CONTEST 2015
REGENERATION AND ENLARGEMENT OF DRO CULTURAL CENTRE
Competition rules
This competition derives from the need outlined by Dro Municipality to regenerate and enlarge the Cultural Centre.
The building includes the Municipal Library, the Social Band room and other rooms for archiving and storing.
The Municipality intention to implement this project derives from many needs:
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Creating new spaces for associations and young people of the community;
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Rethinking and enlarging the Municipal Library;
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Linking the Cultural Centre to Sarca River in order to recreate an active relation between the citizens and the natural environment.
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Leaving this generation and the next ones a regenerative building in its own context, thus becoming a virtuous example.
Integrative design, synergistic development of the project and sharing of expertise are necessary prerogatives to tackle this challenge. The purpose of the competition is to show the best sustainable regeneration project for the existing building in terms of architecture, energy efficiency, liveability and relationship with social, urban and natural context.
Design criteria
During the workshop, the participants have to follow the LIVING BUILDING CHALLENGE 3.0 protocol. The teams have to achieve all imperatives.
The Living Building Challenge™ is a building certification programme advocacy tool and philosophy that defines the most advanced measures for sustainability in the built environment which are possible today and acts to diminish rapidly the gap between current limits and the end game positive solutions we seek.
The Challenge consists of seven performance categories called Petals: Place, Water, Energy, Health & Happiness, Materials, Equity and Beauty. Petals are subdivided into a total of twenty Imperatives, each of which focuses on a specific sphere of influence. This compilation of Imperatives can be applied to almost every conceivable building project, of any scale and any location, be it a new building or an existing structure. (See LBC documents provided by the organisation).
