University Island , Poveglia/ Italien

Verfahrensart
Offener Ideenwettbewerb (auch für Studenten)

Wettbewerbsaufgabe
Only few settings can boast the charm of a desert island. From Mompracem to Robinson Crusoe, the island is a place of adventure, exile and shipwreck. Failure and salvation at the same time – the place of the unconscious before being a real geographic site – an island is the place where people challenge themselves getting used to silence and nature, face amazing challenges.
In one of the most charming places in the world, a few kilometers far from San Marco’s bell tower in Venice, a fascinating authentic island skimmed by waters, emerges shyly: Poveglia.
Despite its area extent and beauty that mark the difference between Poveglia and the other lagoon islands, over the last years this incomparable gemstone had to undergo, a disastrous decline. Without any connection to the mainland, abandoned for almost 50 years, today in Poveglia a thick vegetation has grown wild affecting every cultivation and crushing every architecture.
Venice has never completely forgot Poveglia, but its citizens stopped visiting the island over time has become a natural setting for the grimmest tales and fantastic rumors. But, this situation will soon change. The Italian Government – the owner of the estate – has lately put a spotlight on Poveglia, in order to make a reuse of the island possible.
In the wake of this purpose, YAC launches University Island, a project to transform Poveglia into a dream university campus; a place of training, leisure and relax for the many students gathering in Venice.
How to transform a desert island into a spearheading study and research center? Which architecture should be integrated in one of the most delightful locations in the Venetian Lagoon in order to create an international campus to equal the value of one of the most stunning cities in the world?
On these questions, YAC, with the support of RIAM, lays the foundations for University Island inviting all the designers to feel completely fascinated by the magnificence of one of the most breathtaking places of the Venetian Lagoon and to plan a new future composed by activities, good attendance and the vitality of thousands of students who every year choose Venice as an esteemed location for their studies.

Gold Mentions
- Team: NF
Nestoras Skantzouris · Foteini Liakou
- Team: SDCB
Andrei Bacoșcă · Alexandra Scurtu · Diana Cosman · Roxana Durdun
- Team: LAM
Andrej Štornik · Luka Peklaj · Miha Rijave
- Team: EFESTO
Gaia Cella · Gaspar Canepa · Gustavo Pérez Ortega · Juan Octavio Ferreyra

Mentions
- Team: Sushicats
Jessica Jiang · Helena Rong
- Team: Lapo Ruffi
Lapo Ruffi · Vanessa Giandonati · Nicholas Diddi
- Team: OMNE Collective
Pierre Chastel · Adrien Daniel · Iris Chervet
- Team: cavejastudio
Alessandro Pretolani · Filippo Pambianco · Nicola Romagnoli · Eleonora Fantini · Nicolas Piazza
- Team: BassettBenner
Jon Benner · John Bassett
- Team: RoSca
Fredrik Thornström · Ana-Maria Pop
- Team: Bołoz Kitala
Marcin Kitala · Barbara Bołoz
- Team: Atelier MPBM
Barbara Marinucci · Mattia Pezzolla · Giuseppe Ragosta · Giovanna White · Andrea Marchese
- Team: LRM
Miha Munda · Lucija Podgoršek · Rok Primažič · Marko Primažič
- Team: FIOR.E
Florian Liakos · Irene Helen Marcantonatou · Alexis Visvinis