Winning Designs: ReUse the Thermae
As sponsors of the annual ReUse Italy contest, Graphisoft is honored to help designers approach classic sites with a mix of innovative ideas, reverence for history, and cutting-edge technology. We provide participants with free access to Archicad, a ready-made Archicad site model, and access to BIMcloud to facilitate team collaboration.
The recent ReUse the Thermae competition received 461 entries from around the globe, including 178 entries completed in Archicad. Designers were asked to “protect and musealize” the historic Thermal Baths of Curinga in Calabria, Italy. And now that the designs are in, we can safely say the creativity and skill of the participants speaks for itself!
Winning Designs
The ReUse Italy jury ( including Graphisoft’s own Giovanni Logiudice ) chose three designs to take home the competition’s top prizes:
- First Place: “Ruin is Ruin” by Lucas Delorenzi, Clara Gallardo, Guillermo Canutti, and Marcos Constanzo
- Second Place: “Mist” by Ask Lindstedt Nyberg (designed in Archicad!)
- Third Place: “Partial Eclipse” by Doni Hallko
Each project can be explored in greater depth by visiting the competition site: reuseitaly.com/competitions/reuse-the-thermae
Archicad Prize
Graphisoft is thrilled to name “Percorso delle Terme” by Zsofia Arnhoffer and Nikolett Magyar as the winner of the ReUse Italy Archicad Prize. This award honors the team that created their entry in Archicad and best demonstrated both design and technical excellence.
“Percorso delle Terme” employed a sophisticated system of layers to protect the existing Thermae structure while simultaneously suggesting its previous form and welcoming visitors safely into its spaces. As the designers explain, “Both the path and the roof are tools to understand movement and form of the original building. The perforated panels work as an imprint of the disappeared parts which the visitor has to interpret.”
“When evaluating the projects, what struck me about this project is not only the interesting project proposal but also how Zsofia and Nikolett represented their project with the tools and functionalities of Archicad.
I got a subtle sense of their knowledge of Archicad and how the features of our software can be best exploited" said Giovanni Logiudice of Graphisoft Italy and a member of the competition jury.
Congratulations to Zsofia Arnhoffer and Nikolett Magyar!
Other Notable Archicad Designs
The most exciting thing about a competition like this one is how designers can start with one site and bring it to life in countless different ways. Below, we share a handful of other entries completed in Archicad that won special recognition:
2nd Place Competition Winner
- “Mist” by Ask Lindstedt Nyberg
Honorable Mentions
- “Thermal Oasis” by Martyna Iberat and Agata Narojczyk
- “Experiri” by Dialleza Tahiri, Enkelejda Zekaj, and Edera-Kana
- “Terme di Curinga” by Lucas Marques Silva de Assis, Amanda Manhães Marmute, Isabelle Tiemi Rezende Yao, and Gustavo Paula Leal
- “Unfolding Landscapes” by Eren Sezer, Nour Fneich, Nicolo Carlini, and Sona Ragimova
- “Limit” by Carlota Torner, Facundo Trebino, Javier Agudo, and Hernan Cruz
- “Floating Around” by Balazs Furton and Flora Horoczi
Special Mentions for Innovative Proposal
- “Metallicum Metamorphosis” by Melnic Vladimir and Cujba Alexandra
- “The Up and Down Garden” by Zsolt Molnár, Olivér Gazdag, and Áron Páll
We hope you take a few minutes to visit reuseitaly.com/competitions/reuse-the-thermae to explore each of these projects in more detail.
The Next Competition
If you would like to enter the next ReUse Italy competition, registration is open now for ReUse the Fortress—Villeneuve. Share your design for this historic tower in the Italian Alps! Entries are due by June 13, 2024.
