Europan 12 Results catalogue - The Adaptable City /1

THE ADAPTABLE CITY / 1

Europan 12 REsults

Introduction DIDIER rebois, architect, teacher, Secretary general of Europan

An adaptable catalogue…

The E12 Results Catalogue gives a presentation of all the winning projects in the 12th session of the Europan competition.

Out of the 1762 projects submitted by teams from 44 different countries, 330 were selected for the initial shortlist. Of these, the 14 different juries of European experts eventually chose 170 projects (43 winners, 63 runners-up and 64 special mentions) for 51 sites and in 16 different European countries.

50% of the winning teams won in a country other than their own. These 170 teams represent 700 young professionals, 500 associates assisted by 200 collaborators. The average age of the associates is 30, of whom 21% live in France, the same proportion in Spain, and 15% come from Italy. 30% of the teams are made up of mixed nationalities. A majority of the members are architects, but 35% of the teams are multidisciplinary. Amongst the non-architects, 40% are urban planners, 20% landscape architects, 15% engineers and 7% graphic designers; the remaining 18% come from different domains: philosophers, historians, sociologists, geographers, artists…

First of all, therefore, this catalogue constitutes a panorama unique in Europe of talented young European designers, working between the urban and architectural scales. At a time when the paradigm shift wrought by sustainable development is becoming a reality, but also when the economics of urban planning and construction are in crisis, this catalogue reflects a very marked change in ideas and design methods. It is what gives this document its attraction.

The session theme was “the adaptable city, inserting urban rhythms”, a perpetual issue in the history of cities. However, it takes on an even more urgent dimension in the current context of environmental priorities and new project economics. For these reasons, the theme had a threefold impact. It is about designing space in order to better include urban rhythms in a vision of the 24/7 city highlighted by chrono-urbanism.

It is about conceiving cities as hybrids of the urban and the natural, by taking account of ecorhythms to create “inhabited milieus”. And finally, it is about incorporating the process of production into the project process over time , by defining lines of force that leave space to adjust to the uncertainty of urban change. Strongly committed to this new way of designing and producing the city, the municipalities that proposed sites had high expectations of the results!

How did the competitors tackle these issues and convert them into project strategies? That is the question that the European Catalogue of Results seeks to answer through through its twopart structure.

In order to arrive at the analysis of an inevitably rich and diverse corpus of material, the members of Europan’s scientific council developed views on the results in relation to these six thematic site families that they initially defined.

Obviously, they could not talk about every one of the projects! Drawing on a selection of significant projects, they show what new processes are emerging in the young generation of urban designers to make European cities genuinely adaptable. Making ideas the priority, the catalogue opens with this analytical section.

Since national there are already national catalogues, the project in the European catalogue are not presented country by country, but in relation to the six thematic families that frame the main questions raised by the sites, classified in alphabetical order within each category. A detailed table of contents and introductory map are provided to help readers to find their way around.

Innovations have been introduced compared with the previous session. Each site is presented on two pages and includes an interview with the site representative, clarifying the local issues.

Moreover, as well as the winning and runner-up projects, a one-page presentation is provided of the 64 “special mention” projects. Although they were not awarded prizes, the juries felt that they could contribute usefully to ideas about the future of the sites.

Finally, the projects are presented in the form of team proposals based on a shared model. The project presentation texts are also written by the project designers, accompanied by the jury’s response.

The catalogue is available in French and English at a reasonable price, given the amount of material it contains. Europan was keen to make it affordable to as many people as possible at a time when architectural publishing is also in crisis.

We hope that most of the winning projects presented contribute to the future of the sites. After a period of communication, exhibitions, debates and workshops, a certain number of them will be able to move on to the next phase: planning studies, urban/architectural strategies, total or partial developments and, of course, physical implementation as completed projects. This is a challenge at a time of straitened economic circumstances, but Europan needs to remain true to its mission of being not just a competition of innovative ideas, but also a contributor to the aspirations of municipalities to transform their cities.

Contents

2 Introduction

1

Didier Rebois, architect, teacher, Secretary General of Europan

Map of sites

4

Don Benito (ES)

Gjilan (KO) 8

approach

14

Marseille (FR)

or converting urban fortresses

Runner-up - Concomitance Runner-up - A new urban village Special mention - Il n’y a que mail qui maille

into porous fabric Didier Rebois, architect, teacher, Secretary General of Europan (FR)

Saint-Herblain (FR) 22

Winner - Metacentre: the emergence of a garden territory Runner-up - Permaculture Special mention - Punctuations…

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Schiedam (NL)

Chris Younès, philosopher, anthropologist, teacher (FR)

Architecture-as-Urbanism for Uncertain Conditions

Networked territories or a homage

Wittenberge (DE) 36

to structuring slowness Aglaée Degros, architect, teacher (NL)

Runner-up - Make yourself at home Runner-up - Kein Land für alte Männer Runner-up - Rising stars Special mention - Adaptable – Cooperative – Urban smile

76

Warszawa (PL)

82

Asker (NO)

Aalborg (DK)

Couvet (CH) 46

Winner - Das Andere Runner-up - A collective storyline Special mention - Aalborg Vest activated!

Bitterfeld-Wolfen (DE)

98

Winner - Vanished villages – Collective city Runner-up - Urbanochory Special mention - Eclectic Islands

Winner - Paths Runner-up - Satellyzinh Hammarö Special mention - Forest community Special mention - Identicity plug-pump-flow

124

180

186

Winner - Asclepeion Runner-up - Vesisukkula – Water shuttle Special mention - Sensorial hug Special mention - Confetti Special mention - Institutes without boundaries

Kaiserslautern (DE) 118

172

Winner - Startband Runner-up - U-Living Special mention - Campbell Fundamental

Helsinki (FI)

112

166

Winner - Parklife Runner-up - Traffic island Special mention - More than a lot Special mention - 5 ways

Heidelberg (DE)

106

160

Winner - Prelude Runner-up - Uploading city

Haninge (SE)

Winner - Dubimpulse Runner-up - Wood de Travers Special mention - Une nébuleuse de petits bâtiments

Hammarö (SE) 52

152

Runner-up - The bucket list – Feel the city Runner-up - Polyrhythmic fields Special mention - Smart base

Groningen (NL) 94

Winner - Kaleidoscope Runner-up - Ola K Asker Special mention - The leaf

Dynamic urban platform

146

Winner - On the edge Runner-up - Urban permaculture Special mention - In-between days

Graz (AT) 88

Winner - Open Runner-up - Rail bank river Special mention - Periscopes

170 projects: 43 winners, 63 runners-up and 64 special mentions

140

From mono-large to multi-mix

Winner - Re-Hub Wittenberge Runner-up - Take part in wITtenberge Special mention - Seeding biodiversity

Amstetten (AT)

Nürnberg (DE)

Regionale 2016 (DE)

Heritage of the future

Winning projects

132

Winner - Our courtyard in the street Runner-up - Sprouting cityblocks Special mention - Copenhagen wetlands Special mention - Passage of time

72

Runner-up - A new start with old genes Runner-up - Complete Schiedam

Socrates Stratis, PHD in Architecture, urban planner, assistant professor (CY)

København (DK)

Winner - Yourban Runner-up - Sonnenblume Special mention - Meet thy neighbour

Winner - Responsive system Runner-up - The centre. The path. The field of action

to multi-mixed neighbourhoods

In quest of urban eco-rhythms

64

Runner-up - Welcome to urban wellness!

Special mention - Good old times

Kristinehamn (SE)

Carlos Arroyo, linguist, architect and urban planner, teacher (ES)

From mono-large enclaves

58

Runner-up - Manual towards a clumsy city Runner-up - Chain reaction Special mention - Tune up, Zugló!

Winner - Don Benito’s patio Runner-up - Shadow Special mention - West of Spain Special mention - Structure Special mention - Be void my friend

Analysis of a session Fields and narratives – A linguistic

Budapest (HU)

194

Winner - Pattern for progress Runner-up - A parlour game Special mention - P.F.A.F.F.: Preserve Fable – About – Architecture Factory Facilities

Marly (CH) Winner - Le parc des Falaises Runner-up - Dancing density Special mention - Slow poles Special mention - Urban archipelago

200

3 Urretxu-Irimo (ES)

208

Winner - Piztutako Irimo Runner-up - Tempos of colonization Special mention - Reversibilidad eCOlectiva Special mention - Encuentros en la tercera fase Special mention - Everything anytime

Wien – Siemensäcker (AT)

In-between time Assen (NL)

216

Donauwörth (DE)

Kuopio (FI)

224

Winner - Social riverscape Runner-up - Elasti-city Special mention - Hamang riparian zone

230

236

Kaufbeuren (DE)

242

Winner - Fasten your seatbelt!

Runner-up - Long-lasting landing landscaping Special Mention - Air sharing

Konstanz (DE) - Kreuzlingen (CH)

248

Winner - Der weg ist das ziel!

Runner-up - 2K24 Special mention - Joint promenade

Milano

254

Winner - Pioneer fringes Runner-up - Clearings archipelago, …

Special mention - Arboripôle5: an eco-conscious reappropriation

312

Almada - Porto Brandão (PT)

264

272

326

332

Winner - En, to, tre… rødt lys!

Runner-up - Hortus conclusus Special mention - All eyes on Ås Special mention - Straight line

340

Winner - Rambles verdes Winner - Urban insertions Special mention - Right to Infrastructure Special mention - Tafetán

Ciney (BE) Runner-up - Rubik’s Runner-up - Chute Special mention - Specific indetermination Special mention - Walk the line

368

Paris (FR)

374

Runner-up - Green belt dilatation Runner-up - In transition – A local metropolis Runner-up - Collective unit

Venezia (IT)

380

Runner-up - Urban grafts Runner-up - The territorial threshold Runner-up - Percorsi per riqualificare Special mention - Match boxes Special mention - Urban Channels Special mention - Sewing threads Special mention - The anatomy lesson

Index

Winner - Porto Novo Runner-up - Punctuation Special mention - Timeline

Barcelona (ES)

362

Winner - Mannheim’s connection Runner-up - Re-evolution Special mention - Inverse boulevard

318

Runner-up - Monument in fertile country Runner-up - Kaleidoscope Runner-up - En pointe!

Ås (NO)

Winner - Negotiation lab Winner - Reversing the grid Special mention - Gather in/parcel out: 2 ways to differentiate development

Vichy Val d’Allier (FR)

306

Networked territories

Winner - Landscape transition Runner-up - Porto agricolo Special mention - San Rocco Special mention - Visioning Porto Di Mare 2035 Special mention - Pomerio Special mention - RoomScape_Milano

Paris - Saclay (FR)

300

Winner - Between landscapes Runner-up - Tupperware party

Wien – Kagran (AT)

Mannheim (DE)

Winner - Wohnen am Ring Runner-up - COMBined process Special mention - Schachbrettspiel

Winner - Synergy Special mention - Between Meuse and Forest… the weft of possibles

Vila Viçosa (PT)

354

Winner - Conservation, densification and complexity Runner-up - Bombelek Runner-up - In-between landscapes Special mention - forts of fanaticism Special mention - Kon // Kalmar

München (DE)

Winner - Que m’Anquetil ?

Runner-up - “on the move” Special mention - A station for the two banks

Seraing (BE)

Winner - Twinphenomena Runner-up - Urbedible Special mention - Höganäs, unresolved, reconnected, resilient, urbanity

292

Winner - Savo Nueva Runner-up - Somewhere over the train flow…

Special mention - Run to the hills Special mention - Meetings and greetings Special mention - Cronotopia

Rouen (FR)

Winner - The amateur…

Runner-up - Crossings-over Runner-up - Par la grande porte

Höganäs (SE)

286

Winner - Kept soil Runner-up - Multiple city

Eco-rhythms

Fosses (FR)

280

Winner - Embrace the present Runner-up - Urban nature Special mention - Waste?land

Winner - Cluster / Streetscape Runner-up - Urban software

Bærum (NO)

Kalmar (SE)

348

Juries

392

Europan secretariats

399

credits

400

Europan 12 Map of sites

4 Belgique / België / Belgien (BE)

Norge (NO)

1 Ciney

348

32 Ås

332

2 Seraing

306

33 Asker

112

34 Bærum

224

Danmark (DK) 3 Aalborg 4 København

46

Österreich (AT)

132

35 Amstetten

Deutschland (DE) 5 Bitterfeld-Wolfen 6 Donauwörth

52

106

36 Graz

160

37 Wien – Kagran

318

38 Wien – Siemensäcker

216

286

7 Heidelberg

180

Polska (PL)

8 Kaiserslautern

194

39 Warszawa

9 Kaufbeuren

242

10 Mannheim

362

Portugal (PT)

11 München

368

40 Almada - Porto Brandão 326

12 Nürnberg

140

41 Vila Viçosa

13 Regionale 2016

146

14 Wittenberge

98

España (ES) 15 Barcelona 16 Don Benito 17 Urretxu_Irimo

340

19 Marseille

82 374

21 Paris - Saclay

264

22 Rouen

300

24 Vichy Val d’Allier

88 272

Italia (IT) 25 Milano

254

26 Venezia

380

Kosovo (KO) 27 Gjilan

72

Magyarország (HU) 28 Budapest

58

Nederland (NL) 29 Assen

280

30 Groningen

166

31 Schiedam

23

Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/ Svizra (CH) 42 Couvet

118

43 Marly

200

Suomi-Finland (FI) 44 Helsinki

186

45 Kuopio

292

230

20 Paris

23 Saint-Herblain

312

64 208

France (FR) 18 Fosses

152

94

Sverige (SE) 46 Hammarö

124

47 Haninge

172

48 Höganäs

236

49 Kalmar

354

50 Kristinehamn

17

76

Transboundary site 51 Konstanz (DE) –

Kreuzlingen (CH)

248

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41

16

45

33

44

34 32 46

47

50

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5

49

48 4

30 29

14 39

31 13 5 2 1 22 20

8

18

10 7

21

12 6 9

42

25

37 35

51

24

11

38

36

43

28

26

19

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Analysis of a session

7 How to think the city nowadays?

5 Points of view around the winning projects

Carlos Arroyo linguist, architect, urban planner, teacher in Madrid and member of Europan’s Scientific Council. founder and director of Carlos Arroyo Architects (www.carlosarroyo.net)

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Fields and narratives A linguistic approach The question is: how can we trigger change and evolution (dynamic) in a specific local context to create new links with larger economic and social systems (urban) while opening the widest possible range of opportunities (platforms)?

Linking different systems in a dynamic and open way requires a clear communication strategy.

Indeed, it is a question that challenges the linguistic dimension of our discipline with particular urgency. This does not mean that other dimensions are not present: there is a strong physical dimension, since these links are probably infrastructural and imply resources and energy; the platforms need a spatial dimension with very precise parameters; the different intervening scales may entail difficult negotiations in the political dimension – which in turn goes back to the protocols of language as the key to linking the three words together: dynamic urban platforms.

a way to compete with other cities for a presumably scarce target group of affluent “new residents”. “local” “neighbourhood” “work” “metropolis” “life”. At the other extreme we find sites that are already experiencing a deluge of “metropolisation”, where the challenge is to maintain or exploit “local” qualities and “neighbourhood life”, and therefore to avoid specialization on the wider scale (St Herblain in France, see p.88, Schiedam in the Netherlands, see p.94).

Indeed, the winning proposal in Wittenberge, Re-hub Wittenberge does follow such pattern (the “leisure-attract-new-residents” group beating the “work-improve-local-neighbourhoods” by 5-2), so the project and the brief are well matched, but by contrast the runner-up, Take part in wITtenberge, which is a higher count on the second group of words (by 10-30), offering an alternative that challenges some of the assumptions of the brief and introduces a different agenda. Interestingly, there are more words in the runner-up text than in the winner’s, as if to emphasize the difference in approach.

The abstract mathematics of word numbers reveals a sharp contrast, but it may be misleading. This exercise was conducted using the English version of each text, while the authors would of course have been thinking in their own different national languages.

On the other hand, if we look at the nationalities of the successful teams (we took the nationality of the TR – team representative – for this purpose), we find that the word “leisure” appears most frequently in the text by a Dutch team on a Dutch site, while the highest appearance of the word “work” comes from a Spanish team on a German site. This is a relevant observation in the context of a pan-European forum, but interpreting it lies outside the scope of this text.

If we look at word choice in the competition briefs for each of the sites in this category, we find that the case studies provided by this edition of Europan are polarized between two extremes. Each extreme is characterized by a specific group of words:

“improve” “image” “inhabitants”. In between the two extremes we find sites that make an existing population the core of the brief, but employed expressions like “face-lift” (Aalborg in Denmark, see p.46), “new city-facade image” (Don Benito in Spain, see p.64), “change the image of the centre” (Gjilan in Kosovo, see p.72) or “improve neighbourhood image” (Marseille in France, see p.82, Budapest in Hungary, see p.58). The impetus is for an image transformation that will establish the framework for a competitive approach that will put their sites on the map and will bring better employment conditions and opportunities for the “local inhabitants”.

If we now look at the underlying structure of the proposals, we find a more homogeneous picture. The vast majority of the proposals in this group begin by defining a field, with a catalogue of options and a triggering narrative.

“attract” “new residents” “leisure” “sports” “nature”. For some sites the question may be summed up in a more specific objective: how to “attract” people and businesses; in these site briefs, this is explicitly stated as the ultimate goal of the municipal strategy (Wittenberge, see p.98 and Bitterfeld-Wolfen, see p.52 in Germany, and also Kristinehamn in Sweden, see p.76), and the drive is for the sites to become to some degree specialised as hubs for “leisure” or “sports”, as

The competitors’ proposals are also polarized between the same extremes, but the gradient does not coincide. For instance, if we do a word count on the submission texts, putting the words “leisure”, “sports”, “nature”, “attract” into one group, and the words “work”, “local”, “inhabitants”, “improve”, into the other group, we would expect successful proposals in Wittenberge (DE) (for instance) to rank high in the first group and low in the second.

The fields are definitions of a limited fragment of territory with open potentials, which may be measured with a set of lines and punctuations that establish relationships and rhythms, while including the corresponding rules that will govern the actions of the as yet unknown future participants in the game.

Many field definitions in this group are based on a standard notion of connectivity – circulation, distance and proportions – with only occasional

9 3 - Saint-Herblain (FR), winner - Metacentre: the emergence of a garden territory > see more P.90

concern for other infrastructural services. Both the local scale and the larger cluster of connections are represented in the field drawings, usually with reference to traffic (of different speeds, including pedestrians, public transport and private vehicles) and a perception of the urban landscape or the territory.

On the other hand, a number of teams try to imagine less conventional definitions of the field, looking for words that will evoke interesting nuances that are rarely found in the jargon of urban planning.

The forest, a space with a short perspective, blurred by the proliferation of branches and trunks, becomes an urban field for the winning team in Wittenberge (DE), Re-hub Wittenberge (fig.1); the drawings are evocative of oriental watercolours depicting landscapes of activity with rain-washed paths. Activities are housed in pavilions that do not seem firmly attached to the ground they stand on, in the same way as the people moving through the landscape do not seem to follow any specific grooves in the field. On the other hand, the site is reinterpreted through powerful imagery, with photographic renders that seem to freeze the flow of time, the motion of cyclists, runners, skiers and boats, captured in a moment of their journey across an infinitely calm expanse.

1 - Wittenberge (DE), winner - Re-hub Wittenberge > see more P.100

2 - Kristinehamn (SE), runner-up - The centre. The path. The field of action > see more P.80

The runner-up in Kristinehamn (SE), The centre.

The path. The field of action (fig.2), also uses a graphic tool that conveys the idea of a field. In this case the renders reproduce the perspective effects of a photo-stitched panorama, of the kind that certain smartphones can produce, while the texture is reminiscent of paintings by figurative but post-photographic artists like Edward Hopper. This choice conveys the idea of openness, with an undefined expanse in the

centre of the picture. Activities are concentrated to the left and to the right at the edges of the panorama; at the same time, the distortion of perspective aligns both extremities of the image with our own position as observers, bringing us forward to the middle of the field.

The winning team in Saint-Herblain (FR), Metacentre: the emergence of a garden territory (fig.3), announces the “emergence of a garden territory.” The expression has a little application in their project, which encompasses the whole spectrum of gardens: for production (vegetable garden), sharing (family or community gardens), spatial devices (suspended garden), recreation (children’s garden) or comfort (winter garden, acclimatizing garden); but beyond the literal, the expression defines a blurred, non-homogeneous territory, where expanses of land may be appropriated picnic style, with more or less temporary uses that may become denser and overflow into other patches in the field. Similarly, the runner-up team proposes an “urbanism of the eclectic and the temporary”, while the third selected proposal delineates a “punctuated territory”, an abstract white paper where rhythm is provided by punctuation signs: commas, colons and full stops.

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6 - Bitterfeld-Wolfen (DE), winner - Vanished villages - Collective city > see more P.54

4 - Wittenberge (DE), runner-up - Take part in wITtenberge > see more P.102

The rules governing the field often adopt the format of a catalogue, a list or matrix of generic options that may take a position on the field, if they are selected by the players during the course of the project, which is understood as a process.

The runner-up in Wittenberge (DE), Take part in wITtenberge (fig.4), follows exactly this pattern.

The first step is to draw the lines on a field, creating the opportunity spaces that will eventually connect the site and the larger scale. The way

to deal with the opportunities that open up in this field is by proposing a catalogue of specific actions, as well as a management system involving public authorities, citizens and private owners, for all of them to work together to define the programme and stages of implementation.

Similarly, Manual towards a clumsy city (fig.5), one of the runners-up projects for the Budapest site (HU), provides a catalogue of rules and tools which the team calls a “Manual” or handbook “towards a clumsy city”. Each of the items

in the catalogue is small within the context, with a conscious drive towards the atomized, the fragmented – the fragmentation may be literal, with spatial units being divided up, or it may be a fragmentation in the temporal dimension, with some items in the catalogue proposing alternative uses over time for the same spatial unit.

Fields and catalogues are intended as the board and rules of a game which may or may not take place. This is where communication becomes essential – many of these projects require the engagement of multiple actors, which can only be persuaded through the exercise of powerful seduction. This is in fact the first part of the question enunciated at the beginning of this text. How do we trigger change and evolution?

Most of the proposals seek to achieve this by means of a strong narrative, a description of the actions and a possible plot development, deliberately avoiding the construction of any characters. The story needs to be engaging, but the characters must be left vague so that the different viewers can see themselves in the field.

11 In some cases, the narrative is already within the brief. This is the case of Bitterfeld-Wolfen (DE) where a former quarry has been filled with water, turning what used to be a grim industrial-mining landscape into an artificial lake. The idea of nature acquires an interesting twist, as the new lakeside is proposed as an artificial-natural setting for a new-traditional community.

The winning project, Vanished villages – Collective city (fig.6) proposes to articulate new communities through reinterpreted villages, small clusters amidst the green landscape, where the traditional mix of labour and living is replaced by leisure and recreation. The text does speak of “work, life and leisure”, but the project studies the traditional housing typologies and meticulously replaces traditional work spaces (stables, barns) with leisure spaces (storage for watersports equipment and boats, gyms, hobby rooms). The clusters reproduce the atmosphere of small villages in the landscape, while the network of connections guarantees the urban qualities of the region. Connectivity between new housing areas, leisure and reinvented nature are also a leitmotif for the runner-up project, Urbanochory.

The case of the Aalborg site (DK) is not comparable, since there is not the same progressive process of transformation of the very nature of the landscape as in Bitterfeld-Wolfen, nor is there a clear opportunity for an equivalent physical upheaval, but the site does demand a redescription of life in a neighbourhood that has undergone major economic change.

Not surprisingly, the winning proposal for Aalborg is most explicit in its subtitle: Das Andere, alternative narratives for new memories (fig.7).

7 - Aalborg (DK), winner - Das Andere > see more P.48

8 - Aalborg (DK), runner-up - A collective storyline > see more P.50

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5 - Budapest (HU), runner-up - Manual towards a clumsy city > see more P.60

The pages in the booklet employ a very powerful communication device. They are divided in two: a picture on the left and a text on the right; the text describes a feature of the Aalborg site, while the picture corresponds to some other place. Picture and text are both under the same header, which forces the viewer to consider both items simultaneously. The pictures may be located in the USA, France or Berlin – this is irrelevant and remains unsaid. The juxtaposition triggers our imagination, and we read the text that describes Aalborg with a new imaginative vision in our heads.

The runner-up for the same site also includes the idea of narrative in its title: A Collective Storyline (fig.8), and the proposal consists of a field and a catalogue of narratives to guide the transformation of the city. It is interesting to note the graphic strategy: the field is defined as a very abstract set of lines stitching together a number of formally independent clusters, while the strategies are described with axonometric views

encapsulated within a circle, as if the boundaries of each element were indefinable and we had to be content with a relevant portion of reality as seen through a porthole or magnifying glass.

This graphic strategy is employed in many other proposals.

A different kind of narrative heads the description of the proposal for Marseille (FR), Plan d’Aou – a new urban village (fig.9). Several people, presumed to be inhabitants of the new neighbourhoods, describe the project, explaining why they decided to live there, what advantages they see, how they followed the decision-making process and the evolution of the master plan, and describe their daily lives in the context of the purportedly completed project. The project is further defined with a series of photo-collage panoramas, simulating mosaic compositions of simple pictures taken on site; the collages do not focus on the buildings, which are left at the margins, but on the vibrancy of public space, with a riot of flowers, greenery and children playing, in an informal looking settlement. Both

human and non-human actors “speak” through comic strip style captions.

In contrast, this is one of the few proposals in the group that provides a standard ground plan, showing the morphology of the urban design and quantifying the number and size of the actual buildings.

The effort of construction is also quantified in the winning proposal for Don Benito (ES), Don Benito’s patio (fig.10), an effort defined very precisely as zero. The first drawing is a black/ white figure/background plan of the city, where the non-built spaces are white (streets, squares and patios), and the site constitutes one more white patch in the network of public spaces.

Most of the effort is in dismantling physical barriers, providing smooth pavements and reusing existing constructions.

Narrative is essential in this example, which tries to alter the perception of what is valuable and desirable, shifting from the material to the spatial, from physical construction to social construction.

13 No objects. It may be obvious but it is important to note that there are hardly any defined objects in all 28 proposals in this group. The few examples one can find are generic or abstract.

There are one or two points where a proposal gets formal, mostly at an urban level or as an echo of existing architectural forms.

The runner-up in Gjilan (KO), Good old times, working on the very centre of the city, does formalize the iconic buildings that the program requires, quite prominently so, but even in that case the main contribution is the blurry intersec-

tion between the urban strip (formerly a hard traffic artery) and the existing watercourse (formerly overrun by hard urban design), both pixelating into a hybrid green/pedestrian public space that cannot be defined as a square or as a park or any other recognizable type of public space.

The two runners-up in Schiedam (NL), A new start with old genes and Complete Schiedam, are also formally defined proposals with clearcut buildings in the centre of the picture – but then, isn’t it interesting that the exceptions to the no-object rule are on sites with no winner?

10 - Don Benito (ES), winner - Don Benito’s patio > see more P.66

John Cage is mentioned as an influence by one of the teams, which makes me think of his piece “Thirteen Harmonies (from Apartment House 1776)” composed in 1986, where the musicians do not seem to be interested in completing an orchestrated symphony – there are no motifs to remember, no defined melodies to repeat, no twists and turns to look forward to – each instrument provides enough notes to construct a harmony. There are some points where a violin seems to begin what may be an aria, but it stops just on time, leaving the hypothetical melody undefined. We might call this set of proposals “28 narratives in a field.”

9 - Marseille (FR), runner-up - A new urban village > see more P.85

Didier Rebois architect, SECRETARY GENERAL of Europan TEACHER IN URBAN AND ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN IN ENSAPLV (school of Architecture of Paris-la-Villette)

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From mono-large enclaves to multi-mixed neighbourhoods or converting urban fortresses into porous fabric Following a century of functionalist urban design, Europe’s cities have inherited large monofunctional zones originally and often deliberately designed as enclaves, “islands” of buildings, separated from the urban fabric by transport systems that cut them off and limit their access to fast motorised methods of travel.

For Europan 12, a whole series of these “zones” were entered in the competition: these are large, autonomous entities characterised as “monolarge” to express both the singleness of their uses and their size. They consist partially or totally of “obsolete” wastelands, either industrial in origin like the sites at Urretxu in Spain, Marly in Switzerland, Groningen in the Netherlands or Kaiserslautern in Germany, military like the Heidelberg site in Germany, or indeed railway sites like the one at Graz in Austria. These “autistic territories” are nevertheless now being overtaken by the development of the city around them and their “revitalisation” is therefore on the agenda. Or else, they may be zones that are still active – such as a hospital in Helsinki in Finland, the Siemens headquarters in Vienna in Austria, or a large shopping centre in Haninge in Sweden – but whose insular structure and single function make them very difficult to connect to the city, as local people would wish.

The question that officials in these cities are asking competitors is: how can these territories, designed within a framework of zoning, be reintroduced into the city in the context of a new paradigm, that of a sustainable city? This means that they acquire a genuine urban dynamic no longer based on exclusive use of the car but a diversity of mobilities; that they replace monofunctionality with a plurality of uses, while retaining the traces of the past; that they introduce time as a positive value to achieve a successful transformation that allows for a degree of uncertainty about the future. And it also means reconnecting them to the surrounding areas to break their isolation, while at the same time leaving room for nature. This is a strategic objective, but also a challenge for the municipalities so that the sites gradually acquire a genuine permeability of fabric and landscape, in a context where the existing structures are at best “gated areas”, at worst “bunkers”.

The text presenting the family of sites titled “from mono-large to multi-mixed” set out the issues of this fundamental transformation: “There are two closely linked types of transformation of these territories: the metamorphosis of a large, single entity into a multitude of small elements, and that of a monofunctional zone to a mix of

functions and uses. These two transformations are to a large degree the outcome of spatial and functional complexity, which is one of the essential characters of genuine urbanisation. In these transformations, a compound system of differentiated and smaller elements is relatively more flexible, more capable of adapting. If one element breaks down, it can wait for a change or replacement without affecting too large an area.

If new needs emerge, they can be absorbed more evenly in the case of a differential distribution model. A highly diverse urban mix is more capable of evolving than a large, monofunctional block.”

But how did the winning teams on these sites interpret ways of introducing the combination of these two approaches – multiplicity of uses and spatial permeability – into their projects?

Upcycling the existing fabric by allowing a change of uses A first set of winning teams seeks to connect the process of transformation closely with the existing fabric by drawing on its structural logic to “recover” a part of the fabric, while gradually injecting new uses in order to avoid too sudden a change. Reusing obsolete or neglected factories in a process of regeneration of uses over time: this is the approach that can be described as “urban upcycling”. In this approach, obsolete or dilapidated fabric is revitalised in order to give it additional functional value often generated by the inhabitants themselves, whereas “recycling”, by contrast, entails transforming the material recovered into a new cycle of production.

Adapting an industrial structure in order to make new programmes possible At Urretxu in Spain (fig.1), the municipality and the local actors together proposed converting an industrial zone because of its strategic con-

1 - Urretxu_Irimo (ES)

3 - Kaiserslautern (DE)

15 textual situation in the city and the region and its qualities of industrial legacy. The question asked is: what spatial strategy could be employed to reuse empty buildings by incorporating new potential for multiple uses? The project needs to be part of a participatory process and reflect the difficult socio-economic situation, in other words to be able to meet needs that at present are largely unforeseeable…

The winning team’s response in the Piztutako Irimo (fig.2) project is not architectural in the symbolic sense of the term: no profound alteration to the site’s industrial image. Instead it focuses on a series of ideas and proposed actions. “It is a project of anticipation which accepts the inevitability of change, possible variations and the uncertainty of the future.” Starting with an evaluation of the site, the team proposes a catalogue of the different mechanisms for relating the new to the pre-existing. The first stage is to open up the existing spaces to allow flexible uses. This is followed by injecting the necessary services into the fabric to accommodate a wide range of uses. Finally, in certain parts, the built structure is “invaded” by new additions that respect the specificities of the place. A diversity of uses is suggested for the different buildings, while the residential function combined with possible agricultural areas is added close to the town centre.

