LIVING AS A STUDENT

By Giovanni Multari - 11 December 2017

Contest The award ceremony on 29 September 2017 at the Church of Saints Demetrio and Bonifacio in Naples concluded the international ideas contest “Neapolis, living as a Student”. Open to students of the Faculties of Architecture and Engineering, specializing in architecture, the contest entailed designing a university hall of residence in the heart of the old town of Naples, the ancient Neapolis. 190 students from Italian, European and non-European faculties submitted their projects by the closing date of June 30, 2017. Of the 80 groups registered, 60 submitted their work. Seven projects were selected and two received mentions: “Nu_Cube” by Cristina Spada and Lisa Battipaglia from Naples, and “25_65” by Simone Parola, Simone Collinetti, Mattia Salvador, Riccardo Ronzani, and Samuele Sciarretta, from Turin. Of those selected, the Special Jury Prize went to the project “al_Margine” by Giovangiuseppe Vannelli and Piero Zizzania, architecture students from Naples. The other short-listed projects were: “Hippodamus Housing” by Daria Cesario and Anna De Chiara from Antwerp; “06//” by Emanuela Russo and Elisa Visone, Naples; “Courtyards” by Edyta Baran, James Murnaghan, Viktoria Hevesi, Dublin; “18//” by Floriana Ruggiero and Bianca Maria Rodriguez, Aversa (Province of Caserta); “EntrUPia, the roofs city” by Arianna Palumbo, Vittorio Boemio, Domenico Ciaravolo, Annalisa Falcone, and Ersilia Fiore, Naples; and “50//” by Salvatore Pesarino, Martina Iacente, and Anna Troiano, also from Naples. Brief The contest called for projects for a university hall of residence to house a total of 300 students in the area close to the city’s hospitals. The aim was to seek out new experimental student housing models that would blend with an urban context dating back to ancient Greek and Roman times, for despite the many transformations, the site still bears...