ELASTICOFarm, Led by Stefano Pujatti, Wins the Italian Structure Prize

Structure studio ELASTICOFarm, led by Stefano Pujatti, has been awarded the Premio Italiano di Architettura (Italian Structure Prize), promoted by the Triennale di Milano and MAXXI. The award, now in its fourth version, is obtained in recognition of their S-LAB venture, a brand new constructing in Turin, Italy, for the Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN). The prize highlights works of structure with excessive design high quality and an attentive method to innovation and the social function of structure.

For the S-LAB venture, ELASTICOFarm reinterprets the standard industrial constructing typology to include ideas of financial system, formal simplicity, and an unconventional structural resolution. Pujatti’s work represents a quest for modern development strategies tailored to distinctive spatial preparations. A pupil of Gino Valle in Italy and of Thom Mayne at Morphosis and Wolf Prix at Coop Himmelb(l)au within the USA, he studied structure in Italy and at SCI-Arc in Los Angeles.

Yearly, the Italian Structure Prize presents a cross-section of Italian structure of the current, but oriented in the direction of the long run. Promoted by MAXXI and Trienalle Milano, it awards prizes for the most effective constructing within the final three years, the most effective venture beneath 35, and a profession award. The jury of this version of the Award consists of Iñaqui Carnicero, Giancarlo Mazzanti, Matteo Scagnol, and Atelier Remoto, together with Stefano Boeri and Nina Bassoli representing the Triennale, and Pippo Ciorra and Lorenza Baroncelli representing MAXXI, the Nationwide Museum of twenty first Century Arts.

It provides a particular character to a constructing kind that’s sometimes thought of peculiar, reworking it right into a platform for exploration and research. The venture reinterprets typical development strategies utilized in productive buildings, like utilizing prefabricated concrete, and turns them into alternatives for complete experimentation. This consists of investigating how the constructing interacts with its environment, surroundings, environment, notion, and panorama features. – Jury assertion

Along with ELASICOFarm, the Italian Structure Prize additionally acknowledged Carlo Atzeni, Maurizio Manias, Silvia Mocci, Franceschino Serra for the venture of the Parish Complicated and Church of Santa Chiara in-built Sini, Oristano, Italy in 2021. Honorable mentions have been awarded to Labics for the venture to finish the museum areas of Palazzo dei Diamanti in Ferrara, accomplished in 2022, whereas Studio Ossidiana obtained the Beneath 35 Award for the venture Artwork Pavillion M. in Almere, The Netherlands, accomplished in 2022. The Lifetime Achievement Award has been offered to Aimaro Oreglia d’Isola.