Der Piranesi Award wird jährlich im Rahmen der internationalen Konferenz Piran Days of Architecture an praktizierende Architekten und an Studierende vergeben. Nationale Komitees der neun teilnehmenden Länder (Österreich, Kroatien, Tschechien, Griechenland, Ungarn, Italien, Slowakei, Slowenien und Serbien) ermittelten im Vorfeld 41 Projekte für die Awards 2018. Aus diesen vergab die Jury einen Piranesi Award und zwei Honorable Mentions.
Aus 22 Projekten von zwölf europäischen Hochschulen und Universitäten (Graz, Wien, Spittal, Split, Zagreb, Pescara, Triest, Budapest, Ljubljana, Maribor, Thessaloniki und AA London) eingereichten Arbeiten würdigte die Jury ein Projekt mit dem Piranesi Student Award.
Die Ergebnisse des 30. internationalen Piranesi Awards wurden von der international besetzten Jury unter dem Vorsitz von Eva Mavsar (s. unten) am 16. November 2018 bekanntgegeben.
Jury
Members of the jury, traditionally composed of every year Piran lecturers, were:
Valerie Mulvin (McCullough Mulvin Architects, Dublin, president of the jury), Matteo Bolgan, Eduard Callís, Aljoša Dekleva, Tina Gregorič, Gernot Hertl, Palmar Kristmundsson, Niall McCullough, Guillem Moliner, Amir Vuk Zec.
Piranesi Award 2018
- Galerie n09 - z33
Hasselt, Belgium, 2018
Architect: Francesca Torzo
Genova, Italy
"The new elements complete the existing in a way that enhances the spatial experience. The jury was positive about inventiveness on two levels: in terms of spatial organization as series of outdoor and indoor spaces and their specific transitions, and very experimental approach to redefine materiality. An outer skin reinterprets the facades of the existing buildings, the new and old melt together seamlessly. Dramatic, complex transitions between the outdoor and indoor provoke you to go inside. The building is part of the city and needs its surrounding to generate its quality." (Text: Jury)
Piranesi Award 2018 – Honorable Mention
- Basilica and spiritual house
Mariazell, Austria, 1992-2018
Architects: Feyferlik / Fritzer
Graz, Austria
"The jury summarizes the project as a collection of radical yet patient interventions into an enormous religious complex over the course of more than two decades. Each task is treated with the same attentiveness, regardless of the importance of the programs such the gallery, corridor or visitor study rooms. The project does not have a common language, but it has a particularity in relation to each event. The jury had noted the authors incorporated “time” into the project." (Text: Jury)
- Workshop Garage
Suzzara, Italy, 2016
Architects: Studiospazio
Mantova, Italy
"An elegantly simple solution which suggests far more than the brief. It’s an iconic object well beyond the ordinary. It’s a gesture before architecture. With an ingenious structural solution." (Text: Jury)
Piranesi Award 2018 – Student Honorable Mention
- Terrain Anamorphosis
Thessaloniki, Greece, 2018
Students: Antonia Gerogianni, Zoi-Niki Eleftheriadi
Mentors: Aleka Alexopoulou, Anastasia-Sasa Lada
"The jury was positive about the concerns of the students. They were dealing with the problems of the planet survival, such as water salt, olive oil, bees. Water is the sense to this project and at the same time is the engine which transforms the site. The scheme gives you the capacity to dream. The outstanding level of the artistic representation meets smart engineering. Industrial brown fields are given back to the nature and form, and start new life." (Text: Jury)
Shortlist Architektenprojekte
- Mali arsenal
Centar za posjetitelje HERA, Zadar, Croatia
Architects: Iva Letilović, Igor Pedišić
- The Hug, Housing
Aghios Ioannis Detis, Naoussa, Paros, Cyclades, Greece, 2017
Architects: React Architects: Natasha Deliyianni, Yiorgos Spiridonos
- Hotel Pacherhof
Oberneustift-Vahrn, Italy, 2018
Architects: BergmeisterWolf
- Water Paths
Renovation of Chryssafitissa Square in Monemvasia Castle, South Peloponnese, Greece, 2016
Architects: Elena Zabeli – MoY studio
- Cemetery in Dolní Břežany
Dolní Břežany, Czech Republic, 2016
Architects: Zdeněk Sendler and Radka Táborová / Ateliér zahradní a krajinářské architektury Sendler – Babka
Shortlist Studentenprojekte
- The conceptual design of the renovation of the Franciscan monastery in Ljubljana, master's thesis, 2018
student: Andraž Keršič
Mentor: prof. Maruša Zorec; Co-Mentor: doc. Rok Žnidaršič
- The public space as an opportunity for the regeneration of the urban resides of the cities through the theme of water
The case study of the ancient Pignatelli water deposit in Zaragoza, Spain, 2018
Student: Sara D’Ottavi
Mentor: Prof. Arch. Alberto Ulisse
- House of Religions - Hohenems, Austria, 2018
Student: Anna Breuer
Mentor: Levente Szabó DLA
- Valkane Swimming Pool, Pula, Croatia, 2018
Student: Rudolf Martinović
Menthors: Tonči Žarnić, Marina Bertina
- Tanzquartier Ljubljana / Theater Academy Forum
Student: Saša Sever
Menthors: Hans Gangoly, Eva Sollgruber
