YAC Announces the winners of the 2019 Kid's Factory Competition

YAC - Young Architects Competitions - and Unipol I Urban Up announce the winners of Kid’s Factory, a competition of ideas that was launched last September and aimed at turning the former pottery of Laveno Mombello into the "largest and most innovative campus for childhood in the world."

There was a total cash prize of € 20,000 to reward to the winning projects: the 1st prize of € 10,000 has been awarded to the Bulgarian team “Simona Hadzhieva”, the 2nd prize of € 4,000 to the Italian team “UrbanJungle” and the 3rd prize of € 2,000 to the Italian team “qusp_lab”. 

View the competition winners and their projects below.

1st Prize - Simona Hadzhieva from Bulgaria

2nd Prize - Team UrbanJungle, Members: Giovanna de Simone, Matteo Amicarella from Italy

3rd Prize - Team qusp_lab, Members: Alessandro Querzola, Matteo Speraddio from Italy

The 4 Gold Mention recipients each received  € 1,000.  The following teams have been recognized for their achievements.

GOLD MENTION - Team huldufólk: Iwona Sternal, Hanna Smulczyńska

GOLD MENTION - Team Juno: Enes Sever, Egzon Feka, Ipek Akin, Merve Kavasg

GOLD MENTION - Team Lucchini Architetti: Anna Proskuriakova, Matteo Lucchini, Ekaterina Kropacheva

GOLD MENTION - Team 1/C Studio: Zhiqian Chen, Yi Wang, Junwen Deng

10 Honorable Mentions and 30 Finalist Mentions follow up as the completion of this huge and international podium. 

All winning projects are available at: youngarchitectscompetitions.com.