Università di Camerino
Consiglio Nazionale degli Architetti, Pianificatori, Paesaggisti e Conservatori
Ordine degli Architetti, Pianificatori,Paesaggisti e Conservatori della provincia di Macerata
XXII International Seminar and Award for Architecture and Urban Culture
Naturalmente ... Architettura
Il progetto sostenibile
Camerino
July 29 - August 2
2012
Ducal Palace - piazza Cavour
The aims of the Camerino seminar are training, updating and deepening research and practice, and the bringing together of universities, professions and civil society, in a free and open manner, leading towards a reciprocal exchange of information and ideas.
The themes relate to the transformation of the constructed landscape in search of architectural quality and environmental sustainability.
Restoration, renovation, reconstruction
Take action on already existing buildings can be considered as a sustainable action for the simple fact that it requires the reuse of existing resources without a waste of land. That means, above all, improve building and environmental qualities, the energy savings , health and social security.
Depending on the state of fact, the intervention has to be intended as restoration, renovation and reconstruction: the first two cases involve the choice of procedures both compatible and non-invasive , in respect of the constructive nature of the artifacts, without forcing their performative capacities and without neglecting to consider the architectural and static relationship between the building and the other buildings around it. In case of historic buildings, the combination between new and ancient, if well motivated, will create a dialectical relationship able to emphasize them both. Also in case of reconstruction, though in freedom of expression that existing materials and techniques allow, it can not be neglected the relationship with the settings, the distinctive characteristics of communities that live there as well as the landscape, the morphology, the climate and the geographical location. Finally, we must develop solid constructive motivations and the awareness of available resources in the use of innovative materials and technologies that enable easiness in disassembling, reuse or programmed disposal of parts of the building.
Urban regeneration and brownfield sites
The suburban areas are configured as places of great evolutionary potential and at the same time of extreme environmental fragility. On them we play the possibilities for a future sustainable habitats if we will be able to fix a balance between the city building and the social behavior, or between the environment and the lives of citizens, their integration, mobility and leisure.
The urban regeneration project goes through a new way of looking at the living space, open to different interpretive horizons and to the demands of a multiethnic society, bearer of new ways of living and of fruitful insights on the contemporary city.
The brownfield industrial areas, the marginal urban spaces, the fragments of land set between infrastructures left to the decay, they can provide important design points, crucial for the future of cities if addressed to the environmental regeneration and to the cultural and economic enhancement of the communities involved. The redevelopment of depressed urban areas reduces the waste of land and promotes the social integration, mixing housing functions with those of work and leisure, interrupting the monofunctional intended use, which characterized the suburban areas grown up disorderly and in different places.
Urban green and rural landscape
The saving of natural and economic resources, with regard to natural systems both external and internal to the settlements, are at the base of landscape design.
Thanks to its effects of sanitary prevention , of pollution and climate change mitigation the urban green, in all its configurations: gardens, parks, tree-lined streets, flower beds , lawns, hedges, green corridors, is a key asset to protect and encourage the improvement of quality of life.
The extension and the care of urban green within the cities represent a factor of beauty and attraction as well as of physical well-being.
The rural landscape, hitherto invaded by the city and its ramifications as unwelcomed excrescences, is an irreplaceable heritage of life in which to create 'places inhabited by nature'. This in order to meet the needs of agricultural production, of forest plantation, of the life of animals as well as of human beings, The ramifications of the rural landscape , reversing the trend, could invade the urban areas and the architecture could give them a meaning in a wise game between nature and artifice.
PROGRAM
The study days will include sessions scheduled with short reports, communications and
interdisciplinary discussions alternating with workshops in which all members can present
their work and discuss various aspects of the proposed project. There will be an exhibition
of work presented by the participants in the competition with a catalogue distributed
among those attending the seminar.
On the final day, certificates of participation will be awarded and the prizes for
CAMERINO 2012.
As always, the seminar will include the Camerino Festival of Architecture with art events,
exhibitions and informal meetings.
A monograph of the workshop will be published on Architettura e Città, Di Baio Editore.
HOW TO ATTEND THE SEMINAR
Students , researchers, teachers, professionals and practitioners interested in the topic can participate in the seminar. Participants will stay at university colleges at a cost of 20 – 25 € per night and 8 € per meal. The application fee for the cost of the seminar is 80 €.
Application must be received by July 25, 2012.
