Get the chance to work with Technogym!

Apply for ARCHITECTURE FOR WELLNESS and meet distinguished architects on the international stage! 

The course offers 8 scholarships to the best candidates and is made of 115 hours of lessons, a 30-hour workshop on a real design topic for Technogym - the world-wide leading company in the sport equipment - and a placement opportunity in firms with the likes of: SIMONE MICHELI ARCHITECTURAL HERO - PARTISANS - TNE ARCHITECTS - CARLOS MARTINEZ ARCHITEKTEN - ANDREA MAFFEI ARCHITECTS - ALBERTO APOSTOLI

Don't miss this chance and apply by October, 11th!

THE COURSE
Body is the main character of our times: it is the attire of our personality, the tool we use to measure ourselves against the world, the image with which we present ourselves to society. 

Cinema, fashion and photography are only the most recent narrators of a model of the body that has always been the object of human reflection. The modern man has simply renewed this model according to the ideals of style and beauty that are world-renowned and chased through fitness and nutritional programs. In a society that is more and more aware of bodies, there is an increase in the demand for places where body is nurtured, taken care of, where a person can reach their longed for psychophysical wellness. Both at a public and at a private level, there is an always increasing number of gyms, spas, wellness centres and wellness facilities. 

The course of “Architecture for Wellness” was created on these premises, with the aim of shaping designers who are able to give life to refined and captivating architectural experiences that can facilitate and support the search and the achievement of the psychophysical wellness. Studying the perceptive and clinical fundamentals of wellness and the planning and technical characteristics of the different elements of wellness spaces, the students will focus on compositional strategies for wellness, leisure and fitness facilities.

In addition, according to the “learning by doing” approach, the students will have the opportunity to touch with their own hands Starpool’s production chain by taking part in the concept stage with the design team during a 3-day visit at the company’s headquarters.

SPECIAL LECTURES

• SPAS OF THE FUTURE: wellness and design  Simone Micheli | Simone Micheli Architectural Hero
• GROTTO SAUNA: between relax and landscape  Pooya Baktash | Partisans 
• THE CALDARO BATHS: architecture becomes fun  Ernst J. Fuchs | tnE Architects 
• STADTLOUGE: a new parameter of urban wellness  Carlos Martinez | Carlos Martinez Architekten 
• SPORT SPACES  Andrea Maffei | Andrea Maffei Architects 
• FROM MOSCOW TO DUBAI: spas of the world  Alberto Apostoli | Alberto Apostoli 
• WELLNESS AND MOUNTAINS  Ralf Dejaco | Dejaco + Partner 
• TERME DI MERANO  Paolo Volpato | Matteo Thun & Partners 
• WELLNESS ACCORDING TO ZAHA HADID ARCHITECTS  Paolo Matteuzzi | Zaha Hadid Architects

30-HOUR WORKSHOP
Project of a HOME concept for Technogym Livia Tani | Ateliers Jean Nouvel

The workshop will be carried out in collaboration with Technogym, global leader in designing fitness, wellness and sport spaces. The students will design the residential concept (according to the typologies of hotels, apartments or villas) where every element enhances the wellbeing of the guest. This project will aim at becoming the architectural international model dedicated to wellness. 

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