What we have here is not a radical spatial upheaval, but a reinforcement of the value of what is already there by a targeted acupuncture that seeks to adapt the industrial structure to a gradual and partially random change of programmes.

Re-dividing the built fabric and defining its capacity for appropriation by residents The collapse of the industry and the need to redevelop the area by converting it to new uses make the former Pfaff site at Kaiserslautern in Germany (fig.3) an excellent example of a large, closed enclave which requires reinsertion into the town. The Municipal Council is looking for new uses for the site, such as a technology park to exploit the nearby presence of the campus,

2 - Urretxu_Irimo (ES), winner - Piztutako Irimo > see more P.210

16 The project is based on a sort of paradox: the existing industrial structure may in the end partially, or even totally, disappear, whereas it is from that structure and its gradual fragmentation/substitution that a “multi-mixed” neighbourhood is created.

Reoccupying a structure with temporary functions On the same site, the special mention team’s P.F.A.F.F. (fig.5) project starts from a very concrete idea, the re-creation of a natural ground through the removal of asphalt across 80% of the site, right up to the retained halls, to create a “green lung for the town” in place of a polluted site.

Next, all the factories will be identified and classified by platform type and in terms of the qualities of their structures. The aim is to use this inventory to produce an inhabited park with a new

4 - Kaiserslautern (DE), winner - Pattern for progress > see more p.196

with an emphasis on information and communications technology in the fields of research, services, health and well-being. For the municipal officials, however, “urban vitality will need to be achieved by creating a horizontal and vertical mix of residential uses, restaurants/shops and small businesses”. Here, the municipality is not asking for maximum “conservation” of the buildings (a selection is proposed for retention), but plans to use the structure of this industrial micro-town to turn it into a genuine, forward-looking district.

The winning team, in their project Pattern for progress (fig.4), proposes more a “model of growth than a static image for the future” based on the site’s capacity for appropriation by the inhabitants and potential actors; a process of

upcycling by creating values of appropriation that depend on the townsfolk.

The project is content to define the minimum characteristics required to regenerate the large halls, such as access and safety, and as far as possible foster their development through adaptation at each part of the site by dividing the halls into plots, making them permeable to light and traffic. After this, it proposes “leaving the future inhabitants free to fashion their environment”. The bottom-up initiatives linked with a social economy will just need to fit into “matrices that define the suitability of certain functions and the volume of construction permitted” in order to guarantee the inclusion of the site’s public dimension.

5 - Kaiserslautern (DE), Special mention - P.F.A.F.F. > see more p.199

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concept of housing for students and researchers linked to the nearby university, and a gradual appropriation of the place through the definition of temporary forms of occupancy. This entails architectural work on the housing, composed of wooden microstructures linked to the macro scale halls, and on the service functions (cafes, restaurants, kitchens, computer rooms).

Multifunctional reconnections by means of urban lines The second common approach shared by several winning teams consists in “excavating” new urban axes within the thickness of the sites.

These have the effect of opening up the fabric present and/or created on major public spaces, remodelling mobilities and playing a linking role between entities. At the same time, however, through their positioning, these urban lines create vital re-connections between the new district and the surrounding city, breaking down its isolation.

Creating a street around which urban programmes cluster On the Urretxu site (ES) (fig.6), the runner-up team’s project Tempos of colonization (fig.7) proposes “new ideas about the way in which public spaces can accommodate not only a certain specific use (work, commercial, cultural and housing...), but at (almost) the same time any function at different moments and with minimal effort” in order to “fashion the social city”.

The project therefore opts “for the creation of a civic backbone extending through a sequence of exterior, roofed and interior voids where activity appropriates the vacant spaces”.

This succession of continuous voids gives rise to a genuine street linking the four districts. Along this porous and winding axis, in the mass of the industrial fabric, activities of the most urban kind will be grouped. This itinerary becomes the major communal social space, “connecting

versatile and adaptable zones which people will appropriate to work and adapt to the needs of the moment”.

Connecting a barracks to its urban environment via a new axis The site proposed by the city of Heidelberg (DE) (fig.8) is a barracks soon to be vacated by the resident US army. It constitutes an obstacle to urban growth because it prevents the creation of a link between the surrounding areas and the town’s urban development to the south. With the departure of the army, 200 hectares will soon be released – “twice the size of the old town of Heidelberg or equal to the total area of land developed in the last 25 years” – for new uses.

With no connection to the surrounding urban area, this enclave becomes a very significant urban planning priority.

The winning project, Startband (fig.9), proposes to create a strong new north-south axis, with qualities of open linear space. It will link the future neighbourhoods created on the site with the city and the landscape. Conceived as the starting point for transformation, it triggers the process of future redevelopment of the site through the emergence of several projects which can take root there over time. It is a flexible development, including the reuse of existing buildings to provide new residential spaces. It also establishes a link between old and modern. Startband is a strategy for the appropriation of the barracks which seeks to “integrate the site into the fabric of urban complexity and foster the development of an independent identity” for the new district.

Its characteristics would be to offer differential and multifunctional spaces, a flexible mix of typologies, and a variety of options for ways of using the space.

Connecting a new district to its area by a park At Marly in Switzerland (fig.10), the obsolete industrial zone proposed has no heritage value.

The municipality’s goals are to offer the future

7 - Urretxu_Irimo (ES), runner-up - Tempos of colonization > see more p.212

inhabitants and users a high-quality environment, with an “urban village” character, and to contribute to the regeneration of the northern entry to the town. The competitors were asked “to work on growing density by a balanced ratio of volumes between built structures and public and semipublic spaces, in order to enhance the vitality of the site and its link with the adjacent zones”.

18 10 - Marly (CH)

In their project, Le parc des falaises (fig.11), the winning team used this green light for a radical transformation of the wasteland by creating a central linear public space which structures the development and fosters a combination of activities. This line takes the form of an ecological park “framed by a series of towers that defines the outline of the entry to Marly and by a “gardencity” strip composed of parallel blocks and row housing”. The park also acts as a vector for the connection of the new neighbourhood to the cantonal road and to a wider network of green spaces, creating links with the whole surrounding urban and landscape fabric.

And although most of the buildings are demolished, the traces of the former industrial plot layout are retained, delineating the new streets “by allowing various scenarios of gradual/adaptive implementation leading to a new, more coherent neighbourhood structure”. In addition to the

housing block typologies, the project includes sports facilities, a multipurpose hall and student housing.

Structuring with landscape strips of programmatic aggregates In Vienna in Austria (fig.12), the creation of new roads is also proposed as a solution. While the site where Siemens settled in the early 20th century is typical of an industrial structure, its workplaces are not obsolete, because in the last 15 years it has evolved to accommodate programmes that relate less to production and more to research and services. The closing of workshops has left land free on the edges of the site, while new neighbourhoods have developed around. This is an opportunity for Vienna municipality to overcome the separation between workplaces and places of urban life, “seeking to transform the whole site into a mixed use urban area”.

The winning team’s project, Cluster / Streetscape (fig.13), introduces landscape strips at several points on the site as a discontinuous but transformative series of public axes. It is “a strategy for the creation of a new structure and identity” in what was previously a patchwork of buildings.

And the development included along these strips takes place “without too many restrictions”. The axes are clearly defined as a starting point for urbanisation, as a park concept, able to accom-

11 - Marly (CH), winner - Le parc des falaises > see more p.202

modate a whole diversity of typologies with mixed uses based around the cluster, and illustrating the adaptability of the project over time.

Urbanising a hospital around a health street The Helsinki site in Finland (fig.14) has the typical form of the “hospital island” located within the city and of a large landscaped entity composed of a sequence of park, forest and lake. The objective of the competition was to explore the site’s potential for development by combining

8 - Heidelberg (DE)

9 - Heidelberg (DE), winner - Startband > see more p.182

12 - Wien-Siemensäcker (AT)

14 - Helsinki (FI)

15 - Helsinki (FI), winner - Asclepeion > see more p.188

13 - Wien-Siemensäcker (AT), winner - Cluster / Streetscape > see more p.218

the hospital functions with new services, housing and different care centres. The main challenge is to link the area to the surrounding urban structure in order to “remove the physical and mental barrier around the hospital”. A major urban test!

The winning team’s aim with its Asclepeion project (fig.15) is to improve access to the site by opening it up, but also by working on its visibility. To create this permeability, a new street called “health street” penetrates into the hospital zone and creates a major axis linking the existing to future buildings. More widely open to the exceptional landscape environment around it, the hospital zone is transformed into a mixed urban neighbourhood. “This mix of functions includes new housing concepts for older people and spaces for people with mental disabilities.”

The project generates spatial complexity and a flexible and adaptable urban structure.

Colonising the mono-large with the micro-mixed Breaking up the singularity of structures on isolated sites is the third common approach adopted by several winning team. Whether applied to sites conceived as blocks to be bro-

ken up and revitalised, or to industrial zones lacking urban qualities, the aim is to produce a new, smaller scale urban fabric open to a multiplicity of uses, but also to propose new systems of active urban grounding. These projects share the idea of an urban economy not entirely dominated by megastores or large, land-hungry businesses, by seeking to reintroduce a microscale that releases a diversity of initiatives. Nonetheless, these approaches do not ignore the need to produce public spaces and regulated urban life for the common good. It is this dual requirement that the teams propose to fulfil through their projects.

Superimposing micro-urban fabric on a commercial macro-plinth Haninge (fig.16) is a Swedish town located 20 minutes by train from Stockholm. It is a fastgrowing place, but the town centre suffers from urbanism based on large-scale zoning with priority assigned to the car. All town centre life is concentrated in a big shopping mall which constitutes the competition site. Open only during the day, deserted and unsafe at night, the structure forces people to take alternative routes around it. Today, citizens and politicians want “an urban fabric that attracts pedestrians and

16 - Haninge (SE)

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cyclists rather than cars”. For the municipality, the goal is to create an urban centre in Haninge with new public spaces and housing, but also small street level spaces for shops and small businesses.

The winning team’s response with its project Parklife (fig.17), is to work vertically on two scales: the large scale of the old town centre blocks remodelled to structure the active lower town, and the smaller scale to create a fabric of fragmented buildings above this plinth. The aim is to invent a hybrid and porous urban concept that will be “flexible and dynamic in terms of properties, typologies, scales, activities and social structures”. The challenge is to create an intense 24/7 town with a diversity of uses. The difficult question of parking is handled by integrating it into the structures with the other programmes, but set back from the street.

The proposed system is conceived to lead to the creation of a sustainable economy based on urban social relations.

Producing a multiple built fabric on urban platforms On the Siemensäcker site in Vienna (AT), where the challenge is to transform a business zone into a mixed urban neighbourhood, the runnerup team’s project Urban software (fig.18) also takes a scalar approach. They propose infiltrating the zones around the nucleus of large office blocks with a multiplicity of buildings with strong contextual properties in order to create a porous city. They introduce three instruments to resolve the different problems: the design of supports, flexible platforms that are broken down into a syntax that describes the production of the urban fabric in small entities, without defining the result, and urban management of the supports. Employing these tools appropriately in the three situations identified (an urban void awaiting occupancy, a tertiary fabric and an obsolete former factory), the project takes the form of a strategic manual, a tool with the capacity to generate urban diversity and dynamics. However, the ultimate form will emerge from

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19 - Helsinki (FI)

more than a seductive pretext, is in fact conceived as a tool for reconnecting the health programmes and the more urban programmes introduced on the site, but also supporting urban connections with the park and the southern district.

Playing on the rhythms between artificiality and nature

18 - Wien-Siemensäcker (AT), runner-up - Urban software > see more p.220

a participatory process, “a negotiation between the different actors involved in choices about the production of the city”.

Triggering a new urban process starting from nature By contrast with certain approaches primarily based on the adaptability of the built fabric to accommodate new uses, or on the creation of new porous typologies, one group of projects concentrates more on nature and its rhythms to introduce new attractiveness, while expressing a readiness to introduce processes of resilience into urbanised areas for industry or large infrastructures. In certain cases, they use the surrounding natural features – such as water – to restore a natural dimension to the site. In others, they generate a new productive landscape where nature acts as a driving force and attractor in a very short time, while leaving the possibil-

ity for urban processes to be established in the longer term. What we see here is the emergence of a new alliance between city and nature.

The Graz site in Austria (fig.21) is a marginal area characterised by its industry and isolated by the presence of the railway on its boundary.

However, it is now completely surrounded by urban structures that include a new population with new ways of life and economic dynamics, but also new demands for urban quality in the surroundings. The municipality’s objective is to produce “a smart city”, but one whose design “involves the inhabitants with information and participation and a forum of interdisciplinary experts to coordinate and adjust future urban developments.”

The design of the winning team’s project, Polyrhythmic fields (fig.22), is based on the creation of a new landscape in the form of a chequerboard, where each field takes on a different rhythm reflecting the way it is used by its inhabit-

Making water the driving force of urban transformation Starting with the fact that the hospital site in Helsinki (FI) (fig.19) is situated between two natural entities – sea and forest – the proposal in the runner-up project Water shuttle (fig.20) uses water to break the hospital’s urban isolation. For the team in question, “water is a perfect symbol of life and health. The water system is situated within the space of the built fabric, which can use freshwater and remain clean, while recycling water through a recycling system. Outside, the rainwater recovery system, with retention tanks, covers the entire site.”

And even the different typologies “draw their inspiration from water in its different forms: flowing water, ice and steam.” The project also introduces metropolitan amenities such as the Nature Park. This use of water, which could be nothing 17 - Haninge (SE ), winner - Parklife > see more p.174

21 21 - Graz (AT)

23 - Groningen (NL)

20 - Helsinki (FI), runner-up - Water shuttle > see more p.190

ants. The neutrality of these “polyrhythmic fields” generates great flexibility of occupation and the squares can be occupied alternatively by sports fields, parks or playgrounds, with temporal variability and urban rhythms.

At the urban scale, energy and environmental efficiency is introduced by rooftop gardens and greenhouses, local food production… Here, the artificiality of the chequerboard with its flexibility of uses is counterbalanced by the strong presence of nature, which provides the quality of both the public spaces and of the links between the surrounding neighbourhoods.

Starting an urban cycle by creating a productive landscape Groningen in the Netherlands (fig.23), the big southern SuikerUnie post-industrial site, is seen as a strategic reserve to be developed over a period of some 20 years, but through bottomup initiatives, a testing ground for new ways of using industrial wastelands. Although dividing the site in half, Hoendiepkanaal Canal also represents significant potential based on water. And although the municipality ultimately intends to

24 - Groningen (NL), winner - Prelude > see more p.168

create a business park, it wants to begin now with a staged approach and temporary occupations.

The winning project, deliberately titled Prelude (fig.24), treats the site “as an open field where landscape and city meet”. It is seen as a strategy for the first stage in a gradual spatial and social process which begins by linking the site to the urban fabric by a bridge and road, without creating other constructions. Given the uncertainties regarding future changes to the place, the proposal is to transform the site into a productive park by planting miscanthus, which can be harvested and reused as “green concrete” in the construction of the bridge. This approach can also constitute an experiment in strong citizen involvement and therefore act as an attractor. The idea is to trigger “an adaptable form for a new urban use”.

Here, nature is employed as a way to enhance a territory on the urban fringe and activate it as an attractive park area linked to the city. By changing the image of the industrial location into a landscaped space around water, the project shows that with limited means it is possible both to trigger an urban operation and also to achieve resilience.

22 - Graz (AT), runner-up - Polyrhythmic fields > see more p.163

Chris Younès philosopher, anthropologist, teacher at the ENSAPLV and ESA schools of architecture in Paris and member of Europan’s Scientific Council. She is director of the Research laboratory Gerphau (www.gerphau.archi.fr)

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In quest of urban eco-rhythms Thinking about urban eco-rhythms means exploring and understanding the relations and interactions between the elements and living beings that constitute inhabited environments.

As dynamics of interpenetration, interdependency and inter-engenderment, whether between climatic, tectonic, mechanical, chemical, biotic, economic or cultural factors, they relate to a whole and to parts, to singularities and a globality that encompasses and arises from interactive diversities. The challenge now is to understand and imagine other forms of transformation based on the resistances and resources of milieus, in other words alliances of different kinds that seek to capture, reveal, preserve, distribute, revitalise, by linking both physio-biological factors and anthropological specificities. To anticipate how they thus coexist and co-evolve for the metamorphosis of urban milieus, is to conceive rhythms between natures and artefacts, ecosystems and anthropisation. Although the timeframes of nature and of “techne” are not the same, they are both modes of production whose principal is generation, as evidenced by their etymology. For the word “nature”, from the Latin “natura”, means constant regenesis, and the root of the word “technique” is the IndoEuropean “tik”, which means “to engender”.

reflect the desire for this encounter. The strong desire for nature in an urban world does not reflect the wish for a return to a previous world as a form of nostalgia or naivety, or a rejection of the city, but as an aspiration to fruitful symbioses.

What we are seeing is a new politics of civilisation, explains Edgar Morin. The technicist vision is being overlaid by the quest for accords with a nature characterised by the power of transformation associated with life, but also by fragility.

Arousing strong emotions, as well as ethical and aesthetic reassessments, it means water, earth, air, fire, fauna and flora, the rhythm of the seasons, of day and night, of the heart and of breath or of birth and death. Both wild and tame, it carries threat but also peace and regeneration.

Many forms of hybridisation are now emerging at different scales – climatic, landscape, eco-architecture, reasoned density – with the aim of preserving woodland and farmland, green streets and roofs, gardens and parks, of nurturing fertile soil and biodiversity, urban agriculture, recycling, the seasonal cycle, coexistences, all approaches to a new city-nature.

However, it is now crucial to the reconfiguration of modern cities to examine the capacity for resilience of milieus, the capacity to overcome trauma. In order to encourage the dynamics of revitalising alliances and to protect

Making nature and artifice coexist The idea of the eco-adaptable city means envisaging fruitful new alliances between the rhythms of the city and of nature. Urban nature, nature in the city, eco-city, a proliferation of terms that 1 - Fosses (FR), winner - The amateur… makes what is unpredictable possible… > see more P.232

23 These approaches entail re-evaluations and interweavings between long and short timeframes, permanence and instability, involving new kinds of programmes and rhythms that redefine the engagements between near and far, the micro and the macro.

Productive nature

2 - Fosses (FR), runner-up - Crossings-over > see more P.234

3 - Höganäs (SE), winner - TwinPhenomena > see more P.238

against natural catastrophes, as well as catastrophes arising from human action, different forms of transaction between local and global are employed, such as setting the boundaries and porosities needed between city and country, urban land and farmland, techne and physis. In the recreation of conditions suitable for inhabiting and cohabiting, the quality of air, water, wind, streams and rivers, of fertile land, the living world, biodiversity, phytoremediation, ecological corridors and desirable forms of decontamination, can only be attended to and measured in relation to the distinctive character of places, the diversity of cultures and ways of

living together, but also to economic resources.

It is these corhythms between nature and culture that constitute the challenge of regenerative re-connections in urban milieus. To exploit them requires a radical change in the way territory is perceived, managed and invented. Three particularly significant forms of nature are primarily deployed in the Europan 12 session with respect to architectural approaches that seek to capture, reveal, handle and balance the relations between nature and artifice: - productive nature; - nature as structure; - reparatory nature.

4 - Höganäs (SE), runner-up - Urbedible > see more P.240

Treating agriculture as the matrix of the urban lends vigour to the concept of the urbano-rural or the rurban. The Fosses site in France (see p.230), in the heart of the rural village, is an urban fringe on the edge of natural and agricultural land. The importance of stabilising the boundary between town and farmland and to reverse the process of urban sprawl, in which fields are no more than an implicit land reserve for urban growth, which takes precedence, is at the centre of the concerns of the winning teams.

With their project The Amateur… makes what is unpredictable possible… (fig.1), the winning team increases village density to protect the agricultural landscape and employs scenarios for connecting actors: an immaterial dimension is stressed in order to stop the momentum of material consumption. On the same site, the runner-up team with Crossings-over (fig.2) also chooses to create a rurban landscape of small-

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5 - Kaufbeuren (DE), special mention - Air sharing > see more P.247

scale bio-intensive market gardening. The aim is to employ limited financial and material resources and to plan annual rotations in order to keep the land productive and alive. The project also has a vision for local outlets and trans-local influence, based on new spatiotemporal and societal interactions, as explained: “We sought to understand to what extent the study of the big territorial structures at large scales and over long timeframes can help to establish the project’s fundamental principles at site scale. In this respect, we work with the concept of the ‘long-term’ fashioned by the historian Fernand Braudel, who defines three types of timeframe: the long-term of geographical structures, the medium-term of socio-economic conditions, and the short-term of political events. Applying this logic of different rhythms to urban planning means using territorial analysis to identify a structure (geographical, urban, landscape) and systems of organisation (of space, of people, of processes) sufficiently well rooted and shared to be adapted to the socio-economic and political circumstances of planning.”

Similar relations between urban and agricultural are needed at Höganäs in Sweden (see p.236), a site characterised by the fertility of its land. Here,

7 - Bærum (NO), runner-up - Elasti-city > see more P.228

the winning project, Twinphenomena (fig.3), establishes a dialogue between urban and rural, careful to protect this precious resource, but with a project whose limits are nevertheless difficult to discern.

Many of the projects are concerned with productive nature. For example the runner-up project, again at Höganäs (SE), Urbedible (fig.4), which explicitly situates itself in relation to the insertion of new urban rhythms correlated with food production; or the special mention project, Air sharing (fig.5), at Kaufbeuren in Germany, which combines agricultural production with energy generation. What seems to run through this family of projects, however, is the need, in responding to contemporary challenges, to tackle the adaptability of agricultural structures and to make productive nature and sustaining values a major architectural and political task.

Nature as structure The idea of nature as structure, which is another strong facet of the metamorphoses, entails approaching nature from another angle and

6 - Bærum (NO), winner - Social riverscape > see more P.226

emphasising its role as a medium of landscape, in other words to bring it into the foreground: topography with rivers, fields, forests having the potential to articulate different problematical and spatiotemporal scales, which correspond to the recreation of territorial forms based on overall coherences determined by the resistances and resources provided by the existing natural fabric.

At Bærum in Norway (see p.224), the municipality wants to integrate the river more closely into the urban fabric, while protecting ecosystems.

The winning project, Social riverscape (fig.6), opts for a sophisticated conceptual proposal with the capacity to introduce time and to envisage the harmonisation of successive layers of change, thereby combating the tendency to dissociation. It is another facet of nature as structure that is developed in the runner-up project, Elasti-city (fig.7), which devises a spinal column

8 - Paris Saclay (FR), winner - Negotiation lab > see more P.266

25 that links the town to the fjord while providing for protection against natural flood risks and tackling water in its dual character of resource and threat.

The brief for the Paris-Saclay site in France (see p.264) is to design an adaptable urban campus with a new balance between town and nature. To achieve this, the first winning project, Negotiation lab (fig.8), seeks to establish a tension between the sparse elements immersed in the natural space of the campus, by relying on the site’s large permanent components. Its geographical potential in the distinctiveness of its contour lines, the nature of its land, its hydrography, its “flesh”, are mobilised to support the territorial changes in the planned arrangement of five platforms “with the aim of introducing possible reversibilities to allow for the uncertain rhythms of change”. For its part, the other winning project, Reversing the grid (fig.9), is founded on the quest for coherence and interdependence between the plateau, the slope and the valley, while tackling the urban issues by reintegration, seeing “the system of organisation of the three ‘milieus’ and their specificities as a powerful instrument that can be used to respond clearly to the site’s main imperative for change”. The project emphasises the dialectic of “differentiated milieus”. “Each of the ‘milieus’ defined in our project possesses its own rhythm of development and function, opening up the possibility for forms of coexistence between these different rhythms. The purpose of introducing a “natural grid” is not to deny the realities of geography and landscape, but more to reveal them by introducing “tensions between the existing fabric and the grid itself”.

In these two teams, the desire to reveal a structuring milieu is closely correlated with the establishment of a set of evolutionary principles for the site in question.

9 - Paris Saclay (FR), winner - Reversing the grid > see more P.268

Reparatory nature 14 - Vichy Val d’Allier (FR), special mention - Arboripôle5 > see more P.277 10 - Kaufbeuren (DE), runner-up - Long-lasting landing landscaping > see more P.246

Another of the emblematic forms of paradigm shift, which takes seriously the capacities of linking regenerative urban strategies with natural

26 resources, is that of nature as a source of reparation, or even salvation. To enter into resonance with such a nature is to activate the resilience potential of a milieu. It should be seen alongside vital cycles and synergies to protect against catastrophes and generate other possibilities for urban life.

At Kaufbeuren in Germany (see p.242), the runner-up project, Long-lasting landing landscaping (fig.10), seeks to achieve renaturing by creating vast “reserve” areas. As for the winning project, Fasten your seat belt! (fig.11), it seeks to remake the city by restoring value to natural spaces and the connections between landscape, territory and architecture.

At Vichy Val d’Allier in France (see p.272), where the brief is to “build the economy of the future within a woodland park” in the conversion of a large industrial site, the winning team with its Pioneer fringes project (fig.12), in its quest for greater hybridisation, draws on very close anal-

13 - Vichy Val d’Allier (FR), runner-up - Clearings archipelago > see more P.276

12 - Vichy Val d’Allier (FR), winner - Pioneer fringes > see more P.274

11 - Kaufbeuren (DE), winner - Fasten your seat belt! > see more P.244

15 - Milano (IT), winner - Landscape transition > see more P.256

yses of the territory with the aim of combining activity development with regeneration through water impoundment and functional autonomy, whether from the perspective of energy production or waste recycling. Periods of latency are also allowed for through flexible phasing.

The runner-up team, with Clearings archipelago (fig.13), emphasises forms of decontamination combined with the production of a regenerated landscape, and the special mention project, Arboripôle5 (fig.14), is characterised by an attitude which, while criticising an often excessively limited concept of eco-neighbourhoods, stresses the importance of the long-term in the encounter with natural rhythms for “eco-responsible reappropriation”.

At Milan in Italy (see p.254), still counting on the resources of natural rhythms for both decontamination and for potential eco-development, the winning team, with its Landscape transition (fig.15) project, seeks to fulfil the brief for the sustainable development of the Porto di Mare site by creating a large connecting territory as source of resilience, introducing a large urban axis while maintaining the farmland plot structure. The project provides for the infiltration of rainwater and its capture in a network of water meadows.

Towards an architecture of milieus It would seem that the seriousness with which eco-rhythms are taken in urban-architectural projects is contributing to a radical renewal of architecture, by prompting designers to work with the cycles of life, human beings and the universe, and from sensory and aesthetic experiences of a different kind. The desire to maintain the large equilibriums and transformations that structure and link human and nonhuman, is leading to the emergence of composite, hybrid and regenerating dynamics, complex lines and interweavings of another kind. This constitutes a source of reinvention in the forms of life and the city, whether through changes of focus, readjustments to passing time or transmutations.

The challenge is to devise intermediary arrangements between the large, long-term territorial scales, the site and architectural interventions, but also to express poetic rhythms that can be shared. Which is a way of committing to an architecture of milieus that are capable of cultivating other attentions, other forms of sharing and other regenerative encounters.

Socrates Stratis PhD in architecture, urbanist, Assistant Professor at the Department of Architecture, University of Cyprus. He is a founding member of the collaborative structure “AA & U For Architecture, Art and Urbanism” (www.aaplusu.com) and a member of Europan’s Scientific Council.

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Architecture-asurbanism for uncertain conditions 2 - Seraing (BE)

The concept of the “adaptable city”, the theme of Europan 12, is about advocating creative ways to incorporate uncertainty and irresolution into urban design. Indeed, this is the challenge for architecture as it seeks to re-engage with city-making in order to foster urban continuity and cohesion. We call such practice “architecture-as-urbanism” or “architectural urbanism” 1.

By re-situating Europan with respect to such “in-house” (Europan) or “outre mer” (overseas) references, we will uncover strategic principles that instigate urban continuities which do not rely on the tangible continuity of the built environment or on any other overall plan, providing alternatives to either the “poeticality of fragmentation” 2 or the certainty of the master planning mode of operation. Indeed, the results of the Europan 12 session could enrich a relevant international debate. The exploration of twelve winning projects on seven sites under the subtheme of “In-Between Time”, will demonstrate how their strategic approach confronts transition as perpetual urban uncertainty. The sites are: Wien-Kagran, Austria; Seraing, Belgium; Donauwörth, Germany; Vila Viçosa, Portugal; Kuopio, Finland; Assen, Netherlands and Rouen, France.

Although this quote does not yet fully apply to European cities, it is apparent that stop-action frame project sites are becoming more frequent in the different Europan sessions. They are mostly abandoned, marginalized sites, at the end of their life cycle. Further on, we will see that such sites are increasingly situated within the stop-action frame economies of cities and countries. A recurrent critique of the Europan institution concerns cities entering the competition with stop-action frame sites where “nothing happens for interminable periods” and asking young, inexperienced architects, and now landscape architects and planners, to “arrive at built results seemingly by fast-forward”. Nevertheless, Europan has indeed become one of the rare European platforms to address such complex issues, which are seemingly not easily tackled by the usual municipal modus operandi. Often, innovative projects may succeed in mobilising urban actors, in formulating an imagery of possi-

“Stop-action frame” project pites “Cities appear as a stop-action frame: nothing happens for interminable periods, when suddenly we arrive at built results seemingly by fastforward…like a series of discontinuous jumpcuts the landscape transforms in a sequence of disorienting new frames...” 3 1 - Wien-Kagran (AT)

3 - Donauwörth (DE)

bilities and in creatively contaminating the everydayness of the city. Usually, the formulation of the project brief for each site becomes the instigator of such innovations, as we will see later in relation to the E12 sub-theme “In-Between Time”.

Three stop-action frame sites ready for a jump-cut: the Wien-Kagran site in Austria (fig.1) is an area squeezed between two big rail infrastructures. It is a somewhat fragmented zone, but with good road access enhanced by the adjacent IKEA store. Vienna’s need to house a population influx has increased the pressure to place housing in this area. In Seraing, Belgium (fig.2), the closure of a steel plant has opened up the area to local housing development, based on a master plan prepared by the city to cope with future urban housing pressure. In Donauwörth, Germany (fig.3), the municipality was recently informed that the adjacent military base is to be closed, raising the question of what to do with a site whose scale dwarfs the city centre. The municipality is looking for the phased development of a robust concept that will incorporate the existing military buildings.

29 4 - Vila Viçosa (PT)

5 - Kuopio (FI)

6 - Assen (NL)

Four sites interminably locked in stopaction frames: Vila Viçosa in Portugal (fig.4) is part of a larger territory sidelined and abandoned after the decline of the marble industries.

The municipality is looking for alternative ways of reusing the existing site, despite the apparent lack of an urban dynamic. In Kuopio, Finland (fig.5), a school and athletic facilities situated on a site cut off from the rest of the city by railway lines, have come to the end of their life cycle.

