CONTEST 2016
REGENERATION OF THE BUS STATION IN ARCO (TRENTO) AND RETHINKING THE SURROUNDING AREA
Competition rules
Foreword from “Resolution NR. 71 dated 17/12/2015 by Arco Municipality”.
The municipal administration, as part of action on land and on real estate, wants to reorganize the Stazione delle Autocorriere (the Bus station) through a redevelopment and renovation project.
Teams are invited to regenerate the Arco Bus station taking into account the needs and requirements as follows:
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Redevelop the area subject of the intervention through a new road access which restricts or remove the traffic and the parking lots from the surrounding areas of the building. Rebuild the relationship between the Station and the Arco's hub/critical area (Viale Roma), in order to enhance vitality of this area currently considered marginal compared to the main cultural and tourist flows.
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Conceive new features/functions that might positively impact on revitalizing the former station building, envisaging functions related to the territory and the citizens on the ground floor, and creation of spaces for young professionals, such co-working or alike, on the first floor. A bus station kernel/stronghold (a small ticket office and a waiting room) must remain. The volume of the "superfluous" extension might be conceived from the perspective of the vertical connection and handicap accessibility of the building itself.
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Promote and safeguard the historical and cultural value of the building, its architectural quality, historical integrity and innovation.
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Draft a business plan synthetic of the new features to be implemented, in order to understand their profitability.
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).
