ARCHITECTURE FOR LANDSCAPE2020 edition

The natural enviroment as the stage for design

Special provisions for the Covid-19 emergency

Due to the recent pandemic situation, despite the courses should be held between September 2020 and January 2021, YAC has ta-ken extraordinary measures for the best performance of its activi-ties and to facilitate access to its courses, in accordance to safety criteria.As far as the 2020 programs are concerned, it is specified that:

1. based on merit, 5 scholarships are provided for each course (for a total of 20 scholarships in 2020) to fully cover the enrol-lment cost;

2. the course will also be open to students of architecture or simi-lar disciplines who have not graduated yet;

3. although the courses will be held in person, for students who request it, it will also be possible to participate in the courses from remote connection, without limitations in participating in the workshop and in the subsequent placement service at the end of the course.

In the cover: Calamity Atelier, project by: Jiahong Lin, Zhiqiang Ma, Yunhao Bai

YACademy, workshop of Architecture for Landscape, Bivacco Bredy, project by: Claudio C. Araya, Iga Majorek, Natalia Kogia, Maria Valese

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SummaryYacademy

Where

Main partners

Reasons why Lectures Placement Visits Workshops

The course Overview Structure

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Program Lessons Lectures

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YACADEMYThe greatest innovation in postgraduate education

YAC is an association which promotes architectural competitions aimed at fostering culture and design research. Over the years, YAC has broadened s experience of work and collaboration with the main architectural firms of contemporary architecture, dealing with diverse and numerous topics of architectural design. Nowadays, YAC’s expertise can serve young designers better, providing them with the creation of high-level educational programs aimed at po-lishing the skills of the students and offering them a valuable con-nection to the labour market. Thanks to the close relationship with internationally renowned professional and academic actors, YAC is the perfect frame within which complete or specialize one’s skills, and create a significative link with the most internationally-renow-ned architectural firms.

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Via Borgonuovo, 5 Bologna, Italy

In the heart of Bologna’s historical city center, close to the Two Towers and next to Piazza Santo Stefano, YACademy is located in a prestigious medieval building which has been renovated to wel-come an educational center of excellence which can also count on a library of more than 3.000 books donated by Sapienza University. YACademy is the perfect place where to continue or enrich your education, in a prestigious context immersed in the commercial and historical centre of an always-on the-go and lively city located at a short distance from Rome, Florence, Venice and Milan. From Bologna Central Station, it is just a brief bus ride or a short pleasant walk under the marvellous porticos to get to YACademy’s head quarters: here, among history, innovation and internationality, the young designer will be able to meet some of the most celebrated personalities of contemporary architecture and build up a network of excellence while laying the foundations of their future careers.

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Main partners

Manni Group, a historic company founded in 1945 in Verona, works in the field of steel pro-cessing, insulated metal panels, renewable ener-gies and energy efficiency. Manni Group provi-des innovative systems, products and skills for the dry construction industry. It promotes new scenarios in order to remove energy waste and polluting emissions in the existing estate stock. Thanks to new buildings or new retrofitting ar-chitectures, it supports the real estate fileds or design firms to reach a high value for their projects based on the prnciples of sustainability and know how in construction.

Thanks to its 75-years experience, its commit-ment, its long-term vision and remarkable dedi-cation, the group has dealt with several market changes. It was able to wisely adapt to new international business scenariosand embrace the Circular Economy philosophy.

mannigroup.com

In 2019, he Lamborghini Museum of Sant’Aga-ta Bolognese has become MUDETEC, the Mu-seum of Technologies: a space where to enter the Lamborghini world thanks to innovation and excellences that have revolutionized the “Casa del Toro” (House of the Bull) but also the global automotive scenario by creating new concept and laying the foundations for the future techno-logies.

A journey between the past and present with a look to the future accompanies visitors to di-scover the most iconic and revolutionary values and masterpieces of Lamborghini, which are the result of their continuous investment in research and development. The Casa del Toro has been always been a pioneer and an innovative firm: it has always projected its gaze towards the future by imagining the design and technology of to-morrow, while continuously striving for their ide-al of perfection: putting thehuman being at the center of everything. The result of this effort is an even more absolute driving and brand expe-rience and thanks to MUDETEC this experience is accessible for everyone.

lamborghini.com

Terreal Italia is a company specialized in the production of terracotta building envelope sy-stems, which has been able to transfer to an industrial level an ability historically born on an artisanal level. The firm is part of the multina-tional Terreal, world leader in the brick sector with premises all over the world. From January 2018 we acquired the Pica brand, an important historical company in the clay building sector, together with the already well-known brand SanMarco.

Terreal Italia’s operations are based on the key principles of tradition, innovation, research, quality, safety and sustainability. Terreal Italia’s terracotta products - from mediterranean roof tiles to flat roof tiles, soft mud bricks to wire cut bricks, terracotta flooring to architectural elements, slabs to ventilated facades - are characterised by extremely high performance standards and rigorous quality control, and are available in a wide range of shapes, colours and finishes.Terreal Italia also produces in-hou-se all the basic brickwork accessories for roofs and facing bricks walls. These are products with contemporary architectural style for faca-de systems, with a wide range of possible cu-stomisations, designed to bring the architect’s imagined building to life.

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Urban Up is the real estate project of Unipol Group aimed at enhancing some of the most im-portant architectures in Italy which are owned by the Group through works of modernization and renovation that combine an innovative drive with the respect for tradition.

The Urban Up project, which started from the city of Milan with the redevelopment of some key-buildings of the city, history-wise and posi-tion-wise, continues in various Italian cities with interventions that both promote their own trophy assets but also regenerate urban suburbs, by de-clining the value of sustainability in the real esta-te field through the adoption of design solutions inspired by environmental safeguard.

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Reasons why

Ghost Town Refuge, project by: Pietro Colonna

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Reasons why | LECTURES

YACademy offers training courses in which young people can learn from the experience and testimony of some of the most illustrious names of design. An extensive offer of special lectures, together with numerous moments for informal discussion, will give the stu-dents the opportunity to both enrich themselves with design refe-rences and suggestions, and to get to know and chat personally with the great masters of contemporary architecture.

01. Learn from the great masters

1. Eduardo Souto de Moura2. Kazuyo Sejima - SANAA3. Shigeru Ban - Shigeru Ban Architects4. Pippo Ciorra and Carlo Ratti5. Michele De Lucchi6. Kengo Kuma - KKAA

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Dublin

London

Oslo

Lisbon

Rome

Basel Innsbruck

Turin

Merano

FlorenceGenua

Syracuse

Madrid

Santiago de Chile

Rotterdam 2 Mccullough Mulvin Architects

1 Zaha Hadid Architects2 all Design

2 Rintala Eggertsson Architects1 Jensen & Skodvin

4 Aires Mateus1 Carrilho da Graça Arquitectos

2 Alvisi Kirimoto3 Ateliers Jean Nouvel

2 HHF Architects 3 Snøhetta

2 Carlo Ratti Associati

3 Markus Scherer Architekt

1 Claudio Nardi Architects

1 Atelier Alfonso Femia

5 Vincenzo Latina Architetti

1 Nieto Sobejano Arquitectos

2 Rodrigo Duque Motta

3 OMA

Paris

Barcelona

2 Jean Nouvel Design

1 EMBT Miralles Tagliabue

Tokyo

Beijing

Toronto1 Emmanuelle Moureaux Architecture + Design

1 Vector Architects

2 Partisans

Reasons why | PLACEMENT

Milano2 Edoardo Tresoldi1 Studio Boeri3 Lombardini 222 DCAM1 Studio Urquiola

At the end of the program, participants are guaranteed a proposal of collaboration or internship within one of the professional firms of YAC’s network, whether they are important companies or established architecture studios. This stage of the program is a fundamental distinctive feature of the service offered by YACademy, aimed at gua-ranteeing students an effective career orientation service.

