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Three days of organic and interdisciplinary reflection

on the topic of sustainable architecture from the point of view of territories, cities, housing and tourism, product design and the legislation that is called upon to guide the transformation process.

For each thematic day, four different ways of involving the public are used

Speech by philosophers, architects, writers or anthropologists on the topics of the day

Round tables organized in a multidisciplinary way thanks to the involvement of authoritative experts, professionals, companies, bodies and institutions, with transversal contents on the themes of the day

Workshops dedicated to young students and professionals who collaborate, coordinated by an authoritative expert, in the creation of creative projects on the themes of the day

Launch of competitions, live events, such as exhibitions or artistic performances, on the themes of the day

NOTICE FOR IDEAS COMPETITION
“THE DESIGN OBJECT FOR A SUSTAINABLE URBAN IMPACT”

The Ideas Competition aims to explore themes and objects useful to the community so that design can give the city a subject ” beyond ” the simple object.
Shelters, sunshades, equipped rest areas, benches, separate waste collection, accessible routes, information points, services ancillary to public mobility, street lighting and other research hypotheses… are all themes that can gather ideas for functional design reflection to strengthen a relationship of better liveability, sustainable, because they are self-regenerating objects and conceived with innovative materials.
The possibility of recovering materials according to a regeneration of objects through a different life becomes the common thread for a Design Competition aimed at gathering different interests (from manufacturing companies to institutions).

The themes are free and can start from the needs and lifestyles of the new generations through critical and/or design ideas useful for identifying a path for a participatory, sustainable city of the future with a strong symbolic value.
Furthermore, since the event has the innovative characteristic of wanting to bring companies and professionals into contact, interactions and research activities between companies and professionals in the competition context are possible, also to stimulate possible prototype developments.

Participation in the competition is open and reserved to B-CAD Roma 2024 Exhibitors registered as Architects, Urban Planners and Engineers registered in the Registers of their respective Professional Orders

COMPETITION FOR TRAINING INSTITUTES
“the urban design object as a subject for a city for all”

Competitions reserved for public and private training institutes.

The project involves the involvement of the University of Perugia – Faculty of Engineering – Department of Design , under the coordination of Prof. Arch. Giovanna Ramaccini and of the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome , under the coordination of Prof. Antonia Ciampi .

Multidisciplinary laboratory, workshops, events and comparison between the actors involved in training in the world of Design, Architecture, Art and Fashion

Comparison between the actors involved in training in the world of Design , Architecture , Art and Fashion . The interpenetration between disciplines today offers educational versatility also through the development and use of new technologies (3D printers, holographic maps, from virtual reality to the multiverse) which allow significant applications and experiments.

ARMODE is a contiguous laboratory between Art, Design and Fashion to develop not only a Talk on the transversality of the profession but also a first innovative Demo that can collect unique ideas and values as an event in Rome (in which the distance from the mechanistic vision takes shape more and more ).

46 architects, 46 hand-painted tiles, one vision. The exhibition “Di-segni di Sostenibilità” was born from the encounter between architecture and artisan tradition, inviting designers to unleash their creativity on a surface as simple as it is significant: the tile.

These works tell a journey through the different interpretations of sustainability. Each tile on display is a unique piece and each visitor can leave their mark of solidarity by purchasing a work.

1 Title: Natural Architectures – Natural Architecture
Description: A tree – a natural architecture – home to countless animal species and a laboratory for life and a tree house – a natural architecture – self-sufficient and in harmony with the world that hosts us.

2 Title: Land Consumption
Description: Good architecture will last centuries, mediocre and sloppy architecture is only destined to consume land. The first is an alchemy of historical memory, civic sense, creativity and applied technology. (Southern suburbs of Rome, comparison of the 1991, 2002 and 2014 editions of the Technical Map of the Lazio Region, sheet 374150)

4 Title: The sustainable slab
Description: Architecture has always been the answer to human needs. In the need for dialogue between man and nature, the tree’s window-cavity is the place where living forms find space and shelter.

6 Title: GREEN CODE
Description: A digital scheme to rethink the contemporary city. The symbol and the images related to it aim to illustrate sustainable urban planning and raise awareness among individuals to make conscious choices.