The municipality seems perplexed about the future of this area, except the need for it to be reconnected to the city. In Assen (fig.6), but also – because of the financial crisis – across most of the Netherlands, the municipality is shifting from a policy of large-scale master plans with a fixed timeline for implementation, to approaches that encourage smaller scale, market driven developments. In Assen, the challenge is how to use such an approach to convert a former industrial area into housing. The municipality wants iconic buildings (row-housing and apartment buildings) to be placed at designated locations on the site as start-up developments. The Rouen site in France (fig.7) is a mixed industrial and housing area by the River Seine. The project brief calls for the insertion of processes on the different scales affecting the site, such as a station that will connect to the rail network in 10 years’ time, or urban development along the Seine, plus connections across the site linking the two banks of the river through the island of Isle Lacroix.

gate how architecture operates in such conditions and – more interestingly still – they find new forms of architecture that are engendered by such transitional conditions. They show how architecture moves from urban form to urban practice, attributing a leading role to agency.

Such findings show how architects and planners in 20th century Zagreb developed new strategies for creatively engaging the transitional and open-ended in order to accommodate the state of irresolution. They showed how architectural projects absorbed the unrealised objectives of partially implemented master plans. They also pointed to the incremental value of architectural projects that prepare the ground for the emergence of later projects.

However, a danger along with a frustration emanates from the North American architectural community regarding architecture’s disengagement from the city because of increasing instability coupled with the domination of privatized urban development. Even if the European city (specifically the North-Western European city) still largely maintains “Urban Continuity Plans” 5, both instability and privatized urban development are on the rise. By studying the strategic nature of the re-engagement of architecture with the city, in urban settings differing from those of Western Europe but with increasing similarities, we could therefore inform the Europan debate.

In addition, by contributing to this strategic approach through Europan practice, we could clearly demonstrate to a larger audience the relevance of Europan’s rich architectural output of intentions and actions.

The concept of Fast-Forward Urbanism, introduced by Cuff and Sherman, was born out of such frustration, out of the quest for new ways of engaging architecture with the city. In fact, Fast Forward Urbanism advances the following four assertions: first, we cannot rely on the physical continuity of built development, therefore it is by mastering jump-cuts that the city and architecture could mutually support each other.

Second, mastering jump-cuts involves the ability to embed design to strategic purpose within the operating system of the existing city; in other words, a thorough knowledge of how city-making works is crucial for architectural practice. Third, giving agency to everyday bottom-up urban activities is valuable in understanding how the city evolves organically, taking the small steps that everyday urbanism endorses. However, this is not enough for urban development, since the flow of capital is usually top-down, both through public, and now increasingly through private, channels. Fourth, to avoid a simplistic division between top-down and bottom-up approaches, the architect-urbanist needs to perform a more crucial role as a double agent whose interests

Transition as the challenge for architectureas-urbanism Surprisingly, we find that conditions of uncertainty, instability and irresolution have been part of city-making since the beginning of the modern era 4. “Project Zagreb”, initiated by the same authors, explicitly addresses the question of how architecture and urban planning can operate effectively and innovatively under conditions of instability. They introduce the notion of transition as a perpetual state of instability with uncertain outcomes, not as a passage from one stable condition to the next. They investi7 - Rouen (FR)

30 abstraction. The runner-up team in Rouen (FR), On the move, mentions that “The existing practices of master planning are rooted in rigid and static methodologies which make it very difficult for citizens, [for] architecture and therefore for the whole structure to adapt…”

Strategies for unfolding project content and implementation processes 8 - Wien-Kagran (AT), runner-up - En pointe! > see more P.322

coincide alternately with the client (municipality or private investor) and with those affected by the project’s implementation.

The quest for new forms of architectural engagement with the city has been Europan’s preoccupation, both through the articles published in the different session catalogues and through the winning projects. The notion of the “urban-architectural” scale coined in Europan debates is in fact operational rather than geographical, referring to how architecture can engage with the city 6.

Back in 2001, Pascal Amphoux introduced the notion of “architectural urbanism”, moving away from the typomorphological concerns of “urban architecture”, in an article entitled “The included third as urban project” relating to the Europan 6 results catalogue, theme of “In-between Cities”.

In fact, the term “architectural urbanism” was coined as a challenge to architecture to become a means of generating the city from the perspective of evolution and dynamics rather than simply that of form 7 . In addition, architectural urbanism introduces the notion of disorder as a legitimate facet of the design process. Projects become mechanisms of disorder management, in other words operate in a state of transition, as defined

by Blau and Rupnik in “Project Zagreb”. The shift from architecture as urban form to architecture as urban practice enables the teams to think strategically on a trans-contextual (physical, temporal and pragmatic) level in order to steer their practice in increasingly uncertain urban environments. Amphoux called openly for the

then young Europan 6 participants to constitute hybrid territories, through the articulation of three levels: functionality, use and sensitivity.

Uncertainty, as a matter of fact, is the fundamental condition of strategy, just as agility is its mode of operation 8. Eve Blau defines strategy as the act of plotting a course of action that anticipates a range of possible countermoves. We also retain from “Project Zagreb” that the condition of transition, which is a factor in most of the Europan 12 sites under discussion, is capable of engendering new forms of architecture. Therefore, even in the most financially thriving conditions, in places under urban pressure like WienKagran (AT), we should look to the E12 winning projects for these new forms of architecture that manage uncertainty.

We find in Europan a large number of innovative projects that are about such new forms of architecture, which seek to move away from the certainty and linearity of master planning towards an architecture that engages with the city in transition. In most Europan sessions, the entrants have expressed the inability of master planning to address complex and uncertain urban issues.

For example, in Europan 12, the runner-up team in Donauwörth (DE), Multiple city, claims that “an integral and open planning culture cannot be defined in a simple master plan…”, while the winning team in Vila Viçosa (PT), Between landscapes, criticizes the inherited urban plan for not addressing issues of urgency but instead starting from the end, on the basis of a geometric

Strategy is in fact the mode of operation that most of the winning teams choose to employ to unfold both project content and methods of implementation that are receptive to change. Drawing on “in-house” and “outre mer” references on strategic thinking in transition, we outline four strategies that elucidate the approaches employed in the twelve winning projects. Our exploration will inform the practices of architecture-as-urbanism. Specifically, the strategies are: a. Radical Incrementalism, b. The Trojan Horse, c. Mighty Unfoldings, d. Malleable Ecologies.

The radical increment strategy Radical incrementalism is a design strategy that uses accumulation as a way of catalysing change while generating urban character and identity in the process. The increment combines radicalism with an evolutionary strategy 9. Such an approach can pique the interest of project investors and gradually introduce changes into the habits of the project actors, including investors. Incrementalism is deployed only within the project, rather than as part of the city’s wider typological policy.

The increment is multifaceted and usually comes as a package of actions. It generally works partly on the surface (ground) and partly on buildings.

Its radical capacity to catalyse change, in the case of the E12 projects in question, depends on how the parts of the package are combined and on the diversity of timeframes and programmes allocated to them. The first group of four projects reflects such an approach: in En pointe!, runner-up, Wien-Kagran (AT) (fig.8), the increment

31 9 - Assen (NL), runner-up - Urban nature > see more P.284

consists of a residential armature typology with arched openings on the ground floor (references to Aldo Rossi’s typological approach to the city, explicitly mentioned in the team’s interview with Europan Europe).

The surface is the ground, openly assigned to a diversity of public and collective activities. In fact, “the schedule becomes the software of the surface”, as the team notes. The radicalism of the increment lies in its multi-temporality.

The surface seems to be susceptible to unforeseen changes, inviting the city into the project, whereas the building armatures maintain a robust posture and inform the surface schedule.

In the case of the runner-up project in Assen (NL), Urban nature (fig.9), the built element of the increment is threefold. It consists of the repurposed existing building fabric, the new linear residential building bars that form L and U-shape formations, and lastly the rather small, rectangular infrastructures of the collective programme. The surface of the increment is programmed with small-scale activities that extend into the water and are shared at the collective and public scale. The radicalism of the increment lies in the kinds of proximities generated firstly between its built components and secondly between those components and the ground, programmed by what the team calls the “buoyant” gardens.

10 - Rouen (FR), runner-up - On the move > see more P.304

In the case of the runner-up project in Rouen (FR), On the move (fig.10), the built part of the increment is bound by a “prototypological” approach which attributes a diversity of programmes to various objects. The surfaced part of the increment in this case also gets a “prototypological” treatment, creating combinations with the built component. The radicalism of the increment lies both in the “à la carte” proximity between buildings and surface, and in the “Clouds” and “Rules”, i.e. the ability to detect change in assigned proximities (“Clouds”) or to keep re-adjusting such proximities through frequent “referendums” (“Rules”). What we find here, in fact, is a sort of democratic radical incrementalism.

The team behind the winning project in Donauwörth (DE), Kept soil (fig.11), shifts the “Radical Incrementalism” strategy from managing the “action package” constituting the increment, to unfolding the “action package” through logistics. In other words, the team employs accumulation by a meticulous, step-by-step, somewhat fragmented transformation of the derelict military camp. In this case, the built part of the increment in this case is the existing, repurposed building structures. The surface is the existing unbuilt ground, which acquires a sacred character by being kept intact through the preservation of the current planted areas.

The radicalism in this case is about the new proximities engendered both in the built part of the increment between the existing and newly inserted structures, and the ways in which the “sacred” surface infiltrates into, under or alongside the hybrid buildings.

The trojan horse strategy

By Trojan Horse strategy, we mean that what we see of a project is not all that we actually get.

In other words, the project teams employ strategies of infiltration by partially disguising the nature of their projects. In fact, they recognize the catalytic agency of form which builds value through proformative qualities 10. In such cases, architecture has the opportunity to perform a complex urban role that is traditionally assigned to infrastructure, as an instrument of connectivity for the city-in-the-making.

In the runner-up project in Wien-Kagran (AT), Kaleidoscope (fig.12), we see a reasonably successful and typical urban block, but we also get an urban valise which is quite handy for infiltrating into “alien” environments such as the project site’s XL-scale commercial activities. The “urban valise” is, in fact, a disguised infrastructure in the form of a multiuse building volume whose geometries allow changes of use between offices, shops and parking spaces. An

11 - Donauwörth (DE), winner - Kept soil > see more P.288

32 12 - Wien-Kagran (AT), runner-up - Kaleidoscope > see more P.321

the interweaving of the “what” and the “how” in the heart of “architectural urbanism” (physical, temporal and pragmatic aspects of the project context). A similar approach was introduced by the author for a study on the Europan 5 results 11.

In examining the Europan 12 projects, we see how they develop a complex package of this kind first by multiplying the time-related agents in the project, which become mechanisms for adding value. In other words, a back and forth trajectory takes place between the

13 - Kuopio (FI), runner-up - Somewhere over the train flow... > see more P.296

artificial private ground situated on the top of this volume serves the residential programme that extends into the building further up.

In the case of the runner-up project in Kuopio, (FI), Somewhere over the train flow (fig.13), we see a rather dense linear building armature but we also get a multi-bridge that covers the train rails and connects the project site to the adjacent area. Its disguise lies also in the fact that it is positioned horizontal to the railway tracks, not vertical as one would expect a bridge to be.

The porosity of the ground floor of the buildings makes possible a multi-crossing over the rails via a major linear public space. “…the building aims to kick-start the awareness of the site and the transformation process” in the words of the winning team in Assen (NL), Embrace the present (fig.14), but also partly in the words of the project brief itself. In this case, we see a linear residential block but we also get a multi-infrastructure that redefines the existing canal and repurposes part of it as a small harbour with private boats. In addition, it sacrifices its roof-top for a parking garage accessed by electrically operated elevators, further emphasising its “Trojan Horse” quality. Its durable linear structure seeks to work like Renzo Piano’s “casa evolutiva” (references from the interview), available for appropriation by its future users.

In the runner-up project at Vila Viçosa (PT), we see a Tupperware party (fig.15) and we also get a major linear public space partially covered by an elaborate canopy. In fact, the party is an example of how the infrastructure performs. The team aims to trigger awareness of the site and to foster the transformative process by events, in a way reminiscent of the endless field of Superstudio in the 1970s and the relational systems of SANAA’s “Field Party”. The proposed new buildings, however, seem redundant given the current inoccupancy of the site’s building stock.

14 - Assen (NL), winner - Embrace the present > see more P.282

Mighty unfoldings In this group of projects we focus on the methods that the teams suggest for implementing their proposals. The fact is that operating in a state of transition neutralises any confidence in the exactness of future end-states and their reverse phasing into the present. Increasingly in Europan sessions, therefore, the teams formulate both the content and method of implementation through alternative scenarios, blueprints and roadmaps for action. We can see such approaches emerge explicitly as far back as Europan 6 in the previously mentioned article

by Amphoux, where he introduces a definition of the project’s complex context that addresses 15 - Vila Viçosa (PT), runner-up - Tupperware party > see more P.316

33 16 - Rouen (FR), winner - Que m’Anquetil? > see more P.302

“what” and the “how”, to maintain both openendedness and specificity. The “Mighty Unfoldings” group consists of the winning project in Rouen (FR), Que m’Anquetil?, the runner-up in Donauwörth (DE), Multiple city and the winner in Vila Viçosa (PT) Between landscapes.

Multiplying time-related agents begins with the unearthing of existing temporalities hidden from plain sight, the temporalities of larger urban/ natural territories. Sometimes these can be identified by simply establishing synergies between professions in the teams, as is the case with some of the E12 sites: the unearthing practices of landscape architects and urban planners combine with those of architects.

In fact, programmes and uses embody such temporalities, which inform the winning projects.

The concept of pioneer uses and spaces, coined by the winning project in Rouen (FR), Que m’Anquetil? (fig.16), uncovers a different approach from those frequently encountered in Europan. In fact, we realize that the temporal events are not just time fillers until the final

17 - Donauwörth (DE), runner-up - Multiple city > see more P.290

project takes over, but become active and valuable agents which engage new audiences with the site, thereby actively influencing its future.

They catalyse stop-action frame sites by adding value and thus opening up new possibilities.

We find an emblematic winning project back in the Europan 9 session in Bordeaux (FR), La ville plus près (Bringing the town closer), where the project was supposed to grow from the site through the active agency of pioneer uses.

Why wait for the next 10 to 20 years to benefit from urban dynamics through connection to the railway network? Let’s start now! Let’s begin by harnessing the timeframes of the existing city to infiltrate the island-site by stitching together existing soft mobility networks and by offering attractive living by the waters of the Seine (Que m’Anquetil?, winning project, Rouen (FR)). In the case of the runner-up project in Donauwörth (DE), Multiple city (fig.17), we see a polarity being created by plugging the former military camp project site into the urban archipelago’s transport infrastructures. By this means, the project

18 - Vila Viçosa (PT), winner - Between landscapes > see more P.314

is transformed into a device for managing urban flow. The plug-in device is celebrated through a red, ribbon-like ramp, which overcomes the problems of the big level difference between the city and the project site. In the winning project in Vila Viçosa (PT), Between landscapes (fig.18), the abandoned project site gets some help by recruiting the extended former industrial area through an “à la carte” matrix of actions.

All three projects recruit larger territories to sidestep the absence of urban dynamics. In other words, they allow everyday temporalities from adjacent territories to revitalize the project sites, in tandem with the unearthed temporalities of the site itself. By hybridising temporalities, they bring added value to the sites.

Another way to add to the panoply of timerelated project agents is through calls for open design initiatives, under which pioneering urban actors are invited to join an “urban brain storming”. In the case of the Que m’Anquetil? winning project in Rouen (FR), the team delivers an impressive matrix of connections between project instigators (municipality, SNCF, region, etc.), urban pioneers (individuals, associations, schools of architecture, art, communication and advertising, ministry of culture, etc.) and pioneer uses and spaces. The nature of these uses and spaces may be either ephemeral or evolutionary,

34 20 - Kuopio (FI), winner - Savo nueva > see more P.294

temporary or permanent. In the case of Multiple city, the runner-up project in Donauwörth (DE), the “urban brain storming” takes place with the opening of an “Ideas Store” and continues with a series of further calls for contributions.

In the latter project, the modus operandi is a blueprint of very precise and meticulous actions.

Part of this blueprint is a Development Agency to be formed by the city council. Temporal uses, like the pioneer uses mentioned above, are invited to colonize the site for the first three years. The “Forestall City”, as the team calls the new entity, which emerges from the transformation of the former military camp, offers a robust spatial frame for subsequent public life, where spaces of potentiality are easily integrated through everyday tactics. In the case of Rouen, the winning team provides a “general frame of action” that allows the continuous emergence of specific plans on different scales; a frame which is paraphrased by the winning team in Vila Viçosa (PT) as a system, or rather a matrix, of dynamic actions that interact with citizens and open up new prospects for action in space.

19 - Seraing (BE), winner - Synergy > see more P.308

Malleable ecologies In fact, the project teams want to be among the urban actors who instigate networks of urban institutions that support and maintain the city. In other words they aim to participate in the creation of urban ecologies. In this case, ecology means a more or less stable set of relationships that can be maintained over time and gives order to the city, to relations between people and to the flow of goods and ideas 12. Such a definition of ecology invites all sorts of hybridisations between manmade and natural environments.

The teams, in fact, call for such hybridisations to increase new proximities between groups and to attract unlikely combinations of programmes and uses. To do so, they stretch the ecological ranges and implode programmes. They profit from unusual juxtapositions and groupings by superimposing flows originating in a diversity of scales. They simultaneously recontain territories to instigate the incubation of new ecologies, and carefully breed new territories through multiscalar connections.

These are the strategies deployed in the following projects: winner in Seraing (BE), Synergy, runnerup in Wien-Kagran (AT), Monument in fertile country and winner in Kuopio (FI), Savo nueva.

The superimposition of living, producing and consuming becomes a strategy for imploding programmes in the winning project in Seraing (BE), Synergy (fig.19). The shared vegetable gardens become an asset for the residential areas as well as for the proposed market area.

The ground surface acquires a third dimension to accommodate such activities, to filter the flows from the wider urban territory through the project site, and to define public spaces at the edge of the project site that can connect to future adjacent developments.

In the case of the winning project in Kuopio (FI), Savo nueva (fig.20), we witness a similar strategy of implosion on two levels. The first seeks to enhance coexistence between older and younger populations in residential clusters, the second to create a cultural hub (the Health Campus) that exploits the good road access to attract a translocal catchment area. The proposed linear public space acts both as a bridge over the railway lines connecting the project clusters and fosters porous clusters open to the rest of the city.

As regards the runner-up project in Wien-Kagran (AT), Monument in a fertile country (fig.21), the project itself becomes the pivotal node of such malleable ecologies. The transversal devices, the project’s plates and spaces of movement, as the team defines them, interweave through the project site, yielding all sorts of unlikely proximities between programmes. Radical combinations arise when the plates and building volumes of the project are corroded by the flows of adjacent ecologies such as mobility networks or public parks. Radical combinations are achieved by stacking programmes and using parts as buffer devices to manage the unwanted proximities that arise through such combinations. For example, the office blocks become noise barriers between the highway and the residential structures. To emphasize the gesture, any parts of the building volumes exposed to noise are amputated.

In the first two cases, malleable ecologies allow

35 programmes and connections to be internally redistributed to larger territories, even when the teams are still committed to the certainty of the master plan, whether inherited in the project brief or formulated in their proposal. In Monument in a fertile country, the superimposition of all sorts of timeframes by means of a strategic approach based on malleable ecologies, reduces the risk of creating another isolated enclave served by transport infrastructures. As a result, the team instigates collaborations between urban actors from previously unconnected urban ecologies, actors who do not often get to sit around the same table.

Avoiding architecture’s irrelevance to city making In addressing both “in-house” and “outre mer” references to architectural urbanism or architecture-as-urbanism, we discovered that the perpetual instability of the urban environment, full of stop-action frame sites and economies, dates back to early modern times but is also manifested differently in various European and North American cities. We also found that the struggle of architecture-as-urbanism to engage with an “adaptable city” concept was and will continue to be a Europan concern, as evidenced by the discourses and projects in the increasingly rich Europan archive.

We went on to explore how this hybrid vision could be used to review the range of intentions expressed by the E12 teams (mostly architects, but also landscape architects and planners), in order to show how architecture-as-urbanism adopts strategic thinking to navigate in states of transition. In fact, they demonstrate a range of aspirations to achieve broader objectives by means of strategies, introducing tactics that exploit the opportunities created by those strategies. We discovered the generative power of the radical increment, plus the catalytic agency of form that builds value. We were pleasantly surprised to see the increasing importance of timerelated agents with a catalytic role that adds value to space and revitalises stop-action frame

21 -Wien-Kagran (AT), runner-up - Monument in a fertile country > see more P.320

sites, feeds into form and opens the doors of the design process to contingencies. “Thinking of form through time could be one way to prevent architecture becoming irrelevant” (excerpt from interview with the runner-up team, En pointe!, Wien-Kagran (AT)), has been the motto for such an approach.

By diversifying the project’s temporalities through malleable ecologies, the teams show the value of embedding design within the functioning city by reconfiguring the hybridization between urban ecologies and by instigating unusual collaborations amongst urban actors. Further on, the group of “Mighty Unfoldings” projects showed that the “project package” cannot be delivered without an explicit approach to implementation through roadmaps and blueprints, represented by diagrams and text and dynamically related to architectural renderings of possible endstates. Such an approach requires the admission by the teams that the Europan project can make no impact on the sheer scale of some of the sites (Multiple city, Donauwörth (DE)). Having realized this, they shift from simply instigating the small scale practices of everyday urbanism to suggesting changes to everyday urban institutions. In other words, they act as double agents, representing the interests both of clients and of those who will be affected by their actions. It will be exciting to follow their “uncertain futures” and to see how the host cities respond to the pressure of getting perhaps more than they bargained for. The challenge for

them is to take advantage of these outstanding practices of architecture-as-urbanism to inform the way their urban institutions operate. Indeed, that is the role that the winning Europan teams increasingly aspire to play.

1 the former: Dana Cuff and Roger Sherman, editors, FastForward Urbanism: Rethinking Architecture’s Engagement with the City, Princeton Architectural Press, 2011; the latter: Pascal Amphoux, The Included Third as Urban Project, Book of Europan 6 Theme: In Between Cities, 2001, p17-19 2 Bernard Reichen, For a Sustainable Urban Debate, Book of Europan 6 Theme: In Between Cities, 2001, p20-21 3 Cuff & Sherman, 2011, p10 4 Eve Blau and Ivan Rupnik, Transition as Condition, Strategy, Practice, Harvard University, Actar, Barcelona, 2007 5 Bernard Reichen, For a Sustainable Urban Debate, Book of Europan 6 Theme: In Between Cities, 2001, p20-21 6 Rebois, Reichen, The European City and the urban-architectural scale, Europan 5 results catalogue, Paris, 1999, p18-25 7 Amphoux, 2001, p17 8 Eve Blau, City as Open Work, selected from the introduction to Project Zagreb in Insidious Urbanism, Tarp Magazine, Pratt Institute, NYC, 2011, p61 9 Cuff & Sherman, 2011, p28 10 Cuff & Sherman, 2011, p25 11 Socrates Stratis, A project based action in an urban-architectural scale, in The new conditions of the urban project – Les nouvelles conditions du projet urbain – directed by Alain Charre, éditions Mardaga, Belgium, 2001, p81-88 12 Grahame Shane, Urban Design Since 1945: A global Perspective, John Wiley UK, 2011, p36

Aglaée Degros co-founder of Artgineering (www.artgineering.nl), an urban design agency in Rotterdam (NL), teacher at various academies and universities in the Netherlands and Austria, member of Europan’s Scientific Council.

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Networked territories or a homage to structuring slowness “The separation of social and utilitarian public space in the design of the 20th century city brought a divorce between the structuring and the composition of the city.” 1

The structuring aspect of networks Yet when we analyse famous examples of utilitarian networks – Moses’ Parkways in Boston, Haussmann’s Boulevards in Paris, Todt and Seifert’s Reichautobahnen in Germany – we can see that history is full of examples of networks transcending the technocratic world and become the expressions, or rather the instruments, of territorial structure. When Moses designed his Parkways, he broke up the traffic lanes to incorporate them into a recreational area, thus forming a landscape ensemble with both traffic and leisure functions. As for Haussmann, his boulevards clarified the urban texture of Paris (for military reasons), but also developed a new building typology: the Haussmannian townhouse (for the bourgeoisie). For their part, with their Autobahnen, Todt and Seifert developed a genuine landscape strategy conditioned by touristic/propaganda factors, for example the famous Munich to Salzburg A8, which runs along the Chiemsee and opens onto a spectacular alpine landscape.

The aftermath of rational planning Modernity is a key moment in the history of the separation of territory and network. The era of Fordism was all about flows, the organisation of production processes and technology, with the spatial consequence that networks were entirely dissociated from their context to achieve better performances. They were designed to evacuate flows as quickly and efficiently as possible, like channels carrying people or goods to their destinations.

As we increasingly move away from modern and post-industrial visions of the city, a new type of city is emerging. One no longer based on its capacity to produce but on its capacity to offer a qualitative environment, with production as a secondary consideration. A city in transition, in pursuit of environmental quality, resource preservation, proximity between nature and human beings. A city that is discarding rational planning 2 and its principle of strict functional separation, in favour of a flexibility of uses that are more readily appropriated. So what about infrastructure design in this adaptable city?

Modes of action deployed The city is becoming flexible, malleable, and therefore its structure is moving from the specific to the general, the antithesis of rational planning. Starting with the specific requires not

only greater comprehension of the context in all its dimensions – spatial, landscape, sociological… – but also demands a seamless spatial approach that cuts across disciplines. When it comes to networks, this means emancipating ourselves from the engineering logic inherited from modernism and developing a dialogue that spans disciplinary divisions. Alongside the transformation of the city, we might see networks become integral parts of the territory with a structuring spatial, landscape and social dimension. These two postulates – about the transformation of the city and the structural dimension of networks – require a redefinition of the modes of action implemented to design those networks. If isolated from the territory, these modes of action are purely technocratic, but if we see them as an integral part of the territory, the modes of action become more sophisticated, spanning the boundaries between the disciplines of engineering and spatial planning, and indeed of landscape and sociology.

The spatialisation of networks In this approach, networks are no longer seen as hidden entities but as a system that can be read in three dimensions. The links are made visible as interconnections between different structures.

This is the case of the winning project, Porto novo (fig. 1), developed on the site of a small town beside the river Tagus: Porto Brandão in Portugal. The project develops the link between Brandão (fig. 2), its backcountry and the university established there. It offers great potential for enhancing the town. The project works by connecting the town with its backcountry by different pathways, tracks, promenades, a tramline, etc.

The route referred to as the “cultural path” structures the development of the new tram stops that connect the buildings. It is a subtle mix of enrichment of the existing heritage and intensification of traffic. Another route, christened the “productive path”, stimulates wine production and the logistics associated with it, including river transport. The project develops other routes with names like “taste path”, “leisure path”, etc.

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The Ciney site in Belgium (fig. 3), a site that links the town with its station, is also open to this mode of action. Ciney station is vital not only for the town but also for its environs, because it is one of the few stops on the 161 rail line between Brussels and Luxembourg. In their Walk the line project (fig. 4), the special mention team connects different spaces, obviously the station and town centre, but also parks, quarries and old forges. The architects reuse existing pathways, sometimes widening them or converting them to public squares, to create a pedestrian continuity that forms a backbone for the remodelling of the built fabric.

At Kalmar in Sweden (fig. 5), the winners, with their project Conservation, densification and complexity (fig. 6), redefine the existing road that runs across the site. Route 25 becomes street 25, structuring the fabric. The road downgrade combines with the creation of car parks, and its profile is transformed through the conversion of two of its traffic lanes into green tracks for pedestrians and cyclists. The plots along the axis are carefully identified to offer areas of possible densification set out along this “road/ street”. The linear urban development incorporates proposals for the locations of new build1 - Porto BrandÃo (PT), winner - Porto Novo > see more P.328

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scape. This approach has undergone a renaissance in recent decades. In spatial terms, it takes the form of a landscape of strips that vary with the speed of their users. The innovation lies in the introduction of the notions of gradual growth (or even incremental development), recycling and symbiosis between infrastructure and nature. Where previously a concept was imposed, with a superimposition of infrastructure on landscape, the new modes of action used to insert networks into the landscape now leave more room for the random, for reuse and for ecology.

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ings within the existing fabric, thereby completing the town without dispersal. It also uses the existing network in a way more in tune with the urban texture, by socialising public spaces that were previously entirely utilitarian.

Turning networks into landscape The second mode of action that we see in the projects submitted for this 12th edition of the competition, although not new (see the examples of the Parkways and autobahns cited above), seeks to meld infrastructure and land-

This combination of landscape and a random vision of infrastructure is probably most visible in the runner-up project Re-evolution (fig. 7) on the Mannheim site in Germany (fig. 8). In Mannheim, the structure of the town’s street network profoundly influences the urban layout, which is in fact nicknamed “Quadratestadt” (grid). The relationship between infrastructure and urban texture is tangible, which is not surprising since the municipality, in its plan for the redevelopment of the Europan competition site, stresses the relation with the infrastructures and in particular with the B38 motorway. The site is described as an “Engineering Mile” between city and motorway, and forms the backbone of the city’s future development corridor. In their proposal Re-evolution, the architects view this backbone not as a static project, but as an evolving process. The site and its structure (the B38) branch off into a network of alternative mobilities (dedicated to public transport, walking or cycling). These rami-

fications form a new, slow network that reduces traffic on the B38. The project offers us more than a built fabric, a linear network where nature and infrastructure grow together: a form of ecomobility. Over time, the site is transformed into a “park” which encompasses the infrastructure with a potential that is not only ecological, but also promises a form of social cohesion that reconnects dislocated parts of the city by means of a resocialised space.

Within the same order of ideas, the landscape initiated by one of the runner-up project on the Venice site in Italy (fig. 9), Percorsi per riqualificare (fig. 10), is also linear but based around a railway infrastructure system. The Venice site, or at least part of it, is bounded on one side by the A57 motorway and on the other by the railway

6 - Kalmar (SE), winner - Conservation, densification and complexity > see more P.356

5 - Kalmar (SE)

6 - Kalmar (SE), winner - Conservation, densification and complexity > see more P.356

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line running from Mestre. In itself, it is an area of train hangars, and therefore profoundly marked by the presence of the railway infrastructure.

This relation – railway, road, lagoon landscape – is set to become more intense, given the plans for the restructuring of the Mestre/Venise route

around the railway, the tramline, bicycles and the suppression of car traffic. The project seeks to combine the fast traffic flows of the motorway and railway with the slow flows (pedestrian or bicycle) in the adjacent green area of Piraghetto Park. The instrument of this symbiosis is the use of the route of the former railway tracks. The site becomes a new landscape where nature and infrastructure are melded, providing structure for the layout of new buildings.

One of the winning projects, Rambles verdes (fig. 11), on the Barcelona site in Spain (fig. 12), offers a further example of the integration of networks into landscape. Since Cerda in 1860, the city has been largely defined by its crisscross network of streets running perpendicular and parallel to the sea. This network has been extended to the metropolitan area since the

8 - Mannheim (DE)

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10 - Venezia (IT), runner-up - Percorsi per riqualificare > see more P.384

1970s and the Solans plan. The project site is located at the intersection of the metropolitan motorway network and the Besos River. The winning team uses the infrastructure both to create a link between existing and future parks, but also as a strip of landscape in itself. The project creates links running across the metropolitan area.

La Rambla, employed here as a link, recovers its original meaning as a dried up river bed and combines landscape and infrastructure within a single linear space.

In addition, it incorporates a path for pedestrians and cyclists. It seeks to link the metropolitan region’s six parks in order to create a green network. Here, infrastructure and landscape are so interwoven through the use of the typology of the Rambla itself that we don’t know whether it is the network that fashions the landscape or vice versa.

