Sardegna stuns with award-winning architecture designs at Premi In/Architettura 2020!

On September 26th, the first of the 9 regional award ceremonies for the In/Architettura 2020 awards were held at the Fondazione di Sardegna in Cagliari. The jury, composed of Giuseppe Vallifuoco, Architect, representing In/Arch Sardegna, Salvatore Orani, Architect, representing ANCE Sardegna, Carlo Atzeni, Full Professor of Technical Architecture and Coordinator of the three-year degree course in Architecture Sciences in Cagliari, Tiziana Campus, President of the Federation of Architects of Sardinia, and Andrea de Eccher, Architect, selected 17 works from more than 60 candidates for the list of finalists and awarded them prizes.

The Career Award for Sardinia was awarded to Alberto Ponis, who, according to the jury, "with the projects realized during his long years of professional activity in Sardinia, in which he has never stopped investigating the relationships between construction and landscape, proposes a reflection, still of great relevance today, aimed at claiming a central role for architecture, not only as a tool for transformation but also as a tool for knowledge of the places where it intervenes."

Alberto Ponis was born in Genoa in 1933 and graduated in architecture in Florence in 1960. From 1960 to 1964, he worked in London with the studios of Ernö Goldfinger and Denys Lasdun. Since 1964, he has worked in Italy on residential, public building, and urban planning. In 1990, he received the INARCH award for the Stazzo Pulcheddu village in Palau. His interventions in Costa Paradiso are also famous, where he designed, among others, Casa Scalesciani, Casa Hartley, and Casa Gostner: projects characterized by attention to the surrounding environment, in which the constructions merge with the rocks and Mediterranean scrub that surround them.

The awards given to the works are as follows:

Award for a new construction intervention with a works amount less than 5,000,000 euros

Casa studio Client: S. Puddu, E. Manca Designer: Salvatore Trogu Architect Company: Roberto Girat and C.

The proposal stands out for its ability to reinterpret the row house typology with the typological hybridization of the patio. The section of the building appears to be the key to the project, and the articulation of spaces around the patio and in height solves the complexity related to the deep lot. The facade relates to the context by using the shadows created by the light projections of the floors to break down the figure into overlapping bands with a simple and effective solution. The quality of the relationships between the parts and the sobriety of the entire work are significant, particularly suited to a context originally made up of small houses and still too "noisy."

Awards for interventions carried out by young designers

Pretziada Headquarter Client: Pretziada – Ivano Atzori, Kyre Chenven Designer: Mario Casciu | Francesca Rango architects

The work interprets in a contemporary way the themes most typical of the tradition of the dispersed habitat of Sulcis through a double intervention: on the one hand, a comprehensive work of redevelopment and re-signification of a furriadroxiu of Santadi, on the other, the introduction of a contemporary furriadroxiu that welcomes and appropriates the invariants of local living and building. Architecture as a presidium of the countryside, the polarization of the bodies of the building, their horizontal character, the relationship of necessity between interior and exterior, and the massiveness of the wall are the themes of exploration of the project, borrowed from the traditional settlement. [...]

Tobacco & Newspapers Shop Client: Alessia PudduDesigner: LERUA | Ledda Russo ArchitettiCompany: Gianfranco Delrio's construction companyThe project proposes the redevelopment of an ordinary space (a newsstand - tobacconist's) with the desire to transform it into a place that surprises and welcomes and which clearly conveys an invitation not to give up on quality in the ordinary. The intervention on the external facades, minimal and controlled, is coordinated with the new internal landscape resolved with an integrated system of wooden fittings which has the capacity to generate preferential areas of use without renouncing the overall unity of the starting space. The material and linguistic combinations that contribute to the final outcome of the work are particularly successful.

mentions

Mention for a new construction project for an amount of fewer than 5,000,000 euros

• house CU

• ANFFAS INTEGRATED CENTER

Mentions for interventions carried out by young designers

• CV house

• Su'ent cellars

•The sense of water. Up school S. Elena - Nursery and kindergarten

• CBB House

• VENTANA.

Mention for urban regeneration interventions

• Enhancement of the layout of the medieval walls of the city of Oristano

Mention for building redevelopment interventions

• Recovery and functional adaptation of a building to be used as a Documentation Center and Museum of Emigration of Sardinians

•ILESSUS SPACE. Art Archives Museum.

The In/Architettura 2020 Awards were promoted by In/Arch and ANCE in collaboration with Archilovers .

The National Awards are sponsored by Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities and Tourism, fromANCI – National Association of Italian Municipalities and from Ministry of the Environment and the Protection of the Territory and the Sea.

National Partners of the Awards are: “BIPV meets history” project (Interreg VA Italy-Switzerland Cooperation Program) , Listone Giordano, Vimar And Willis Towers Watson.