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Tuesday, Jan 22, 2019
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There are only a few days left to register for the COMMON RUINS competition and breath a new life into the fairy castle of Mothe Chandeniers. A cash prize of € 20,000 will be awarded to winners selected by Anish Kapoor, Rudy Ricciotti, Edoardo Tresoldi, Dagur Eggertsson, Alfonso Femia, Aldo Cibic, Marco Amosso (Lombardini 22), Luca Dolmetta (LD+SR architetti).
The castle of Mothe Chandeniers is a perfect ruin.
It is lost in the French countryside. It is a gothic lace embroidered in stone. It is an enchanted mirage fluctuating on a calm lake. It is embraced by jealous vegetation that has been twining its bastions and architectures as a greedy lover. The castle evokes an intimate embrace between history, architecture and nature. Faraway from mankind, this place has achieved its most resplendent beauty. However, now it needs mankind in order to forestall its ultimate destruction.
Dartagnans is a fund aiming at protecting and safeguarding the international artistic heritage. Recently, it has purchased the castle thanks to more than 27, 910 shareholders’ donations. Today, through YAC, Mothe Chandeniers invites designers to highlight the natural fascination of the castle in order to transform it into a destination of contemplation and relax for tourists and visitors from all over the world.
How to transform a ruin into a cutting edge tourist-accommodation facility? How to make a neo-gothic shell communicate with contemporary architecture?
These are the questions on which Common Ruins lays its foundations. This competition offers designers the opportunity to dedicate their own design action to one of the most fascinating ruins in the world. They will do so by designing a visitors’ center aiming at ensuring a unique, spiritual and regenerating hospitality experience.
At the sunset of a building, architecture itself has to protect the remarkable combination of human action and natural activity that is the fascination of Mothe Chandeniers. Architecture has to save the castle from the erosion of time in order to give it back to the community that purchased it. It is an unprecedented challenge that invites designers to deal with a place with a surreal beauty able to create oneiric and refined holiday scenarios. Designers will have to highlight such feature carrying out an architectural intervention aiming to be the milestone of contemporary architecture.
- JURY
- Anish Kapoor
- Rudy Ricciotti, (Agence Rudy Ricciotti)
- Edoardo Tresoldi
- Dagur Eggertsson (Rintala Eggertsson Architects)
- Alfonso Femia( Atelier(s) Femia)
- Aldo Cibic (Cibic Workshop)
- Marco Amosso (Lombardini 22)
- Luca Dolmetta (LD+SR architetti)
- Romain Delaume (Dartagnans)
- Julien Marquis (Adopte un Château)
- Olivier de Chabot (Groupe Mercure)
- PRIZES
1st PRIZE 10.000 €
2nd PRIZE 4.000 €
3rd PRIZE 2.000 €
4 GOLD MENTIONS 1.000 € each
5 MENTIONS “CASTLE CHOICE”
5 HONORABLE MENTIONS
30 FINALISTS
- COMPETITION DEADLINES
01/27/2019 (h 11.59 pm GMT) “late” registration – end
01/30/2019 (h 12.00 pm – midday - GMT) material submission deadline
More information on: www.youngarchitectscompetitions.com
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