COMPETITION ENTRY
YOUTH CENTER AND SPORT FACILITIES
BASSANO DEL GRAPPA 2025

DESIGN TEAM:
2A+P/A (Gianfranco Bombaci, Matteo Costanzo)
Gabriela Araujo Moreira Da Silva

The new Youth Centre is not merely a collection of buildings, but an ecosystem of relationships: an urban laboratory where creativity meets responsibility, spirituality coexists with leisure, and culture is intertwined with sport. Visual and spatial continuity, environmental sustainability, and a strong community vocation are the three key principles underpinning a project that seeks to give Bassano del Grappa a vibrant, open, and generative place.

In this sense, the Youth Centre becomes a model for a civic campus, capable of attracting creative energies and reinterpreting, in a contemporary way, the tradition of hospitality, education, and collective participation.

The new Youth Centre in Bassano del Grappa is conceived as a dynamic and multifunctional urban campus, a place where the different dimensions of life—social, cultural, sporting, and spiritual—coexist in balance and synergy. The aim is to create a space where young people and adults can meet, share experiences, and develop common projects, generating a fertile environment for both personal and collective growth.