NAPOLICALL New Service Center for the first italian railway

We are writing to present a competition of ideas that intends to search the possible solutions for the re-use of the first Italian railway, today in a total state of abandonment.

Description
The Bayard station, completed in 1839, united Naples with the city of Portici and was the first Italian railway connection. The ancient Bourbon factory has long been in a state of total abandonment: the vegetation completely covers the construction, preventing the perception of the volumes that compose it. The competition aims to enhance the building by identifying new function; the intervention will have to safeguard part of the previous masonry walls and foresee contemporary-style logics as happened for the recovery project of the nearby BRIN69. It will become a Service Center with hotel rooms and offices that allows people in transit to find a temporary location and to the local community to rent new work spaces as identified by urban planning for the area of Naples East. A pole of attraction that with a new function becomes an element of union between past and present.

Jury
Not yet announced

Prize
The first classified will needs a prize of 500,00 / 1000,00 euros according to the chosen entry mode (MODE A - MODE B) .

Entry Fee
MODE A: 20,00 euro (with PayPal)/25,00 euro (with Bank Transfer), for each participant, if you want to compete for a final prize of 500,00 euro for single participant.
MODE B: 25,00 euro (with PayPal)/ 30,00 euro (with Bank Transfer), if you will participate alone or in group, and you choose to compete for a final prize of 1000,00 euro.

Timetable
The results announcement: no later than the date of 03rd of February 2019

Organizer
Instaura

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