02. Work with great firms

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Design feeds on perceptions: suggestions and references that only direct experience can offer. For this reason, YACademy courses are also composed of a series of visits and trips aimed at enriching the cultural baggage of the students so they can improve their design approach. Surveys, building-site visits and company visits complete the offer of a program that is based on experience by leading stu-dents to get in touch with some of the most excellent firms on the Italian and international scenario.

03. Enjoy a full and exciting experience

Reasons why | VISITS

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Reasons why | WORKSHOP

After the lectures, students will develop a real project under the su-pervision of a renowned architectural firm. Through the workshop, the students will therefore not only have the opportunity to learn the processes and methodologies used by their tutor, but also to enri-ch their curriculum with new design experience (whose outcome is often realized) for some of the most prestigious clients in the world.

04. Designs for prestigious clients

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Reasons why | WORKSHOP

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Calamity Atelier, project by: Chang Keung Park, Hyun Sik Yang

The course

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BriefFrom Stonehenge to Greek temples, architecture is the signature of humankind on landscape, the artificial element that has always been connected to the natural environment. Architecture and land-scape are linked by a fundamental continuity that is now starting to fade, damaging the quality of the space we dwell.

More than ever today, landscape is a precious heritage that archi-tecture can and must enhance, while protecting it to pass it on to future generations: architects shall not give up on working on land-scape, instead they should be able to design architectures that re-spond to each landscape’s specific feature and generates wonder-ful and unique spaces.

The “Architecture for Landscape” course was created on these premises: it aims at training designers who are able to meet the diverse needs of transforming territories, enforcing an attentive and productive dialogue with the surrounding landscape to respond to the needs of prestigious clients in outstanding contexts. Through a thorough analysis of the natural world, light and geomorphological features of terrains, the designers will become more and more able to reconnect human design to the natural environment and be in-spired by landscape to design outstanding, sustainable and impres-sive architectures.

The course will be made up of 99 hours of lessons, a 32-hour wor-kshop and multiple lectures by well-renowned professional archi-tects. At the end of the course, YACademy Placement office will guarantee each student a proposal for an internship / collaboration within the partner studios.

Scolarships5, full-coverage of the enrollment fee

Course periodNovember 2020 - February 2021

Attendance to lessons3 days per week (fisically or virtually)

Maximum number of students25

Language Italian

Elements of innovation• It is the first course that gathers a ten-year experience in restora-

tion and enhancement of historical architectures and offers it as an educational program;

• within a two-month course, the students are offered a presti-gious range of future job opportunities;

• the course envisages and aligns different educational tools (les-sons, workshops, internships, company visits);

• the course offers new highly-specialistic competences like bota-nics, lighting design and landscape design;

• the workshop deals with a real design case and offers a great opportunity to analyze and realize the outcome design.

ObjectivesThe “Architecture for Landscape” course aims at training profes-sional designers who are able to intervene on astonishing and mo-numental natural contexts. Thanks to the workshop activities, the designers will be able to interpret the characteristics of the natural environment to transform it into a fine setting for elegant, sustai-nable and integrated architecture. The course aims at providing the students with skills that are immediately usable and at granting a focus on the choice of materials, technologies, elements of sustai-nability and care of different botanical items. Moreover, through their internships in well-renowned professional firms, the students will gain an efficient link to the labor market.

Professional qualificationsThe students will gain and improve their skills regarding architectu-ral design in prestigious landscape contexts, materials, design te-chnologies and strategies for protection and enhancement of the natural features of landscape.

AdmissionThe admission to the course is based on the evaluation of:• curriculum vitae preferrably in European format• motivational letter (max. 200 words)• portfolioIn order to ensure the best quality of teaching and the most effecti-ve absorption of the students in the labor market, the course will have a limited number of students (max. 25); it will be delivered in Italian and addressed to graduates who have obtained a master’s degree in Architectural Sciences or other equivalent titles by the application deadline (02/10/2020).The commission, in line with the preliminary assessment, together with the outcome of a possible interview, may admit students with different qualifications.

The course | OVERVIEW

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Lessons99 hours

THEORIES AND HISTORY OF LANDSCAPE | 8 HOURSHistorical and artistic itinerary of the evolution of the concept of landscapeManuel Orazi | Accademia di Architettura di Mendrisio

CONCEPT DESIGN | 8 HOURSThe genesis of a design ideaMassimo Alvisi | Alvisi Kirimoto

ART IN NATURE | 8 HOURSContemporaneity in placesEmanuele Montibeller | Arte Sella

PLANTS | 6 HOURSFeatures and behaviour of the plants and how to choose the right onesAntonio Perazzi | Studio Antonio Perazzi

BUILDING ON TREES | 12 HOURSSolutions and technologies for suspended architecturesIacopo Gozzi | Casalberi

THE GARDEN SITE | 6 HOURSManagement and realization of green areasFederico Ratta | Frassinago - Gardens and Landscapes

EXTREME ARCHITECTURE | 9 HOURSThe mountains’ teaching, remote places and impossible building sitesRoberto Dini | Politecnico di Torino

BUILDING WITH TIMBER | 8 HOURSTechniques and possibilities in building with timberAngelo Luigi Marchetti | Marlegno

THE GENERATION OF LANDSCAPE | 6 HOURSCreating placesAndrea Balestrini | LAND

SUSTAINABLE DESIGN | 6 HOURSPrinciples of sustainability and bio-architectureEdoardo Milesi | Edoardo Milesi & Archos

TECHNOLOGIES AND MATERIALS FOR LANDSCAPE | 16 HOURSProducts solutions and materials to enhance landscapePartner companies

INTERIOR DESIGN AND SUSTAINABILITY | 6 HOURSEthical and circular economy, and sustainability in designPierluigi Masini | Quotidiano Nazionale

LecturesUNDERWATER LANDSCAPE: UNDERPaolo Fortuna | Snøhetta

ENGINEERING AND LANDSCAPE: FOZ TUA DAMEduardo Souto De Moura

ARCHITECTURE IS AN ITINERARY: CAMP ADVENTURE FOREST TOWERMikkel Bøgh | EFFEKT Architects

LIVING AMONG TREES: SUSPENDED HOUSES IN HEDMARKEspen Surnevik

NYC IN GREEN: THE HIGHLINEMatthew Johnson | Diller Scofidio + Renfro

EXTRATERRESTRIAL LANDSCAPE: BUILDING IN SPACELarry Toups | NASA

LIKE A RIBBON ON THE RIVER: KISTEFOS MUSEUMGiulio Rigoni | BIG Bjarke Ingels Group

A DIALOGUE WITH MOUNTAINS: INSIDE OUTSIDEMichele de Lucchi | aMDL Studio

Workshop32 hours

DESIGN A DISPERSED HOTEL AND TREEHOUSE SYSTEM IN THE FRENCH VILLAGE OF REPÉREGiulio Rigoni | BIG Bjarke Ingels Group

PlacementAt the end of the course, YACademy’s Placement office will guaran-tee every student an internship or collaboration proposal in one of our partner studios relevant to the course topic, among which:

Snøhetta - HHF Architects - Diller Scofidio + Renfro - BIG Bjarke Ingels Group - Espen Surnevik - Effekt Architects - LAND - Edoar-do Milesi & Archos