40 schemes. These small-scale networks become part of larger future projects. The local network proj­ect becomes a way of giving citizens right of access to physical and social networks. In this project, the strategic Sagrera plan is thus enriched by local initiatives that give visibility to different processes such as recycling and education, in order to anchor the local project in the social context of a wider plan.

12 - Barcelona (ES)

The socialisation of networks The issue here is not social networks, but a mode of action derived directly from sociology, which seeks to create a link between people and networks. The issue now is no longer one of integrating infrastructure into its spatial or landscape context, but into its social context.

There is nothing new about returning infrastructure to the people. It was a move advocated by Jane Jacobs as far back as the 1960s. 3 What is innovative in the project is the appropriation of supra-local networks by the introduction of new types of local network.

One of the special mention projects here in Barcelona, Right to infrastructure (fig. 13), the title of which is directly linked to the book by Henri Lefebvre, deals with this socialisation in its broadest sense.

Firstly, the project proposes to incorporate the local scale infrastructure into a regional scale infrastructure project. Secondly, it also proposes a temporary alternative to the housing development requested in the brief, by reusing vacant buildings already present in the city.

The “macro” objectives of the Sagrera strategic plan (implementation of a masterplan around the new high-speed rail network and its station) are incorporated into a process in which citizens become active participants, contributing to the project and benefiting from its outcomes. The local projects create synergies between local networks (water, gas, electricity, waste) and local socio-economic actors, for example through the creation of waste recycling 11 - Barcelona (ES), winner - Rambles verdes > see more P.342

Slow structure These different modes of action, and more particularly the mode of action developed on the Barcelona site in Spain (which is no accident, because the city is in the midst of major economic change), make very clear reference to the idea of slowness. The socialisation of networks in this project is an allusion to the notion of rhythm. 4

41 Meyer, H, Josselin de Jong, F, Hoekstra, M, Het ontwerp van de openbare ruimte, SUN Amsterdam 2006 2 Lash, S., Another Modernity, a Different Rationality, Blackwell, Oxford, 1999 3 Jacobs, J, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, university of Michigan, 1961 1

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The rhythm of network production is compared with the existing rhythm of the city. What emerges is different rhythms, including that of a society affected by crisis, which can no longer implement fast growth projects, but needs to develop its strategies in several phases. In this as in other projects, we also discover that we have moved on from the drive to speed developed by modernity, to a different rhythm associated with the creation of networks designed for slow and environmentally sensitive transport methods. The goal is no longer just to link cities, communities or territories quickly and efficiently, but also to consider the quality of those links. Links become flexible to achieve these sustainable continuities. The new networks are mostly malleable and slow, designed for pedestrians or cyclists.

Whereas ecology and infrastructure are often perceived as opponents, slow practices offer a way of reconciling these two milieus: green link, Rambles verde, green strip or Vias verdes.

Finally, slowness is not only reflected in the use of networks, but also in their spatial design. The goal is no longer to produce a single, integral, ready-made concept, but more to develop a slowly evolving vision that is introduced gently, whether in the sphere of landscape, space or social relations.

We might conclude that networks establish the structure of a territory that has slowed down, or alternatively and more often that they govern the slow structuring of territory.

12 - Barcelona (ES)

Lefebvre, H, Le droit à la ville, Anthropos, Paris, 1968

Winning projects

43 170 winning projects on 51 sites in Europe

WINNING PROJECTS TOPIC 1

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Dynamic urban platforms Revitalising currently unattractive public spaces needs consideration on a broader scale than the immediate site environment. Even if these spaces are sometimes small in scale, they are strategic levers for activation on an urban level. Their impact in terms of identity and image often exceeds their physical limits and calls for a wider transformation of the existing fabric. Blind spots that have never had adequate use, or places whose initial functions are now obsolete or out of sync with the requirements of the inhabitants, can serve as platforms for activation and appropriation to mobilise the local population or a broader public. The development or redevelopment of these areas can be approached in many ways: in the form of refreshment by multifunctional spaces, with temporary or extendable structures acting as acupunctures, or as a trial balloon to put a site on the map, initiate private co-financing or investment and find new rhythms of intensity.

AALBORG (DK)

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BITTERFELD-WOLFEN (DE)

52

BUDAPEST (HU)

58

DON BENITO (ES)

64

GJILAN (KO)

72

KRISTINEHAMN (SE)

76

MARSEILLE PLAN D’AOU (FR)

82

SAINT-HERBLAIN (FR)

88

SCHIEDAM (NL)

94

WITTENBERGE (DE)

98

AAlborg Danmark (DK)

LOCATION Aalborg

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION city 120,000 inhab.

city, region and housing

conurbation 125,000 inhab.

associations

STRATEGIC SITE 80 ha

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

SITE OF PROJECT 32 ha

city, region and housing associations

interview of the site’s representative

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Rie Malling, architect and project manager for the Europan project, representing the Municipality of Aalborg

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Aalborg’s identity as “the city on the fjord” is of great importance to its role as the region’s capital. For the entire stretch along the Limfjord strait, there is a clear need to create a large, harmonious area as an attractive link between city and fjord. Vestbyen is part of the string of urban areas attractively located along the Limfjord strait. It has very close connection not only to Aalborg city centre, but also to the extensive green recreational spaces west of the city and the expansive suburbs to the south. The district is characterised by its multiple identities, which manifest themselves in the its broad diversity and assortment of services and the wide range of housing available.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The City of Aalborg is calling for a strategy under which one of the oldest boroughs in Aalborg can be involved in transforming, finding new uses for and preserving Vestbyen. How can the new strategies for Vestbyen, starting in a run-down area, contribute to bringing new activity into the city, increase urban and residential quality for those who live, work in and visit the area, and also address the challenges of climate change, social issues, etc.?

As a traditinal inner-city borough, Vestbyen has numerous good qualities, both as an urban area and a place to live, but also contains a number of urban spaces, streets and places that are less attractive and in need of regeneration. Even though (as a starting point) these spaces and places are small in scale and lack focus or simply exist in spite of themselves, there is a need for the kind of vision that can help to kick-start a wider rejuvenation of the entire district and create projects that bring together residents, investors and politicians.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

There are many large-scale renovation and other urban development projects on their way to Vestbyen over the course of the next 10 to 15 years, such as a new light rail system, regeneration of the University hospital and the former distillery, renovation of existing housing etc., which could have a considerable impact on the neighbourhood’s development. The projects encompass the framework of services in this part of town and the programming and design of the public sphere and its social spaces, as well as the neighbourhood’s general quality as a residential and working area.

The aim is to achieve synergy between the different projects and sites and focus on how investments together can generate quality of life for those living and working here.

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aalborg (DK) winner

Gianmaria Socci (IT)

Via dei Tornei 13

architect - urban planner

60020 Offagna, Italy

Andrijana Sekulic (ME)

T. +39 3356915714

architect

info@gianmariasocci.com www.gianmariasocci.com

48 Das Andere Team point of view With the multiplicity, heterogeneity and variety of interests involved in city making today, any uniform, top-down action is unsustainable, and is better replaced with a process of continuous negotiation.

In parallel, citizen empowerment and participation in decision-making opens the way to an exciting application of direct democracy. Instead of answers, therefore, municipalities will be given questions. Questions in built form. Local interventions are set out like bait following empirical opportunities, revealing hidden potentials and possibilities. A dialectical process of negotiation is then initiated, based on Negotiative Plans. These will evolve through iterative adaptation to changing needs, inspiring people’s imaginations and influencing the physical transformation of the Vestbyen area.

Quotidian Vestbyen / Exceptional Vestbyen

Jury point of view The project has a strategic value and approach. It proposes a discursive process, not based on consensus, but rather on friction and agonistic reasoning that embraces conflict. The project manages to formulate a strategy of asking questions through built form. The proposed tool of architectural Baits challenges current expectations about the future development of the Vestbyen area. Architecture is used to create spatial conditions, suggesting and triggering new types of unexpected use.

Snapshot 2025: from the Baits to the Negotiative Plans

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The Hospital: modernist slabs and low rise meet in a hybrid fragment

The Viaduct: a border is transformed into a link

The Back Court: an unexpected monumentality behind the gardens

aalborg (DK) runner-up

Humberto Salvador

Mathias Bæktoft Bentzen (DK)

Monarkiet

Maldonado Baeza (MX)

Søren Hykkelbjerg Poulsen (DK)

Banegårdspladsen 10, 4.tv

MA Arch. Energy and Green

Marius Costan (DK)

8000 Aarhus C, Denmark

Architecture

students in architecture

T. +45 31339667 info@monarkiet.com www.monarkiet.com

Section through Haraldslund Plaza

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A collective storyline

Perspective from Haraldslund Plaza

Team point of view The essential vision behind this proposal is of turning Kastetvej into the strong backbone of Vestbyen, its strongest line of development and core of its new identity.

A selection of valuable areas are singled out and connected to and across Kastetvej through different strategies. Existing green spaces are reinforced and new green areas established in streets and plazas. Kastetvej is also central in the strategy of distributing, developing and displaying the different local identities. The programmatic strategy seeks to activate public spaces by different user groups at different times.

Ideas for 12 different sub-areas of Vestbyen are collected in a storyboard of identities, and distributed through the phases of development.

Jury point of view The project proposes an holistic and comprehensive approach to Vestbyen. The project strategy of storyboarding a catalogue of possible identities for different subareas, whilst remaining within the specific context of each area, and then linking them together at Kastetvej, is a robust way of delivering an open toolbox of examples, ideas and possibilities that can inform the further development of Vestbyen.

Plan of surrounding area at Haraldslund Plaza

Valuable areas in Vestbyen

Strategy snapshot 2025

aalborg (DK) Special mention

Anna Gancewska (PL)

Anne Camilla Auestad (NO)

architect - urban planner

architect - urban planner

anna@weareahead.dk

Anna Ziober (PL)

www.weareahead.dk

T. +45 50668693

constructing architect

green network adaptability period: 10+ years

public activator adaptability period: 5-10 years

local activator adaptability period: 3 months

Aalborg Vest activated!

Team point of view This project introduces a new method of urban renewal, based on user participation and public-private partnerships.

To ensure the even development of the district, the project consists of three main elements, each with different timeframes.

The elements with the shortest adaptability period are the Local Activators, temporarily installed in local neighbourhoods. They consists of a “frame”, a pavilion or square provided by the municipality and rented out for free to different organizations, inhabitants and local stakeholders, enabling them to curate their own “content” for a limited period of time. The Local Activators play a major role in stimulating urban life. At the same time the Activators are the starting points for future physical changes to the neighbourhoods.

Jury point of view The project proposes an interesting bottom-up approach to the development of Vestbyen. It seek to activate the development of the district through small-scale temporary operations. The role given to the local activators in this strategy is a way of enabling citizen participation and giving the local neighbourhoods of Vestbyen an important role in the development, fusing economic, environmental and social needs.

Local Activator with temporary services: Biker zone (2018)

Local Activator on Poul Buås Vej (2025), scale: 1:2000

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Bitterfeld-Wolfen Deutschland (DE)

LOCATION Bitterfeld-Wolfen –

SITE PROPOSED BY

Garden City and Town Quay

town of Bitterfeld-Wolfen

POPULATION ± 43,900 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE ± 269 ha

town of Bitterfeld-Wolfen

SITE OF PROJECT Garden City

(approx. 1/3), LMBV (approx. 1/3),

South 15.6 ha / Town Quay 17ha

private owners (approx. 1/3)

interview of the site’s representative

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Stefan Hermann, director of the department for construction and urban development, Bitterfeld-Wolfen

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy The former central German chemical and mining region of Bitterfeld-Wolfen has undergone fundamental structural changes since 1990. Today the urban area is the epitome of an ‘adaptable city’. The collapse of the old chemical combines and lignite opencast mines after the political turn in 1989 triggered the creation of an ultramodern chemicals and technology park and a new landscape with lakes and forests adjacent to the town.

The successful transformation process has continued to the present day, accompanied by rapid technological development that has changed the lifestyle of the residents in all areas.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The town council envisages the development as a complex working, living and recreational environment under changed conditions. To combat the negative effects of demographic change, new target and population groups are to be attracted with the implementation of this strategic task.

The newly created Goitzsche recreational landscape provides a unique opportunity to radically improve the quality of life of its citizens.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The immediate proximity of the town to the lake has been further emphasised by the construction of a waterside promenade and ‘town quay’.

Besides the task of creating a link from the town centre, the town quay project area enjoys top priority. Here lies considerable potential for new housing typologies, accompanied by new sports, recreation and leisure concepts that go well beyond the present amenity level in their quality and appeal to attract new residents.

Due to its proximity to the lake and Goitzschewald – and also to the town centre – the Gartenstadt Süd project area on the South-West fringe of the town offers enormous potential. This wasteland opens up many possibilities for creating a residential area with new and cross-generation housing forms as an alternative to the conventional single family housing. The environment inspires the development of housing typologies with a strong relation to the countryside. High-quality public open spaces as meeting places are to promote identification with the residential neighbourhood.

Direct links from the residential areas to leisure and recreation facilities will ensure a high degree of attractiveness.

The early involvement of property owners and potential investors in the Europan procedure by the town council and the future cooperation between municipal companies and private investors will guarantee a continued development process in the project areas.

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Bitterfeld-Wolfen (DE) winner

Aline Hatt (DE)

Magdeburger Str. 2

Sabrina Ritter (DE)

78467 Konstanz, Deutschland

Anja Kaiser (DE)

T. +49 1737620627

architects

alinehatt@gmx.de saritter@web.de kaiser.a89@googlemail.com

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Historic village structure and courtyard structure

Team point of view Through the analysis of village structures, norms were derived for the design and organisation of urban development and transposed to a modern version.

Even though the vanished villages of Bitterfeld had to give way to opencast mining, the medieval road network still indicates their connection with the city. The ancient road, along with direct visual references to the villages, marks the heart of the district, where the meeting centre is located.

Here the elderly of Bitterfeld work together to establish a new form of childcare, rebuilding a sense of community. On the quayside, the project recommends a mix of different leisure activities designed to appeal to different generations and a variety of people. Sports events will attract sporty tourists.

Jury point of view The great strength of the design is the confident delicacy with which the new construction is introduced into the local context and green space, while nevertheless still creating a striking atmosphere.

The few interventions on Goitzschesee are performed with a steady hand.

The houses in the Gartenstadt, in terms of typology, grain, compositional arrangement and the quality of living they achieve, represent a convincing plan and are appropriate to the location.

Network of former villages

Site plan of project area B

Perspective ‘lake‘

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Pack schematic

Site plan of project area A

Perspective ‘courtyard‘

Floor plans

Bitterfeld-Wolfen (DE) runner-up

Émilie Horz (FR)

16 Mail Renaissance

Thomas Giuria (FR)

95120 Ermont, France

architects

T. +33 670020428 contact@urbanochory.fr www.urbanochory.fr

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Urbanochory Team point of view The project is one of those requiring the conversion of abandoned spaces, rebuilding the city on the city. The two proposed sites become dynamic platforms, real levers through their strategic positions linking historical centre, bay and forest. The project, by driving actions and by the reconnection of sites to the urban and touristic fabric and their distinct programs, offers a new way of living surrounded by nature within the city through three sequences (area A). In addition, new interactive and educational tourism products (area B) place sustainable development at the heart of the learning process. The urban project triggers different rhythms, playing on the variation between programme timescales. It therefore creates a unifying link between focal points so that a strong and readable global identity emerges.

Masterplan - Connect sites to the urban fabric

Area A: Sport and health courses at the foot of the hounsing

LAKE SIDE: ECOSYSTEM PLAZA

Jury point of view The strength of the work lies in the way the links between the city and open spaces have been developed. A coherent structural concept has been derived from this, which, with the exception of the bridge, is of an appropriate scale. Of particularly high quality is the exceptional atmosphere achieved in the Garden City, which promises a high quality of living, while also promising adaptability over a long period of development.

The filter gardens in the heart of semi collective housing

Bitterfeld-Wolfen (DE) Special mention

Andrea Schwörer (DE)

Konradigasse 9

Sandra Duran-Pillibeit (DE)

78462 Konstanz, Deutschland

Nilüfer Umul (DE)

T. +49 15152577492

architects

anschwoe@htwg-konstanz.de

57 Eclectic islands Team point of view The cultivated Goitzsche landscape just outside Bitterfeld is an area of recreation and exploration.

On first analysis, the area seems characterized, on the one hand, by strongly fragmented green spaces, and on the other hand, by a lack of public space. We transformed the island from water area into green area.

Now the green space flows around our eclectic islands – a new interpretation of a garden city in the form of living islands. The district should develop a targeted range of apartments with neighbourhood improvements to suit children and seniors. The eclectic islands in both areas are also structured by themes. The project is not a radical transformation: it can be implemented in gradual steps.

Jury point of view The design proposes a clear urban planning framework and a strong basic structure that allows for development in phases and, because of the steady formulation, provides for great architectural diversity. The courtyard typology can be a convincing alternative to freestanding single-family homes, which creates an identity for the neighbourhood, as well as the interesting platforms that criss-cross the lake and waterfront.

Budapest Magyarország (HU)

LOCATION Budapest - Zugló

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION city 1,730,000 inhab.

municipality of the 14th district

district 123,000 inhab.

of Budapest

STRATEGIC SITE 420 ha

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

SITE OF PROJECT 24 + 28 ha

municipality and private owners

interview

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of the site’s representative Urban Development Office, Zugló, Budapest & Europan Hungary

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy The city district of Zugló, together with six other municipalities along the creek, is currently investigating the potential for the revitalisation of the creek.

The aim of the project is to establish an ecological strip along the water that connects tourist destinations and public functions and is able to act as a recreational corridor which revitalises the urban fabric.

The goal of local government, beyond the cooperation of the municipalities, is to develop a strategy for a complex renewal of the urban fabric around the creek, within the borders of Zugló. The creek side is to be developed through contained, local interventions within a short timescale, but with long-term strategic vision for the renewal of the whole area. The primary goal of the competition is therefore to enhance this process by defining strategies and interventions that would positively affect local communities.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The site is located along Rákos Creek, a waterway that played a vital role in the development of the urban agglomeration within the Budapest region.

In the mid-20th century, the water-course was channelled and its role in the urban fabric slowly deteriorated to its current state. The creek became a hydrological infrastructure that forms a barrier that the city has been trying to overcome ever since. The result of this conflict is an ambiguous, fragmented urban fabric, with areas of different character, but also of different levels of use. On the site’s predominantly residential locations, consisting of high-quality detached houses and large housing estates, the problem arises from a lack of connectivity and public functions and from a lack of definition of existing public spaces between the buildings. The task is to develop a strip of land – an area of great diversity – incorporating both empty and built plots and allowing for the high level of uncertainty on these individual sites.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The competition process provides the possibility of developing a new model that connects, transforms and generates the future developments of the site and could be used as a model for other areas of the city.

The most important next step is to develop the plans for the public space operations. We have to prepare a strategy to develop the surrounding public spaces and establish an urban planning framework concept that reflects the characteristics of the built environment. Finally, this has to be harmonised with the municipalities along the creek and with the city’s central government, before the actual implementation phase.

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Budapest (HU) runner-up

Romain Granoux (FR)

François Justet, 33 quai de

François Justet (FR)

Valmy

architects

75010 Paris, France

Margaux Minier (FR)

T. +33 687510827

architectural historian -

info@clumsycity.com

philosopher

www.clumsycity.com

60 Manual towards a clumsy city

Manual of the thematic tools towards an urbanism à la carte

Spatial fragmentation of uses and temporal fragmentation of places

Team point of view Starting from the postulate that vulnerability defines the sustainability of the city, the project, situated at the heart of Zugló residential area, is designed as a manual for users and planners, identifying various temporal and spatial tools that provide overlapping solutions for the creation of a malleable, poetic and clumsy city. The temporal and territorial fragmentation of these tools, as well as the participatory design process, constitute the essences of a method that opens up 1000 possibilities.

They lay down the conditions for the representation of an archipelago city defined by the multipolarity of these small-scale interventions, which advocates a welcoming architecture that fosters moderation and values what is rather than what is not.

Jury point of view The project is ambitious, proposing a practical and logical toolbox. The team use the creek as an experiment. Identity is not created by place, but by people colonising the landscape. People can come and colonise and participate, provide local support through a participatory pro­ cess that works with cultural exchange. Overall conception of occupying the place / colonising the landscape by participation.

Implementation of the tools suggested in the manual (malleability and acupuncture)

Multiple regenerations for the natural linear of the creek

A landscape project to revitalize a neighbourhood

Budapest (HU) runner-up

Sándor Guba (HU)

Sándor Guba, Bocskai u. 36

Balázs Besenyei (HU)

2100 Gödöllő, Hungary

architects

T. +43 68120908726

Lilla Szabó (HU)

gubasandor@gmail.com

landscape architect

www.nnnnarquitectos.eu

61 Chain reaction Team point of view The increasing shortage of greenery in Zugló has a negative impact on urban and social structure. This chain reaction can be reversed by reinventing the role of Rákos Creek. One essential need is structural reform to increase permeability – such as separate and unobstructed cycling and pedestrian lanes – and vegetation. Another way to enhance value is by the ecological regeneration of the creek bed. The so-called green rooms give the whole area new identity. The chain reaction triggered by the strategically placed metaobjects gives the area value and quality. Local residents could attend free community workshops aimed at creating their own catalogue objects and giving the area a new, sustainable identity.

Jury point of view The project is based on a traditional landscape oriented approach. It shows a strong landscape vision combined with small, urban furniture-scale interventions. It is more bottom-up than it appears at first sight. The project is very much based on the ecological quality of the creek. It gives a good strategy for the “renaturalizing” approach.

Budapest (HU) Special mention

Nina Artioli (IT)

Antonio Guerrieri (IT)

T SPOON environment

Alessandra Glorialanza (IT)

Enrica Olita (IT)

architecture, via di Campo

Eliana Saracino (IT)

Francesco Scillieri (IT)

Carleo 25

architects

architects

00184 Roma, Italy T. +39 06 69920121 info@tspoon.org www.tspoon.org

62 Rakos Strip: concept and main actions

xx

Tune up, Zugló!

Team point of view xx.

Team point of view The Tune up Zugló project seeks to reharmonise the district within the urban structure, preparing it for currently unpredictable future scenarios, redefining its central role as a connector between the parts and making it a fertile territory for urban experimentation.

The idea is to transform Rákos Creek, with its underused and undefined adjacent spaces, into the Rákos Strip, an active and vibrant space, a contemporary infrastructure with its own identity. Through a series of interventions, some systemic/strategic, others site-specific, the current period of market stasis and uncertain planning can be exploited in order to test modalities, languages and spatial alternatives, and achieve a more aware, ecological, economical and sustainable urban development.

Jury point of view xx.

Creative City and Urban Park (site-specific intervention)

Jury point of view The project introduces the importance of design. It proposes one of the most comprehensive plans and, though not innovative in the classical sense is innovative in its comprehensiveness. Detail and complexity are integrated into the main ideas. The project establishes a good long-term vision for green and public spaces.

Masterplan (excerpt)

Railway Park (site-specific intervention)

Observatory on Transforming City (site-specific intervention)

Don Benito España (ES)

LOCATION Don Benito – Badajoz

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION 40,820 inhab.

Government of Extremadura

STRATEGIC SITE 67.11 ha –

and city of Don Benito

56.292 ha

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

SITE OF PROJECT 7,360 m2

city of Don Benito and private owners

interview of the site’s representative Víctor Gerardo del Moral Agúndez, Regional Minister

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of Development, Housing, Land Planning and Tourism, government of Extremadura

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Don Benito is located in the east-centre of the Extremadura Autonomous Region, a growth area in the Vegas Altas del Guadiana district. Because of their proximity and their interconnection, the twin cities of Don Benito and Villanueva de la Serena have become a business hub and a major demographic and financial focal point for the Region, close to two major national motorways, the A-5 and the A-66. The economic driving force in this area is still its powerful agricultural sector and its primary produce processing industries, the main reason for the obviously dynamic local environment.

Don Benito’s compact radio-concentric growth until the 19th century loosened in the 20th century, with the construction of the first urban expansion areas. From then on, spurred on by the new road link to Villanueva, a new focalised growth spine set the stage for the installation of new facilities for the district and the broader territory. This is the context of the site chosen for Europan, in the heart of Don Benito.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The growth of this town centre over time has resulted in the forced coexistence of different growth types, not always accompanied by the fluidity and continuity required for the easy use of a city. A sprawling city inevitably “attacks” its centre, forcing it to change. Other ways of “experiencing the city” are now emerging, facilitating some of the normal uses of the centre and moving others away. In the course of this process of creating new areas, the old town centre has suffered from the emergence of degraded, empty areas that have been abandoned for more modern locations. New planning needs have arisen that require analysis: the recovery of urban forms in space and time, planning that integrates the new growth areas with the recovery of the centre, the revitalization of the old centre and the adaptation of the city to more flexible contemporary lifestyles.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The project area fits these parameters: it forms an architecture-scale site, encompassing the current void beside the Santiago Apóstol Church and the rundown buildings alongside it. The “adaptable city” will tackle this inbetween space by weaving the urban fabric back into place, looking for ways to ensure the rebalancing of public and private, open and built spaces, pedestrians and vehicles, day and night. A framework will be drawn up to absorb these transformations, integrating memory (legacy), proposals (new uses), reversibility, the passage of time (day-night, seasons) and sustainability as its premises.

The success of the winning proposal will depend largely on this capacity for synthesis, its adaptation to changing, complex times given current economic conditions.

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Don Benito (ES) winner

Verónica Sánchez Carrera (ES)

C/ Juan de Urbieta 10 Loc. Dcha.

Indalecio Batlles Abad (ES)

28007 Madrid, Spain

Julia Font Moreno (ES)

T. +34 636226196

Beatriz Sendín Jiménez (ES)

info@nundo.org

architects

www.nundo.org

66 Don Benito´s patio Team point of view n´UNDO proposes improvement based on No Construction, Minimization, Reuse and Dismantling, with a global long-haul project. Acting through small sequenced interventions on a large localized scale, and giving priority to investment in the municipality’s typical pre-existing values and structures, the project seeks to recover and promote the grid of voids, public spaces and patios.

No construction of new buildings; Minimization of barriers to accessibility, road traffic in the centre of the village and unnecessary signage and street furniture; Reuse of existing buildings for public use, revision of voids, empty plots and urban remnants, preparing them for public use; and Dismantling of buildings in poor condition or other elements that create a visual or physical barrier between public spaces.

Jury point of view The project provides a sensitive municipal-scale analysis and proposes alternatives to increasing density on the competition site. Drawing on mechanisms that respect local realities, it suggests a new interpretation of the city and new itineraries, which emphasise its identity and its legacy. The proposal could be defined as fieldwork with minimal, temporally sequenced operations and a high priority on pedestrian routes.

CAR TRAFFIC ROADS. Car traffic is reduced in the town centre. Just few roads allow free circulation

PEDESTRIANIZATION of main roads in the town centre and between public squares

PARKING POINTS. Located in empty areas at the perimeter of the centre.

That allows an easiest pedestrian circulation in the town centre

PUBLIC GREEN AREAS. Strengthening the existing ones and the pedestrian ones, for a climatic control.1car/1tree at parking areas

PATIOS CONnECTION. The temporary opening of private. Patios allow new itineraries.

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Don Benito (ES) runner-up

Jorge Ruíz Boluda (ES)

c/ Músico Hipólito Martínez 16-43

F. Javier Cortina Maruenda (ES)

46020 Valencia, Spain

architects

T. +34 620 931 946 estudio@jorgeruizboluda.es javier.cortinamaruenda@ gmail.com www.jorgeruizboluda.es

68 Shadow Team point of view The context of economic crisis is one of the starting points of the project.

Building the minimum m2 to solve the problems will be one of the aims.

This will reduce costs considerably and give Don Benito free space.

A strategically located underground car park will be built. The area of action will be “cleared” of low quality buildings. The new voids will be filled with a Centre for Entrepreneurs to solve the problem of views obstructed by dividing walls, with a tourist information centre for the small voids. These buildings also revitalise the local economy. We also propose to generate a new, unique and versatile public space using a modular system of shadeproviding canopies. These, together with benches and new pavement, provide a unified response for the three squares.

Jury point of view The proposal is articulated around a large square at the rear of the church. The proposed new buildings are integrated delicately into the gaps, with an underground car park to address the parking problem in this area. The project clearly defines a wide yet restrained public square, where a set of lightweight awnings creates diffused shade. This treatment could be interpreted as a tablecloth spread across the site.

New urban image from Plaza de España

Don Benito (ES) Special mention

Elias Guenoun (FR)

Perrine Montfort (fR)

18 rue Montgolfier

architect

architect

75003 Paris, France

Juan Sebastian Camelo

eliasguenounarchitecture@

Abadia (CO)

gmail.com

art historian Florent Lahache (FR) philosopher

69 The Lavadero

West of Spain Team point of view Behind Santiago Apostol Church, which is the centre of the town of Don Benito, warehouses, factories, plants, some houses, a school and a theatre were erected a few years ago. Those buildings, now destroyed, have been replaced with a large outdoor parking area.

In entering a competition to restructure this square, the municipality’s intentions were simple: to turn this unfriendly place into a real public space.

While those intentions were clear, the programme brief was more open, and it was up to the contestants to imagine the needs their project should address. With that consideration in mind, we spent a few days in Don Benito. Strolling about for a couple of hours in the streets was enough to convince us that the city lacks nothing (or almost). Specific developments may certainly be needed, but as a whole, the city is fairly well-equipped.

Therefore, we decided to base our approach on this observation, to submit a project which, instead of adding elements to an already very substantial base in a context of future uncertainty, would rearrange the existing elements by attempting to exploit potentials still largely neglected today.

As a result, we undertook a thorough analysis of the site and its surroundings, repeating the same question at every phase of our investigation: do we need something new here? Against all the odds, the answer that usually came back was: no.

Jury point of view The proposal avoids a comprehensive operation and instead proposes a thoughtful, varied collection of devices that administer the opportunities that the authors detect in the pre-existing context, the legacy of the site and potential activities in the surrounding public spaces.

The Benches Wall

Programs

Project

Don Benito (ES) Special mention

Nicolas Simon (FR)

Arthur Biasse (FR)

École sarl d’architecture,

Max Turnheim (FR)

Alexandre Boulé (FR)

Nicolas Simon et Max Turnheim

architects

Ophélie Dozat (FR)

9 rue du Sentier

Sahand Emdadian (FR)

75002 Paris, France

Paul Gard-Baholet (FR)

T +33 954820409

Hadrien Gauthier (FR)

mail@ecole.co

Gerta Heqimi (AL)

www.ecole.co

Louis Latzarus (FR) Henri-Pierre Lecluse (FR) students in architecture

70 Structure Team point of view The block centres are occupied to the benefit of residents. Contained within its historic walls, the town takes over these liberated spaces to limit its own congestion and avoid the associated destruction.

From this pedestrian network emerges the project’s central space: a substantial void right in the heart of Don Benito, bounded by a four metre high wall. Previously reserved for cars, the enclosure delineates an area that restricts the space to pedestrian use alone.

This arbitrary intervention drives an infinity of practices to which the physical environment contributes. In encompassing the surrounding buildings, the enclosure defines public spaces whose shape depends on the intervals generated by the encounter between the wall and its context.

Jury point of view This project prioritizes the recovery of the historic centre as a public pedestrian space in order to generate a new urban configuration. The broad aim is to design an initiative that will enhance the potential public usage of city spaces at all levels. The proposal seeks a form of innovation that takes risks in its proposal for the physical creation of a new urban element, and at the same time explores the existing fabric to identify other potential elements yet to be proposed.

