The next healthcare landmark for innovation
and future-oriented competencies.
Contest Closing
Three years after the official opening of the Parma Headquarters built near the Research Center, the Chiesi Group now intends to launch a second urban/architectural redevelopment project with the regeneration of the historical industrial site in Via Palermo in Parma.
The aim is twofold: to create an innovative business playground (Center for Open Innovation & Competence), open to its own people, external communities close to and across the worlds of research and continuous innovation, and to provide its commercial subsidiary with a workspace that is aligned with current concepts of inclusion and corporate guidelines. To turn the via Palermo site into a driver for urban regeneration and a landmark of innovation.
For these reasons, the Chiesi Group is launching Restore to Impact, an International Call for Ideas open to two categories - Professionals and Under 30s (single participations or interdisciplinary design teams) - aimed at soliciting innovative, evolutionary, transversal ideas that will be the basis for the guidelines of the future architectural building project.
On this basis, the model asks for indications of possibilities, solutions and ways of reflecting on the architectural future of the via Palermo site in relation to buildings, outdoor spaces and indoor spaces - understood as an ecosystem of natural, functional, technological and sustainable elements - capable of creating an environment that is suitable for fostering interaction between people, planning and training linked to shared skills.
Three years after the official opening of the Parma Headquarters built near the Research Center, the Chiesi Group now intends to launch a second urban/architectural redevelopment project with the regeneration of the historical industrial site in Via Palermo in Parma.
The aim is twofold: to create an innovative business playground (Center for Open Innovation & Competence), open to its own people, external communities close to and across the worlds of research and continuous innovation, and to provide its commercial subsidiary with a workspace that is aligned with current concepts of inclusion and corporate guidelines. To turn the via Palermo site into a driver for urban regeneration and a landmark of innovation.
For these reasons, the Chiesi Group is launching Restore to Impact, an International Call for Ideas open to two categories - Professionals and Under 30s (single participations or interdisciplinary design teams) - aimed at soliciting innovative, evolutionary, transversal ideas that will be the basis for the guidelines of the future architectural building project.
On this basis, the model asks for indications of possibilities, solutions and ways of reflecting on the architectural future of the via Palermo site in relation to buildings, outdoor spaces and indoor spaces - understood as an ecosystem of natural, functional, technological and sustainable elements - capable of creating an environment that is suitable for fostering interaction between people, planning and training linked to shared skills.
5 Regenerative Actions
as a Force for Good
For the development of these ideas, the Chiesi Group has developed "5 Regenerative Actions as a Force for Good", which emphasise the commitment and key steps of the corporate narrative and aim to generate an intervention concept based on the principles of "kindness" and "connectivity".
Innovate to stay coherent
Encouraging the mutual exchange of knowledge and the dissemination of scientific culture in a setting where skills can be developed to interpret, test and anticipate solutions, skills and professions of tomorrow. From internal to external, and vice versa, according to a model of openness and relationships, with the engagement of an international connective network.
Restore to preserve:
the heritage
Restoring to preserve and update the story of a trajectory that, starting in the 1950s, has developed and expanded over time, and today intends to renew itself in order to continue supporting the company’s development into the future. Imagining the possible scenarios that can come from continuous innovation to carry the company’s legacy into a new era.
Take care to treat
To be a biopharmaceutical company in a modern society means acting as a positive force in the community, it means providing people with the necessary tools for a virtuous evolution that can act as a regenerative driving force for communities and the local area, in the immediate and medium-to-long term.
Dare for opportunities
Supporting a functional recombination between different disciplines and skills while respecting Chiesi values with a gentle approach to design and ongoing design definitions in the perspective of unprecedented needs and community access to the site.
Design to Impact
Building conversion or complete reconstruction? Which approach best represents the value of sustainability, including construction, from a life-cycle and product chain perspective? How will technology change the use of space and how will patterns of social interaction change?
Jury
The multidisciplinary Selection Committee is composed of personalities from different research fields, scientific and humanistic, united by their common innovative capacity in their field.
The Selection Committee is charged with selecting the most original ideas in line with the company vision and according to adherence to one or all of the "5 Regenerative Actions as a Force for Good".