The course | STRUCTURE

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The course | CALENDAR

Applications opening

11th May 2020Applications deadline

02nd October 2020Publication of the provisional ranking

12th October 2020Enrollment fee payment deadline

16th October 2020Publication of the official ranking

23rd October 2020Lessons start

16th November 2020Lessons end

18th December 2020Workshop start

11th January 2021Workshop end

5th February 2021

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Program

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Massimo AlvisiALVISI KIRIMOTO

Massimo Alvisi was born in Barletta in 1967 and gra-duated with Honors at the University of Florence in 1994 with a n international disser-tation in collaboration with the École d’Architecture de La Villette. During university, he receives a Scholarship to study in Darmstadt, Germany, where he studies environmen-tal sustainability with Thomas Herzog. He was a Design Architect for Renzo Piano Building Workshop from 1995 to 2002 until the completion of the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome. In 2002, together with Junko Kirimoto, he funds studio Alvisi Kirimoto in Rome. He works mainly in architectural design in the urban and social field. He was a technical counsellor for Casa Italia and he tutors G124 project of architect Renzo Pia-no aimed at repairing suburbs. Since 2018, he lectures within the course in “Architecture for Heritage” at YACademy in Bologna and he taught Urban History at the Faculty of Bu-ilding Engineering and Archi-tecture of the University of Tor Vergata, Rome (2014-2016). He held seminaries, worksho-pe and lecture internationally, among which “working in the Urban Periphery” at the Royal Academy of Arts in London (2018).

Manuel OraziACCADEMIA DI ARCHITETTURA DI MENDRISIO

He graduated in Archi-tecture from IUAV in 2001 and obtained a PhD in Hi-story of Architecture and Ci-ties in Venice in 2007. Since 2002, he has been working as a writer for Quodlibet (a publishing company in the province of Macerata), where he works particularly on the publication and dif-fusion of architectural titles, mainly for “Abitare” and “Habitat”. He taught History of Architecture and Theories of Architectural Research at UNICAm (Ascoli Piceno), Universities of Bologna and Ferrara. He has held seminars and conferences, among others, also at the Architectural Association of London. He works regularly for the magazines “Domus”, “Log”, “Icon Design” and “Il Foglio”. Among his most recent publications, together with Yona Friedman, he wro-te The Dilution of Architectu-re (Park Books, 2015).

Theories and history of landscape

Program | LESSONS

Concept design8 hours 8 hours

Historical and artistic itinerary of the evolution of the concept of landscape

The genesis of a design idea

The aim of the course will be to consolidate and structure the compositional methodo-logy specific to each student. Through the course, students will have the opportunity to deepen their own way of synthesis of the va-rious requests that contribute to the project, in order todesign an original architectural proposal that responds to the set program. Enhancement of history, respect of budgets, functions, fulfillment of regulatory bindin-gs, response to technical and performance needs, definition of the user experience and prevision of related perceptions: only by responding to each one of these requests, will it be possible for the project proposal to include complex and meaningful architectu-res that do not exhaust their identity in the generic and arbitrary expression of the ar-chitect’s aesthetic orientation.

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The course aims at offering students a se-ries of technical and cultural references useful for the development of their creativi-ty. Through the analysis of realized projects, students will get an overview of the main and most famous architectures that have defined a virtuous and fascinating relation-ship with the environment in which they were inserted. Completion of theThis course willbe completed by the testimonies of the many special lecturers and a more extensive reflection on the meanings of landscape, in-tended both as a natural reference (with real and distinguishable physical elements) and as a cultural horizon (interpreted by archi-tects, intellectuals and creatives).

Emanuele MontibellerARTE SELLA

He was born in 1959. In 1986, Emanuele Montibeller founded Arte Sella. This is a project aimed at creating a place of encounter, dialogue between artists and ideas sharing. Such project highli-ghts the importance of the Valsugana valley in the inter-national dialogue between creativity and natural world. He is artistic director and curator of cultural projects for the association Arte Sel-la both in Italy and abroad. He helped creating the route ArteNatura, which is a forest itinerary studded by works of art made by masters of the Art in nature. Some of them are Nils-Udo, Chris Drury, Patrick Dougherty, Michelangelo Pistoletto.

Art in nature8 hours

Contemporaneity in places

The course will retrace the events and methodologies tested in Arte Sella, one of the most well-known and most prestigious art parks in the world. Through the story of the installations housed in the park, and the in-depth study of the artists who worked there, the students will acquire a methodolo-gy of approach to the natural element both as a source of inspiration and as a scenario that is able of stimulating, influencing and finally welcoming the architectural interven-tion. The module will highlight the elements of continuity between landscape and human intervention, and will allow designers to ac-quire sensitivity in the interaction between what is natural and what is artificial. The experience will be completed by a moment of creative workshop oriented to reading the landscape for the setting of an artistic in-stallation concept at the park. If the weather conditions allow it, the students will have the opportunity to visit to Arte Sella.

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Iacopo GozziCASALBERI

Iacopo Gozzi was born in 1984. After graduating in architecture in Milan with a thesis on the ener-gy efficiency of buildings, he directed his studies to sustainability and landsca-pe design, he obtained a specialist degree in Venice with a thesis entitled: “Living on the trees”. He lived in a treehouse for a long time. Since he was a child, he has always been in contact with nature and approached plants thanks to the family business. For about 15 ye-ars he has been dealing with the design and construction of tree houses for adult children and hotels. His company was a forerunner of the rampant architecture among the top 5 in Europe: to date, it can boast a long series of realizations instal-led homogeneously betwe-en north and central Italy. He has also actively collabo-rated in the drafting of the regional legislation for the construction of tree houses for tourism purposes.

Antonio PerazziSTUDIO ANTONIO PERAZZI

Antonio Perazzi studies at the Polytechnic of Milan and at London Kew Royal Botanic Gardens. In 1998, he opens his own studio and carries out projects and advisory activities for some of the most important architectural studios and societies of Engineering. He has carried out both private and public projects in Italy and abroad, and has wor-ked in France, Russia, India, Austria, Canada, Usa, China, Kuwait and Morocco. He was professor at the Polyte-chnic of Milan and has held lectures and workshops in many Italian and foreign universities. He works with national and international newspapers, he published “Contro il Giardino” with Pia Pera for Ponte alle Grazie and “Foraverde” for Maestri di Giardino, with a preface by Gilles Clément. For ten years now, he has published the monthly column “Busti-ne di Paesaggio” on Garde-nia.

Plants

Program | LESSONS

Building on trees6 hours 12 hours

Features and behaviour of the plants and how to choose the right ones

Solutions and technologies for suspended architectures

The course will present some case studies of tree selection and analysis of suitable species, health, phytosanitary status, ba-lance; it will also deal with the “approach to trees”, which is to say the technological systems for anchoring to plants without damaging them, systems that allow the free growth and movement of plants and wor-king techniques in plain and height. By focu-sing on the safety of trees, of operators and construction process, the students will learn about architectural design intended as the choice of materials and definition of spaces. A general outline of regulations and an over-view of case studies at national level will be offered, together with economic evaluations, such as the metric calculation and the de-finition of the cost of building a tree house. The course will finally analse the FAQs gene-rally posed by clients.