Perspective view

Master plan

Axonometric view

Potential pedestrian plan

Public transportation map

Don Benito (ES) Special mention

María Mestre García (ES)

Moreu Mestre arquitectos,

Nacho Moreu Fernández (ES)

Madrid, Spain

Almudena Mampaso Cerrillos

m3@moreumestre.com

(ES)

www.moreumestre.com

Giammattia Bassanello (IT)

Bassanello Mampaso architetti,

architects

Rome, Italy mamba.office@gmail.com www.mambaoffice.com

71 Be void my friend Team point of view To reflect on the “adaptable city” at Don Benito, where historical growth has produced residual gaps in its consolidated urban fabric, means understanding the importance of the void into the transitional stages and proposing different answers depending on each void’s temporary status. The relationship and the rhythm between mass and void constitute the city’s identity.

The void between walls and plots and beyond courtyards walls will be part of the solution and will configure urban voids the same way as does a street or square. The void style will establish material, dynamic and virtual relationships. When this porosity is extended to the housing, it generates a block of courtyard-houses in harmony with local housing and linking the city void with the private and semi-public spaces.

Jury point of view Treating the sequence of urban gaps with identical tools reinforces their relationship is reinforced and creates a new route through the town: a particular local landscape with materials, plants and operations on shared walls that helps the area to acquire an identity.

The final picturesque, micro-scale construction aims incorporate various aspects of the site such as courtyards, lanes, party walls and the varying heights of the buildings.

Gjilan Kosovo (KO)

LOCATION Gjilan

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION city 86,500 inhab.

city of Gjilan

conurbation 135,000 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE 12.5 ha

city of Gjilan and private

SITE OF PROJECT 1.95 ha

owners

+ 19,539 m2

interview

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of the site’s representative Ilir Gjinolli, architect, president of Europan Kosovo

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Gjilan city centre is the historical heart of the city, which was almost completely transformed after the World War II. Most of its cultural heritage was destroyed under the Communist regime, during the 1990s transition period and in the 1999 war. The urban site contains almost all the city’s public amenities, including a theatre, a new library building under construction, the stadium, the City Hall and municipal building, a hotel and the business area along the main street. The site currently contains the court building, police station, municipal administration and the hotel, which is privately owned. There is a large public space, more dedicated to car traffic than pedestrians, and a small river in the northern boundary links the buildings.

Opening and channelling the riverbed will turn the river into an urban asset open to public use. The municipality is currently implementing a long term regeneration of the riverbanks, which will be become a 4 km long strip of public space, incorporating the city centre.

The winning Europan 12 project for the Gjilan site takes a long-term view of the transformation of the city centre area, and will form the basis for a review of the current zoning plan.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

Making the site adaptable means that changes in the use of the facilities and public spaces will be possible during the implementation process.

The goal is to transform the existing fabric and content, to achieve a diversity of public spaces with cultural facilities, civic services, housing, commercial functions and social facilities.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The new cultural centre will have to accommodate facilities for different cultural activities, both formal and informal, performances and exhibitions.

Besides theatre performances, the theatre will host a range of cultural events. The cultural centre, with a concert hall, dance hall and cinema,and a small art gallery, will enhance the quality of cultural life in the city. Considering current capital investment in Kosovo, It is clear that the municipality would not be able to finance the transformation of the site, notably the Culture Centre, Municipal Centre and public space. The wining proposal will be used in applying for EU Municipal Social and Economic Infrastructure Projects.

Given that the project arises from an EU competition, there is a good chance that the proposal might be accepted by the EU Office. The new municipal hall will accommodate all municipal departments. The strategy for the Municipal Centre is that the municipality intends to use Public-Private Partnership agreements, under which the municipality rents the premises from the private partner for a certain period. Alternatively, negotiations may lead to other arrangements, such as granting building land to the private partner.

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Gjilan (ko) runner-up

Joan Alomar (ES)

Estudio lunar, Netherlands

Conxa Gené (ES)

europan@estudiolunar.nl

Javier Iñigo (ES)

www.estudiolunar.nl

Carmen Largacha (ES) Iñaki Llorens (ES) Juan Marcos Rodriguez (ES) architects - urban planners

74 Welcome to urban wellness!

Team point of view Our proposal offers an urban vision for a totally new, healthy image for Gjilan city centre, changing the character of its central spine and creating a new Central Square of Culture, dominated by new buildings that will make Gjilan an urban model in its area.

With the addition of new functions and increasing programme density in Bulevardi i Pavarësisë – Dëshmorët e Kombit, this strip of Gjilan will become an even stronger and more attractive urban core. The whole collective space is made up of “pixels” that spread and colonise these spaces with different ambiences, linking them together to create a single larger, coherent spatial entity. Our proposal seeks to create alternative routes and dissuasive parking. Our goal is to reduce car intensity to a minimum on the study site by moving it away from the axis.

Jury point of view This project provides a phased proposal for city development. Like other projects, it deals with public space as well as proposing 3 buildings in line with the municipal brief. The traffic is organized to allow public transport, bicycles and pedestrian to move through the axis while car traffic is diverted away from the main square. The axis is treated as a single strip of functions where the main square encompasses multifunctional activities within the three proposed buildings. The public space is enhanced with elements of vegetation.

Gjilan (ko) Special mention

Cristina Cordero Mora (ES)

Enric de la Hoya Nolla (ES)

08911 Badalona, Spain

architect

Arnau Sañe Riera (ES)

T. +34 678511506

Ferran Viladomat Serrat (ES)

students in architecture

frrn89@gmail.com

building engineer

www.viladomatarchitecture.com T. +34 666148541 edlhn8@gmail.com www.hoyarq.wordpress.com

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Good old times Team point of view The study site is divided into 5 islands, each free of cars at the centre. They are classified into 3 groups representing different phases, which allows us to control implementation to reflect the economic situation and general need.

The work to recapture the river consists of a peaceful green walking route, which starts from the sports facilities and finishes in the new city, acting as a lung for the new city centre. A variable section system is developed as a guide, allowing us to build all along the river.

The aim is to humanise the area and its surroundings, with a continuous pavement and adaptable platforms that create different public locations.

The architectonic proposal seeks to match the scale and shape of the traditional urban fabric.

Jury point of view The project handles the space by means of smaller structures. What is distinctive about this project is that it is breaks up the space by creating smaller public spaces. This is achieved through the design of small structures for settlement around the operational area, with all the functions spread along the axis. The main square contains 3 types of building.

Backyards from the riverside

Urban furniture - Adaptable system (Market/ Meeting/ Resting)

Humanizing the area and surroundings

The recovery of the river - Adaptable section system

Kristinehamn Sverige (SE)

LOCATION County of

SITE PROPOSED BY

Kristinehamn/Värmland

city of Kristinehamn

POPULATION city 19,000 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

conurbation 24,000 inhab.

city of Kristinehamn

STRATEGIC SITE 67 ha SITE OF PROJECT 6 ha

interview

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of the site’s representative Kalle Alexandersson, Head of the planning department

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Kristinehamn is in a period of transition and faces the challenge of adapting to new conditions. From the post-war period up to the 90s, Kristinehamn was a small regional centre with a mix of large public institutions and large scale industries. Since then, many of the institutions have closed and many of its industries have moved or shut down. However, at the same time there has been an increase in small scale businesses and services.

This development has been reflected in the demographics, with a steady fall in population since the 70s. Recently this trend has reversed and now the population is growing again. The reason is that Kristinehamn has managed to connect with neighbouring regions, predominantly through good train links, but also with the European E18 highway. Kristinehamn offers a lakeside location and a picturesque historical city centre. People can now choose to live here and work either locally or elsewhere.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The site presents a fantastic opportunity to shape the future evolution of this lakeside town centre. Once a harbour area crucial to the creation and survival of the town, this centrally located park could again play a pivotal role in the creation of local identity. The central location, the beautiful Varnan River which meanders through the site, and the old town’s wooden architecture, offer great potential for the creation of a successful inner-city park. The project could function as a hub between different parts of the city.

The challenge is to create a good mix of activities, both cultural and commercial, spontaneous and planned, in order to attract people of all ages at all hours of the day. It is important that the physical and psychological connection between the town centre and the commercial area, as well as the connections between the project site and the town centre, are developed and strengthened. The town needs to preserve its small-scale, idyllic, accessible core and to provide the means for spontaneous social and recreational activities.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

One important task for the future relates to connections. As a smaller municipality with attractive natural qualities, we need to be connected so that people can live here and work in nearby regions. Then we can take the leap into a future where jobs are concentrated in fewer regional centres.

The other task is to fortify local business with the aim of becoming an independent centre with our own local identity.

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Kristinehamn (SE) winner

Mario Benedetto Assisi (IT)

Giulia Pozzi (IT)

Via Capo delle Volte 6

Irene Toselli (IT)

architect

44121 Ferrara, Italy

Giuseppe Crispino (IT)

Andrea Pozzani (IT)

T. +39 3281638729

Valentina Milani (IT)

student in architecture

info@inoutarchitettura.com

architects

www.inoutarchitettura.com

78 Responsive system Team point of view Responsive system emphasizes dynamic processes, resilience and adaptation through time, reactivating cultural and ecological dynamics at the water’s edge, accommodating the fluctuations of the river and the lake. The project responds to the hydrological, urban and ecological conditions that characterize the city of Kristinehamn as it meets the river. Rather that proposing an isolated answer, we identify a system of urban voids that can be connected and activated within a responsive framework for ecological and urban change. Moving beyond engineering, we envision the site as a dynamic water filter that supports a wide range of urban programs. The transition from river to land is thus seen as a gradient from wet to dry, a gradient evident in time, movement, vegetation, and in changing depth.

Jury point of view The project tackles the existing flooding problems at the site and uses infrastructure as a way to create urban identity and space, dynamic landscape and ecological and programmatic diversity. It is a complex proposal that is successful from a perspective of sustainability, ecology, urban design and social cohesion. It proposes a city where natural changes are also experienced hedonistically, offering citizens the pleasures of synchronicity of events. In this sense, time – perhaps more than space – becomes the determinant of urban planning.

Site plan. The park

Constructed Wetlands. Stormwater release into the river

79 View from the constructed wetland towards the new urban block

General plan

Water system, vegetation, program and circulation

Areas subject to flooding

View of the outdoor swimming pool

Kristinehamn (SE) runner-up

Alexandru Cozma (RO)

Bianca Ruxanda (RO)

str. Mures 133B

Oana Simionescu (RO)

Andra Jug naru (RO)

300778 Timisoara, România

architects

Zsolt Gondos (RO)

T. +40 742075797

students in architecture

alex.cozma@f-o-r.ro

Roxana P trulescu (RO)

www.f-o-r.ro

architect

80 The centre. The path.

The field of action.

Team point of view Using the landscape as a unified background we propose a demarcation that assigns a beginning and an end. The project’s orientation and morphology reflect the existing landscapes, structures and networks. Sensitive to what is already there, we densify existing textures and use soft interventions to accentuate the boundaries and character of the site. We propose a system of activation, with minimal built structures, and a series of operative voids, places for action – where space is left for natural growth and development. The LOOP is a dynamic structure that explains the centre and evolution of Kristinehamn; a complex process that includes both the journey and the events that it crosses; a boundary that leaves room for the present to be continuously created in and out of time.

Jury point of view This project is very effective in its strategy of drawing a single circle as a landmark to the creation of a place: a field of action.

It works with a kind of ancient, archetypical definition of space. It looks at returning to anthropological roots and rituals. It unchains a direct connection to the recreation of links between human beings and the land.

It develops a kind of new urban choreography, enriching possibilities for movement and relations to the environment in the city.

Marseille France (FR)

LOCATION Marseille - Plan d’Aou -

SITE PROPOSED BY

North districts

Marseille Rénovation Urbaine

POPULATION city 850,600 inhab.

and city of Marseille

conurbation 1,040,000 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE 4.27 ha

Le Plan d’Aou Property Company

SITE OF PROJECT 0.44 ha

interview of the site’s representative

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Laure Portalé-Manachevitch, Project Manager of urban renewal, Marseille Urban Renewal - Excerpts

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Founded on the aspiration for community minded and sustainable development at both local and metropolitan scale, the municipal plan is based around 5 strategic long- and medium-term development priorities for Marseille: to make it a maritime metropolis, Euro-Mediterranean capital, emblematic city of a region, a town of neighbourhoods and of urban regeneration areas, to remake “the city on the city”, with a focus on the framework of public transport, to build a sustainable city.

On the northern edge of Marseille, Plan d’Aou forms an urban promontory, bounded by hills with significant altitude differences, offering exceptional views over the wider landscape but making access difficult. Situated below the project site, Saint-Antoine Station links the neighbourhood to Marseille Saint-Charles (16 min journey) and Aix-en-Provence (20 min). Several generations of residents live side-by-side, brought together by cultural and group activities, social difficulties and attachment to the neighbourhood and its eventful history.

Plan d’Aou is the outcome of three generations of successive construction, demolition and reconstruction. This 900 home estate, started in 1972, experienced its first demolitions in 1987. Several mostly private housing programmes have been completed since, along with public amenities. The recent introduction of a north-south road has opened up the neighbourhood and reintroduced activities.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

In order to develop, Marseille needs renewal and regeneration for whole sections of its territory, yet without erasing its past, in particular the recent past. An integral part of the big citadel-like estates built to accommodate repatriates from Algeria and dock and oil industry workers, entirely renovated since the early 2000s, the Plan d’Aou site has now entered a redevelopment phase. From this point of view, we would be tempted to speak of adaptability versus resilience.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The aim is to move from a “perfect” urbanism, where everything is supposedly planned for, to a perfectible urbanism, transforming the site into an evolving, diversified – even disparate – city neighbourhood, with all the ingredients of a city… This way of producing the city gradually assembles the pieces of a puzzle, each of which is able to adapt to urban changes.

The project that results is evolutive, and therefore necessarily imperfect. It treats and approaches land as a precious resource, which represents a real opportunity to gradually build the future.

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Marseille (FR) runner-up

Simon Moisière (FR)

93 rue Barrault

Jean Rodet (FR)

75013 Paris, France

Adrien Zlatic (FR)

T. +33 609351053

architects

jeanrodetabel@gmail.com

Nicolas Persyn (FR)

www.jeanrodet.com

geographer

www.simonmoisere.com www.13ruemadon.fr

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Concomitance Team point of view For a city, adaptability is the ability to provide opportunities for different temporal and spatial uses, without causing instability.

Those opportunities are defined by three dimensions that essentially guide usage: urban and architectural form, property rules and plot pattern. The proposed thin plot weft is an adjustable object that is easy for all stakeholders to appropriate. A system of mid-length leases fits into this weft, allowing flexibility of use while guaranteeing stability for occupants. Finally, the light architecture provides a low-cost structure that can be easily and quickly converted.

Jury point of view The project analysis explores the question of ownership. Societal changes and the crisis make it essential to adopt adaptable construction systems. The architecture developed here is not frozen, but is always adaptable to requirements and to change. The facility has a mixed aerial architecture and its roof is accessible to the public.

The jury found the proposals on land and land management through leases very interesting.

Axonometric view of the project

Typology

Working in

Marseille (FR) runner-up

Jeanette W. Frisk (DK)

Bianca M. Hermansen (DK)

arkilab ApS, Birkegade 4

Rasmus W. Frisk (DK)

architect - urban planner

2200 Copenhagen, Denmark

architects - urban planners

Emilie S. Kjeldsen (DK)

T. +45 28143717

student in architecture

mail@arkilab.dk www.arkilab.dk

85 A new Urban Village Team point of view The masterplan proposes a rethinking of the traditional French Village, known worldwide of the capacities of its community buildings as well as its celebration of natural settings. These two components are integrated into the proposal largely in two ways. 1. The focus on community building via the creation of a series of different community spaces and sub spaces which provide individuals with social choices. 2.The celebration of the secluded nature of the site through the framing of evocative views and vistas. The topological plateau creates an urban island, surrounded by both greenery and city fabric. This unique situation is indeed worth preserving, yet connections are needed to facilitate human activities and well-being, all carefully chosen and designed with high urban quality.

Jury point of view This project proposes the creation of a highly structured urban fragment that gives Plan d’Aou a tauter fabric. In it, space follows a gradation from public to private through three types of urban entity: street, alley and yard. Place d’Aou, in the middle of the intergenerational building, is designed as an adaptable urban space preset to accommodate different public uses (markets, games, concerts etc…)

The jury liked the distinctiveness of the team’s approach in proposing urbanisation on the southern hill with an unexpected architectural form.

It also highlighted the project’s capacity to open the neighbourhood to a more diverse population.

Ecological and Habitat Infrastructure in the Yards

Ecological, Community and Visual Infrastructure in the Alleys

Habitat, Ecological and Visual Infrastructure at the Bluff

Socio-ecological Infrastructure at Place d´Aou

Marseille (FR)) Special mention

Louise Balliet (FR)

Amaga Dolo (FR)

Pauline Behr (FR)

geographer

Anaïs Giraud (FR)

Patrice Rambaud (FR)

Mauro Lombardo (IT)

graphic artist

europan12marseille@gmail.com

Pauline Vincent (FR) architects David Mateos Escobar (MX) urban planner

86 Network connecting neighbourhoods

Il n’y a que mail qui maille Team point of view Il n’y a que Mail qui Maille, a reference to the existing Canovas Mall and to the proposed new network, is a real think tank for temporal urbanology. More than form, it’s about exploring a process capable of integrating the already here and of innovating with the unexpected.

The temporal map of functions, uses and mobilities highlights several directions of development: connecting and reinforcing centralities between and in neighbourhoods, characterising public space and creating a large urban signal at Plan d’Aou. Drawing on urban rhythms, whose distinctive spatial and temporal features are seen as evolving factors, each player in the project can define their own tools and work in an environment that constantly evolves through experience and observation.

Intergenerational house, a meeting place

Micro architecture’s temporal and spatial uses

Through Plan d’Aou, from St Antoine to la Bricarde

The Plan d’Aou “stitch” matches urban and social times

Jury point of view The project is based on a close analysis of Plan d’Aou’s situation and proposes creating new access points to the SaintAntoine neighbourhood but also to the northern hospital at Estaque via a cable car. The development of the public space is marked by microarchitectures arrived at through participation.

The jury emphasised the qualities of urban meshwork proposed here at several scales.

Saint-Herblain France (FR)

LOCATION Saint-Herblain

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION city 43,119 inhab.

city of Saint-Herblain and

conurbation 582,159 inhab.

Nantes Métropole

STRATEGIC SITE 71.1 ha

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

SITE OF PROJECT 17.8 ha

city of Saint-Herblain, Nantes Métropole, social housing investors

interview of the site’s representative

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Fabien Gantois, site expert and Saint-Herblain municipality (excerptS from the competition brief)

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Designed between 1979 and 1982 on a garden-city model, the Preux district won international prizes in 1984. It is now being overtaken by metropolitanisation. Invisible from the major roads, under competition from nearby shopping centres, it has lost most of its activities and shops. The district is gradually closing in on itself and entering a process of decline. SaintHerblain Municipality and Nantes Métropole are therefore now looking for innovative project strategies based around: – connecting Preux with the surrounding districts and the new public transport networks; – remodelling a neighbourhood with innovative and high quality living conditions.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The objective is to look at the district’s weaknesses and strengths and to propose a graft strategy of metropolitan adaptability.

In keeping with the ambition driving the designers of the Preux district in the late 1970s, the objective will be to redefine a new, attractive urban and architectural vision, appropriate to metropolitan ways of life.

For example, there will be a need to look at the urban framework in terms of travel methods and interdistrict connection, to devise new relations between housing and work, to conceive a future for the district’s now derelict central square.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The teams have been be invited to explore evolutionary scenarios for the district: how to adapt it to energy priorities (energy intensive housing), to social priorities (a population that is ageing or has reduced mobility), how to accommodate new inhabitants (densification of three plots, BIMBY type strategies, changes to the built fabric…), how to introduce building processes that are themselves adaptable, flexible and even reversible, etc?

While Saint-Herblain Municipality and Nantes Métropole are seeking forward-looking ideas on the future of Preux, these will nevertheless need to take the form of processes and scenarios that are themselves able to adapt to ongoing and future urban dynamics.

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Saint-Herblain (FR) winner

Jean-Rémy Dostes (FR)

Antoine Pinon (FR)

Atelier Chuck, 65 rue Servan

Claire Jeanson (FR)

architect - urban planner

75011 Paris, France

architects - urban planners

Paul Jacquet (FR)

T. +33 689141148

Nicolas Beyret (FR)

architect

contact@atelierchuck.com www.atelierchuck.tumblr.com

architect Gabriel Mauchamp (FR) landscape architect - urban planner

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Metacentre: the emergence of a garden territory Team point of view The project re-explores outlying territories and looks at the revitalisation of the Preux district, a garden city that faces the gradual loss of the utopian qualities that founded its reputation. By imagining a dialogue between big urban entities (shopping malls, universities) and residential neighbourhoods, the project guides the emergence of ecosystemterritories: Metacentres. The team proposes a project-process that sets the minimum conditions for the Metacentre through a network of appropriable public spaces. The long-term management of the project is conducted via a tool of governance, the Atelier du Metacentre, which defines key actions and brings together actors, timeframes (agricultural, cultural, academic) and local and global initiatives.

Jury point of view The jury liked the territorial strategy, which introduces relations between points of centrality. By proposing to open the Preux district to other hubs, Metacentre suggests a line of approach to an urban master plan, the basis for coproduction with residents. In so doing, the project avoids the trap of driving district intensification exclusively from within.

The Metacenters of Nantes Metropole

Possibilities, Atlantis and Preux

Possibilities, the «urban plates»

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To make the city differently, “the Metacenter working studio”

The Metacentre, a new territorial ecosystem

The esplanade of Preux, perspective

Possible relations, symbiosis of the urban entities

Saint-Herblain (FR) runner-up

Anne-Lise Gruet (FR)

Collectif FIL, 30 Boulevard

François Hamon (FR)

Gustave Roch

Amélie Allioux (FR)

44200 Nantes, France

architects

T. +33 688559831

Maud Nÿs (FR)

contact.collectif.fil@

architect - civil engineer

gmail.com

Anne Petit (FR)

www.collectif-fil.com

architect - visual artist

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Permaculture

Dynamics in changing Preux district

Team point of view Permaculture weaves the invisible fabric of the city, its places and shared links. It characterizes those often invisible urban dynamics that can restore the meaning of a neighbourhood. This iterative methodology looks at the short-term, the day-to-day and the event, in the longterm evolution (alteration) of the city. Fast, micro-scale events generate disruption and change on the macro scale. In order to emerge rather than be imposed, the changes are based on citizen involvement; they confront private interests to bring the collective and now inevitable project into being.

Permaculture maintains that the adaptability of a city is its ability to implement systems of production that consume less, bringing greater capacity for innovation.

Jury point of view This project proposes a method for making the city in a participatory and phased manner. It synthesises several project timeframes: the timeframe of urbanism, stakeholders and public space. It explores the short term and the long term. The project advocates an urbanism of eclecticism and provisionality. It positions itself simultaneously at territorial and site scale. At territorial scale, it identifies four instruments of transformation.

At the level of the study site, it develops four thematic interventions.

Absorbing infrastructure, detailed process to revitalize backyards

Preux main square turned into a neighborhood courtyard

Saint-Herblain (FR) Special mention

Mélaine Ferré (FR)

Miguel Gonzalez (ES)

Mélaine Ferré Architecture

Benoit Moreira (FR)

student in architecture

detroit architectes

Pierre-Yves Arcile (FR)

4 rue Marmontel, 44000 Nantes,

architects

France www.melaineferre.com www.detroit-architectes.eu

93 Punctuations…

Team point of view Rather than a new master plan for Le Preux, we prefer an approach that deals with each specific case. The urban treatment we propose seeks to turn each independent element into a project and it is the combination of these independent schemes that will fashion the urban personality of this area. We could call this method “punctuated urbanism”.

Each “punctuation” is independent of the others; discarding one along the way would not jeopardize the whole urban project.

Participation here applies not to the planning process but to the daily scale.

The aim is to support the district of Preux in its adaptation to the changes in the surrounding urban fragments. So it is the city that needs to adjust to its inhabitants, not vice versa.

Jury point of view The project proposes the principle of “punctuated urbanism”, as distinct from ground plan or master plan strategies. This acupuncture strategy takes the form of 16 targeted interventions. The jury liked the development of a toolbox that can be used to intervene at small scale and that can be implemented with resident.

Schiedam Nederland (NL)

LOCATION Schiedam –

SITE PROPOSED BY

Vrom-Koemarkt

city of Schiedam

POPULATION city 67,500 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE ± 6 ha

city of Schiedam and private

SITE OF PROJECT 2.2 ha

owners

interview

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of the site’s representative Rob Christiaanse & Roelof Geijteman, Municipality of Schiedam

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Koemarkt serves as a traffic entrance from the east and for public transport.

Over the years, however, it has become a place where people pass by and travel through the city. In terms of enhancing social function, developing this square will have an impact on the city centre. The developments and the development of Koemarkt itself cannot be seen in isolation from the city as a whole and the centre in particular, whether it involves clustering infrastructure, improving public space or more programme-based developments.

The VROM site resembles an abandoned space between a business park and the historic city centre. Because of the proximity of the glass factory, it is hardly suitable for traditional programmes and, given its location, it deserves an unconventional infill. Though the site is considered part of the business park, the influence of the city centre is palpable. In this respect the strict division between city and working area is increasingly under pressure. These days, there is much greater overlap between working and living overlap and the rigid separation is becoming blurred, generating a challenging demand for programmes that temporarily or permanently reconcile these functions.

Possible options are a modern continuation of the development along Lange Haven, or repair of the uncompleted spatial structures round the site.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The main priority throughout Schiedam today is gradual transition. Historical legacy and old structures are deployed as core components for new developments. In addition, Schiedam wants to focus again on “giving weight to” the river Schie, the waterway that connects the city to the big river in the south and the polder landscape behind, to the north. Long-term plans for development, external space and traffic determine the nature of an interplay between modest, carefully-targeted interventions. The central question is how can the municipality both guide this process and at the same time create space for the changing (social) reality? How can Schiedam concentrate on a genuinely sustainable intervention in its structure, as the basis for a long-term vision?

The answers to contemporary, economically-programmed issues will determine the feasibility of an initial step in a development that will need to be conceived and remain sustainable in the long term. An infill for the VROM site, as the large missing piece of the puzzle next to Koemarkt and a defining location in the city, can provide the initial impetus to such a new initiative.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

It is best for the processes and interventions to be combined. A dynamic underlying structure can form the base on which interventions are interconnected. Not a single project with one final outcome, but rather an interplay of projects, interventions and developments that share the same strategy. In this way private and municipal investments can reinforce each other.

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Schiedam (NL) runner-up

Joost van Rooijen (NL)

Studio Komma,

Maarten Thewissen (NL)

Copernicusstraat 163

Redmer Weijer (NL)

2561VT The Hague,

architects

the Netherlands T. +31 629572757 mail@studiokomma.nl www.studiokomma.nl

96 A new start with old genes Team point of view In order to revive Schiedam’s inner-city, the river Schie is used as a platform for urban interventions. This is accomplished by a customizable system of pontoons and containers.

The pontoon system works bottom-up and top-down. It reacts to the needs of inhabitants or can be used by the municipality. By facilitating activities along the Schie, it makes the river once again the heart of the city and a catalyst for urban transformation. The VROM-site accommodates the pontoon concept by offering a customization site and an open plan hall. The project achieves a dynamic environment that facilitates working spaces as easily as big events. The Koemarkt square is radically cleaned up. The existing kiosks are assembled in a pavilion, creating an intimate square focused on the river.

Jury point of view The project’s strength lies chiefly in the analysis, based on the higher scale-level of the river Schie and Schiedam city centre.

Proposing small interventions at numerous places along the river Schie incorporates the Europan site into a larger structure. Moreover, with the proposal for Koemarkt, the designers succeed in creating an intimate square. A wider flight of stairs makes the River Schie more accessible, while a similar stairway on the opposite side of the river integrates it with Koemarkt. The connection between Koemarkt and the VROM site is improved.

Schiedam (NL) runner-up

Matteo Bettoni (IT)

www.basiccity.eu

Michiel van Driessche (BE)

www.felixx.nl

Bart Pouw (NL) Milena Zaklanovic (NL) architects

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Complete Schiedam Team point of view The plan embraces Schiedam’s urban setting where the historic core and the city’s industrial zone coexist in close proximity.

It connects these two conditions into one functional and legible whole.

The proposal reestablishes the Schie Canal as the main spine of the city and the project area as a key location along it. Here a meeting point has been introduced that consists of two elements with two development strategies: Clean the Koemarkt: The square is cleansed of all all the noisy details and obstacles and connected to the canal. It defines the entrance to the historic city.

Densify the VROM site: VROM site is envisioned as a programmatic booster. programme The scale and programme type are in harmony with the historic city and industrial zone. A new destination in Schiedam.

View on the VROM-site

Jury point of view The project has two visions. In contrast to the proposal to “have a good clearout” on Koemarkt and clear away all the superfluous elements, the infill proposed for the VROM site is high-density construction. Of all the projects for Schiedam it presents the best design to make Koemarkt an attractive city square. Furthermore, the designers are not afraid of making a number of bold choices such as including the public space on the opposite side of the river Schie in the design.

View on the Koemarkt

Schiedam - unique European urbanity

Wittenberge Deutschland (DE)

LOCATION Wittenberge - Town

SITE PROPOSED BY

Quay

city of Wittenberge

POPULATION ± 18,000 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE link-up Elbe

city of Wittenberge, municipal

riverside with the town centre

housing association, private

SITE OF PROJECT 5.85 ha

ownership

interview

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of the site’s representative Petra Lüdtke, urban planning department, Wittenberge

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Wittenberge is located in the North-West of the Federal State of Brandenburg, midway between the Berlin and Hamburg urban conurbations.

Following the collapse of its industrial base post-1990, the town has suffered a considerable loss of population. Today Wittenberge has 18,000 inhabi­ tants. In the light of continued population decline, the links between the town and its region are becoming increasingly critical. Wittenberge is part of the regional growth core Prignitz and together with Perleberg forms a mediumsized centre. Wittenberge’s natural potential is primarily attributable to its location on the River Elbe with its meadowlands and UNESCO biosphere reserve. The Elbtalaue riverscape is one of the most beautiful in Europe and reaches directly into the Wittenberge Old Town.

The town’s urban development policy focuses on strengthening its role as a location for industry with excellent rail connections and an attractive location as a gateway to the Elbtalaue. Urban renewal measures aim to preserve and consolidate the historic town centre of Wittenberge. The housing stock will primarily be reduced in the areas of prefabricated housing. In the past, unmarketable housing on the fringe of the town centre has also been demolished.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The Elbe harbour zone is a prime example of the urban transformation process. The area has lost its industrial character and is to be newly structured with the phased introduction of new uses. At the same time, the formerly inaccessible area has been opened up to residents and visitors to the city.

The site is becoming permeable and able to interact with the adjoining districts and the natural environment. Due to the town’s shrinkage, it will not be possible to redevelop all parts simultaneously. Interim or temporary solutions that keep different options open are part of the process of change.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

In strategic terms, the town council is pinning its hopes on a mixture of sustainable intervention in the public sphere – such as the creation of a basic framework for access – and the construction of a limited number of anchor buildings used mainly for tourism and cultural purposes. This basic structure will be supplemented by interim uses for vacant buildings and disused sites that can be adapted to differing demands with a reasonable financial outlay.

The city is pursuing a path of “small steps”, orientated to the perspective of long-term redevelopment of the former harbour zone for cultural, tourism and residential uses. It must, however, be open for adaptation to the changing requirements of users and investors, and based on broad participation by the population.

