WT Smart City Award - Premio internazionale di architettura 2024

WT Smart City Award is an ideas competition, an opportunity to experiment and explore the limits of architecture. The criteria include sustainable measures, application of renewable energies and materials, safety, visibility and facile understanding, utilization of manufacturing technologies and materials to implement qualitative, functional and communicative aspects, form and innovative technologies with sustainable characters. The competition entries shall be selected and awarded according to the following criteria, which are not listed in any order of priority: 1.1 Sustainability - reducing consumption of materials and energy - waste reduction throughout the life cycle of the project - application of renewable energies and materials - transformation of the mode of use in function of a reduction of materials and energy - qualitative values, functional and communicative project 1.2 Quality of Life - formal and functional values that will meet the needs of people who use the building - creating ergonomic space - applications of materials and technologies with low environmental impact - spaces with materials and technologies to optimize user comfort - appropriate use of technology, materials and production system 1.3 Accessibility - ease of use by vulnerable groups, elderly and disabled - security, visibility and easy understanding of the spaces - research and application of new methods of use of public spaces, private and appropriate functions - qualitative values, functional and communicative project