SOSTENIBILITÀ · Sustainability
Il Premio Internazionale Architettura Sostenibile compie dieci anni.
L’iniziativa fondata nel 2003 dal Dipartimento di Architettura dell’Università
degli Studi di Ferrara e dall’azienda Fassa Bortolo vuole incentivare e promuovere
architetture (costruite o elaborate in tesi di laurea, dottorato e specializzazione)
che sappiano rapportarsi in maniera equilibrata con l’ambiente, che siano
pensate per le necessità dell’uomo e che siano capaci di soddisfare i bisogni delle
nostre generazioni senza limitare, con il consumo indiscriminato di risorse e
l’inquinamento prodotto, quello delle generazioni future.
La crescita dell’iniziativa è stata esponenziale, un decennio che ha visto il
Premio arricchirsi anno dopo anno di partecipanti sempre crescenti in numero e
internazionalità.
La manifestazione è infatti negli anni riuscita ad attrarre tra i suoi iscritti alcuni
importanti nomi del panorama mondiale come Dominique Parrault, Baumschlager
& Eberle, Sauerbruch Hutton, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban,
Christoph Ingenhoven, Georg Reinberg, Alejandro Aravena, Philippe Samyn, Diener
& Diener, solo per citare i più famosi.
Anche i nomi dei giurati che si sono susseguiti in questa decade densa di progetti
sono di altissimo valore e vanno a formare una community rimasta vicina
alla manifestazione con l’apporto di contributi e spunti culturali legati
alla divulgazione dell’architettura sostenibile. Tra questi troviamo nomi del calibro
di Thomas Herzog, Francisco Mangado, Francine Houben, Françoise Hélène Jourda,
Sir Michael Hopkins, Juhani Pallasmaa, Alexandros Tombazis, Wilfried Wang,
Hermann Kaufmann, Matteo Thun, Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi, Brian Ford,
Mario Cucinella.
La forza propulsiva della manifestazione sta proprio nell’indipendenza dei giurati
dallo sponsor che si limita ad un ruolo di secondo piano mantenendo da anni un
atteggiamento neutrale che enfatizza l’obiettività delle decisioni.
L’unico criterio di scelta è sempre stato premiare un’architettura di alta qualità a
livello internazionale tenendo conto della collocazione, del compito e dell’utilizzo
dei mezzi sostenibili.
The International Prize for
Sustainable Architecture
celebrates ten years.
The initiative, launched
in 2003, conceived and
promoted by the University
of Ferrara's Department
of Architecture and
Fassa Bortolo, aims at
supporting and promoting
all those initiatives in
architecture that take into
proper consideration the
environment, that focus on
human needs, that satisfy
our generations' necessities
without limiting, polluting
and mindlessly consuming
future generations' resources.
The growth of the initiative
has been exponential: after
a doubtful beginning, also
due to the fact that in Italy,
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ten years ago, sustainable
architecture was not
considered a key issue in
architecture, year after
year the Prize has involved
a growing number of
international participants.
Such an initiative has
collected the interest and
participation of world famous
professionals, like Dominique
Parrault, Baumschlager &
Eberle, Sauerbruch Hutton,
Eduardo Souto de Moura,
Kengo Kuma, Shigeru Ban,
Christoph Ingenhoven, Georg
Reinberg, Alejandro Aravena,
Philippe Samyn, Diener &
Diener, just to mention a few.
Also the board and the
jury have followed such a
growth in fame and today
past participants form a
community which is close to
the initiative and supports
it with various contribution
and inspires new ideas in
the field of sustainable
architecture. Thomas Herzog,
Francisco Mangado, Francine
Houben, Françoise Hélène
Jourda, Sir Michael Hopkins,
Juhani Pallasmaa, Alexandros
Tombazis, Wilfried Wang,
Hermann Kaufmann, Matteo
Thun, Luigi Prestinenza Puglisi,
Brian Ford, Mario Cucinella are
just a few names of the aforementioned supporters.
The strength of the initiative
also lies in the board's full
independence from the official
sponsor, which has always
maintained a neutral attitude
focusing on the objectivity of
the decision.
The sponsor's one and only
requirement is to award the
prize to those international
high quality initiatives in
architecture taking into
consideration projects'
location, aims and materials'
sustainability.
Board's members are different
every year in order to make
sure that decisions are neutral
and to avoid any influence or
interference with specific styles
or trends, so that awarded
solutions can not be based on
any bias regarding the types
of projects, their destinations,
the materials or the str uctural
engineering systems.
The board is composed by
professionals with very
different cultural backgrounds;
they come from diverse places
and from different climatic
areas to grant the widest
range of views and experiences
and to promote an informed
and balanced evaluation of the
projects.
The number of very different
contributions that in the
past few years have come
from every part of the world
proves an important fact: the
solutions and the submitted
projects reflect new goals,
an individual approach that
mirrors the local realities, an
approach which is far from
the 'international style' in its
expressions.
Local initiatives, permanently
tied to the geographic,
topographic, environmental
and climatic context can
show new approaches to