The second edition of the cultural project Re-use Italy promotes an international architecture competition on the reuse of Piscina Mirabilis, a Roman reservoir located in the countryside of Naples. 

The contest is powered by a partnership with ArchDaily, KooZA/rch, 120g, EX32, and with the official support of the Parco Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei, the Minicipality of Bacoli (Naples) and the FAI.

Piscina Mirabilis is a Roman reservoir built by Emperor Augustus in the 1st century AD, in order to feed with drinking water the headquar- ter of his western Mediterranean war fleet. It was dug out a tuff hill, and it is based on a regular grid of pillars and arcs, with vaulted ceilings.

The competition, open to architects, engineers and students, asks the participants to transform the ruin into a Contemporary Art Museum.

The deadline is June 19th, 2020. It’s requested just one A1 sheet (59cmx84cm). The total prizes are 3500 Euro. 

The submitted projects will be displayed in an exhibition in a historical villa and the winners, in addition of receiving a prize, will be invited to explain their project to the citizenry.

The international Jury members are: Fala Atelier (Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares & Ahmed Belkhodja), DNA Architecture (Xu Tiantian), KooZA/rc (Federica Sofia Zambeletti), Open- fabric (Francesco Garofalo), Fernando Guerra, Enorme Studio (Carmelo Rodríguez & Rocío Pina), Peter Guthrie, SET Architects (Lorenzo Catena, Onorato di Manno & Andrea Tanci), ArchDaily (Diego Hernandez).

Prizes

3500 Euro Prizes in total.

First Prize: 2500 EUR

Second Prize: 600 EUR

Third Prize: 400 EUR

Schedule

Opening of the Early Registration: 19 February, 2020

Opening of the Regular Registration: 20 March, 2020

Opening of the Late Registration: 24 April, 2020

Submission deadline: 19 June, 2020 

Results: 7 July, 2020 

Exhibition of the projects: July, 2020

Download the competition rules, drawings from the competition's website. Join the competition here.

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