On very different scales, the landscape to-pic has gained a key role in architectural and urban design and has become an in-spiration, a tool, a decoration. Knowing the plants in their ecological features allows the designers to complete their project in its smaller details. The project is complete when it is able to relate to the territory, with a biological continuity or contrast. For land-scape designers, botanics are a tool and an inspiration: an approach to connect different environments for them to dialogue both with the artificial and natural world. During the course, decoration, useful and adaptable plants will be analyzed in connection to ma-terials and surfaces.

Federico RattaFRASSINAGO - GARDENS AND LANDSCAPES

Federico Ratta graduates in Agriculture and in Land-scape architecture in Genoa and in Turin. He is design manager for Frassinago, a Bologna -based firm which applied the Design & Build approach to thel Garden and Landscape Design field for the first time in Italy. With a specialization in high-level parks and private gardens, Frassinago has realized several projects in Italy, Switzerland, France and in the Persian Gulf. Federico collaborates in the drafting of articles for several archi-tectural publications, inclu-ding Paysage, Elle Decor and Gardenia.

The garden site6 hours

Management and realization of green areas

The course is designed as an evolutionary interpretation of a medium-high level site for a landscape project concerning a private property. Through the presentation of some case studies, the course aims at providing the cultural, critical and methodological to-ols for managing and organizing all the in-terventions that turn the project phase in a real building site. From the planning process to the daily management of all the actors involved in the realization of a garden, the course will describe the process of project realization up until the phase of the blosso-ming and further planning of the garden.

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Angelo Luigi MarchettiMARLEGNO

He graduates in Civil Engineering from the Univer-sity of Brescia. He is CEO of Marlegno s.r.l. Prefabricated Wooden Buildings, qualified in the engineerization and prefabrication of wooden facilities and buildings, characterized by the deve-lopment of “customized” projects, experience and the technical/technologi-cal skills, enthusiasm for innovation, care for details and a special attention to sustainability with regard to the environment. He has a very optimistic and positive attitude and is a strong sup-porter of a building concept based on high technology and eco-friendly systems; he is specialized and qualified in this sector and has held conferences, training cour-ses and workshops at many universities and institutes of technology.

Roberto DiniPOLITECNICO DI TORINO

He is an architect, a researcher and a teacher of Architectural and Urban Composition at Polytechnic of Turin. His work at the Mountain Architecture Insti-tute focuses on architecture and alpine landscape in the modern and contemporary age. He is the editor of «Ar-chAlp» and the author of ar-ticles and essays published in books and Italian and international magazines. Among his books: “Rifugi e bivacchi. Gli imperdibili delle Alpi” (2018, con Luca Gibello e Stefano Girodo), “Architetture del secondo Novecento in Valle d’Aosta” (2018), “Rifugiarsi tra le vet-te. Capanne e bivacchi della Valle d’Aosta dai pionieri dell’alpinismo a oggi” (2016, con Luca Gibello e Stefano Girodo), “Alpi Architettura. Patrimonio, progetto, svilup-po locale” (2016), “Architet-tura alpina contemporanea” (2012). Since 2012, he has been a founding partner and vice-president of the asso-ciation Cantieri d’Alta Quo-ta. He loves alpinism and skialpinism, he enjoys being in the mountains in every season of the year.

Extreme architecture

Program | LESSONS

Building with timber

9 hours 8 hours

The mountains’ teaching, remote places and impossible building sites

Techniques and possibilities in building with timber

Among the main building materials, timber is used both as a cover and a structure of those architectures that are deeply con-nected to landscape. Following the specific features of the workshop topic, the course offers the students an advanced technical knowledge of the performative and structu-ral features of different materials, of the main processing techniques, use and design of timber buildings. Thanks to this course, the students will learn how to design archi-tectures which can integrate the maximum wellness for people with the issues of ener-gy saving and respect of the environment, which timber design allows to achieve and optimize.

includes visit to Marlegno

In the contemporary world, an important change of perspective makes the mountains an extraordinary field of exploration from a scientific, mountaineering and cultural point of view, increasing the human attendance of remote places at high altitudes and ma-king it necessary to create shelters such as refuges and bivouacs. These structures are the result of an extraordinary “design enga-gement”, an interesting test bench for is-sues such as the rationalization of the living space, the use of new materials and con-struction techniques, energy efficiency, the sustainability of the interventions and the relationship with the landscape. The installa-tion of an architecture at high altitudes ne-cessarily implies the resolution of complex construction and logistical problems, impo-sed by the total immersion in a glacial and mineral world, climatically and morphologi-cally extreme, materializing the most vivid manifestation of the concept of “limit”. It is precisely the need to respond to the severe boundary conditions and at the same time to make the best use of the scarce resour-ces offered by the place, that triggers the possibility of tacking constraints and critical issues in as many opportunities and design ideas, formulating knowledge, technologies, innovative construction solutions and virtuo-us cultural models, transferable even to ordi-nary contexts.

Andrea BalestriniLAND

Andrea Balestrini studied architecture and landscape planning at Politecnico di Milano and at the Universi-ty of Stuttgart. During his studies he focused on the topic of landscape recovery and water sensitive urban design in European cities but also metropolis such as Seoul, Cairo and Lima, where he worked and de-veloped his diploma thesis with the Municipal Office for Green Areas and Parks (SERPAR) in collaboration with the research project Future Megacities, local universities and NGOs. His professional background ga-thers both academic expe-riences at the University of Stuttgart (ILPÖ, IUSD) and professional engagement in private firms. Andrea is member of the international network Guiding Architects and of the Italian Architects Chamber. Since 2014 he works as landscape archi-tect at LAND Italia, where he is head of the research unit LAND Research Lab ®

The generation of landscape

6 hours

Creating places

The expectations, weaknesses and poten-tials of the society materialize in the land-scape that was generated by it. Today the man’s constant and growing desire to inte-ract in social life and to have fluid relations is evident, but so is his desire to get in touch with nature, as a fundamental prerogative to improve the quality of life. The landscape designer’s role is to mediate between the built environment and cultivated nature, with an eye on sustainability which considers its holistic components: environment, society and economy. This course aims to provide an overview of the dynamics of landscape transformation, from the post-industrial phase to the current historical moment of digitization and the climate crisis by analy-zing international trends and policies but also landscape development best practices drawn from the LAND’s (Italy, Germany, Swi-tzerland) experience.

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PARTNER COMPANIES

Edoardo MilesiEDOARDO MILESI & ARCHOS

He studies at IUAV and graduates at Polytechnic of Milan with Franca Helg in 1979. He is an expert in environmental-landscape protection and has obtained numerous specializations, among which Religious Architecture and The Art of Gardens. In 1989, he founds Archos studio which wor-ks on different scales and settings but is characterized by a coherent method and by a continuous research on environmental, social and building elements of Architecture. Besides his work activity, he participa-tes actively in the cultural debate on contemporary architecture and is intere-sted in the dissemination of knowledge. In 2008, he founds and starts directing the magazine “ARTAPP”. In 2012, he founds the Cultural Association Scuola Perma-nente dell’Abitare.

Pierluigi MasiniQUOTIDIANO NAZIONALE

A professional journalist since 1991, he graduated with honors in Literature and History of Art, at the Sapien-za University of Rome. he holds two master’s degrees in marketing and communi-cation and digital marketing. He works for Quotidiano Nazionale (il Giorno, Resto del Carlino, La Nazione) and writes about design, after being deputy director of Il Resto del Carlino and direc-tor of the Group’s editorial projects. Born in 1960, he was a visiting professor at the University of Urbino; he is also a member of the Management Committee of the marketing, communica-tion and new media course of Alma Graduate School in Bologna, a member of the scientific committee of The Design Prize in Milan. He wrote the book “Gabriella Crespi. Spirito, materia, arte e design” and is part of the scientific committee of VID, Venice Innovation Design. He teaches design history at Raffles Milano, fashion and design institute.