7 Title: “THE STRATIFICATION”
Description: The work proposes the Italian fabric through a design inspired by the expression of the Italian city: “the historic city
stratified”. 20 stratifications like the Italian regions and like our urban and domestic fabric.

8 Title: “K61x41”
Description: Repair, don’t reject. A wound becomes an opportunity to create unexpected aesthetics and new functions. And so 60 becomes 61 and 40, 41. Resilience transforms damage into new life.

9 Title: Wine in the museum
Description: The project develops on a slope in a hilly area to the north, with a distant view of the Sienese clays, in the Chianti area. The slope is used to distribute the museum and the remaining cultural and taste spaces on different levels. The central volume is the nerve center of the exhibition, the meeting point of the flows of people. The facade cladding in diagonal lines creates a singular composition, reproducing a natural rhythm. Its oblique roof emerges directly from the earth. From the large windows, the interior and exterior become a single soul, the eye wanders in the green horizon, where the rigorous geometry of the rows of vines, reign supreme.

10 Title: Tailor-made
Description: The dimension line, an architect’s inseparable partner, is transformed into a horizon line.
Outlining a defined skyline between city and environment; a thin line of force links the two aspects in favor of a common sustainability, a shared space. A solid bivalent relationship for a correct compositional creativity on a human scale.

11 Title: GENAU
Description:

Acronym:
GENERATION
ENERGY
NATURE
ARCHITECTURE
UNIVERSAL
Architecture is immersed in the world and from that it bears its fruit. Architecture is beauty, Architecture is space: the beauty will save the world, the space will respect it.

12 Title: Upside down
Description: Art, architecture, order, energy, finite universe…entropy.
“Disorder is not the absence of any order, but rather the clash of orders without any mutual relationship”

13 Title: Everything starts from a dot
Description: On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the BAUHAUS, what is its legacy for today’s architectural and urban culture?
– EVERYTHING STARTS FROM A DOT (W. Kandinsky) every act begins from a dot
of intellectual position;
– from there, a free line, expression of the heart and soul, including every aspect of living and being
– leads to the fertile possibility of imagining a fully sustainable city, the new
city of the future.

14 Title: ENERGICITY
Description: Today, buildings are not just containers to live in, but become accumulators and converters of energy thanks to the careful and reasoned use of various natural resources, including water.

15 Title: Urban Capillarity
Description: The natural evolution of housing agglomerations follows rules dictated by the fundamental needs of man and all living beings. Life needs roads to spread and interact.

16 Title: New Eco-sustainable Decorations
Description: Customization project through ECO-SUSTAINABLE materials.
Digital printing of an image on ORAJET 3981RA+ film, PVC-free, with MIMAK plotter with Eco BS4 solvent ink.

17 Title: S02
Description: Sulfur dioxide (SO2) is the most important primary pollutant and is mainly produced by the oxidation of sulfur in the combustion processes of coal, oil and diesel. The oxidation of sulfur dioxide, reacting with water, generates sulfuric acid, the main cause of acid rain that has toxic effects mainly on plants. The work aims to draw attention to this crucial issue in order to sensitize the observer to a more conscious use of renewable and “clean” energy sources.

18 Title: “sustainability”
Description: The tree provides for the individual so that the whole is healthy.
The root is there for the leaf, the branch for the fruit. In a time when saving the planet is becoming urgent, this is how sustainable architecture should evolve.

19 Title: Man vs Hearth
Description: The question we ask ourselves is: will Planet Earth be able to survive its most invasive parasite? Are the climate changes we are witnessing really determined by our actions or are they the result of the life cycle of Planet Earth? The work in question tells how Planet Earth is reclaiming what belongs to it. Venice, which appears on the left, represents the fragility of human anthropization, with the lagoon that takes on the features of a human face, a lagoon that soon, with the rising sea levels caused by the melting of the glaciers, will submerge everything created by man throughout history.
On the right, the fire, started by Man, devours the oxygen resources, which Man himself cannot do without, causing his self-destruction.
Man’s only hope for survival is the ability to build and live in a controlled atmosphere of space…On this planet?