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Wittenberge (DE) winner

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Camillo Magni (IT)

Mirco Monti (IT)

via Maffucci 40

Lucia Paci (IT)

architect

20158 Milano, Italy

Francesco Nobili (IT)

Tel +39 0236557854

Andrea Zecchetti (IT)

camillo.magni@gmail.com

architects

www.operastudioarchitetti.it

open spaces

urban connections

Re-Hub Wittenberge health / wellness / food Team point of view The site is an interface between the town and its natural surroundings. The project’s primary aim is to reconnect the site to the city centre through the plan for paths and open spaces entailing both existing and new buildings.

We are designing a huge park for the city, connected to the town by pedestrian and cycle paths that pass through it and run along the river.

The grain silos are landmarks located directly on the banks of the River Elba and their presence inspired the project. Recovering the warehouses and just adding 4 new buildings close to historic buildings nearby is a way to punctuate the rhythm of the masterplan. This is achieved in harmony with the architectural style of the existing buildings, just with the addition of the volumes needed for vertical distribution. We see the silos’ as empty boxes, to be modified as little as possible so that they can be adapted to any future function required.

Jury point of view The project particularly emphasises the existing spatial qualities of the development along the banks of the Elbe, by embedding the distinctive storehouses in a landscaped zone parallel to the riverbank and complementing them with a few, equally expressively designed modern buildings. This strengthens the unique silhouette of the city, and the lines of the waterside dovetail in two places with the port tract.

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subtraction method

subtraction method Bio-Market

Wittenberge (DE) runner-up

Javier de Andrés de Vicente

C/ Silva 13

(ES)

28004 Madrid, Spain

Regina Valle Viudes (ES)

T +34 627309041 / +34 676158628

Ángela Juarranz Serrano (ES)

silva.europan@gmail.com

Miguel Fernández-Galiano (ES) Marta Peña Lorea (ES) Marta Sebastián López (ES) Blanca Alonso González (ES) Ana Perez Frade (ES) Miguel González Castro (ES) architects

102 Take part in wITtenberge Team point of view The intervention aims to recover the obsolete areas of Wittenberge through a strategy entailing all scales. These scales also need to be connected, so a network of routes is proposed. The empty plots with no current use will be transformed into temporary public spaces, using mobile devices and ideas generated by citizens in the workshops held in the warehouses. Each neighbourhood can take part, so that the city improves through collective design. The public space developed in the site area is a neutral area with the possibility for all kinds of activity, depending on the functions deployed. The project develops a management system involving both public and private entities, to define the most appropriate uses, supported by the opportunity-activity study provided. No particular programme was identified to occupy the former warehouses; only a few needs were identified, leading to a progressive strategy that would match uses and requirements.

Jury point of view The project relies on a pronounced process-oriented approach, which is based on networks and connections of existing routes and a close examination of small sections of the potentially available area.

The focus is the entire city, and the proposal suggests a discursive, participatory development process, which is elucidated using examples. Consequently, the project is centred more on interior development than on designating new construction areas.

Wittenberge (DE) Special mention

Miguel Ortega (ES)

Boddinstr. 10

Anna Martínez Sabán (ES)

12053 Berlin, Germany

Iñigo De Latorre Caballero

T. +49 17698595668

De Rodas (ES)

miguel.ortega.rodriguez@

Carla Isern Ros (ES)

gmail.com

María Cristina Rivas Barriga (ES) Jose Antonio Ramos Nieto (ES) Daniel Jacobo Harth (ES) Susana Villares López (ES) architects

103 Seeding biodiversity Team point of view On a 5-stage timeline, the Centre for the Elbe Biosphere Reserve (CEBRe) creates a civic, academic and political forum that links local projects to national and international institutions. Seeds contain genetic information but they also carry Wittenberge’s legacy, embodying the connection between nature and industry. The CEBRe will incorporate both values through a seed bank, placed inside the Silos, and a productive landscape surrounding them. CEBRe’s main exhibition will be the landscape, used as an open laboratory for professionals, researchers, amateur collectors and citizens. Through four different types of dwelling, Elbe’s biotope will accommodate increasing levels of density, from the simple reuse and rehabilitation of existing structures to the insertion of new buildings. Here, ´high density´, like biodiversity, means a high concentration of different species sharing an environment.

Jury point of view The project expands the area of the warehouses to the landscape context of the Elbe biosphere reservation. The team proposes a corresponding thematic orientation for former industrial warehouses. Not only will they be put to new uses, but the abutting area will also be remodelled in keeping with the botanical focus of the approach.

The project proposes a planned reinforcement of local identity through an explicitly ecological approach.

WINNING PROJECTS TOPIC 2

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Heritage of the future Heritage is generally thought to look back to the past, but conversely it could be said that it should look to the future. Heritage is usually considered to be extraordinary, but is there not a case for thinking about the definition of “ordinary heritage”? Heritage is customarily perceived as an architectural object, but this office will explore ways to “create heritage” in three types of context where it is in principle lacking: the transformation of orphan districts, the conversion of neglected buildings or plots, the redevelopment of abandoned industrial zones or enclaves.

It can be hypothesised that the more the city, in both its morphology and its functions, spans, recaptures and expresses the eras and phases of its development, the more it develops its capacity to adapt to change, its potential for urban adaptation and its ability to resist sudden crises. So the question is: does creating heritage mean increasing the capacity to adapt the future city?

AMSTETTEN (AT)

106

ASKER (NO)

112

COUVET (CH)

118

HAMMARÖ (SE)

124

KØBENHAVN (DK)

132

NÜRNBERG (DE)

140

REGIONALE 2016 (DE)

146

WARSZAWA (PL)

152

Amstetten Österreich (AT)

LOCATION Amstetten – Lower

SITE PROPOSED BY

Austria

City of Amstetten & ÖBB

POPULATION City 23,000 inhab.

Austrian Railway Company

Conurbation 110,000 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE 10 ha

ÖBB Austrian Railway Company

SITE OF PROJECT 1.8 ha / 0.6 ha / 5.6 ha / 1.2 ha / 1 ha

interview

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of the site’s representative Manfred Heigl, Director of Urban Planning, City of Amstetten

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy The competition area in Amstetten is divided into 5 sites all with two points in common; they are owned by ÖBB Austrian State Railways and each has an exceptional position in the city centre. With the exception of site 4, which will be used long-term primarily for residential purposes, very considerable changes of use will be made for the other sites since they are no longer needed for their former railway operations purposes. The entirely new conditions for these sites, which are of great significance for urban planning, have prompted the city and the site owner together to establish specific development objectives for them and to embed these sites in the broader approach to urban development.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The situation of the sites demands extreme care in terms of design quality, since they will be giving the city a new identity and a new profile at the interface between the railway and the urban space. An equally important challenge is the treatment in urban development terms, since it is intended that a fully independent identity should emerge for each one of these sites, as well as simultaneously for the adjacent historic city centre, which is smaller than the competition area and should not be overshadowed. This is why the aim is for potential future that will be capable of supporting and further developing the current social and economic structure of the city, such as facilities for services, health, education, research, development, temporary accommodation and homes. The physical dimensions and the time sequence for these requirements can only be assessed to a limited extent at the present time.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The winning project “Open” is convincing in its distinctive and identity creating concept, which is at the same time varied and adjustable. Flexible building types allow the development of structures with mixed uses. Their high level of adaptability, differentiated distribution and great suitability for combination, keep various development perspectives open in the competition area. The project thus not only reflects Amstetten’s high urban development aspirations, supported by the commitment of the ÖBB, but also effortlessly demonstrates how a future-oriented development strategy that is both precise and open needs to be shaped today.

“Open” has succeeded in adding urban appeal to this important area on the threshold of the city centre with its balanced mix of adaptation and accentuation, consolidation and additional public spaces: a new profile for the city!

“Open” presents an urban strategy that convincingly puts the Europan 12 “adaptable city” focus into concrete form for Amstetten, incorporating the former barrier formed by a railway bisecting the town, as a harmonious and natural part of the new integrated urban structure.

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Amstetten (AT) winner

Ramon Bernabe Simo (ES)

Alex Camacho (ES)

24 Rambla de Sant Just

Tomas Labanc (SK)

graphic designer

Sant Just Desvern

architects

Minghui Chang (CN)

08960 Barcelona - Spain

3D modeller

T. +86 18321025294

Yang Huang (CN)

ramonbernabesimo@gmail.com

interior designer

www.ramonbernabesimo.com

Eric Marcuson (US)

www.tomaslabanc.com

Francesc Montosa (ES) Matus Radiansky (SK) architects Miguel Vilacha (VE) visual artist

108 Open Team point of view “When the future is unknown, the most logical course of action is to propose something flexible.” Cities are dynamic and ever changing entities. If we assume that a city experiences positive growth over time, the most important goal in planning is to ‘control’ or ‘predict’ which direction and form the urban growth will take. By creating a series of flexible typologies that could work for very different programmatic scenarios, we allow change of use in the future and foster mixed use. With a strategy of different typologies, the sites will grow organically to generate diversity.

It will eliminate districts that ‘die at night’ by providing 24/7 activity, creating rich spatial qualities and most importantly, a diverse community of people.

We believe in the natural complexity of life.

Jury point of view The project introduces a typological strategy, which suggests the deliberate distribution of a variety of urban types with an urban scale. These types are equally adaptable as they are suggestive of a mix of uses, giving Amstetten a good urban image and optimistic programmatic bandwidth. The combination of different typologies is interesting if one sees the proposal as an ambitious manual that triggers a dynamic discussion and process.

Masterplan

Overall axonometric view

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Visualizations of the Site 1

Variations of typology

Visualizations of the Site 1 and Site 3

Modular diversity

Amstetten (AT) runner-up

Tao Wang (CN)

Alessandra Marcon (IT)

Im Holzerhurd 43

Zhe Wang (CN)

architect

8046 Zürich - Switzerland

Huibiao Wu (CN)

T.+41 762803627

Xianjun Zhou (CN)

wangtao_0131@hotmail.com

architects

zhewang.wang@gmail.com xianjun.zhou2010@gmail.com www.b-t-arch.com

110 Rail bank river Team point of view Situated between Vienna and Linz, Amstetten occupies a strategic position in the national transport network. The railway plays an important role in the city, but the railway land is isolated. The project creates a new urban landscape in harmony with the existing legacy, characterized by major landscape axes based on the existing natural or heritage elements. This will be complemented by a finer structure of road and waterway systems, which define the identity of the space. The remaining parts of the land have potential for changes in uses, appearances or programming, pending construction. This could then change their function in the development, depending on changes in urban and climatic conditions.

Jury point of view The project offers a strong local network. Its inconspicuous layout can be seen as an urban strategy which promotes modesty on a strategic level, offering flexible development of housing. Although there are convincing moments in the idea about the living environment, the chosen configuration of types and their “grain” are not convincing.

Amstetten (AT) Special mention

Gonzalo Gutierrez Araujo (ES)

info@gonzaloga.com

Adriá Escolano Ferrer (ES)

www.gonzaloga.com

architects

contact@adriaescolano.com www.adriaescolano.com

111 Periscopes Team point of view Amstetten wants a new urban development system, economic and industrial growth, including urban and social improvements, to regenerate underused areas and also to attract new inhabitants and businesses. We envisage a model of urban development in which local government would initiate action, through the following measures: - A wall + connecting path, - Public squares containing public programs, - A public entity to manage the resulting public space and developments.

The city council will be the administrator and economic partner in the operations under the masterplan, eliminating the traditional figure of the developer and potential speculation.

This is an adaptable and layered project, where new elements can be added or inserted as demands change over time.

Jury point of view The project starts with a provocative and controversial gesture: making a wall as a link. With the wall, the project fixes the dimension of the area along the railway tracks. The response involving a sensitive reading of the regional context is more a work of art than an urban strategy, for example, literally using the technique of screening in order to relate the place to its wider context.

Asker Norge (NO)

LOCATION Asker - Dikemark

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION Asker 57,238 inhab.

city of Asker, Oslo University

Dikemark 1,300 inhab.

Hospital and city of Oslo

STRATEGIC SITE 1,500 ha

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

SITE OF PROJECT 11 ha

city of Oslo, Oslo University Hospital

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interview Europan Norge

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Peacefully situated in pastoral surroundings just outside of the city, Dikemark was considered the perfect location for Oslo’s new psychiatric hospital at the turn of the 20th century. As psychiatric activities have been phased out over the years, today most of the buildings stand empty and have been listed for protection. Now the entire area needs to be adapted to a new time and filled with new content. Dikemark is in many ways unique in its region for its preserved, landmark architecture, its picturesque landscape and its history and identity. Yet, in spite of all its qualities, Dikemark faces a great challenge, since its hospital functions will be relocated to Oslo, emptying all the buildings. How can a new and attractive society we developed at Dikemark? The municipality is very keen to establish a complete and viable society at Dikemark with jobs and private and public services.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

Dikemark is a place with a strong identity, first and foremost related to its former use as a psychiatric hospital, but also in its architectural and spatial qualities. The site and its buildings are located in scenic surroundings

by Lake Verkensvannet, surrounded by forests and fields. An architectural landmark designed almost entirely by the architect Victor Nordan, and built between 1902 and 1934, Dikemark Hospital today represents a unique historical record of an era and moment in medical treatment. Within the project site there are some 20 wards, along with administrative buildings and 15 workshops. In addition, there is staff housing, a community house and a dormitory. Together, the existing buildings on the site constitute approximately 80,000 m², of which the hospital buildings account for less than 55,000 m2. Endowed with its own waterworks, power plant and surrounding farmland, Dikemark Hospital was almost a self-sustained community. During its heyday, it housed over 900 patients and had a staff of 1500 employees.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

For the overall plan, competitors were asked to investigate a total development potential between 100,000 and 250,000 m² of residential and mixeduse programmes (including existing buildings). The following questions were asked: what types of functions can be introduced here? How best to use the existing buildings in new ways? How to bring new life to the area?

How to reconcile legacy and preservation with new uses and adaption?

Can Dikemark take on a new regional role?

The winning “Kaleidoscope” project has been very well received. The municipal area master plan is now up for vote, designating Dikemark as a development area. Once this is in place, the municipality will start negotiating with the Europan 12 winning team for a commission.

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Asker (NO) winner

Tone Berge (NO)

Noora Aaltonen (FI)

Miia-Liina Tommila, Oksasenkatu

Emmi Keskisarja (FI)

architect

1b A 20

Silje Klepsvik (NO)

Vegard Aarseth (NO)

00100 Helsinki, Finland

Miia-Liina Tommila (FI)

artist

T. +358 503237534

architects

Ossi Petteri Keskisarja (FI)

miialiina.tommila@gmail.com

student in economics Minnamarie Aleksandra Nurmi (FI) student in linguistics

114 Kaleidoscope Team point of view The Kaleidoscope proposes a seven-step strategy and a master plan to adapt the abandoned hospital at Dikemark for future life. The site’s capacity for growth is used as a driver to maintain the valuable characteristics of the area. The strategy is anchored in the master plan, through reprogramming the site and introducing funding methods. Variations in scale, program, privacy, ownership and degree of commitment are secured. To ensure continuation, the ownership structure is changed from singular to plural. The master plan is divided into four differentiated zones: Hidden in the Woods, Twin Plaza, Fortress of Heritage and Open by the Water. The Kaleidoscope as an overall design concept creates ever-changing perspectives, making a statement on the approach to built heritage.

Jury point of view The project gains distinction through a fine reading and understanding of the landscape as the source of the area’s identity, atmosphere and unity, but also of very different relationships between building and landscape. On the basis of this approach, four zones are defined which reflect different potentials and positions in the landscape and the existence of different building and spatial formations. An operational understanding of the existing built landscape is developed, providing a sure and strategic foundation for the development and reinterpretation of the sub-areas.

Social structure, a courtyard from Hidden in the Woods

Masterplan, existing buildings in blue, new buildings in red

Twin Plaza and Fortress of Heritage

Open by the Water, with sight lines towards the lakeshore

115 The different zones and their relation to the landscape

The Kitchen, low key investments to realize the potential

The Kaleidoscope, reflections create an ever-changing view

Hidden in the Woods, the design absorbs the surroundings

Asker (NO) runner-up

Patxi Martín Domínguez (ES)

FRSQR architecture & urbanism

Paloma Lara Rodrigo (ES)

Magdalena 8, 3ºizda

Alba García González (ES)

28012, Madrid, Spain

Clara Rodríguez Lorenzo (ES)

T. +34659567913

Laura Martín Guillén (ES)

estudiolafresquera@gmail.com

Jose María Martín Ravelo (ES)

ww.frsqr.com

Natalia Vera Vigaray (ES) architects

116 Ola k Asker Team point of view The abandoned district of Dikemark has a strong identity because of its former use as a psychiatric centre and its picturesque landscape. We propose to develop an adaptable city in order to create the “heritage of the future” and, to do this, propose the idea of a new, self-sufficient open source town, adaptable by its habitants. Our strategy is based on the slow development, initiated with the foundation, in the abandoned buildings, of the first design school specialising in woodwork. We are planting the seed that will stimulate the area’s development through its local economy. With time, the students will create their own workshops and new buildings will appear. Wood will be the vehicle of this strategy and the element that will give Dikemark 2.0 its identity.

Jury point of view The project offers a new conceptual model for Asker, in order to instil identity and development into the local community. This is a very interesting and distinctive project that relies on a specific material, wood, as a catalyst for the project’s identity. The project stresses the issues of adaptability and sustainability in a very consistent way, but its bottom-up strategy is perhaps too slow for what the area needs. A supplementary top-down strategy that gave a quick and necessary boost to growth would have been highly appreciated.

Asker (NO) Special mention

Fabio Gigone (IT)

Marco Gambaré (IT)

U67 (Fabio Gigone + Angela

Angela Gigliotti (IT)

student in architecture

Gigliotti)

Ludovico Centis (IT)

T. +47 41689201

architects

info@office-u67.net www.office-u67.net Ludovico Centis T. +39 3496490758 ludovico.centis@gmail.comwww.sanrocco.info

117 Four typologies, four ecologies: forest, water, land and clearing

The leaf Team point of view The leaf is a strategy for developing this site without changing its current virtues, by adapting to the existing environment. It supports the creation of a sustainable community which, by choosing to live in such an environment, is seeking to change its habits and live differently. The main element is the definition of a non-generic development of 4 housing typologies reflecting local ecologies. It further includes a new strategic site in the centre, a single building linking with the existing constructions. Functions are densely packed around the former Psychiatric buildings, in order to deal with the strong legacy of these buildings where many people were contained. Opening the facades and defining new rooms reveals unexpected new landscapes to evoke the past.

Jury point of view The project seeks a radical reinterpretation of the site’s current state. This is tackled at two levels: firstly, it proposes a new way of inhabiting the wooded landscape with new typologies such as treehouses and circles. Secondly, it projects a new community centre by turning the current centre’s existing buildings inside out. This reinterpretation is both compelling and provocative, and opens up visions that go beyond the questions of the brief.

To define the development’s edge through the environment

Nucleus: the diaphragm, the program and the rooms of memory

The opened rooms to evoke the memory of unknown ceremonies

Couvet Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/ Svizra (CH)

LOCATION Couvet - Dubied-site

SITE PROPOSED BY

on both sides of the Areuse

town of Val-de-Travers in

River

partnership with the canton

POPULATION Couvet 2,760 inhab.

of Neuchâtel

Municipality 12,000 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE 67 ha

private owners, town of

SITE OF PROJECT 9 ha

Val-de-Travers and canton of Neuchâtel

interview of the site’s representative

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Christian Mermet, city councillor, responsible of the territory planning department, Couvet

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy The Dubied site gradually grew up in Couvet from 1867, along the River Areuse. Originally peripheral when its construction began, it ultimately became an integral part of the village. In fact, the development of the site kept pace with that of Couvet. Since the closure of the company in 1988, various activities have taken up residence, reflecting the opportunities available to the many landowners who share this brownfield site. Only the buildings located at the two ends have been renovated, while the rest forms an extensive but underexploited patchwork. In the past, the site was at the heart of the region’s economic success. Val-de-Travers municipality would like this site, with its weight of history and strong place in the hearts of local people, to recover the role it deserves at all levels. The Couvet regional economic development hub is growing fast. The Dubied site, which is part of it, needs to work in tandem with the Léchère industrial zone.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

However, this site is not only of economic importance, and should not be attractive solely for the people who work there now or in the future.

Its position in the village, and in the wider region, gives it a central role.

The population too must be able to enjoy the area, make it their own, whether as a place to stroll or for the cultural activities that it may offer. The guiding idea is to revitalise the site in accordance with the primary objective set under the Village Council’s legislative programme: development that will enhance quality of life, quality of life that will drive development.

Interactions between the site and the areas around it have already begun to revive, and will grow further in the future. The authorities envisage the Dubied site as a new hub that will itself be able to evolve and adapt to the needs of residents and businesses.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The Dubied site needs a second wind, a second life, by becoming both a business zone and a centre of attraction. It should become the new driving force for the region, where industry is expanding rather than contracting. In the design and implementation of all its projects, the village of Val-de-Travers seeks to protect the environment and will be equally attentive to this important issue here, especially as regeneration of the site will be accompanied by improvements to the river that runs alongside it. The urban development of the Dubied site needs to be done in phases, in concert with the landowners, whom the village wants to support in their activities. With this gradual implementation, spending can be spread and divided between public and private partners, the project can be refined and any sceptics can be convinced of the need for change that would be of benefit to all.

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Couvet (CH) winner

David Andrey (CH)

z00, Avenue de la Harpe 23

Xavier Apotheker (CH)

1007 Lausanne, Switzerland

Nicolas Badin (FR)

T +41 766932404

Manuel Barthassat (CH)

d.andrey@z00.ch

Pascal Michon (FR)

www.z00.ch

Markus Zimmermann (CH) architects

120 Dubimpulse Team point of view A public space along the Areuse River serves as a new link connecting the industrial fabric, the town of Couvet, the train stations, and the landscape.

In order to maximize density, the project proposes a layered network of buildings inserted into the iconic industrial structures. The regular rhythm of the buildings follows the existing plot layout and generates permeability.

The project has an evolving dimension. The projected layer is the culmination of the vision for this site. A multitude of intermediate steps are possible. The industrial site template anticipates diverse uses and accommodates two-storey office buildings, first-floor workshops, or an elevated ground level for industry. The morphology insures coherent development within a flexible matrix.

Jury point of view The project proposes to use the continuous public space along the Areuse River as a reference. The space is defined by two city squares, each linked to a train station and a bridge. The block plan can be adjusted to accommodate different phasing solutions, different architectures, different programmes and different densities. The team proposes a development strategy for the site based on the structuring of the buildings and a flexible framework, while respecting the urban history of the site.

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Couvet (CH) runner-up

Tomás García Píriz (ES)

Álvaro Tejada Tenorio (ES)

Calle Buensuceso 40, Local 4,

Javier Castellano Pulido (ES)

María de Lara Ruiz (ES)

18002 Granada, Spain

Juan Alcalá Lara (ES)

architects

T. +34 651163614

Luis Miguel Ruíz Avilés (ES)

María Martín Rodríguez (ES)

cuac.arquitectura@gmail.com

Juan Antonio Serrano (ES)

Álvaro Rodríguez Sainz de

www.cuacarquitectura.com

Paloma Baquero (ES)

rozas (ES)

www.serranoybaquero.com

architects

Yu Bruno Masuda Rodríguez (ES) Claire de Nutte, Serena Vianello (ES) students in architecture

122 Wood de Travers Team point of view We propose the idea of generating a contemporary construction system that represents the region itself, involving cooperation between craft workshops and architects, artists and businessmen, some of them participating in the new entrepreneurial business zone.

The stacking construction system forms an intuitive intellectual resource that links tradition and contemporary architecture, a way of building the future of the region on innovative construction. The fragments of architecture and infrastructure that constituted the former factory city can be treated as a changing legacy, which requires guidelines for change. This means more than making the traditional choice between buildings for retention and those for demolition. The fragments are as relevant as the productive relations: an argument is needed to join together the pieces of a dramatically interrupted past.

The factory city: from the addition to the linked fragments

The new hybrid landscape

The main hall: the factory public heart

Jury point of view The project stands out for its comprehensive approach to the site: some existing buildings are demolished and a new fabric of buildings and open spaces is proposed to replace them. The total transformation plays a key role in this ambitious proposal. However, this unifying aspect becomes a weakness in terms of flexibility, making it more difficult to undertake an implementation in phases or by a variety of building owners.

However, it creates a strong site identity.

The cultural, economical and technical landscape materiality

Couvet (CH) Special mention

Juan José Mateos (ES)

Susana Granizo (ES)

Fernan González, 79, 2D.

Camila Aybar (ES)

architect

28009 Madrid, Spain

architects

T. +34 654916550 jjmateos@aybar-mateos.com www.aybar-mateos.com

123 Une nébuleuse de petits bâtiments Team point of view The Dubied site needs to be understood as an outcome of economic processes, which have left their traces in the urban landscape in the form of buildings and layout. The proposal is to regenerate the Dubied site by creating a system of small companies working together to generate economies of scale. Industries of this kind can adapt to change and colonise existing infrastructures with new components, creating a nebula of small buildings that will house a high adaptable system incorporated into an old industrial structure.

Richard Florida’s three T are relevant to the legacy of the Dubied Site. Tolerance is about the local people’s ability to be flexible and to adapt to every situation. Technology and Talent are promoted by the council with the creation of CNIP and emphasised by the presence of small companies following the regeneration.

Jury point of view The project proposes a flexible colonization strategy that could theoretically be launched right away and revitalise the Couvet site over the short term by making it possible for a multitude of economic activities to settle. Moreover, the strategy is based on a comprehensive analysis that guarantees access to the site and the creation of public spaces, with the potential to improve the site’s integration into its context.

The proposal looks at the site as a playground that offers the freedom to meet every kind of demand.

Hammarö Sverige (SE)

LOCATION Hammarö - Province

SITE PROPOSED BY

of Värmland

city of Hammarö

POPULATION city 15,000 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

conurbation 110,000 inhab.

city of Hammarö

STRATEGIC SITE 110 ha SITE OF PROJECT 20 ha

interview

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of the site’s representative Karin Manner, municipal head architect

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Hammarö municipality is an island in Sweden’s biggest lake, Lake Vänern.

Many of its 15,000 inhabitants work in the local hub Karlstad, which is less than a 15 minute commute away. Most people live in detached single family houses and there is a need for other forms of housing to complement this model.

The competition site, a former hospital, stands partially empty and the competition brief asked for a concept encompassing questions of energy, social interaction, services and new ways of living/working. What is a neighbourhood? What are its components? Is it the buildings, the streets, the public places or the people in it? Could a built heritage be the starting point for a new way of thinking about neighbourhoods? The Hammarö site presents a unique opportunity to explore one of the most important questions of the future: how can we make use of the building legacy?

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The municipality previously tried to develop the area as a business hub with EU support. The outcome has been some IT related activities, such as computer servers and a conference centre.

The competition is the first step for the introduction of housing, as part of a new scheme to create a new community. It is a task that requires both architectural skills and the vision to create a new identity for this kind of area. It involves a kind of place making. How can the existing and partly vacant houses contribute to a richer housing community?

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The competition site, Sätterstrand, is therefore about introducing another kind of housing or another kind of living, a complement to what already exists in the municipality today.

At this very moment we are trying to incorporate the new vision of the municipality into the new strategic land plan. One of the challenges is to grow while maintaining untouched natural reserves. Another is to avoid car dependency in the future in our municipality. The project site currently has a bus service, but with more residents this bus connection needs to be improved in order to link the area conveniently with Karlstad.

For us, it is important for the planning of the city of tomorrow to support the day-to-day life of our citizens. In the future, we want to be able to meet all day-to-day transport needs without the need for people to own a car. Also, creating meeting places is a pivotal factor for social life.

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Hammarö (SE) winner

Federico Colella (IT)

T. +39 3338514953

Hugo Vargas (MX)

federico.colella@hotmail.com

architects

www.federicocolella.net T. +52 5552642014 hugo.vargas.arq@gmail.com www.hugovargasr.com

126 Paths Team point of view The proposal will be divided into different phases, with maximum flexibility: the first step consists in the re-use of existing pavilions to start the area’s social-economic regeneration. After this, the project provides for a “ring” of growth around a “closed street”, producing a new urban pathway with new public spaces and stone flooring. We propose dwelling typologies with an integrated system of built links that re-shapes the existing villas. Along the external path, interchange stations keep cars out of the urban ring. The project sets strategies to preserve and regenerate the historic landscape and strengthen the system of functional vegetation for both sunshine and snow seasons around the new urban core: an ecological restoration to provide climate protection and naturally contained urban growth. A wetland trail will connect the urban area to the lagoon, shifting from a static to a dynamic landscape.

Jury point of view The project takes advantage of the existing resources on the site, adding simple but effective elements. The existing buildings are re-shaped, giving them a new identity, and they are complemented with residential towers that increase local density. In this sense the proposal works with the memory and values of the site but also with their future, using this hybridization with new elements as a means to generate new synergies and revitalise shared urban spaces. At the territorial or landscape level, the eco-path complements the urban-path and also incorporates social issues.

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Hammarö (SE) runner-up

Carlos Soria Sánchez (ES)

Avda. Doctor Federico Rubio

Laura Fernández García (ES)

y Galí 31, 3 A

Irene Vitorica Donezar (ES)

28039 Madrid, Spain

Ana Rosa Soria Sánchez (ES)

T. +34 636802615

architects

correodecarlossoria@ gmail.com

128 Satellyzing Hammarö Team point of view After a close analysis of the site, it is broken down into three different systems – nature, architecture and infrastructure – subject to 3 types of action: preservation, reactivation and connection. The systems’ different elements become the planets and the interventions on them the satellites, bringing changes to the existing fabric and revitalizing the area and its natural resources.

The actions on the nature system will be to preserve the reeds and the tree corona and develop new activities on the lake. For the architecture system, the satellites introduce new program options into the existing fabric, and a new housing extension area close to the lake. Finally, two objectives drive the infrastructure system: reconnecting Karlstad and Hammarö, and restructuring the paths surrounding the lake and creating new ones.

Jury point of view The project incorporates the whole ecosystem into the design arena. The proposal is very sensitive to the way humans inhabit the area but also how they coexist with others organisms such as birds.

The second interesting point is the configuration of a catalogue of small interventions on the natural, architectonic and infrastructural systems. As a consequence of these two approaches, the project is really successful in its handling of the lake.

Hammarö (SE) Special mention

Josip Zaninović (HR)

Bisačka 12

Hrvoje Arbanas (HR)

10 000 Zagreb, Croatia

Krešimir Renić (HR)

T. +385 98265089

architects

jzane3@gmail.com

Tamara Marić (HR) landscape architect

129 Forest community Team point of view Adaptable satellitopia is achieved through coexistence with the forest. Therefore a new forest-friendly housing types for the community is designed to give new contemporary identity to the space with minimal invasiveness. This is achieved by stacking houses and creating vertical rows. New buildings form a harmony with existing facilities, combining private and public spaces into a community platform where residents interact. Over time, sustainable mixed used clusters (neighbourhoods) emerge. When a new cluster is erected (few vertical rows), the wild natural environs become cultivated, but nature nevertheless. A linear public space loops through the site and connects all the clusters.

Jury point of view The project incorporates new way of living with a typology that emphasises the poetical aspects of inhabiting. It deals with the relation between inhabitants and their environment, including also the pleasures of dreaming. It draws on synergies with the existing buildings to create a new world, which works with the anthropological understanding of place and nature, but also with energy and sustainability. The “enclosed street” inside the existing buildings structures an open programmatic universe.