Sustainable design

Interior design and sustainability

Program | LESSONS

Technologies and materials for landscape

6 hours 6 hours16 hours

Principles of sustainability and bio-architecture

Ethical and circular economy, and sustainability in design

Products solutions and materials to enhance landscapepaesaggio

The course focuses on what are the ne-cessary aspects to integrate contemporary intervention on landscape, through a con-scious use of materials. Thanks to the sup-port of the leading companies in the sector, this course will offer an aesthetic, technical and performance description of some ma-terials, together with an in-depth study of methodologies for choosing them according to performance, budget, and characteristics of the specific architectural context. A se-ries of visits to the companies will provide contact with the different applications of materials and understanding the nature of the various building products also in relation to their production phases. The module will be completed with the settling the bases for the workshop project.

includes visit to Terreal and Manni Group

Designing in prestigious landscape contex-ts obviously requires a particular attention to the sustainability and biocompatibility issues. Therefore, the course will treat the main techniques and strategies to design low-impact environmental and energetic architectures (from how to choose non-pol-luting materials to sustainable design). Through an analysis of the main technical solutions on the market, the students will also reflect on the use of the natural featu-res of landscape or architectural artifacts to obtain low-energetic-impact architectures that are at the cutting edge performance-wi-se.

Sustainability is a prerequisite for those who design, and a goal to achieve by 2030 for companies. The world of design is called to an epochal challenge, even more after the Covid-19 emergency: creativity at the servi-ce of the individual and the community, in fast times and with the ongoing global com-petition. The course will extend the concep-ts of eco-compatibility from the architectural container to its interior, defining sustainabi-lity as the key of the design choices, both as an evolution of the parameters of value and the search for new materials and production processes. The course will focus on the pro-cesses that are necessary to grant a sustai-nable design, providing students with tools for the evaluation of what is proposed by the market, and to favor different business mo-dels that focus on profit for the territory and the environment before any other interest.

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Mikkel BøghEFFEKT Architects

Eduardo Souto De Moura

Paolo FortunaSnøhetta

Mikkel Bøgh is the COO of EFFEKT Architects which he joined in 2010 and, sin-ce then, he has led several award-winning and program-matically innovative building projects that combine a sophisticated design with precise cost and resource conscious execution. Despite his managing position Mr. Bøgh still serve as core mem-ber in the EFFEKT strategy and concept development teams in building competi-tions as well as in planning and urban projects. In this extent, Mr. Bøgh has been involved in a great variety of projects both in terms of typology, scale, location and architectural program in Denmark and internationally. He has a holistic approach to architecture where building and context is always consi-dered as coherent factors in the development of a suc-cessful result. Most recently, Mr. Bøgh served as Project Leader on the development of a multifunctional activity park in an unused industrial harbour area and a cancer counseling center based on the principles of healing architecture. Mr. Bøgh’s broad experience is obtained from working in such diverse fields as architecture, graphic desi-gn, advertising and publishing in Copenhagen, New York, Brussels and Montréal.

Architecture is an itinerary: Camp Adventure Forest Tower

Program | LECTURES

Eduardo Souto de Moura was born on the 25th of July, 1952, in Oporto, Portu-gal. He studied architecture at the School of Fine Arts in Oporto, receiving his degree in 1980. From 1975 to 1979 he collaborated in the archi-tectural practice of Álvaro Siza. From 1981 to 1991, he was assistant professor in his alma mater, and later be-gan to serve as professor in the Faculty of Architecture in the University of Oporto. Own office since 1980. He has been visiting professor at the architectural schools of Paris-Belleville, Harvard, Dublin, ETH Zurich, Lausan-ne and Mantova. He has participated in numerous seminars and given many lectures both in Portugal and abroad. His work has appeared in various publi-cations and exhibitions. In 2011 he received the Pri-tzker Prize and in 2013 the Wolf Prize.

Engineering and landscape: Foz Tua Dam

Born in Italy, Paolo Fortu-na completed his architectu-ral education at Genova University. After a couple of years working with an architectural office in Ge-nova, Paolo started a col-laboration with Bauchplan, a landscape architecture office based in Vienna and Munich, following competi-tions and executive projects in landscape architecture. Paolo joined Snøhetta in 2017, taking part in design competitions and execu-tive projects, providing a connection and integration between architecture and landscape design. Paolo has been playing a key role in high profile projects like the master plan for Bu-dapest South Gate or the urban renewal for the area of the former Manifattura Tabacchi in Verona.

Underwater landscape: Under

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Larry ToupsNASA

Matthew JohnsonDiller Scofidio + Renfro

Espen Surnevik

Larry Toups attained a Bachelor of Architecture Degree from the University of Houston. After practicing architecture, he received a Masters Degree in Space Ar-chitecture from the Univer-sity of Houston, Sasakawa Institute for Space Archi-tecture. From June 1988 – January 1994 he was a Se-nior Engineer with Lockheed Engineering and Sciences Company at Johnson Space Center. In this role, he pro-vided technical support for JSC’s New Initiatives Offi-ce in the area of Systems Engineering of habitats and planetary systems and con-tributed to numerous NASA studies. After joining NASA in 1994 he worked in the ISS Program Office. From 1998-2006 Mr. Toups assu-med the role of Habitability Systems Lead in the ISS Vehicle Office. In addition to his NASA responsibilities he is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Hou-ston College of Engineering and Chalmers University in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Extraterrestrial landscape: building in space

Program | LECTURES

Matthew Johnson started his collaboration at Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) in 1999. He has been the Project Architect of the High Line since it’s conception in 2004. Matthew has ex-tensive experience in the design and realization of multi-media art, performing arts, and exhibition design. He has historically led the independent art projects at DS+R, including Off the Cuff, an installation for Damn Magazine during the 2017 fuorisalone in Milan; Musings on a Glass Box, an immersive installation at the Fondation Cartier in Paris and the public space media “infoscapes” of the Lincoln Center for Performing Arts Redevelopment Project.

NYC in green: the highline

Espen Surnevik graduated as architect in 2000 at AHO (Oslo School of Architectu-re) and founded the studio “Architect Espen Surnevik” in 2011. His projects show a strong link to the architectu-ral tradition of Norway with a union between space and construction giving each function its right place. The aim of his architectire is to fit the landscape and histo-ric context.

Living among trees: suspended houses in Hedmark

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Michele de LucchiaMDL Studio

Giulio RigoniBIG Bjarke Ingels Group

Program | LECTURES

Michele was among the prominent figures of Alchy-mia and Memphis; he desi-gned furniture for the main Italian and European com-panies and was in charge of the Design Olivetti. He wor-ked on architectural projects like residential, industrial, cultural buildings and cor-porate headquarters. He designed offices for Deut-sche Bank, Deutsche Bunde-sbahn, Poste Italiane, Hera, Intesa Sanpaolo, UniCredit, and many other companies. He designed display sy-stems for museums inclu-ding the Triennale di Milano, Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome, Neues Museum in Berlin. He is currently wor-king on the design of luxury resorts around the world, on the realization of an indoor ski facility in Arese and on a project for a pharmaceutical campus in Bresso. In 2000, he was appointed as Profes-sor at the IUAV University in Venice. In 2006, he received an Honorary Doctorate from Kingston University and since 2008 he has been te-aching at Politecnico di Mi-lano and Accademia Nazio-nale di San Luca in Rome. In 2018, he is the Director of Domus magazine.

