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Davide Marazzi – owner of Marazzi Architetti studio – has won with studio Iotti + Pavarani  and others, the prestigious Mipim Architectural Review future projects awards 2011.

The award ceremony will take place on Wednesday, March 9 2011 at the Palais Stephanie of Cannes during MIPIM, the most important international exhibition dedicated to Real Estate.

The awarded project won in 2004 the First Prize of international design competition announced by the City of Siena and concerns the New Stadium of Siena, set to be built in Isola d'Arbia.

The New Stadium of Siena is the only Italian project awarded this year in Cannes during MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Awards.

In the past, among others, they have won the MIPIM Architectural Review Future Projects Awards: Jean Nouvel, Mario Cucinella, Coop Himmelblau and LAN Architecture.

Architect Davide Marazzi, 36 years old and based in Parma, works all over Italy. In 2000, he graduated cum laude from the Politecnico di Milano (rapporteur Cino Zucchi). From 1999 to 2001, he joined Ciro Zucchi in Milan following different competition projects. From 2001 to 2004, he works in Parma with Guido Canali for whom he follows the executive project for the new headquarters of SMEG Guastalla (RE) and, as project manager, the plan for a residential building for a thousand inhabitants in the former Alfa Romeo Portello area in Milan. Back in 2004, he opened the Marazzi Architects studio in Parma.

The project of the New Stadium of Siena develops the insertion of a large sport complex in a prestigious environmental context. The Council of Siena, after identifying a large area in the south of the city, left the designers the responsibility to choose the most appropriate collocation for the stadium.

Our proposal was to preserve the environmental integrity of the area and with great attention the project appears like a kind of natural incident caused by an idrogeological phenomenon or by an earthquake. Like the ancient Greek Theater, the stadium for 20.000 spectators is set within the Fossatone slopes, and takes shape as it curves through its bends, opening out to create a spacious area for concerts and outdoor events, excavated to form an inclined plane, offering a view of Siena in the background.

On the west side the “inhabited roof” is the sole built element of the stadium: this is a thick deck that emerges from the ground, projects over the grandstand and ends with a pronounced overhang above the curves.

The facing material, specifically developed with a mini-beton technology using sienese tuff as inert, guarantee a perfect integration of the stadium in the surrounding area.

With regards to the dynamics of use the project transforms the stadiums classical typology from an enclosed and intermittent container to an open place living “seven days a week”; from Cassia street to Arbia stream, from Renaccio to Isola, a complex system is foreseen where sport practices coexist with other activities such as educational, tertiary and commercial.

A multifunctional area that is well served by infrastructures and parking lots for visitors to the stadium, an area which is able to produce diversified revenues that can guarantees the continuation of the system’s financial independence.