Andrea Chiesi
Head of Special Projects
Chiesi Group
Italy
Sponsor of the International Call for Ideas Restore to Impact
Giulia Baccarin
CEO and Co-founder
MiPU Predictive Hub Benefit Company
Italy
Emilio Faroldi
Executive Vice Rector
Politecnico di Milano
Italy
Didier Fiúza Faustino
Art / Architect, Director
Mésarchitecture studio
Portugal / France
Paola Liani
Architect, Co-founder
Paritzki&Liani Architects
Israel
Aura Luz Melis
Project Architect, Partner
Inside Outside
The Netherlands
Ingrid Paoletti
Scientific Coordinator Material Balance Lab
Politecnico di Milano
Italy
Matteo Vegetti
Professor of "Theories of Space” University of applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (DACD Mendrisio)
Lecturer at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Università della Svizzera Italiana (USI)
Switzerland
Calendar
Opening the Call for Ideas
01.03.2023
Proposal's delivery deadline
30.04.2023
Announcement of winners
31.05.2023
Contest Closing
Awards
The total prize money is €66,000.00, of which €51,000 will be distributed and divided equally, according to Category, among the six concepts deemed eligible by the Selection Committee are the following:
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PROFESSIONALS: 3 eligible concepts, awarded € 12.000 each
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UNDER 30: 3 eligible concepts, awarded € 5.000 each
The Selection Committee also reserves the right to select up to 5 Honorable Mentions per Category.
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PROFESSIONALS: € 2.000 per single mention
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UNDER 30: € 1.000 per single mention
Should only one or a few of the 10 Honourable Mentions be selected, the amount not awarded will be donated to a local organisation.
Press Kit
Press KitFaq
The Call for Ideas has two categories: Professionals and Under 30s. In the first category, architects, landscape architects, designers, engineers, researchers and experts with expertise in the following disciplines can participate: healthcare, sustainability, spatial design, workplace, new technologies, Big Data, service design, landscape, humanities. In the second category: graduates can participate, as well as those undergoing training in architecture, engineering and design in the following disciplines: healthcare, sustainability, spatial design, workplace, new technologies, Big Data, service design, landscape, humanities.
YES. At the time of registration, a unique number will be provided that will be written onto the entries and used to name the digital files.
No. The Call is international, with no nationality limits.
Participation is open to individual professionals or Under 30s, professional firms and interdisciplinary project teams.
Yes, to register in the "UNDER 30s" category. The team must also only consist of participants who have not turned 31 years of age by 31.12.2023.
YES. Interdisciplinary Project Teams, for both categories - Professionals and Under 30s - must consist of no more than nine members.
Yes, to obtain the Documents attached to the Call for Proposals and the access credentials for uploading the documents.
There is no start date for submitting entries.
All writing required in the documents must be written in English.
Entries to participate in the Call for Ideas must be submitted by 15:59 CEST on 30/04/2023.
In addition to the monetary award, there is also the recognition of nominal credit given in the guidelines of the future building/architectural project.
After the awarding of the prize, the winners could be invited to workshops to participate in the drafting of guidelines for the future building/architectural project.
No. The names of the winners will remain in the concept development team, as developers of the project guidelines.
The UNDER 30 category provides for the participation of anyone who is not age 31 by 31.12.2023, licensed or not. If the age limit has been exceeded, it is possible to participate in the PROFESSIONALS category. In the case of Teams, in both categories, the rules apply for each member.
To participate in the PROFESSIONALS category, one must be over the age of 30 and enrolment in a professional register is not required. The following can participate: architects, landscape architects, designers, engineers, researchers and experts with expertise in the following fields: healthcare, sustainability, spatial design, workplace, new technologies, Big Data, service design, landscape, humanities.
The list of documents to provide is included in the call for proposals which you can download from the website, from the “Download the Call for Proposals” button in the Menu or on the homepage, scrolling the summary text of the Call for proposals.
If the registration process with the on-line form was completed correctly, the email confirmation will be sent automatically. We recommend you check the spam folder.
To access with login, it is necessary to complete the registration with Restore To Impact through the link in the email which is automatically sent to confirm registration.
With regard to interior heights, no further data are available.
The project requires a reduction of the current volumes in order to pursue a twofold aim: to contain costs of the intervention and pursue regenerative/qualitative aspects. The Call for Ideas, by its very nature, wants to receive concrete ideas, but which do not dwell on the data reported in the municipal drawings.
The limit for new buildings is 14.5 metres above ground.
The Call for Ideas, by its very nature, wants to receive concrete ideas, but which do not dwell on the reported data in the municipal drawings.
Any demolition and reconstruction may stand on the boundary of the lot already occupied by the existing buildings (on the Via G. Chiesi side). Where there is currently no construction on the boundary, it is suggested that the 5 metres from the boundary be respected.
According to the project request, approximately 100 parking spaces are planned, for the exclusive use of the users of the Centre's spaces.
It is not possible to remove disused buildings that do not belong to the scope of the Call for Ideas.