At the end of the 37th PDA, the Piranesi 2019 international architectural awards were ceremoniously awarded. The Mayor of Piran, Đenio Zadković gave a welcoming speech. The awards were conferred by the State Secretary at the Ministry of the Environment and Spatial Planning, architect Aleš Prijon. This year's Slovenian national Piranesi selector, Maruša Zorec, gave a professional speech. We sincerely congratulate all the winners!
FINAL PIRANESI JURY REPORT 2019
Piran, 22 November 2019
Piranesi Award is conferred since 1989, this year for the 31st time in a row. The international jury for the 2019 Piranesi Awards met on 22 November 2019 in Monfort Exhibition hall in Portorose. Members of the jury, traditionally composed of every year Piran lecturers, were:
Koen Baeyens
Giovanni Barberis
Dario Castellino
Valeria Cottino
Jernaja Fischer Knap
Toni Gironès
Basile Graux
András Pálffy
Daniele Regis
Hugh Strange
Dejan Todorović
Rok Žnidaršič
The jury was led by Eva Mavsar, Špela Nardoni Kovač, Damjana Zaviršek Hudnik and Tatjana Sirk
For 2019 Piranesi award 47 architectural projects were nominated by national selectors from 10 European countries: Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Slovakia, Slovenia and Serbia.
34 students’ projects were nominated by students’ selectors from 17 European Faculties of Architecture from Graz, Spittal, Vienna, Banja Luka, Sarajevo, Split, Zagreb, Thessaloniki, Budapest, Pescara, Trieste, Bratislava, Ljubljana, Maribor, Belgrade, Novi Sad and AA London. 79 projects were sent to Piranesi exhibition.
The criteria of selection for the Piranesi exhibition were:
Considered setting in an urban or natural space
Spatial and design accordance with the context
Contemporary innovative spatial plan and layout
Respectful approach to the natural and cultural heritage
Contemporary understanding of traditional and autochthonous architectural elements
Innovative details
Considered use of color, materials, texture and light
Each winner receives design product of well-known Slovenian designer Niko Kralj, donated by our sponsor RexKralj.
Glass sculpture for Piranesi Award is designed by young Slovene architect Ajda Racman who won 1st prize at student tender, organized in 2017 by Dessa Gallery and Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and Design. The sculpture was made in famous Steklarna Rogaska.
After considering all the projects, jury decided that awards go to:
International 2019 Piranesi Award goes to:
Neue Galerie und Kasematten / Neue Bastei, Wiener Neustadt, Austria, 2019
architects: Bevk Perović
The scheme successfully integrates the new building with the old. This is achieved through carefuly weaving routes through the two and developing a sophisticated relationship of scales. In addition the project provides a richly contextual response, developing an expressive architecture that at times suggests contrast, but is also in part inspired by the existing brick vaulting.
International 2019 Piranesi Honorable Mention
Ranovation of the Main Square in Novo mesto, Slovenia, 2019
architects: Atelier arhitekti
The project covers a very large ground area, but is executed with an unfussy simplicity that shows both restraint and maturity. The space has been reclaimed from car use and its civic qualities drawn to the fore, such that the town now has a shared space for public life.
International 2019 Piranesi Honorable Mention
Chiostri di San Pietro – San Pietro Cloisters, Reggio Emilia, Italia, 2019
architects: ZAA Zamboni Associati Architettura
The project boldy counterpoints the existing masonry building with a delicacy and a lightness of touch in the detailing.
The private space of the monastery has been made public, but developed with a simplicity wholly appropriate to the serenity of the existing structures.
International 2019 Piranesi Student Honorable Mention
Architecture of mind: Conceptual design of the University Psychiatric clinic Ljubljana – Polje, UL FA, EMŠ Architecture, Ljubljana, Master thesis, 2018
student: Rok Staudacher
menthor: assoc. prof. Tomaž Krušec
The jury was positive about both the maturity and the comprehensiveness of the project. The scheme develops a constructional language that is developed through a series of external and internal spaces, subtly shifting to suit the various conditions, whilst maintaining a coherence throughout. The student asks what might a relevant healing architecture be, and leaves an open-ended query as to where this might lead that the judges comended.
SHORTLISTED
5 projects from architects
Konstari Country House, Pelješac, Croatia, 2018.
architects: Davor Bušnja
Vizafogó Kindergarten, 2018, Budapest, Hungary
architects: ARCHIKON - Csaba Nagy, Károly Pólus, Ágnes Tőrös
Addition to an old family house, Čachtice, Slovakia, 2018
architects: Pavol Paňák
Sunken Design Studio, Škofja Loka, Slovenia, 2018
architects: Dekleva Gregorič arhitekti
Gym hall in Stražišče, Kranj, Slovenia, 2018
architects: Aleš Vodopivec, Uroš Razpet, Gašper Medvešek, Karin Grdešič Rožman, Matej Delak; PLAN B d.o.o.
3 projects from students
Educational and Career Centre: Canopy with Children Playground and Nursery School, Brufut, The Gambia, 2018-19
students: Mia Bečirević, Neža Brankovič, Nika Curk, Žan Krivec, Aljoša Potočnik, Tjaša Tušar, Arne Vitorovič, Klara Suša Vačovnik, Arne Žigon, Jan Žonta, Andreja Benedejčič, Matic Benet, Matija Bozja, Sebastjan Cvelbar, Tjaša Čakš, Miha Gašperin, Ana Jerman, Anja Justin, Sara Komac, Taja Kovič, Manca Kranjc, Nadja Krašovec, Katja Križan, Neža Lazar, Maria Ljuština, Martin Mušič, Uršula Novak, Natalija Otoničar, Rok Primažič, Jana Stankić, Mitja Süč, Matej Tili, Paolo Turčić, Bernarda Vidmajer
menthors: assoc. prof. Anja Planišček, prof. Aleš Vodopivec, assist. prof. Tomaž Slak, assist., prof. Gašper Medvešek, tech. assist. Tadej Bolta, Katja Martinčič, Primož Pavšič, Nina Savič
Alternative Moray, Peru
students: Akemi Cabrejos Matayoshi, Jennifer Lizbeth Durand Labán, Samantha Nicole Segura Martel, Deja Vrbnjak
mentors: Aljosa Dekleva, Rafael Freyre, Jakob Travnik
Trofaiach. Architectural Concepts for a Future Communal Life, Trofaiach, Austria
students: Adzemovic, Medina; Bader, Dominic; Hedl, Marko; Ismaili, Nuhi; Kofler, Natalie; Louis, Emeline; Margesin, Magdalena; Neuhold, David Christian; Pons Montaner, David; Rafezeder, Pamina; Scheucher, Fabian; Schmölzer, Ferdinand; Seguro Manteca, Lucia; Susic, Milan
mentors: Hans Gangoly, Eva Sollgruber