A dialogue with mountains: inside outside

Laureato allo IUAV di Venezia con A. Cornoldi nel 2004 con una Tesi sulla ricostruzione di Ground Zero a NYC, Giulio Rigoni è prevalentemente attivo in Svizzera presso nume-rosi studi di architettura: Livio Vacchini (Locarno) ed Herzog&de Meuron (Basi-lea), prima di approdare a BIG – Bjarke Ingels Group (NYC) nel 2017. Assistente del prof. Muck Petzet per i corsi di Sustainable Design presso l’Accademia di Archi-tettura di Mendrisio – AAM, a.a. 2015-16 e 2016-17; dal 2017 cura per BIG dall’Italia il progetto SPFF – S. Pelle-grino Flagship Factory, con il ruolo di Project Architect / Project Manager.

Like a ribbon on the river: Kistefos Museum

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Giulio RigoniBIG BJARKE INGELS GROUP

Program | WORKSHOP

Design a dispersed hotel and treehouse system in the Fren-ch village of Repére

32 hours

The workshop will represent a practical op-portunity to test and recapitulate all the no-tions learned during the other lessons. It will offer strategic solutions concerning a real architectural project. The course will be con-ducted in collaboration with Le Village du Re-pére, a company that owns woods, land and an ancient village located in the suggestive countryside of Charante Maritime (France). A remote agricultural aggregate of medieval origin, the village is immersed in one of the most fascinating rural contexts in Europe: a compendium of centuries-old oak groves, vineyards and waterways, which here abun-dantly irrigate the landscape of the legendary lands of oysters and Cognac. With an abso-lutely strategic position and its proximity to the castles of the Loire, the property aims to transform the village and its 30 hectares of forests and fields into a destination for hikers, nature lovers and food and wine lovers. Sur-rounded by a sweet and welcoming landsca-pe, visitors will be able to taste the delicacies of one of the most generous regions of Fran-ce, accommodated in elegant treehouses carved out of age-old oaks, and will learn about ancient agricultural and gastronomic techniques in a modern center that will not only be focused on hospitality but on promo-ting and supporting the rich agricultural and cultural and traditional.

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Program | WORKSHOP

Arrival point of the ancient via Agrippa, the town of Saintes, with its Roman ruins, the amphitheater and the monumental cathedral, is the closest urban centre to the small village of Repére. To the west, the Seudre river supplies the entire French territory with oysters and delicious seafood, while in the north the gulfs in the Rochelle area offer wonderful lagoon views pointed with with white sails and tur-quoise keels. Located in the center of a rich territorial system, the village is an oasis of peace and tranquility, not far from the tourist attractions that attract thousands of visitors every year. As for the village, it is necessary to mention the master oak woods that sur-round the property, whose powerful trees, with their own cyclopean trunks and heavy ramifications, have watched over the countryside from times well before the foundation of the village. From the fruits of these ancient and monumental trees, the more recent guardians of the village have learned to make rare flours, with which they pre-pare sweet baked products with a unique aroma and intense flavor. History, nature and tradition: with its rich wealth of values, the village of Repére represents the ideal scenario for those who want to mea-sure themselves against the composition of architectures that have a meaningful relationship with the surrounding nature.

The village of Repére

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Placement

Castle Resort, project by: Nicolò Golin, Edoardo Salvi

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Placement

For each student, the classes and the the worhshop will be followed by a period of collaboration or placement with different partners of YACademy. This stage aims at improving the students’ skills and will offer them the rare opportunity to work and interact with some of the most important firms in the world. By enriching their expe-rience through internships and collaborations, students will have a opportunity to build a solid network of relationships which will be useful to accelerate and imrpove their professional development. Below follows a list of some of the professional firms, partners of YACademy, that are more relevant in relation to this course’s topic.

Internships and collaborations: the carreer orientation service

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Placement

artesella.itarchos.it

casalberi.it

amdl.it big.dk

stefanoboeriarchitetti.net dsrny.com effekt.dk

Val di Sella, TrentoArte Sella: the contemporary mountain. A place where

in more than thirty years the mountain and contempo-rary art meet. Art and Nature merge in a continuous dia-logue, where Artists from all over the world are invited to encounter the Sella Valley to carry out artworks that are nourished by the unique History and nature of the place.

Albino, BergamoEdoardo Milesi & Archos studio’s works range in extre-

mely different fields, counting on many realized projects: the preservative restoration of national monuments, re-covery plans and urban transformation, from productive settlements to advanced tertiary, from private residences to to tourism and cultural hospitality, from shool buildin-gs to places of worship or public entertainment. Thanks to public competitions and private realizations, the studio gains an international reputation.

VeronaCasalberi was founded by Iacopo Gozzi and Massimo

Benetti after the decades of experience of Treetopbuil-der.net. They build tree houses throughout Italy. Both are architects with a passion and love for wood and natural materials, both with a past as scout guide where they le-arned adventure, survival, the art of getting by and to “do everything by playing but nothing for fun”, with the sha-red ideal of leaving the world better than they found it.

MilanThe philosophy adopted by Michele De Lucchi’s studio,

aMDL, seeks to maintain a steady interaction betwe-en architectural thinking, industrial design and global communication. This transverse approach is backed by Michele De Lucchi’s personal research and international experience acquired through more than forty years’ work.

CopenhagenBIG is a Copenhagen, New York, London and Barcelo-

na based group of architects, designers, urbanists, land-scape professionals, interior and product designers, re-searchers and inventors. The office is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout Europe, North America, Asia and the Middle East. BIG’s architecture emerges out of a careful analysis of how contemporary life constantly evolves and changes.

MilanStefano Boeri Architetti (SBA), based in Milan, with

offices in Shanghai and Tirana, (called Boeri Studio until 2008) is dedicated since 1993 to the research and practice of architecture and urbanism. Among the most known projects there are: the Vertical Forest in Milan, the General Local Plan of Tirana 2030 in Albania, the Villa Méditerranée in Marseille and the House of the Sea of La Maddalena. Stefano Boeri Architetti has provided ser-vices for the architectural and urban design for over 20 years, especially on large scale projects and public space renewal.

New YorkFounded in 1981, Diller Scofidio + Renfro (DS+R) is

a design studio whose practice spans the fields of ar-chitecture, urban design, installation art, multi-media performance, digital media, and print. With a focus on cultural and civic projects, DS+R’s work addresses the changing role of institutions and the future of cities. The studio is based in New York and is comprised of over 100 architects, designers, artists and researchers, led by four partners—Elizabeth Diller, Ricardo Scofidio, Charles Renfro and Benjamin Gilmartin.

CopenhagenEFFEKT is an architectural collaborative based in

Copenhagen, Denmark, operating in the fields of ar-chitecture, urbanism and research. The company was established in 2007 and currently employ 40 full time staff under the creative direction of the two founders Tue Foged and Sinus Lynge.

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hhf.ch jsa.no

Placement

ri-eg.com

RINTALA EGGERTSSON ARCHITECTS

snohetta.com antonioperazzi.comlandsrl.com

espensurnevik.no frassinago.com

BaselHHF Architects was founded in 2003 by Tilo Herlach,

Simon Hartmann and Simon Frommenwiler. Since then, HHF Architects have realized numerous projects in Swi-tzerland, Germany, China, France, Mexico and the USA. The scope of work ranges from urbanism and large-sca-le construction to public pavilions and interior design. From the beginning HHF was looking for collaborations with other architects and artists in order to widen their view on projects and enrich the quality of specific propo-sals.