Hammarö (SE) Special mention

Jorge Gonzalez Ferrer (ES)

Javier Gorodner (AR)

ferregonzalez@gmail.com

architect

Carolina Molinari (AR)

www.intilerogers.com.ar

Juan Maria Spotorno (AR)

www.mogs.com.ar

Luciano Matias Intile (AR) Axel Ibarroule (AR) Joan Marantz (AR) Federico Aris Chain (AR) architects Martin Zlobec (AR) Matias Lastra (AR) Felipe Buigues (AR) Marcos Altgelt (AR) students in architecture Andres Rogers (AR) artist

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Rodrigo Perez de Pedro (AR) philosopher

Identicity plug-pump-flow Team point of view PLUG – Encouragement for start-up companies, research projects and the ability to foster development growth in an environment that stimulates innovation, entrepreneurship and co-operation.

The building legacy is mixed. Its components are activated far below their maximum capabilities.

PUMP ­– The first effect of the pumping system is the ability to increase the flow of people exponentially, because of the site’s potential attraction for the region.

FLOW – A new paradigm is proposed for living in close connection with the environment. The lake, with its reeds and pollution, is a starting point for a system of houseboats to potentiate the natural resources used afterwards on the site. The causal system is open and complex, and may generate an infinite number of combinations. The result is implicit in its evolution.

Jury point of view The project provides a new toolbox for urban pro­ cesses. It combines “plug” strategies – adding new architectonic elements to the existing buildings – with the innovative ideas associated with “pump” elements: ephemeral, pneumatic, event-related programmes that give the site identity. It reflects a kind of curatorial understanding of urban pro­ cesses over time, adapting events to seasons without versatile rather than permanent decisions. These two instruments combine with “flow” tools that relate to housing units.

KØbenhavn Danmark (DK)

LOCATION København

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION city 561,000 inhab.

city of Copenhagen

conurbation 1,213,822 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE 8.75 ha

city and housing associations

SITE OF PROJECT 3.75 ha

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of the site’s representative Jane Drejer Nielsen, Head of Unit, Urban renewal

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Reflecting the global focus on and awareness of climate problems and resource depletion, awareness of these factors – and of the need for the existing city to be adaptable and resilient – has increased in the City of Copenhagen. This should be seen in the context of an understanding of the architectural challenges involved in renovating the existing housing stock to meet new energy standards. Copenhagen has its own distinctive and unique look, which is grounded in the city’s history and character. In the climate adaptation plan for Copenhagen, the municipality stresses that initiatives in this field should also offer quality for the city’s residents and businesses. One particular focus area in the plan is energy optimization in the existing building stock, which accounts for 75% of the city’s total CO2 emissions.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The past decade has been characterised by both financial and climate crises, which have raised awareness of the need for optimum use of existing resources. Big cities continue to grow, as more people move to urban areas, while existing residents stay put. Alongside the growing consciousness of increasing climate change and resource depletion, this has prompted both politicians and individual citizens to seek to develop and transform the city into a flexible and living/modifiable organism, which can adapt to changing needs and aspirations about ways of inhabiting and using the city. The buildings in the project area represent Copenhagen’s identity and cultural heritage. They have shown their strength and durability over time, and with good solutions and smart decisions for energy optimization and climate adaptation – which means finding the right balance between transformation and preservation – these old buildings can retain their identity and still be future proof, thereby reinforcing the area’s ability to adapt to coming changes and crises both financial and meteorological.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The strategic area is populated by active, involved residents, who have both knowledge about and an inclination towards environmentally sustainable initiatives. The area is known historically as a place where different segments of society side-by-side and where there is a space for those who are different; this is intrinsic to the identity of the district. The focus is on solutions at all levels, from single housing units to the entire district, from low-tech to high-tech. Similarly, the range of housing upgrades varies financially from low-cost to significant, and spatially from individual dwellings to shared solutions that encompass buildings, courtyards and streets. The goal is to devise multifunctional and scalable solutions for built-up urban areas that can are transferable to other parts of Copenhagen, Europe and the world.

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KØbenhavn (DK) winner

Rune Jørgensen (DK)

Maria Hviid Bengtson (DK)

Heimdalsgade 10a

Ditte Marie Hildebrand

Karl Henning Törnfeldt (DK)

2200 Copenhagen, Denmark

Frederiksen (DK)

graphic designerS

T. +45 22355300

Laura Wedderkind Bank (DK)

Martin Vraa Nielsen (DK)

hundredetusind@gmail.com

architects

architect - engineer

134 Our courtyard in the street Team point of view Our project site and Copenhagen in general are facing the familiar challenge of an ageing housing stock, energy consumption spiralling out of control and lack of adaptation to today’s climate. Our strategy is to solve existing problems before introducing new architecture.

The challenge of energy optimisation in the existing housing stock is urgent, and will not disappear. We should focus on solving these existing problems before we consider utopian dreams for the future. Our concept is to focus on what to do in Copenhagen right now, and our strategy has been to provide an overview of possible improvements and show a variety of activities and enhancements that can be started at any time. Both familiar and proven new solutions. A toolbox, a catalogue.

Jury point of view The project is an open framework and a strategy for further qualification in collaboration with the municipality and residents. It also creates, with few resources, a powerful and oneiric vision of inviting spaces. The illustration of the circular lighting in Dybbølsbro could give the area everyday qualities of poetry and identity.

The project presents many opportunities for varied architectural solutions, based on a series of simple methods, creating contemporary and attractive accommodation and spaces for businesses and voluntary organisations.

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situation at Krusågade

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KØbenhavn (DK) runner-up

Victoria Diemer Bennetzen (DK)

KATOxVictoria, Gasværksvej 8D 1

Hiroshi Kato (JP)

1656 Copenhagen V, Denmark

architects

+45-2624 2357 / +81-090-6191-5508 x@katoxvictoria.dk www.katoxvictoria.dk

136 Sprouting cityblocks Team point of view This project seeks to understand the nature of Vesterbro, a historically working-class area, answering the question of “How to maintain the character of the city blocks on the public street and while enhancing the interior in a way that achieves community rather than gentrification. The site is a very cramped space, so the question was naturally “What can we share?”.

This project explores collective space as a combination of the pleasure of sharing and the happiness of owning. We create big gaps in the blocks for shared terraces and light. This opens up the courtyard to the surrounding public streets. It empowers people and give them ownership of the city on the small scale, but also creates big, visually accessible, lively green spaces in the city. Residents can define the city by how they use their private space.

Jury point of view The project demonstrates a good understanding of the identity and capacities needed to create an inspiring transition between town, city space and the existing building stock. It explores the district’s branched structure, reinforcing hidden spatial treasures. The project works with a new kind of communal space for city blocks and its residents, seeking to turn the city block inside out with the idea of a new, emergent form of housing. The idea is that communal spaces should be able to create new kinds of communities and new ways to socialise.

KØbenhavn (DK) Special mention

Esben Thorlacius (DK)

Linnea Berg (DK)

Over Byen Arkitekter ApS

Ida Lindberg (DK)

Maine Godderidge (DK)

T. +45 26220473

architects

students in architecture

info@overbyen.dk www.overbyen.dk

137 Copenhagen wetlands Team point of view A network of flood-resilient shared courtyards.

Research suggests that communities with good social bonds and bridges cope better with drastic change or catastrophe than people in more individualistic societies. Vesterbro is changing socially. Rapid gentrification is making the area more homogenous, with growing numbers of middle-class people in the same age-group. This not only threatens the historic diversity of Vesterbro, but makes the inhabitants less resilient to change.

What makes this project unique is its focus not only on the physical adaptability to climate change but equally the emphasis on the social “side effects” of these interventions, thus making the city more resilient in its physical and social aspects.

Jury point of view The project demonstrates clear ideas as well as the ability to convey beautifully a clear decision on materiality, texture and space. It exhibits a sense of materiality and texture and has the capacity to see spatial and aesthetic potential in the neglected courtyards, as well as to conceive an amenity with a very site-specific design.

SOCIAL RESILENCE Research suggests that societies with a great deal of social capital cope better with change or catastrophes. Social capital is a measure of the networking capabilities within a social group (bonding) and between different social groups (bridging).

CLOSED STREETSCAPES The typical structure of the strategic site is closed, inaccessible quarters with private courtyards. The area has few public areas and natural meeting points. The blocks function as social barriers.

ISOLATED COMMUNITIES The private courtyards enable some bonding between the residents. Due to the isolated nature of these courtyards, people from other social groups are left out, minimizing the possibility of interesting encounters bridging across social borders.

NEW SOCIAL NETWORKS The network of public wetland courtyards will attract both businesses and people, encouraging social bridging. The new urban wetland will give people the possibility to discover unknown parts of their city. The common wetland project will also strengthen the bonding within the block.

KØbenhavn (DK) Special mention

Madeleine Sembring (SE)

Herman Triers Plads 1

Bjørn Mogensen (DK)

1631 Copenhagen, Denmark

architects

T. +45 60640051 bjornlundmogensen@gmail. com

138 Passage of time Team point of view Exploit – Identify the existing potential and fix it to last another 100 years by increasing the daylight factor by 30% and energy consumption by 25% Explore – Raise the courtyard-level but create a passage for movement across the courtyards in line with the historical waterline. These passages are covered with brick in reference to the genesis of the rubble from the inner city. In heavy rain these channels will capture rainwater from the entire neighbourhood.

Identity – The last part of the assessment defines what is missing. By establishing recessed basins through intersections, we free up the courtyard and allow more daylight to enter the apartments.

We propose a communal building that will delineate two urban spaces and fulfil the everyday needs of the neighbourhood and residents.

Jury point of view Well thought out and pragmatic, the project fits in with many of the City’s existing strategies for change. It makes proposals for many dependent landscapes, based on numerous private initiatives. The team suggests placing new community centres at several street locations with the aim of creating new patterns of movement and cutting traffic.

Nürnberg Deutschland (DE)

LOCATION Nürnberg – Südstadt

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION 505,000 inhab.

city of Nuremberg / WBG

Südstadt 74,000 inhab.

Nürnberg

STRATEGIC SITE 12 ha

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

SITE OF PROJECT 0.7 ha

WBG Nürnberg

interview of the site’s representative

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Peter Hafner, urban planning department Nürnberg, Ralf Schekira, wbg, Nürnberg

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy The Südstadt is one of the most densely built areas in the city of Nuremberg.

The city’s southern district constitutes only 6% of the total urban area, but over 20% of Nuremberg’s population lives here – and the trend is rising.

The average age is well above the city average. With more than a third of the city’s total foreign-born citizens, it is the epitome of an international and cosmopolitan neighbourhood. People of differing origins, views and lifestyles come together here. They form a major social urban capital and generate added value that is significant for the city as a whole. If migration is a mainspring of European urban development, this especially holds true for the Südstadt. The neighbourhood has undergone a structural change into the post-industrial era. Once surrounded by large-scale industrial areas, its image has changed. Some of the former industries were able to consolidate and strengthen their location; other industrial wastelands were successfully converted to business start-up centres, commercial and service locations or housing estates.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The 1920s block perimeter development is the subject of the competition. How can the current site be converted to a concise, dynamic element of urban identity? How can the residential environment be designed to promote integration and create added value for the district? How should we react to the changing demographic conditions and different ways of life? How can the contradiction between high urban density and individual open spaces be solved? The task offers the opportunity to create an urban living situation and strengthen the role of the neighbourhood as a place to live. A piece of modern urban landscape with high density and strong appeal is to be created here, featuring trendsetting urban housing that treats demographic change and the integration of a wide range of lifestyles as an opportunity.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The city of Nuremberg has reacted to the structural change in the Südstadt with an integrated urban development concept. Its goal was to identify the strengths of the district and develop action strategies for the future. Southern Nuremberg needs to be more strongly developed from its residential quarters and social environments. The Europan location is to be seen in this context. It is to make an important contribution to enhancing the appeal of the Südstadt as a place to live. Further fulcrums of the urban strategy are support for the district economy, improved networking, expansion of the educational infrastructure and the upgrading and energy-efficient renovation of the existing building fabric.

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Nürnberg (DE) winner

Christian Wolff (DE)

Agathe Julienne (fr)

fabriK°B Architekten, Scharf

Benjamin Scharf (DE)

student in architecture

und Wolff GbR

architects

Liebigstrasse 24, 10247 Berlin,

Anne Scholz (DE)

Germany

Master of Science

T. +49 3064820008 info@fabrikb.com www.fabrikb.com

142 Yourban Team point of view The project transmogrifies the existing residential area with its privately used gardens into urban living with commonly and privately used external spaces. The area of common use in the centre (semi-public courtyard) and the area of commercial use (“Galvani”-, “Sperberplatz”) in the nearby town provide old and new residents with identifiable spaces – for communication, recreation, and commerce. The construction varies from 3-5 storeys. The extra urban elevation at the newly created public spaces gives the building a distinctive look and protects from traffic noises.

All apartments are accessible via open staircases in the courtyard. They extend to loggias which provide space for communication between neighbourhoods. So the external spaces offer an attractive alternative to a single family home.

Jury point of view The submission creates two new public spaces on northern and south-western sides. The courtyard acts as the main space for recreational activity and communication. The transparent courtyard facades, punctuated by loggias, give the apartments a sense of unity within the outdoor space. The urban transition between public and private space is successfully resolved with commercial and communal spaces.

Yourban is a positive contribution in the field of spatially limited residential areas with attractive outdoor spaces.

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Nürnberg (DE) runner-up

Pau Bajet Mena (ES)

pau.bajet@gmail.com

Laura Bonell Mas (ES)

laura@bonelldoriga.com

Maria Giramé Aumatell (ES)

maria.girame@gmail.com

Oscar Linares de la Torre (ES)

oslitor@hotmail.com

Daniel López Dòriga (ES)

daniel@bonelldoriga.com

architects

144 Sonnenblume Team point of view The proposal aims to provide responses both to the specificities of the place and to the many complex requirements stipulated in the programme. This means that a series of project’ inputs or selfimposed laws, generated from location and use, emerge before any formal decision has been made and sustain the process of the project from inception to the final proposal.

The main idea is based on the creation of a new public space slightly elevated above the street. A space that is both open and protected, which is the sum of three fluidly concatenated urban spaces which, as a result of their modest scale, are naturally able to accommodate diverse uses.

Each of the proposal’s three volumes is conceived as a compact building, designed to maximise energy savings. In addition, an open courtyard brings southern sunlight to the ’heart of the building. Sustainability is therefore understood as an essential part of the design process, not as something to add to an already defined architecture.

Jury point of view The entry develops a distinct typology that acts as a counterpoint to the southern city’s typical block perimeter structure, creating a location with a unique identity and atmosphere. The building blocks, which rest on a slightly elevated base, are simultaneously large enough to intersect with the surrounding street area, and also open enough to provide access to the local green spaces. A new kind of semi-public space appears between the three buildings, creating a new and hybrid urban location in the neighbourhood.

Nürnberg (DE) Special mention

Michail Ioannis Raftopoulos

AREA (Architecture Research

(GR)

Athens), Ypsilantou 35

Styliani Daouti (GR)

10676 Athens, Greece

Giorgos Mitroulias (GR)

T. +30 2107229302

architects

info@areaoffice.gr www.areaoffice.gr

145 Meet thy neighbour Team point of view Meet thy Neighbour is a highly flexible housing strategy for Südstadt-Nürnberg, where social sustainability and environmental sustainability combine. Here, a “community” of five distinct housing typologies creates a porous perimeter for the new city block in order to accommodate a maximum number of lifestyles. Spaces between and within buildings produce a range of outdoor conditions, from public to private, which give both the street and the large interior courtyard a lively atmosphere. The most publicly-oriented outdoor spaces are considered “Meeting Points”, because they create the opportunity for social interaction at neighbourhood scale. The coexistence of variously funded homes is designed to avoid social stigma and encourage community engagement.

Jury point of view The project propagates a porous perimeter block model as the best solution for urban residential congestion. The core concept is the creation of a residential ensemble that is, on a number of levels, simultaneously both highly communicative and intimate, while also secluded. Public and semi-public use in the ground floor is intended to be part of a permanent contribution to life in the adjacent public street areas. Meet thy neighbour is highly ambitious in programmatic terms and advances interesting concepts for creating a lively and integrated residential neighbourhood.

Regionale 2016 Deutschland (DE)

LOCATION Westliches

SITE PROPOSED BY

Münsterland

Regionale 2016 Agentur

POPULATION Ahaus 38,989

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

inhab. - Dorsten 76,223 inhab. -

private owners

Nordkirchen 10,413 inhab.

STRATEGIC SITE Westliches Münsterland, Ahaus town centre east 23.4 ha – Dorsten, Wulfen-Barkenberg 12.4 ha – Nordkirchen Südkirchen 93.5 ha SITE OF PROJECT to be defined by the competitors

interview

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of the site’s representative Michael Führs, Regionale 2016

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy As everywhere in West Germany, large single and two-family residential areas grew like ‘tree rings’ around the town centres of the municipalities of Münsterland in the 1950s to 1970s. They are popular because of their central location, generous lot sizes and solid urbanity. Today, these neighbourhoods face new challenges due to the changes in the demographic and social framework. The older properties are increasingly becoming a burden to the ageing population. However, there is a lack of alternatives and prospects for the buildings that often serve as a provision for old age. The ageing of the population demands urgent solutions. At the same time, many fringe areas are continuing to grow in response to the unbroken demand for ‘one’s own home with a garden’ – at the expense of the open landscape and a compact, sustainable settlement structure in the long-term.

Ahaus

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

Regionale 2016 – a State of North-Rhine Westphalia structural development programme for western Münsterland – addresses the question of how these earlier residential areas can be made fit for the future. ‘Adaptable City’ is an appropriate catchphrase for the task. According to the motto ‘Living on the fringe – developing new qualities!’ the municipalities of Ahaus, Dorsten and Nordkirchen came together to formulate a joint brief for Europan 12 under the umbrella of the Regionale 2016. The goal was to generate architectural, urban- and landscape planning solutions and implement tailor-made strategies that can in principle be applied to other towns in the region. An emphasis was placed on creative ways of rejuvenating existing structures.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

AHAUS – Josefsviertel: The current challenge for the core 1950s neighbourhood, with its homogeneous building structure, is to master the pending generation change. Perspectives for a new profile of the Josefsviertel must be developed together with the builder generation.

DORSTEN – Wulfen-Barkenberg: Wulfen New Town is a generously landscaped 1960s and 1970s housing estate. Single, semi-detached and row houses were also constructed immediately adjacent to the large-scale centre. This juxtaposition generates a field of tension. The population structure in the single-family housing is showing the first signs of overageing and the neighbourhoods are separated by oversized infrastructure. New residential forms need to be developed to supplement the housing estates and the interlinkage of the neighbourhoods improved. Alternative energy concepts are also called for.

NORDKIRCHEN – Südkirchen: The district is located in an agricultural landscape. It grew gradually as a typical commuter town, particularly in the 1950s to 1970s. This ‘natural’ growth is now coming to a halt. Südkirchen needs to acquire a distinct profile by implementing new ideas for family-friendly, quality living and adapting to the existing situation. The aim is to consolidate the urban area in order to retain the infrastructure in the future.

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Dorsten

Nordkirchen - Südkirchen

Regionale 2016 (DE) runner-up

Alice Hallynck (FR)

62 rue Crozatier

Marie-Hélène Merlin (FR)

75012 Paris, France

Edouard Cailliau (FR)

T. +33 668224783

Marion Verdière (FR)

bingo.architecture@gmail.com

architects

148 Actions areas of the modules

Mach es dir gemütlich / Make yourself at home Team point of view “Gemütlichkeit”, an untranslatable German word, refers to the pleasure of feeling at home. In this fragmented residential environment, the project has to be centered on each owner’s needs. That is why we are not proposing a masterplan but a toolbox that can be used in the three towns (and beyond).

The living room becomes a module of the project, one that can be projected beyond the house to open up new opportunities for encounter. Including a private space in the front of house, or conversely shared spaces between private gardens, transforms the way we discover the city. The binary opposition between front and back is disrupted, opening up situations of great potential richness with the potential of adaptation to new needs.

Jury point of view This submission takes a pictorial and almost poetic approach to demonstrating the potential of minor, recurring elements.

These serve different, individual needs and together they create new signals that appear necessary for positive future development. “The quality of this almost subversive approach is supported by a site plan that presents a (virtual) collage of the three locations examined. The submission offers a good starting point for the proposed transformation processes in the vein of ‘handmade urbanism’.”

An adaptable city able to accommodate new situations

The district before and after the beginning of the project

Injections of life that will spread all over the district

«Gemütlichkeit» in the living environment and beyond

Regionale 2016 (DE) runner-up

Joan Alomar (ES)

Estudio lunar, The Netherlands

Conxa Gené (ES)

europan@estudiolunar.nl

Javier Iñigo (ES)

www.estudiolunar.nl

Carmen Largacha (ES) Iñaki Llorens (ES) Juan Marcos Rodriguez (ES) architects - urban planners

149 Kein Land für alte Männer Team point of view Kein Land für alte Männer is a bet on Münsterlanders.

Kein Land für alte Männer is a toolbox of territorial strategies, urban planning and architectural vision on how local inhabitants need to understand and learn from their environment in order to better manage their own resources.

They are our key component in tackling the upcoming energy-related, economic and social challenges over the coming decades.

New defeats are around the corner for German society, some of them related to the obsolescence of certain old structures. The 1960s/70s urban settlements ’are meant to be the hinge between past and future. Within the brick walls of these houses lies this society’s most recent lesson: the social and urban models inherited from them are gone. Beyond these walls there is new knowledge ready to emerge and to be shared. The dialogue between old and new generations needs to happen outdoors, at contemporary meeting points, where they can shape and develop new strategies together.

Jury point of view The submission is distinguished by its structured approach. By taking a global view, this draft proposal suggests specific local solutions. This approach could indeed be the key to broader consideration at the individual locations.

Strategy map

Ahaus_ More urban

Dorsten_ Urban to rural

Nordkirchen_ more urbain

Regionale 2016 (DE) runner-up

Marcus Kopper (DE)

Małgorzata Dembowska (PL)

Via Balilla 12

Martin Roth (DE),

Aleksandra Borun (PL)

20136 Milano, Italy

Marcel Moonen (NL)

students in architecture

T. +39 3396797925

Michal Czerwinski (PL)

moonen@gmail.com

architects

www.marcelmoonen.com

150 Establishing neighbourhood qualities

Housing transformation and green intervention

Rising stars Team point of view Südkirchen is located in an agriculture-orientated landscape, structured by farmland, forests and grasslands, punctuated by small towns and villages. Interpreting this landscape as a mosaic, we propose a constellation of interventions based on the urban shapes found in Südkirchen. It embodies the German dream of living in a low-density environment, in a defined neighbourhood, amidst leisure and nature. The six proposed constellations blur the pre-existing borders between landscape and village, between garden and street, between public and private. An inbetween atmosphere is revealed, in which distinctive neighbourhoods can form, embracing social, leisure, sport and energy-related programs.

Urban shapes translated into neighbourhood characters

From representative sprawl to productive green

Jury point of view The project focuses on a series of strong design approaches to the public realm and potential communal areas, to break out of private isolation and enhance the environment. “These interventions give the neighbourhoods distinctive accents and thus contribute to the development of differentiated identities within the region, making the locations interesting for new residents. The graduated system of public and private open spaces provides an appropriate solution to the current lack of identity in the neighbourhood.”

Regionale 2016 (DE) Special mention

Jan Alexander Middrup (DE)

Lessingstrasse 19

architect

47799 Krefeld, Germany T. +49 1775056682 jan.alexander@middrup.net

151 adaptable – cooperative – urban smile Team point of view The adaptable and strategic instrument for site-specific and considerate urban development is called “Cooperative Quarter Society”.

Revitalised collective economic, social and cultural goals will be implemented progressively, sensibly and precisely, all within an urban perspective and with an individual neighbourhood focus. The showcase site for this conceptual approach is the district in Ahaus. All projections and steps towards a “Cooperative Quarter Society” are shown, at both urban and building scale. They are easy to understand for all participants, crisis-proof, flexible, involving all generations and motivating participation because of the material and immaterial incentives.

Jury point of view The project proposes a structural approach. Neighbourhood cooperatives could offer an interesting approach here.

Warszawa Polska (PL)

LOCATION Warszawa - osiedle Za

SITE PROPOSED BY

Żelazną Bramą

city of Warsaw

POPULATION city 1,708,491 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

conurbation ±3,100,000 inhab.

Wolska Żelazną Bramą Housing

STRATEGIC SITE 156 ha

Cooperative, city of Warszawa,

SITE OF PROJECT 7.25 ha

State Treasury

interview

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of the site’s representative Hubert Trammer, contributor architect, Europan Polska

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Za Żelazną Bramą estate (built 1965-1972) in the very centre of Warszawa, includes 19 nearly identical 16 storey 87m long apartment buildings. In part of the estate, the new multifunctional development treats the buildings like rocks for building between. The project site is in the middle of “emerging Manhattan”, with new high-rise hotels, office and residential buildings which made the structure of Żelazną Bramą estate more complex. The buildings’ small apartments, long access corridors and poor finish made Żelazną Bramą an object of resident complaint from the start. It also quickly drew criticism from architects and other specialists, focusing mainly on its monotony, large scale and totalitarian planning. In 1986, Żelazną Bramą was the subject of the international “From neighbourhood to downtown” architectural workshops, where participants proposed radical changes. In recent decades, all 19 big buildings have been renovated. Some architectural solutions have been introduced to improve thermal insulation but the strong graphic layout of the elevations is preserved. Many comments on the loss of green areas caused by the new development.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The integral part of the original estate creates low-rise educational, commercial and healthcare structures. The development plan allows some to be replaced by more intensive development. The aim is to improve quality of life here, finding a balance between centrality and locality, between preserving the values of existing historical space and enhancing the quality of the adaptable city already in place.The estate’s central location and small apartments attract people from elsewhere in Poland and around the world to Żelazną Bramą. There is a large Vietnamese community. Many of the apartments are used as offices by small firms. The local development plan foresees a coexistence between housing and services. The objective is to use this complex identity as an opportunity.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

Warszawa, the capital and economic centre of Poland is one of Europe’s most dynamically growing cities. The site needs a strategy to deal with rapid change: to give new life to in-between spaces and adjust the modernist residential buildings to the current needs of a diverse population, to propose the development of accompanying buildings, which act as primary street frontage, introduce new uses, bring the benefits of the 24/7 city along with protection from its negative consequences.

The phenomenon of recent years throughout Poland is the growing move towards citizen participation in local development. The NGO Fundacja Na Miejscu has started the community planning process for the green recreational area within the project site.

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Warszawa (PL) winner

Adrià Guardiet (ES)

Albert Estruga (ES)

C/ del Callao, 10, 2o1a

architect

architect

08014, Barcelona, Spain T. +34 609167770 adriaguardiet@gmail.com www.adriaguardiet.cat

154 cultural and memorial facilities adjust the imbalance between the cultural offer on both sides of Marszałkowska St. via different strategies in order to reinforce the relationship between the main landmarks of Warsaw’s history.

system of open space completion of the system of open spaces located west of the city via a set of greenways: Civic axes for pedestrians and cyclists that connect large-scale parks and merge the whole city into this system.

mobility rearrangement of the main traffic roads and reduction of the parking areas at street-level, which creates a system of superblocks with limited access for vehicles and total priority for pedestrians.

On the edge Team point of view Two scales. At city scale, we propose a series of measures that will reinforce links between Warsaw’s main urban nodes and the area where the plot is located, now isolated for several reasons: fast lanes crossing the district, big street-level parking lots, excessively homogeneous open spaces, huge residential-only areas, shortage of facilities and urban activators, etc.

At plot scale, we propose to link the three residential blocks via a continuous ground floor that will have different uses – shops, community facilities, etc.– that aim, on the one hand, to enliven the urban environment, and, on the other hand, to reinforce a sense of community amongst residents. This operation will also produce a physical rearrangement of the open space in three categories: the street, the indoor public space, and the inner courtyard.

Jury point of view The main strength of this project is the way it reconfigures the neglected intermediate space. An additional building volume breaks up the monofunctionality of the site. This measure implicitly redefines the street space, but only when the principle of densification with the ground floor zones of further building plots is adopted and the street space is enclosed on both sides. As a restructuring principle this procedure offers a kind of spatial blue-print solution for a move from the structured, lowdensity ‘Corbusian’ city to a compact, multifunctional urban district of the 21st century.

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today

tomorrow

1. A new perimeter that infuses the public space with life and vitality and restructures the system of open spaces.

2. Reorganization of the traffic and creation of pedestrian superblocks.

3. Reduction of the street-level parking area thanks to new underground parking areas of greater capacity and lesser urban impact.

building envelope: one single facade for the entire set to emphasize the idea of unity and compactness through a continuous ground floor

public space hierarchy: public around the block public indoor inner courtyard community gardens

ground floor

functional areas: urban facilities shops and restaurants offices housing community areas community storage

sec1 - Grzybowska Street

parking spaces: 96 pk. spaces (street) 80 bike racks (street) 171 bike racks (community) 957 pk. spaces (community) sec2 – inner courtyard

Warszawa (PL) runner-up

Francisco Almodóvar Ruiz (ES)

Jorge Barreno Cardiel,

Jorge Barreno Cardiel (ES)

Calle Navas 40 8ºIZQ

José Luis Llaca Bastardo (ES)

03001 Alicante, Spain

Ángel Marhuenda Serrano (ES)

T. +44 7835366621

Rafael Molina Planelles (ES)

liminaloffice@gmail.com

Salvador Ortiz Maciá (ES) architects

156 Urban permaculture Team point of view The specific issues on the Warsaw site are an example of the unresolved conflict within the modernist urban heritage introduced into many European cities during post-war reconstruction. What is missing in modern urbanism in particular is a sense of time (R. Sennet). Not backward-looking nostalgic time but forward-looking time, the city understood as process, its vision changing through use, a picture of urban imagination formed through anticipation, open to surprise. And because of its inherent condition as a city centre, we determined that a simple, formal requalification of spaces could improve it socially and ecologically. Our new Athens Charter would more resemble Permaculture Principles and would probably be written near Syntagma Square.

Jury point of view The project perceives the Europan contest as a way to maintain and reinterpret Warsaw’s modernist heritage by reintegrating the Iron Gate into the rest of the urban fabric. It concentrates on a relation between the functions placed on the ground-floor of the Iron Gate buildings and the adjacent micro-territories as a starting point for designing new spaces that would acquire the function of “streets” and other public areas.

It therefore proposes a series of acupuncture interventions.

Warszawa (PL) Special mention

Gorka Blas Revilla (ES)

info@gorkablas.com

architect

www.gorkablas.com

157 In-between days Team point of view The project proposes to preserve the existing urban layout. Small-scale elements function as a new layer and improve the quality of the existing space. They also create different zones without dividing the original public space. Groups of benches and shelters are located across the site and can also be used all year, both in winter and summer.

Empty building is connected to the healthcare centre in order to increase its area and create new facilities. Apartments are extended to the exterior and shelters for the neighbours are created in the garden.

health care center commercial space community space sport

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Jury point of view The jury praised this project as a valuable contribution that deals respectfully with the existing structure of buildings and the space around them. Proposed interventions are small-scale and based on enhancing quality of life through improvements to the quality of surrounding space. The whole area is open and accessible day and night, providing a pleasant place to spend time for all users, attracting people at all seasons, and especially during bad weather.

sculpture storage space

playground skate space

dome play space

dome play space

playground

bicycle parking / storage shelter / common space storage balconies

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lamp

lamp

shelter children space

shelter children space

shelter exterior space

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From mono-large to multi-mix Sites are undergoing two kinds of closely related transformation: the first from a single large entity to a multitude of smaller parts; the other from a mono-functional entity to a mix of functions and uses.

