contest of ideas for to project a new traveller housing into garden district of Biennale. The competition will select projects that will propose contemporary vision and with a perfect solution of integration at the history of place.

Brief

Venice is a cultured and refined city: its conformation of canals and lanes has allowed the Venetian capital to be listed among the UNESCO heritages. The bell tower of San Marco, the Rialto bridge, the Dogi palace, are some of the most renowned historical symbols to which counterbalance icons of the recent millennium such as the Olivetti Shop designed by Carlo Scarpa or the bridge on the grand canal signed by architect Santiago Calatrava. This climate of constant admixture, always attentive to cultural influences, led in 1895 to the organization of one of the most important international art exhibitions, better known as the Venice Biennial, still in force and which gives its name to the foundation of the same name. 

The Arsenale, an ancient building site converted into an exhibition pavilion, and the gardens occupy the eastern part of the lagoon, making the district a small cultural city. In this area of great attraction we want to imagine a Housing ready to welcome people from all over the world. Residences and spaces for artistic exhibitions will be the place where travelers can meet to share experiences of different backgrounds. A hub for culture that becomes an element capable of transforming historical references into a new sign of contemporaneity.

Who can participate? 

Anyone can participate, without limits of age or country, either individually or in group. You cannot take part in the contest with more than one project.

What is the project?

A project for a new housing around Biennale garden district.

How to register?

Regular entry: from 29th of April – 23 th of June the fee entry is of 20,00 euro for who will use PayPal, 25,00 euro for who will use bank transfer.

Extraordinary Entry: from 24 th of June – 02nd of August the fee is of25,00 euro for who will use PayPal, 30,00 euro for who will use bank transfer.

The quote are for each participant. You can write at [email protected] for to have detail about bank transfer payment. 

What is the material and contest deadline?

One A0 panel and the project report no later than the date of 02nd of Aaugust 2019 (deadline 23:59 italian timetable). The works might be send in digital format to the mail: [email protected].

What are the prizes?

The winner will receive a prize of 500,00 euro (excluding TAX) for each participant.

Top three finishers will have an annual subscription to the DOMUS magazine in digital format.

The winners and mentioned might take part for life at all our future competitions that the competition will propose on our portal.

To download the competition materials, please visit START. 

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