(In the photo by Fabio Oggero: the Chabot Ninin project)
Vione Permanent Laboratory is a multi-year regeneration project of a small Alpine community, Vione, which recognizes a high value in its historical building heritage on which it is necessary to graft structural, architectural, energetic and functional recovery operations.
Within this project, in recent months the first edition of Minimal Architecture in the Alps was announced, an architecture award that this Saturday 27 April saw the best projects awarded by the Jury, composed of: Armando Ruinelli, professor FHGR Chur (CH), president; Giorgio Azzoni, Premio and Vionelab curator; Attilio Cristini, VioneLab Steering Committee; Luca Gibello, Il Giornale dell’Architettura.com; Sergio Pascolo, IUAV Venice.
Over 60 designers and design studios, operating throughout the Alpine region, responded to the call, mostly Italian but with interesting applications from Austria, Slovenia and Switzerland. In total they are 87 projects received: 29 for the “Minimum architecture for communities” section and 58 for the “Minimum architecture for the person” section, concerning private projects. Of these, 79 were deemed eligible. Following careful evaluation, they were rewarded through inclusion in a catalog and in a traveling exhibition, as well as a stay in Vione during a short architecture review, 2 projects for each section and awarded 9 mentions, in addition to other highlighted projects that obtained a particular space in the catalogue, testifying to the widespread high quality of the projects received and the philosophy of the Award.
Awarded: “From one thing arises another”, a project created for the Municipality of Verzegnis (Udine) by the architects Mentil and Di Qual; “Multipurpose center and residence for artists” for the Municipality Mont Cenis (Turin), created by the Polytechnic of Turin (architects De Rossi, Mascino, Tempestini; Coutan Studio arch. Schiari, Guiguet).
As for the interventions on existing structures of private initiative concerning residential and agricultural, commercial and artisan entrepreneurship, the winners are: Maison Gaudie TGG, in Anzère Le Grillesses, in Swiss, curated by Studio savioz fabrizzi architectes; and Ciabot Ninin a Gorzegno (Cuneo), by Studio Ellisse architects.
To view the winning projects and others worthy of mention, you can visit show set up at the Palazzo della Cultura in Breno until 12 May. From July 5th, the exhibition will go to Vione, where it will remain open until September 8th. It will later become itinerant. The Award activities will continue over the weekend from 5 to 7 July in the historic center of Vione, which will be the focus of a three-day event dedicated to contemporary architecture in the Alps. Among the experts involved in conferences and workshops will be the authors of the awarded projects, illustrated and discussed publicly in historic tabià of the country: the residence offered in Vione represents a substantial part of the Award, but also the opportunity to address the issues of the regeneration of small communities in a place that represents them.