OsloJensen & Skodvin Architects was established in 1995

by Jan Olav Jensen and Børre Skodvin. The first project in the office in 1995 was the trial project along the Na-tional Tourist Road on Sognefjellet and Strynefjell in the Norwegian Mountains, a result of an invited competition. Starting with four architects in the autumn of 1995 the staff has grown to ten architects in 2017. In 2011 Torunn Golberg and Torstein Koch, who have worked with JSA since 1995 and 1996, became partners.

OsloEspen Surnevik graduated as architect in 2000 at AHO

(Oslo School of Architecture) and founded the studio “Architect Espen Surnevik” in 2011. His projects show a strong link to the architectural tradition of Norway with a union between space and construction giving each function its right place. The aim of his architectire is to fit the landscape and historic context.

BolognaStudio Frassinago - Gardens and Landscapes, founded

in Bologna in 2006, designs gardens and landscapes set apart by exclusive gestures, moulded to the movements and desires of those within. Visual appeal and design consistency take shape in natural spaces, for intense living experiences all year round. Frassinago combines the most varied range of skills – from botany to design, passing through agronomy and architecture – moving in line with a set of strong principles affording great value to its projects with an experimental and evolutionary spirit, in Italy and abroad.

OsloRintala Eggertsson Architects is a Norway based stu-

dio founded in 2007 by the Finnish architect Sami Rintala and the Icelandic architect Dagur Eggertsson. Today the office consists of Norwegian architect and partner Vi-beke Jenssen in addition to Rintala and Eggertsson. The office bases its activities on teaching, furniture design, public art projects, architecture and planning. Important feature in Rintala Eggertsson’s practice are their 1:1 buil-ding workshops with students and clients.

InnsbruckSnøhetta began as a collaborative architectural and

landscape workshop, and has remained true to its trans-disciplinary way of thinking since its inception. Our work strives to enhance our sense of place, identity and relationship to others and the physical spaces we inha-bit, whether feral or human-made. Museums, markets, reindeer observatories, landscapes and dollhouses get the same care and attention to purpose.

MilanSTUDIO ANTONIO PERAZZI’s equipe is made up of

professionals in the fields of landscape architecture, eco-logy, botanics and art which work to guarantee a tailored approch to each project, regardless of its scale. STUDIO ANTONIO PERAZZI founds its works on a wide know-ledge of botanics and its application as an ecological experiment. Botanics and design are combined in order to offere high aesthetical standards in both public and private projects, which are modern and bound to last.

MilanWalking through a scenery, observing and listening to

the heart of a place and its community while stepping back somewhat, create an important understanding of how areas evolve and landscapes develop. In fact, every landscape has its own soul and is a mirror of the society who formed it. LAND approach has its unique style, shaped with gene-rosity and longevity, targeted at the protagonists of the story. This approach enables LAND to overcome and unite complex and seemingly fragmented landscapes. Only by doing so, we can truly develop places.

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Calamity Atelier, project by: Zemei Chen, Shuyue Jiang, Wenxin Zhang

Rules

I. General indications (both for physical and virtual attendance)

1. The courses will be taught in Italian (in case there are foreign students, a simultaneous translation service from Italian into English will be activated);

2. the admission to the courses is limited (max. 25 students per course) and the admission is based on a selection whose crite-ria are reported in section III;

3. the courses will be held at YACademy’s headquarters in via Bor-gonuovo, 5, Bologna;

4. YACademy reserves the right to modify the calendar and the program for a better operation of the courses. Possible modifi-cations will be previously communicated to the students;

5. the course is made up of 2 parts:

• 99 hours of lessons• a 32-hour workshop

These conditions refer to students who will attend the course physically. As for the virtual participants, the relevant condi-tions are reported at par. V.

6. at the end of the course, YACademy’s Placement office will guarantee to each student an internship or collaboration propo-sal whose duration and conditions will depend on the host firm.

7. to proceed to the training period, described at p. 6, it is funda-mental to:

• have completed the workshop activity (certified by the work-shop course professor)

• have attended at least 75% of the classroom lessons

• LM-03 Architecture for landscape• LM-04 Architecture and architectural engineering• LM-10 Preservation of environmental and architectural heritage• LM-11 Preservation and renovation of cultural• heritage• LM-12 Design

The selection board can admit students who hold a different certificate after examining their CV, portfolio, motivational letter and, possibly, interviewing them;

3. completing the enrollment procedure as reported in section IV;

4. paying the administration and enrollment fees.

III. Admission1. The applications will be assessed by a selection board which

will assign a score from 60 to 100 to each candidate;

2. the selection board’s members are appointed by the executive board of YAC srl;

3. the selection board’s verdict is unquestionable;

4. each candidate’s final score will be composed by:

• CV (max 30 points)• motivational letter (max 20 points)• portfolio (max 50 points)

5. Besides any other information that the candidate deems intere-sting, in order to be complete, the CV must contain:

• the year of graduation and degree mark• the (certified) level of English proficiency

6. as for the motivational letter, it must contain an indication of

8. the assignment of the students to the professional bodies for the training period is completely under the discretion of YACa-demy’s scientific committee, which will keep the host studios’ availabilities into account;

9. the students can refuse the training period/collaboration op-portunity;

10. the training period/collaboration will start within 3 months from the course’s end;

11. at the end of the courses, participants will be given a certificate of attendance;

12. to receive the certificate of attendance, it is fundamental to:

• have completed the workshop activity (certificated by the workshop course professor)

• have attended at least 75% of the classroom lessons

13. to have more information on the courses, it is possible to con-tact the course tutor at studenti@yacademy.it;

14. it is necessary that students who come from non-EU countries and want to attend the course physically verify the terms and conditions for visa release prior to the publication of the ac-cess ranking, so as to be able to start the courses according to the set schedule. YACademy’s staff is available to release any document - within the area of its competence - that should be necessary for visa application and release.

II. Prerequisites1. Being fluent in Italian or English (pre-intermediate fluency, at

least level B1);

2. being students or graduates from one of the following courses:

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preference on the type of course attendance (physical or vir-tual); as specified in par. V, this indication is not binding, as the students may reconsider their preference once they will be admitted;

7. on the basis of the scores, a provisional ranking will be publi-shed in each candidate’s online private area. The best 25 candi-dates for each course will be admitted according to the scores described at point 4 in this section;

8. a scholarship (full coverage of the enrollment fee) will be gran-ted to the first 5 admitted candidates, according to the ranking; the first 5 ranking candidates – regardless of their chosen type of attendance – are assigned the scholarships univocally: in case one of them retires from the course, their scholarship cannot be assigned to anyone else;

9. the candidates ranking 6th to the 25th (included) will be admit-ted to the course after the enrollment fee payment (2989€ for physical attendance and 1952€ for virtual attendance);

10. the candidates ranking from the 26th on will not be admitted to the course, but may be admitted following the retirement of some of the candidates. In this case, the course tutor will get in contact with the students within 10 days from the publication of the provisional ranking;

11. according to enrollments and retirements, after 14 days from the publication of the provisional ranking, the official ranking will be published in the online private area of each candidate;

12. all the admitted students, both with a scholarship or not, will be contacted by the course tutor in the days following the publica-tion of the provisional ranking to confirm their enrollment and the type of attendance (physical or virtual);

13. in case two or more candidates gain the same score, the prio-rity will be given to the candidate who has received the highest score for their portfolio, and in case of an additional ex aequo, the priority will be given to the candidate who has made the ad-ministration fee payment earlier as specified at p. 5 of par. IV;

administration fee payment has been made and the documen-ts have been uploaded;

