The Wilmotte Foundation renews for 2008 the W Award competition. The competition endeavours to consciously encourage the importance of preserving European heritage and its evolution in a contemporary world by the idea of an architectural graft.
The competition is aimed at students and newly qualified young European architects. The theme of this years competition is to requalify a site of a water tower in Latina Italy, a recent heritage, which has to be integrated into an urban, landscaped setting.
The prizes and burseries are deliberated by an international jury, composed of professionals, architects , artists and well known journalists.

The 2008 competition theme:
The site of a water tower from the 1970s, is to be requalified. A new office building of 2000m² envisaged will provide an opportunity for candidates to write a new chapter on the architectural graft , the foundations key interest.
This year\'s theme is beyond the traditional pattern, it is rooted in the recent heritage of the twentieth century and open to participants of the prospects for interesting designs.

Result

1st Prize
Yannick GOURVIL et Paola PFENINGER

2nd Prize
Camille BAYLLY et Hervé WINKLER

3rd Prize
Franck DIBON et Germain BOUCHON

Five runners-up
Francesco FLORIDI et Nicola LOMBARDI
Raphaël BOURSIER et Gabriel LOINGER-BECK
Stéphane BAUCHE et Lionel PUTIGNIER
Julien BROUSSARD et Raphaël RENARD
Matthias JAKOB et Andreas SCHMITT

 

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Calendar
Closure of competition registration: 15th September 2008
Project entry closure: 15th October 2008
Jury: November 2008
Prize: February 2009

Participant conditions
Individual entries architectural profile or by team of two. Open to students and newly qualified architects, after the 31st of December 2004, qualified in the European Union and Switzerland.

Prize
1st prize: 4000 Euros scholarship.
2nd prize: 3000 Euros scholarship.
3rd prize: 2000 Euros scholarship.

Selection criteria
1. Strategy
2. Innovation
3. Feasibility
4. Overall quality of the graft

The town of Latina in Italy

The new town of 180000 inhabitants, situated 50 kilometres south of Rome, was built during the Italian town planning movement of the 1930′s, after the draining of the wetlands.
The city earned its character mainly from the architectural style in the 1930’s, especially its astonishing regularity. The urban planning and built environment are wonderfully brought together through clear aesthetic principles and social values prevailing in Italy in the first half of the twentieth century. The road from the historic Piazza del Quadrato to the Piazza della Liberta is a fine example of style that inspired design, and has survived to this day.

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