20 Title: “Designing the voice of the verb to love”
Description: Sustainability is a conventionally consolidated concept,
but not rooted in the project. New spaces open up between the fragments of stoneware that allow you to see through. The fracture, in an aesthetic sense, exposes the
superfluous, the excess, the redundant as “waste”, but becomes a moral and ethical tool through the action of recomposition, of reuse, thanks to which the material is recycled.

21 Title: “Royal -> Ideal”
Description: It is a conceptual work in which the urban plan of a typical city is represented where the canonical, current, “Real” architectures are made as cracks, while the sustainable, future, “Ideal” architectures are made with wooden elements. The work wants to represent the need for the transition from “Real” to “Ideal” architecture. Sustainable.

22 Title: From the single Organism to the single Organism

Description: From individual space to social space. The selfishness of the individual is intertwined with the need for aggregation. By smoothing out differences he becomes aware of belonging to an increasingly universal common system.

23 Title: plan(t!)
Description: What is sustainable? Creating, inventing, planning together the thread that connects architecture to the earth.

24 Title: (plan)t!
Description: what is sustainable? cultivating, nourishing, sowing together the thread that unites the earth to architecture.

25 Title: #moodNOSTRESS
Description: The moodboard was created to create a relaxing environment
that helps us reconnect with nature and its colours and materials.
The colors of the earth and those of nature blend together to envelop our senses and give relaxation.

26 Title: “ DELICATE BALANCE “
Description: The work aims to represent the delicate balance between man and nature. Man, architect, artist who with their gestures and their works try to share the planet with various forms of life, in a delicate alternation of mistakes and successes.

27 Title: “Soul”
Description: Like anĭmus, vital principle, soul, conscience. The weight of packaging that suffocates nature, from the recycling and reuse of waste new life is generated, new perspectives flourish that lighten and free life, ánemos from the Greek breath, wind.

28 Title: “Apollo and Daphne”
Description: The theme of the evolution of sustainable architecture has been interpreted through a classical myth, that of Apollo and Daphne narrated by Ovid in the “metamorphoses”. The transformation of Daphne into a laurel tree to escape the “predatory” and rapacious embrace of Apollo is the paradigm of this relationship and the symbol of man’s return to Nature.

29 Title: “What future”
Description: From the ashes of one of the many ecological dramas, knowing how to be reborn to continue working towards sustainable architecture with the use of eco-friendly materials that nature gives us.

30 Title: “Thunberg City” (tribute to Greta)
Description: The work represents the fragment of an imagined city, built with natural and sustainable materials. The composition recalls a material and abstract urban fabric.

31 Title: The ArcHinboldi
Description: An architecture is not just an image. !!It’s a life!! Something to be eaten, metaphorically speaking. YUM. IT’S TIME TO EAT HEALTHIER.

33 Title: Wave
Description: Nature can no longer be subjected to human intervention; the built fabric of a city is thus shaped by the presence of a single tree,
harmoniously designing the road routes that from this like a wave
sound propagates.

34 Title: GETTING LOST TO FIND YOURSELF
Description:
LABYRINTH ENTRANCE: The design idea
PATH: The obstacles to face
ARRIVAL: The goal in eco-sustainable related keywords
COLOR: The harmony between container and content.
INTERACTIVITY.

35 Title: THE GREENHOUSE-GARDEN
Description: A multicultural building is an opportunity to experiment with innovative sustainability criteria. The solar greenhouse becomes a winter garden: it increases comfort without impacting the environment, it gives aesthetic value and psychophysical well-being, increasing livability.

36 Title: “Apparent contrasts”
Description: Every artistic expression is the result of “apparent contrasts” all enclosed, always, in a homogeneous underlying concept that characterizes the single art form. A painting, represented through many shades of the same color. An architecture, composed of multiple spaces or various forms. A person, whose personality is revealed by different aspects of a single soul. All this is art.

37 Title: Musical Garden
(homage to C.Th. Sørensen)

Description: A composition of pure volumes, of vegetation, to be crossed to enjoy the different spaces. Just like music, this experience produces in us emotional variations over time, bringing us back to a primordial relationship with the natural element, to the origins of the garden and beyond any technical meaning of the concept of sustainability. The 1954 project by the Danish landscape architect Carl Thedor Sørensen can speak to us today of this simple and absolute dimension of the relationship between man and nature.

