Winning designs announced for Sviluppumbria's sustainability hub in Terni

Winning designs announced for Sviluppumbria's sustainability hub in Terni

The projects were submitted by students from the Perugia Academy of Fine Arts and the University of Perugia's Degree Course in Construction Engineering-Architecture.

Eight projects to redesign a new space for the Sustainability Hub at Sviluppumbria's Terni headquarters. These are the winning projects (of 22 in total) submitted by students from the Pietro Vannucci Academy of Fine Arts in Perugia and the single-cycle degree course in Construction Engineering-Architecture at the University of Perugia in response to the "Call for Ideas" launched by the Umbria Region to promote the relaunch of the region in a sustainable manner. The hub is intended to be a meeting place for the innovation ecosystem: companies, researchers, start-ups, young innovators and all the public bodies whose expertise will play an institutional role in promoting Umbria's ecological transition. The announcement of the winners of the initiative was held online.

After introductory comments by Michela Sciurpa, president of Sviluppumbria Spa, Prof. Emidio De Albentiis, director of the Academy of Fine Arts, Giovanni Gigliotti, director of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Massimiliano Gioffrè, coordinator of the degree course in Building Engineering-Architecture, speakers included: on behalf of the Academy, Elisabetta Furin, coordinator of the Department of Design, Maddalena Vantaggi, lecturer in Ecodesign in the Specialised Course in Territorial Brand Design - a course coordinated by Prof. Marco Tortoioli Ricci - and Fabrizio Fiorini, lecturer in Architecture and Architectural Composition III in the Degree Course in Building Engineering-Architecture. The event was moderated by Elisabetta Boncio, head of Technology Transfer at Sviluppumbria.

The selected students then presented their concepts in detail.

THE WINNERS. The best projects selected were, for the Academy, Alessio Morelli, Giovanni Zicci, Arianna Donzelli and Veronica Tognoloni; for Civil Engineering-Architecture, Giovanni Boco and Rebecca Rossi, Davide Angeletti and Francesco Pio Angelilli.

The initiative will involve the eight selected students who will form an interdisciplinary design team to prepare the executive project for the renovation of the space that will be dedicated to hosting the Sustainability Hub, understood in a broad and integrated sense.

It follows the objectives of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, signed on 25 September 2015 by the governments of the 193 member countries of the United Nations to promote action in favour of the planet, people and their equal rights.

Designing sustainably to encourage the ecological transition of a territory, which today means not only conceiving an architectural space through the use of eco-compatible materials and technologies, but also defining a place whose use leads to the construction of sustainable economic and technological networks; with and for the territory, in which the architectural element is located and in continuous inevitable dialogue.

OBJECTIVES. The 8 ideas will be applied in redesigning the Hub space of and for sustainability, which will be used to organise meetings, seminars and workshops for sharing and co-designing for all the players in the ecosystem of innovation in the field of sustainability. The building to be redeveloped is in the Sviluppumbria headquarters located in Terni, in the Sabbione industrial zone at Strada delle Campore n.13. The aim of the space is also to host events, processes and projects that can support businesses in the ecological transition, making available all the skills present in Umbria and creating links with extensive networks of skills (extra-regional, national and international).

(press release issued by the Ufficio Stampa e Comunicazione della Fondazione Accademia di Belle arti "P.Vannucci")