The Concordia Lighthouse Competition invites young architects, designers, artists and students from around the world to investigate the contemporary typology of the lighthouse architecture, its metaphoric and symbolic components based around the Costa Concordia disaster, when one of the largest cruise ships in the world has ran aground on the coast of the Giglio Island in Italy resulting in the loss of 32 lives.
Concordia Lighthouse
matterbetter is inviting young architects, designers and artists to participate in an open-ideas competition to investigate the contemporary typology of the lighthouse architecture.
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- 31 March 2015
- Giglio Island
Participants are asked to redefine a contemporary lighthouse typology and take into consideration advances in technology, development of sustainable systems and its metaphorical value which has made it one of the most inspiring structures in the world. New Lighthouse should become a tribute to the Costa Concordia Disaster and highlight the vulnerable borders between the elements of Land and Sea, Sky and Ground, Light and Darkness. Even today when global positioning systems diminish the role of the lighthouses, they still play and important role and are inalienable parts of the marine navigation tradition.
Registration deadline: May 17, 2015
Concordia Lighthouse Competition