Cash prizes: 20.000 ? Subject: open architectural competition Target: Designers, Architects, Students, Professionals Location: Marzabotto (Bologna, Italy)

Cash prizes: 20.000 ? Subject: open architectural competition Target: Designers, Architects, Students, Professionals Location: Marzabotto (Bologna, Italy) As the planet is quickening its pace towards 8 billion inhabitants and the effects of the anthropic action on the terrestrial ecosystem are becoming clear, a different environmental awareness is not an optional attitude anymore, but an urgent need that cannot be postponed.In a society that consumes and pollutes at a quicker pace than the earth can stand, we need new ideas to face pointless alarmism and misguided scepticism. DISMECO srl -- a leading company in Europe in the disposal and recycling of electrical equipment -- has been pledging for years to create a more sustainable future through a more widespread action in reusing and treating complex waste.DISMECO knows well that a better world is only possible with an increasingly widespread environmental awareness. That is why DISMECO, thinking about new generations, aims to create the first school in the world dedicated to the culture of ecology and sustainability.DISMECO owns an abandoned building, which consists of 5.000 sqm, referable to Pierluigi Nervi, and belonging to the area of the former Paper factory of Marzabotto. In this facility DISMECO aims to design its own didactic centre to become ...