Regional Prize Winner, Scattola Simeoni Architetti

Former San Marco area regeneration, Scattola Simeoni Architetti, Rossano Veneto, Italy

Integrated architecture. The jury recognizes this project as an example of an intervention in an industrial context, the typical one of warehouses in the diffuse city of Northeastern Italy: the existing is enhanced, and the relationship with the surroundings is questioned, thanks to a careful investment to improve the built environment and not only the internal workplace.
This is a regeneration intervention of an urban area of a real estate compendium that once represented an important reality related to saddles's production, within the Bicycle Manufacturing District in the municipality of Rossano Veneto (VI). The real estate complex consists of a series of properties that arose at different times, with expansions and additions occurring in step with the economic development of the production activity.
The winning project stands out for its effort to add new value to the existing area. An architecture that offers a new life thanks to the exercise of space recomposition through subtractions of inconsistent volumes added over the years. The reorganization was conceived through the new distribution of paths and the idea of the perforated sheet metal skin that restores unity to a complex that gradually integrated the new buildings.