Coupon online registration
Or download the registration coupon in pdf form
and return it by fax to +39 0737 402055 to:
Seminar of Architecture and Urban Culture c/o Info Point UNICAM
Palazzo ducale 62032 CAMERINO
HOW TO ATTEND THE PRIZE
Participation is facultative and the competition is open only to the participants of the Camerino Seminar of Architecture and Urban Culture 2012. Each participant can submit only one work. In case of teamwork it is sufficient the participation to the seminar of just one member of the group.
The deadline to submit works and projects is 6th July, 2012
Participants can deliver by hand all the required documentation at the Secretery of the Seminar of architecture and urban culture, c/o Information Point UNICAM Ducal Palace - 62032 Camerino. For application sent by mail to Seminary of architecture and urban culture, c/o Info Point UNICAM Palazzo ducale - 62032 Camerino -I
The date of postmark will not be considered.
The competition is divided into two sections: Works and Projects and research.
The subjects should be relevant to the proposed theme and should contain elements of innovative ideas, technologies and programs for a sustainable and quality architecture.
The ‘Works’ section is open to the authors, Italian and foreigner architects and engineers. In the case of teamwork, the submitted documentation must be signed by the coordinator of the team.
The ‘Projects and research’ section is open also to students (individually or in a group) of Faculties of Architecture and Engineering.
Participants can apply delivering by hand all the required documentation at the Secretery of Seminary of architecture and urban culture
c/o Info Point UNICAM Palazzo ducale - 62032 Camerino -I
For application sent by mail to Seminary of architecture and urban culture, c/o Information Point UNICAM Ducal Palace - 62032 Camerino the date of postmark will not be considered.
Work groups should indicate a representative.
REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION
Only projects and/or works unpublished, made from 2007 onwards will be accepted and considered as valid.
The submission of the works/projects involves two distinct phases:
First phase: the application form and two folders (A4 size) with the most relevant information on work/project must be submitted within 6th July 2012. The summary should consist of a short text and some illustrations, all clearly readable and reproducible typographically. This documentation should be accompanied by a CD or DVD containing: two rows corresponding to the two folders, each document size of 18 x 26.7 cm - JPG/RGB, 300 DPI. All the material will be collected and published in the catalogue distributed to the participants of the seminar. For an exact identification please specify: author/s, title of the work, department, course degree, thesis, and other useful information.
Second phase: from Saturday 28th July, each participant will have an exhibition area of about 1.80 x 1.80 m, where patterns, tables, photographs and other material can be exhibit. Please note that only adhesive tape (removable) or hangers on rigid support are permitted. During the workshops participants will have the opportunity to briefly explain their work. For communication you should also prepare material for video projections.
AWARDS - COMMITTEE
The Award consists of a total of € 4,000:
€ 1,000 for an already realized work;
€ 1,000 for a project or research project;
€ 1,000 prize of the critics;
two ‘reimbursements’ of 500 € and two mentions.
Ex-aequo awards are also envisaged.
All the awarded projects will be published in the ARCHITETTURAeCITTÀ magazine.
Works and projects will be judged and awarded by a committee formed by:
the President of the National Council of Architects or his delegate
the President of the Association of Architects, Province of Macerata or his delegate
No. 3 invited professors from different universities.
The same committee will award the critics' prize.
INFO
Segreteria
Seminario di Architettura e Cultura Urbana
c/o Punto Informativo UNICAM, Palazzo ducale - 62032 CAMERINO
numero verde 800 054000 - tel. +39 0737 402000
fax segreteria e per iscrizioni: +39 0737 402055
puntoinformativo@unicam.it
www.unicam.it/culturaurbana
Strutture ricettive a Camerino non convenzionate
Direttore
Giovanni Marucci arch.
e-mail: giovanni.marucci@unicam.it
Stampa
ARCHITETTURAeCITTÀ Argomenti d'Architettura, Di Baio Editore
Promozione
Università di Camerino
Comune di Camerino
Consiglio Nazionale degli Architetti Pianificatori Paesaggisti e Conservatori
Ordine degli Architetti PPC della Provincia di Macerata
Patrocinio
INARCH Istituto Italiano di Architettura
INU Istituto Italiano di Urbanistica
UIA Unione Internazionale degli Architetti - Sezione Italia
ANIAI Associazione Nazionale Italiana Architetti e Ingegneri