7. at the end of the revision of applications, on the day of publica-tion of the provisional ranking, the candidates will be informed of their status in their online private area:

• ADMITTED WITH SCHOLARSHIP• ADMITTED (an additional field will be activated in order to

upload the bank wire receipt for the enrollment fee)• NOT ADMITTED

The candidates shall be aware of the status of their application in order to act accordingly in case of admitted candidates’ reti-rement

8. in case of admission without scholarship, the candidate must pay the enrollment fee of

• 2.989€ (2450€ + VAT) for those who will participate physically• 1952€ (1600€ + VAT) for those who will participate virtually

with a single payment and upload the bank wire receipt on their online private area within five days from the publication of the provisional ranking;

9. not paying the enrollment fee will exclude the candidate from the course;

10. the enrollment fee (2.989€ for physical attendan-ce and 1952€ for virtual attendance) must be paid by bank wire to the following IBAN (Solution Bank S.p.A.) IT45X0327302400000600103285 indicating the following rea-son for payment: “name and surname of the student; course tit-le; enrollment” (e.g. for student John Smith’s enrollment in the Architecture for Landscape course: “John Smith; Architecture for Landscape; enrollment”). As for the upload of the receipt of payment, please, follow the instructions on your online private area.

14. the selection board may require a motivational interview for some candidates;

15. the date of the motivational interview will be agreed with the candidate and the interview will be carried out via videocall;

16. if a candidate does not show up for the interview, they will be automatically excluded from the admission.

IV. Enrollment1. Access www.yacademy.it;

2. fill in all the required fields in the personal details form;

3. at the end of the registration procedure, the candidate will re-ceive an e-mail (check the spam folder in case this e-mail is not in the inbox) with username, password and a confirmation link: click on the link to confirm the registration;

4. log in to the online private area with the activated username and password and choose the course to which you want to apply;

5. for the application, the following documents are required:

• a copy of a valid identity document• motivational letter (max 200 words and reports indication on

the preferred mode of attendance, physical or virtual)• CV (also in Europass format)• portfolio (free format)• administration fee payment of 61€ which can be sent throu-

gh PayPal or bank wire (following the instructions on the private account area);

The uploaded files shall be in .jpg or .pdf format and of a maxi-mum size of 10MB;

6. the application will be evaluated by YACademy staff, once the

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V. Virtual attendanceFrom 2020 YACademy offers the opportunity to participate in its courses with virtual attendance. The virtual participation in courses of YACademy remotely can take place in two modes:

1. live streaming; the lessons will be accessible through the “Zoom” platform, therefore it is necessary that students have a computer with internet access; the students who take part in the direct streaming of the lessons will be given the opportuni-ty to ask questions and interact with the teachers according to the lesson delivery mode and with moderation carried out by YACademy staff;

2. deferred streaming: the lessons will be recorded and made available to students within 48 hours from their delivery so as to allow attendance to students who live in different time zones that are not compatible with the Italian classroom timetable. The lessons will be uploaded on a specific web-portal with access reserved to YACademy students. Therefore, it is neces-sary that students have a computer with internet access. The students who attend deferred-streamed lessons can send their questions to YACademy staff who will proceed to put them in contact with the teachers.

For students who have to decide to participate to the course virtual-ly, both in live-streaming and deferred-streaming modes, it is confir-med that:

3. there are no different registration/evaluation procedures or different rankings: all applicants who wish to participate in the course physically or virtually are considered equally in the se-lection and, once they are admitted to the course – either with scholarship and without scholarship - they will be allowed to decide how to join the course (i.e. physically or virtually). Howe-ver, students are asked, for logistical reasons, to indicate their preferred mode of participation in the course within their mo-

tivation letter (the preference that will be indicated is not to be considered binding for the student, who - upon confirmation of their enrollment in the course - may revise their preference);

4. the interpretation service from Italian into English will be gua-ranteed to the students who participate to the course in virtual mode;

5. the course enrollment fee for students who will be admitted without a scholarship and decide to participate in virtual mode is reduced to € 1,600€+VAT;

The students who decide to take part in the course in virtual mode:

6. will be able to attend all lessons, except for the parts of the lessons which involve a visit or a workshop (as described in the chapter “Program” of the course brochure);

7. will be able to participate in the workshop activities without any limitations (by carrying out their project revision via videocalls with the workshop tutor)

8. will have access to the job orientation service and will be gran-ted a collaboration/internship proposal with the partners of the course, provided that:

a. they have completed the workshop activity (certificated by the workshop tutor)

b. they have passed a final assessment interview (certified by a commission made up of at least 3 professors appointed by the whole teaching staff and whose final judgement is un-questionable);

With regard to the interview mentioned at point 8.b, it is specified that:

9. the interview will take place via videocall;

10. the interview will take place in Italian or English, according to the student’s choice;

11. the evaluation commission will be composed of at least 3

members of the teaching staff;

12. the assessment interview will focus on the contents of the les-sons section of the course;

13. the assessment interview will take place within 3 weeks after the end of the course (which corresponds to the conclusion of the workshop) on a date that will be communicated with at least a 7-day notice;

14. if the student is unable to take part in this assessment inter-view, a second date will be set within 15 days after the first scheduled date;

15. if the student is not available on any of the two dates, they will not have the right to access the job orientation service provided by YACademy.

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VI. Notes1. This whole document constitutes an integral part of the Terms

and Conditions of the service;

2. the candidates agree to the Terms and Conditions when they register;

3. administration fees and enrollment fees are not refundable;

4. if a candidate retires from the course after paying the enrol-lment fee, the enrollment fee will not be refunded;

5. the administration fees and enrollment fees can be paid by a third party, provided that the reason for payment correctly re-fers to the candidate as indicate at point 10 of section IV.

6. YACademy declines all liability for missing communications depending on incorrect information given by the candidate or missing/late communication of address change (compared to the one indicated during the online registration), and for mista-kes attributable to third parties, chance or force majeure;

7. in case a candidate declares false or untrue statements regar-ding details necessary to the course enrollment, in addition to the sanctions envisaged by Article 76 of the Italian Presidential Decree 445/2000, the candidate’s paid fees will not be refun-ded. False or untrue statements declared by the candidate may bring to an action for damages carried out by those affected;

8. candidates will be held accountable for the personal data they provide and the promoter does not assume any responsibility for wrong data provided. The promoter, according to privacy policies, has the right to verify the candidates’ data by reque-sting a copy of an identity document regarding the data of the registration;

9. the access to the courses and to the training periods can be suspended for disciplinary reasons or force majeure;

10. maintaining the firms listed in this document, a complete list of hosting firms will for the training periods will be given to the students at the beginning of the course;

11. the result of the educational program (hereafter named “project”), including any (available) intellectual and/or indu-strial property rights on the project, it is held definitively by YAC srl, which therefore acquires the exclusive right to economic exploitation, as well as reproduction, in any way or form, inclu-ding the rights to use, execute, adapt, modify, publish on any media channel, exhibit, reproduce and distribute the project - also for marketing and advertising purposes -, carry out edi-torial reviews, create derivative works based on it, and license the project - or some of its parts - to third parties, in any form, mode or technology including the “right of panorama” without any limitation of time or place.

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Main Partner Partner

HeadquartersYACademy

Via Borgonuovo, 5 - 40125 Bolognawww.yacademy.it

facebook: @yacademy2018

ContactsAntonella Grifa

Tel: 051 3510739e-mail: studenti@yacademy.it