38 Title: The sun, moon and stars would have disappeared long ago… if they were
remain within the reach of the predatory hands of men.” (Havelock Ellis)
Description: Sustainability: “reversible transformation where the design idea can be realized in a production process in complete empathy of the spaces with the environmental system, mother nature and her majesty architecture. The key elements? creativity and technique.”

39 Title: CITY GARDENS
Description: The project includes a public pedestrian area with benches and fountains. A paved avenue crosses a lawn where you can stop. The lawn is dotted with circular areas used as public gardens. Each garden is divided into a cultivation area and a relaxation area.

40 Title: ‘Ceci n’est pas seulement une bouteille en plastic’
Description: Playing with a famous quote, the work tells the story of the transformation of waste starting from creative reuse (the flowerpot) to recycling (the butterfly book and the design objects).

41 Title: The visible and the possible. Requalify
Description: A new envelope to be designed for the existing building heritage through which energy efficiency, sustainability and continuity of the architectural sign are guaranteed as a testimony of our time. A functional and technological skin aimed at a new aesthetic and a reduction in energy needs

42 Title: WHAT IS SUSTAINABILITY
Description: We would like to highlight one of the contradictions on sustainability today; the world of architecture develops
metropolitan reforestation projects and the world’s largest forest burns inexorably

43 Title: “NADIRA”
Description: “NADIRA” lives in Nirobi and has an eco-sustainable school in the largest slum in the city. In the “Green City in the sun”, probably one of the greenest and at the same time unsustainable places on earth, the determination of a group of mothers, a non-profit association and the local people, who helped build the school with their own hands, tells the world an encouraging story of cooperation and social participation. Because sustainability is a question of love, culture and concreteness.

44 Title: A LINEAR CITY OR UTOPIA OF THE THIRD MILLENNIUM?
Description: The system is articulated with a series of fragments that introduce an order with respect to the dissemination and fragmentation of the existing. The latter constitute the measuring element of the entire area.
The entire intervention aims to generate new urban hierarchies with a new generation construction system.

45 Title: Humus
Description: Humus, origin of plant life that becomes the fabric of our mobile, immobile, permanent, temporary works and source of new social relations. Cities are reborn green.

47 Title: Evolution spiral
Description: The golden spiral, heart of evolution and progress, represents the new dimension of architecture in the work: sustainability.

48 Title: .
Description: Point of view, point of no return, question point, vanishing point, point of light, point of architecture, point of strength, sore point, full stop, point of grip, colon, semicolon, suture point, cooking point, dew point, point like a hole or wound.

49 Title: UPSIDE DOWN
Description: The work aims to provocatively represent that the canons of the “normal” house must be overturned, the old preconceptions of construction must be rethought as the same way of designing.

50 Title: Organic S-Tile
Description: The ethereal imprint of architecture becomes an organic matrix that enhances the vital flow of nature, in which the sustainable evolution of architecture resides. 2019. Printintmaking, leaf matrix, acrylic on stoneware plate.

31 OCTOBER - 2 NOVEMBER 2024

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Competitions, Workshops and Performances

Three days of organic and interdisciplinary reflection

on the topic of sustainable architecture from the point of view of territories, cities, housing and tourism, product design and the legislation that is called upon to guide the transformation process.

NOTICE FOR IDEAS COMPETITION “THE DESIGN OBJECT FOR A SUSTAINABLE URBAN IMPACT”

Participation in the competition is open and reserved to B-CAD Roma 2024 Exhibitors registered as Architects, Urban Planners and Engineers registered in the Registers of their respective Professional Orders

COMPETITION FOR TRAINING INSTITUTES “the urban design object as a subject for a city for all”

Multidisciplinary laboratory, workshops, events and comparison between the actors involved in training in the world of Design, Architecture, Art and Fashion

46 architects, 46 hand-painted tiles, one vision. The exhibition “Di-segni di Sostenibilità” was born from the encounter between architecture and artisan tradition, inviting designers to unleash their creativity on a surface as simple as it is significant: the tile.

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NOTICE FOR IDEAS COMPETITION
“THE DESIGN OBJECT FOR A SUSTAINABLE URBAN IMPACT”

COMPETITION FOR TRAINING INSTITUTES
“the urban design object as a subject for a city for all”