Both transformations generate a greater degree of spatial and programmatical complexity, which is as an essential quality of genuine urbanity.

In these transformations, a system composed of smaller, separate and different elements is potentially more adaptable. If one part becomes redundant, it can await change or replacement without too great an impact on an area. If new needs arise, these can be more smoothly absorbed into a differentiated pattern of distribution. A fine urban mix is more adaptable than a large mono-functional cluster.

GRAZ (AT)

160

GRONINGEN (NL)

166

HANINGE (SE)

172

HEIDELBERG (DE)

180

HELSINKI (FI)

186

KAISERSLAUTERN (DE)

194

MARLY (CH)

200

URRETXU_IRIMO (ES)

208

WIEN-SIEMENSÄCKER (AT)

216

Graz Österreich (AT)

LOCATION Graz - Eggenberg

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION City 270,000 inhab.

City and site owner

Conurbation 423,000 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE 14.2 ha

Waagner-Biro, AG, GBG

SITE OF PROJECT 2 ha

interview of the site’s representative Bernhard Inninger, director of the department of urban design,

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City of Graz Bertram Werle, director of urban planning, City of Graz

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Graz is a fast growing city, but with limited settlement development areas.

City development thus focuses on consolidating inner city zones that already have excellent infrastructure. The intention is to create energy-efficient, resource-saving city districts with low emissions that can offer the highest in quality of life. A new energy self-sufficient city district is to be established in the heterogeneous former industrial area of Waagner Biro next to the main train station. The aim of the “Smart City Graz” project is to develop an urban district with mixed uses and a high quality of life. In addition to creating high-quality residential space, the municipality’s further important priority objectives are to implement quality public spaces, establish attractive green footpaths and cycle tracks, provide optimal links to public transport and cut back on private car use. The aim is to demonstrate energy technologies for the intelligent «zero emission» city for the first time here in the course of an integrative planning process.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The site demonstrates the re-structuring processes that go into shaping a city in the course of its history: it was once a marginal zone characterised by its industry and on the “wrong side of the tracks” at the main station. It is now completely surrounded by urban structures. The decline and fall of its former role has now opened up the opportunity for an entirely fresh definition of this area. Changes in population structure, in prosperity, in the social environment and in the employment market have brought new ways of living with new needs and demands on urban spatial structures. The development of structures that are neutral usage buildings will be one of the most important challenges for the sustainable and smart urban development of the future.

Graz citizens will be brought into the planning process through active urban zone management with provision for information and participation and an interdisciplinary expert forum to coordinate and adjust urban developments of the future. The lively exchange between domestic and international partner cities is intended to support learning and reflection processes and also to ensure the wider impact of the results.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

In order to guarantee sustainable development in times of economic crisis, the City of Graz uses civil law contracts to regulate the joint procedure with the landowners and investors as a means of assuring the required qualities for the implementation of Smart City. Value added taxes, mobility contracts and PPP models support cities in their efforts to make urban development possible during times of recession. National and European funding channels provide significant support for this complex and integrated planning pro­cess and make it possible to direct substantial additional finance into urban technologies.

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Graz (AT) runner-up

Sebastian Jenull (AT)

Thomas Perz (AT)

Atelier Astwerk

Sandra Tantscher (AT)

industrial designer

Sebastian Jenull, Sandra

architects

Wilfried Stering (AT)

Tantscher, Schörgelgasse 3

building engineer

8010 Graz, Austria

Reinhold Weinberger (BR)

T. +43 6642335791

architect

office@tantscherjenull.at www.tantscherjenull.at

162 Yard, Beach House and Framework

Bucket List 4 – Kiss under stars

The bucket list – Feel the city Team point of view The site is characterized by its schizoid fringe conditions: heavy infrastructure in the east, calm housing developments in the west. As a possible response we suggest a flexible and adaptable framework, which creates urban edges and borders while remaining open and permeable. The built grid can be filled with different uses. The suggested configuration of buildings with the big yard in between, are the grid for a wide range of different uses, such as housing, work, leisure and school. Urban rhythm takes place in the open spaces, which also give the city identity. These spaces are occupied with the components of the bucket list, which trigger people´s emotions and invite users to act in certain ways. Experiences and the associated feelings of happiness become part of collective memory.

Implementation of buildings

Jury point of view The project creates a whole set of proposals to enhance and trigger emotions relating to a variety of qualities that are created out of the “already there” of the place, reading its potential as a mixture of actions, situations and spatial developments. It follows that the overall plan is published as a manual that suggests a series of steps to be taken. The manual introduces the identity of the area as an amalgam of hard and software operations, in which infrastructural interventions (bridge), the re-cycling of abandoned structures (industrial shed) and technological topics are linked to scenarios of appropriation by different populations.

Typology and phasing strategy of uses – “Framework” and “Beach House” Site plan

Section

Graz (AT) runner-up

Katja Aljaž (SI)

Matej Mejak (SI)

Ulica Lojzeta Hrovata 3a, 4000

architect

student in architecture

Kranj, Slovenia T. +386 41312740 katjaaljaz.arh@gmail.com www.ar3de.com

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Polyrhythmic fields Team point of view The concept is based on a chessboard-shaped polyrhythmic landscape, where each field acquires a different rhythm from its inhabitants. The chessboard layout provides equal access to open areas.

Polyrhythmic fields are created in the form of squares, sports field, parks and playgrounds. In primary school area, the street becomes a schoolyard, between housing areas, the street becomes a playground and between sport fields the street becomes a park. Different adaptable scenarios are presented for the middle of the project site and the ground level strategy – the 5 m height and different typologies can be adapted to different programs. The project also implements urban scale approaches to energy efficiency and the environment (rooftop gardens / greenhouses, local food production…).

Jury point of view The concept of a polyrhythmic landscape, which accommodates the different rhythms of its inhabitants, is seen as a convincing approach, introducing the added value of 24-hour-use of green spaces.

Moreover, a chessboard-system suggests an intensification of the relationship between clusters of built development and green areas, at the same time offering a balanced interface between built development and outdoor spaces. The small transversal access roads appear as micro public spaces, defining the pattern of the chess-board system.

Plan

Layout of landscape qualities with polyrhythmic fields Polyrhythmic fields

Equal access to green area, optimization of scheme - chessboard

Graz (AT) Special mention

Héctor Salcedo García (ES)

José Javier Rodríguez Barbudo

STUDIO SWES architects,

Javier Monge Fernández (ES)

(ES)

Almansa 4

Mariem Rodríguez

student in architecture

41001 Seville - Spain

Carrascosa (ES)

T +34 667557451

architects

studioswes@gmail.com www.studioswes.com

164 Smart base Team point of view The project takes on the challenge of suggesting a space in which educational and ordinary living uses coexist. It looks at the school as a contemporary public space of culture and learning (not only sports and leisure) going beyond the strict classrooms program.

The municipality would provide only one complex building offering the representativeness demanded for the outskirts, the idea of a great Dwelling Machine as an urban structure.

Because of the large numbers of dwellings, great parallelepipeds of narrow corridors form. These break up the volumetric impact of the high density suggested building. The slenderness of the constructions makes them visually impressive and provides the area with landmark features.

Jury point of view Using the two rather remote references of Hilbersheimer and SANAA, the project establishes an aesthetically and programmatically unifying structure, absorbing school and housing along with urban uses into a single structure. The project suggests an interesting ambiguity, simulta­ neously both object and structure.

Groningen Nederland (NL)

LOCATION Groningen - Hoendiep

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION city 195,000 inhab.

city of Groningen

conurbation 455,000 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE 10.8 ha

city of Groningen and private

SITE OF PROJECT 1.8 ha

owners

interview

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of the site’s representative Jan Martijn Ekkhof, Municipality of Groningen

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy For years the west flank of the city of Groningen was dominated by sugar production, which began there in 1914 and ended early in 2008. The municipality subsequently bought the building and grounds with a view to authorised urban use in the longer term. At present there are no concrete plans for this area. Because the city already has sufficient sites for housing, offices and businesses (and demand for these has, in fact, also decreased), the area still has no definitive designated use, nor any final zoning plan.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The SuikerUnie plot south of the study area is seen as a strategic reserve and will be developed over a 20 years period, through bottom-up initiatives, as a testing ground for new forms of urban land use, which enhance the palette of the existing city. Connecting Vinkhuizen, the post-war development area, with the SuikerUnie area and Stadspark, is an urban ambition in which the Europan site will play an important role and for which the water in the Hoendiepkanaal canal constitutes both a barrier and a splendid opportunity.

On the scale of the study area, the Europan site is ideally suitable as a stepping stone between a traditional, but (re)–developing, business park and the SuikerUnie area, which is designated for large-scale development – preferably via a step-by-step approach in which temporary use plays an important role.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

All this raises questions about the identity of the area, now and in the future.

Until recently it has held a somewhat ambiguous midway position, focusing both on the SuikerUnie factory in the south and the furniture boulevard in the north. Redeveloping the area could help it define its own identity.

In this context, an important option (as yet barely explored) could be the possibility for thermo-energy in this part of the city, associated with Kema, a company situated near the site that specialises in energy and sustainability and is one of the few enterprises with good prospects in this area.

The most important pre-condition for development is to make the site accessible and visible. The site needs to become embedded in the urban network by through connections. The challenge is to achieve this with limited means. Subsequently, and in the longer term, the site can grow and gain more concrete form through further detailed infill with temporary and permanent programmes.

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Groningen (NL) winner

Remco Rolvink (NL)

Wijde Geldelozepad 11a

architect - urban planner

2012 EJ Haarlem,

Elizabeth Keller (NL)

The Netherlands

landscape architect

T. +31 614466967 remco@remcorolvink.nl www.remcorolvink.nl www.atelierelizabethkeller.nl

168 Prelude Team point of view The Prelude concept treats the Hoendiep and Suikerunie area in Groningen as a free field where landscape and city meet. Open space is the most valuable, while access and a clear point of attraction need to be added. Prelude is a strategy for the first stage of a gradual spatial and social process to connect the free field to the urban fabric by a bridge and strip that create space. Recognising the uncertainties about the future development of these plots, the design focuses on the essential starting point, with a connector and attractor to trigger an adaptable form of urban use The local community is encouraged to plant Miscanthus at the site, for harvesting and use as material for green concrete to built the bridge step by step, so that it becomes an attraction as it grows.

Jury point of view The designers of this project have resisted the temptation to do what the brief challenged them to do, i.e. devise an attractive programme. They have deliberately chosen not to do so, not least because they recognise an important quality in an empty, unprogrammed space.

They limit their intervention to opening the area up and improving access.

To that end they have designed a bridge that is both a connector and attractor. Volunteers will carry out most of the building work. In this way the project can also become a community and social bridging concept.

Hoendiep site as entrance

meeting point rural and urban

free field and central strip

plan and side view of Hoendiep bridge turned and connected with Suikerunie terrain

connector

169 turning bridge at Hoendiep site before connecting the Suikerunie terrain

section of the timeline

Groningen (NL) runner-up

Ton van Beek (NL)

Ton van Beek Buitenruimte

Pieter Delacourt (BE)

en Architectuur

architects

T. + 31 650489502 info@tvbba.nl www.tvbba.nl Architect Delacourt T. + 31 613347589 info@ArchitectDelacourt.nl www.ArchitectDelacourt.nl

170 Uploading city Team point of view Uploading city is a proposal for the creation of a sustainable market hall that will upload itself over time. It uploads literally by means of solar panels on the roof and figuratively through the new activities that will be developed here. Restructuring traffic and rearranging parking space creates a better quality public space. This will form an area with more residential qualities. The roof over the public square is designed as a tilted solar plant, which is directly connected to the energy chain of the nearby KEMA Institute for Energy and Sustainability. This creates a market hall that can be used for a wide range of activities (events, markets, performances).

The huge roof is an invitation to devise new programs.

Jury point of view The project is conspicuous for the almost total absence of a programme. The proposed structure can, indeed, be developed with further functions, but even without that infill its existence is justified. Although the architecture is still fairly rudimentary, it does appear to suggest that it could fit well with the character of the site. In addition, an attractive new east-west cycle route is proposed.

Haninge Sverige (SE)

LOCATION Haninge - Province

SITE PROPOSED BY

of Södermanland

city of Haninge, Grosvenor

POPULATION city 11,500 inhab.

Fund Management-Continental

conurbation 79,000 inhab.

Europa, Stena Fastigheter AB

STRATEGIC SITE 17 ha

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

SITE OF PROJECT 4 ha

city of Haninge

interview

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of the site’s representative Peter Olevik Dunder, chairman of the Urban planning committee

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Haninge is a growing town located south of Stockholm, a 20 minutes commute by train. Haninge town centre epitomizes modernistic planning in Sweden, a planning ideal focused on separation rather than mixed use, large scale planning with priority placed on car mobility. The streets are very wide and there are large empty areas between the buildings. There are also numerous parking lots. Almost all the street life is concentrated in a large indoor shopping centre. Because this centre is only open in daytime, the central areas are somewhat deserted at night and can feel unsafe to walk in. Moreover, the whole pattern of movement in the centre changes from day to night when the shopping centre is closed, and people are forced to take alternative routes around it. But those days are over. Today, citizens and politicians want an urban fabric that attracts pedestrians and cyclists rather than cars. In addition, the population is growing year-onyear. These extra pressures generate conditions of great demand for development. Haninge is also part of the Stockholm region, which wishes to become Europe’s most attractive metropolitan region. In addition to the central core, eight urban areas have been designated as regional nuclei, of which Haninge is one.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The strategic connection to Stockholm, the forest and the swimming lake just metres from the commuter rail station, and above all the sparse urban fabric, make Haninge a perfect host for future growth in the capital region.

Haninge can make use of pre-existing infrastructure for new dwellings etc.

On land previously perceived as fully developed. We have great potential and responsibility for sustainable development. The aim in this competition is to transform one such area at the very centre of Haninge. We wish to create new public spaces by means of buildings and meet the demand for housing, but also small street level spaces for shops and small businesses. There is also demand for houses that can adapt to different needs and uses over time.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The urban concept also needs to fit within the existing context. How can this new ideological layer be superimposed on the site and simultaneously stay true to the site’s history and identity?

Crucial to the planning of the city of tomorrow is high population density, good logistics for both people and goods and developments that offer mixed uses to create a vibrant community. If not a 24/7 existence, at this one that is moving in that direction and is friendly to cyclists and pedestrians.

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Haninge (SE) winner

Christian Scott Rasmusson

SR-B AB - Christian Scott

(SE)

Rasmusson

Johan Källander (SE)

Edsbergsgränd 3,

Björn Ingridsson (SE)

129 40 Hägersten, Sweden

architects

T. +46 732440987 info@sr-b.com www.sr-b.com

174 Parklife Team point of view Flexible, yet distinctive, this development of parks, housing, commerce and parking will be based on rules. The large scale of old Haninge determines the new areas, while a smaller scale is used for their diffusion. This generates a delicate web, which is flexible and vibrant in terms of ownership, typology, scale, activity and social structures.

The social and economic incentives are governed by restoring social qualities, while also creating a sustainable economic model.

The new parking areas are interwoven with shops and dwellings, but are relocated from street level to make room for a new lively city street. This creates an environment of exciting encounters where there was previously ugly, unsafe and unwanted space. The different Layers of the city are made visible and integrated with the rest of life, PARKLIFE. Jury point of view The project walks a narrow line between conventionality and the invention of a new city. The main interesting points relate to the intensity and the mix of uses characteristic of urban life. This city offers a 24/7 environment where parking and sports, leisure and housing merge in a creative way. This creativity is a kind of heuristic toolbox, which seems to contain ever more suggestions for the future use of urban spaces.

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Haninge (SE) runner-up

Mickael Papin (FR)

8 allée Diane de Poitiers

Pierre Silande (FR)

75019 Paris, France

Kikyun Kim (KR)

T. +33 695458725

Antoine Carel (FR)

contact@c-l-u-b.fr

architects

www.c-l-u-b.fr

176 Traffic island Team point of view How to awaken the potential public space around the Nynasvagen road? Two main factors govern the project: a road infrastructure that forms a physical barrier and a significant number of parking lots to be retained. To reduce the impact of this road, we propose to split it in two, significantly enlarging the central reservation and moving the existing parking lots onto this new central island. This creates new pedestrian flows across the road infrastructure by residents and retail customers. The parking grid becomes the basis for the development of new functions on the island itself. New regular or occasional uses can take place here. Depending on needs, other more permanent uses could be installed on the island and benefit from the daily flow of people.

Jury point of view The proposal works directly with the main problems at the site: cars and urban life. The goal is to alter the infrastructure by creating an island amidst the traffic. After the first step in the organization of this island, the creation of a cluster of parking lots, this fabric will gradually be able to grow into a more complex urban ensemble. The interesting point is that the car is not perceived as a barrier to social exchange but as an opportunity for new programmes and urban life.

Haninge (SE) Special mention

Ragnar Eythorsson (SE)

delias.arch@gmail.com

Nils Sandström (SE) David Eliasson (SE) architects

177 More than a lot Team point of view Sites like this one usually provoke strong reactions, and there are often calls for their total destruction. The very same impulse, one of disregard or maybe even disgust for the existing fabric, was exactly what the modernist planners acted on in the 60s when historical Handen was demolished to make way for what is there today. Their insistence on a tabula rasa was probably their biggest mistake, and it is something we want to avoid repeating.

In its parking-lot flatness, the site today could actually be read as a perfectly clean slate, ready to receive just about anything that today’s planners could imagine, if it wasn’t for the geometrical patterns of white lines on the ground. These lines have negligible mass, but they still constitute the site’s most important cultural legacy, and they became the foundations on which this project was built.

Jury point of view The project explores the possibilities of urban planning and development based on the car park unit. Small investors and small-scale business and public spaces are included in this frame, giving the proposal a democratic and participatory dimension. The urban process here is open-ended and it would need continuous interaction by the municipality in the process. The proposal contains a strong conceptual position, taking advantage of existing conditions and promoting a transition to another kind of city, where almost every citizen can be a significant agent.

Haninge (SE) Special mention

Ásdís Andersdóttir (SE)

c/o ragnheidur sigurdardóttir

Mike Fedak (SE)

sandsoppsvägen 4

architects

45154 uddevalla, Sweden T. +46 736422943 asdisandersdottir@hotmail.com www.krankhandle.wordpress.com

178 The Nature Bridge

5 ways

The Market Garden

Team point of view Can we build a city that reflects the plurality of our hopes and relationships? Haninge is an abstract gesture, a simple and misleading division of life into constituent parts. It lacks the diversity of thought and intention that accrues in vibrant cities and places. We propose a catalogue of interventions: some dramatic, some less dramatic, that aim to stir up the neatly packaged functions of today’s Haninge. Five sequences of public spaces cut through the existing regimented linearity of Nynäsvägen and open up the restrictive confines of today’s shopping centre. Each of these sequences has a distinctive character; the Nature Bridge, the Market Town, the Colour Canyon, the Market Garden and the Enchanted Forest.

These sequences form a frame of public spaces between which the hopes and desires of individual actors can be constructed.

Jury point of view This project exemplifies a very specific planning approach to every part of the site and is very rich in the catalogue of urban situations that it reveals. It tackles a sensory taxonomy of urban units, for example the “coloured canyon” or the “enchanted forest”. The jury appreciated the fact that these strategies include the lakeshore and seek to reorganize urban space in an ambitious way in multiple perceptive, or more specifically haptic, dimensions.

The Enchanted Forest

The Market Town

Heidelberg Deutschland (DE)

LOCATION Heidelberg –

SITE PROPOSED BY

Campbell Barracks

city of Heidelberg

POPULATION ± 150,000 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

Südstadt ± 4,000 inhab.

Bundesanstalt for

STRATEGIC SITE ± 80 ha

Immobilienaufgaben (Institute

SITE OF PROJECT 16 ha

for Federal Real Estate: BImA) on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany, after withdrawal of the US Army the city of Heidelberg is proposing to acquire the site

interview

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of the site’s representative Thomas Rebel, Urban Planning Department, Heidelberg

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Heidelberg’s development has been determined by two dominant transport routes: the River Neckar flowing from east to west and the Bergstraße (today Federal Road B3) running from north to south. The latter was built and used by the Romans as a trade and military road. The old town was constructed in the 12th century at the point of intersection. As Germany’s oldest university city and capital of the Electoral Palatinate, Heidelberg received a major growth impetus in the 14th century. Town expansion in the mediaeval and Wilhelminian eras took place along these two development axes.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

A strategic change in the city’s development occurred after 1840 with the construction of the first railway line. Growth was strongly oriented to the new rail links. As a result, the north-south axis shifted towards the west, from Bergstraße towards the Rhine valley. The districts located along Bergstraße grew slowly, while those on the Rhine flood plain received considerable stimulus. In 2000 the city council approved its ‘spatial planning model’ specifying that future urban growth should take place along these development axes. One of the reasons for this was that the US Army facilities, in particular Mark Twain Village, were a barrier to urban growth. They blocked a link between the slopes of the Odenwald and Bergstraße into the Rhine valley and prevented long-term urban development in Südstadt.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

With the withdrawal of the US Army, the city again faces a fundamental change in its urban development policy. A 200 hectares site – approximately twice the size of Heidelberg Old Town or equal to the total area of land developed over the past 25 years – will be available for new uses.

The integration of these large, mono-functional areas, which hitherto had no links whatsoever to the surrounding urban area and were perceived as enclaves, is a regional planning task of gigantic proportions. In order to exploit the enormous potential it is therefore important to develop concepts and strategies that reflect the change, in terms of mixed scanning for their effects on the city as a whole. At the same time, feasible projects are to be generated for the individual sites. To this end, valuable stimuli have been gained from the Europan competition, a basis for the urban planning framework and urban land use plans based on them. In the meantime the city council has founded a municipal development agency to implement the development strategy. Ownership of the site will be transferred to this agency for redevelopment.

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Heidelberg (DE) winner

Manuela Kölke (DE)

Falckensteinstrasse 44a

architect

10997 Berlin, Germany

Daniel Cibis (DE)

T. +49 17621961469

Mandy Held (DE)

mk@manuko.com

Johannes Hipp (DE)

www.manuko.com

Janek Lorenzen (DE) Luisa Schäfer (DE) urban planners

182 Startband Team point of view The concept of Startband is a (sub-) urban capture strategy aiming to integrate the barracks site into the fabric of urban complexities and to foster the development of an independent identity for the new quarter. Process and urban intervention are equal aspects of the concept.

The development is divided into three stages of transformation: - The first phase comprises the exploration and capture of urban space.

- The second phase comprises the implementation of the Startband. Its characteristics would provide differentiated and multi-functional open spaces, a flexible mix of typologies, coming with a variety of options to use and appropriate space.

- In the third phase of the transformation the development would continue in the areas around the Startband.

Jury point of view The Startband is a strong new north-south oriented axis with if open space qualities. It connects the future neighbourhoods on the project site with the city and the landscape. Future redevelopment of the site can now follow its own rhythm, as the new axis constitutes a strong framework to which multiple projects can be anchored. It fosters flexible development, as well as re-using the existing buildings to provide new residential locations. The Startband will come to play a major role as the catalyst of a new history on the site.

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Heidelberg (DE) runner-up

Tuan Tong (VN)

Heidelberger StraSSe 14

Viet Tan (VN)

64283 Darmstadt, Germany

architects

T. +49 1794883368 tongtuan@yahoo.com

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overview

U-living Team point of view The aim of the concept is to create an attractive and vibrant urban area. For this reason, existing potentials are preserved and developed further. The prevailing open spaces with the historical buildings along the Römerstraße are transformed into a “park” with several cultural features. The result is a fluent urban space that connects all parts together.

The different qualities of public spaces along the street are suitable for a variety of uses. The “culture park” improves quality along the Römertraße and gives the site a new identity. The areas around the former stables will be transformed into a densely built-up mixed residential and working area. The existing building provides space for a variety of social and cultural activities. New buildings with double-skin facades are designed to collect solar energy and distribute it to the apartments. Essentially, the combination of old and new creates a special atmosphere.

ground plan

concept

perspective

Jury point of view The entire area is strongly highlighted with a clear arrangement of different height residential buildings. A varied typology of floorplans is provided for a wide range of user groups. The project convinces by offering differentiated new residential neighbourhoods, in particular with the variety of typologies. Four U-shaped building complexes are situated about an extensive underground car park. They act as a new landmark on the site.

Heidelberg (DE) Special mention

Marius Gantert (DE)

Marc Bitz (DE)

GraefestraSSe 77

Andreas Krauth (DE)

Stefan Uhl (DE)

10967 Berlin, Germany

architects

architects

T +49 3054594428 info@teleinternetcafe.de www.teleinternetcafe.de

Paradeplatz framed with low-rise typologies as an “urban living room”

redensification with innovative typologies on “campbell campus”

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Campbell fundamental Team point of view To mediate between the military layout of the barracks and a more human scale, whilst not denying their history and identity, a compact, space-saving design for redensification emphasizes a maximum of open green spaces as networked “urban living rooms” with short routes for pedestrians and cyclists, thus naturally interweaving the barracks and their adjacent neighbourhoods. These fundamental urban design objectives serve as the framework of an open transformational process. The different areas of the barracks are developed with varying programmes, priorities and speed. Typological experiments to test space and use constitute an essential part of this transformation. A wide range of affordable, open living and working spaces enable independent stakeholders to initiate innovative programmes and business ideas. Young academics, inventors and creative thinkers are encouraged to participate in the design of their own neighbourhood.

Jury point of view A first distinctive feature of the project is a strong public open space link between Odenwald and Messplatz via the east-west flowing corridor of a central park. On both sides of this green space the team has developed two neighbourhoods of differing character and with meaningful uses. The treatment of the parade ground is also surprising but interesting. The project takes an intriguing approach to the possibility of building on the parade ground.

reimagining the city’s scale along a new urban backbone

Suedstadt as a network of green spaces and with an urban heart and central park

site plan: mediating the military history and structure

Helsinki Suomi-Finland (FI)

LOCATION Helsinki Laakso –

SITE PROPOSED BY

Aurora

city of Helsinki

POPULATION city 601,690 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

conurbation 1,379,110 inhab.

city of Helsinki

STRATEGIC SITE 41 ha SITE OF PROJECT 24 ha

interview of the site’s representative

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Jarmo Raveala, Architect SAFA, Head of Project Planning, City of Helsinki, Europan 3 Winner in Quarrata (it)

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy The competition project area comprises two adjacent hospital areas – Laakso and Aurora – as well as part of Central Park between them. The area is about 2.5 kilometres from Helsinki city centre, so public transport connections are excellent. In the vicinity is a compact inner-city residential area, Helsinki’s most important park area and a sports park built for the 1952 Olympic Games.

Some of the buildings in the Laakso-Auroa hospital areas are historicoculturally valuable and form a protected entity. At present, however, the areas are separate and rather spacious islets within a city that is becoming more compact. The whole area has over the decades been strongly defined as a hospital area.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

Adaptability can be explored at the levels both of buildings and of urban structure. Adaptability is particularly important in hospital building. The conception of hospital care is changing and the strategic situation of the entire public healthcare system is under scrutiny. One rising trend is to create welfare campuses from the hospital areas, which offer, in addition to basic healthcare services, different care services and assisted living.

The objective of the competition was to examine the potential for developing public healthcare in the area. The task was to combine the hospital functions and to propose new development for housing and different care services. A central challenge was also to link the area to the surrounding urban structure and remove the physical and mental barrier around the hospital. Infill building should take into consideration the historico-culturally valuable environment and strengthen its identity.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

Helsinki is the capital of Finland and part of a growing metropolitan area.

The city is looking for new housing and workplace areas in the master plan, presently in preparation, the dominant themes of which are the compacting of the urban structure and infill building. The direction of the city’s growth will be inwards. As the hospital operations become centralised, part of the vacated areas and buildings can be taken into use for housing or other functions.

Next, the intention is to initiate more detailed studies jointly with the prizewinning proposals for the different sub-areas. In the long term, further commissions stemming from the competition will seek to examine viable alternatives and, depending on the solution, also proceed as far as individual building design.

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Helsinki (FI) winner

Jonna Taegen (FI)

Kia Taegen (FI)

Ristiniementie 40 c 20,

architect

student in architecture

02320 Espoo, Finland T. +358 503516992 jonna.taegen@taegenarchitects.com www.taegenarchitects.com

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Asclepeion Team point of view Adaptability is the quality of a space that can be easily modified with the changing needs of the surrounding environment. The site consists of two historical hospital areas, which are still in healthcare use.

The aim is to make the site more accessible, visible and effective. New buildings are integrated into the historical environment. In future, the hospital area will be more open to its surroundings, becoming a vibrant, multifaceted part of the city; a fine urban mix of both housing and healthcare functions. This mix of functions includes new housing concepts for senior citizens and recovering mental health patients. The standardized buildings and the rhythm of open and closed spaces generate spatial complexity and an urban structure that is flexible and adaptable.

Illustration of the main axis, Health Pathway

Plan of the area

Historical development and phasing

Jury point of view The project is extremely rational and consistent, elegant but bordering on the formalistic. The new street named “Health Route” starts from Nordenskiöldinkatu, enters the hospital area, and creates an impressive central axis for both the new and old buildings. The history of the area and the original pavilion hospital typology are highlighted in a logical fashion and the currently somewhat secretive and hidden campus is opened up to welcome the general public. The project creates a meaningful dialogue between new and old.

Illustration of the hospital´s main lobby

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Typical plans and sections of one block

Bird´s eye perspective

From mono-large to multi-mix

Helsinki (FI) runner-up

Jarkko Kettunen (FI)

Paciuksenkaari 19 työtila 1

architect

00270 Helsinki, Finland T. +358 445313160 jarkko.kettunen@ajak.fi www.ajak.fi

190 Vesisukkula – Water shuttle Team point of view The proposal exploits its original, restricted conditions by creating powerful and interesting thresholds between the outside and the inside of the site.

In the urban structure, the site is located between two natural entities, sea and forest. All of them essentially consist of water – the sea is 97% water, the forest 80 % and human beings 70%. Clean water is thus a perfect symbol for life and health. Water is the main component. The water system is located within the covered space, which can use fresh water and remain clean, while recycling water through the system. Outside, there is a rain water system, which creates water retaining elements for the heavy rain, covering the whole site. The proposal’s various typologies, as well as the overall shape of the scheme, derive their inspiration from water’s different forms: flowing water, still water, ice and vapor.

Jury point of view It is a many-faceted, diverse and interesting proposal. In terms of health-related activities and the present situation, the treatment of the central parts of the Laakso campus forms the most potentially interesting part of the project. It is the only proposal that takes the existing Synopsia complex, and its role in the future health care ensemble, as one of the starting points. Some good new connections to Central Park, also south of Nordenskiöldinkatu and some interesting new functions, such as the Nature Centre, are proposed.

Helsinki (FI) Special mention

Lorena Valero Miñano (ES)

Hilarión Eslava 19, 2dcha

Jose Ramón Martínez

03600 Elda Alicante, Spain

Cañadas (ES)

T. +34 620912411

Enrique Victor Mengual (ES)

valero.lorena@gmail.com

architects

www.sensorialhug.esy.es

191 Sensorial hug Team point of view We propose an artificial landscape, a fluent, hybrid building, a sensorial covered promenade that adapts to the topography and forest mass, complements the pre-existing buildings and connects the Laakson and Aurora areas. The project is developed through different ribbons that adapt to the terrain through rising or falling sections. The replaceability of these ribbons is underscored by a system of longitudinally flexible and interchangeable programmes that are adjusted to the needs of the site.

Shops, offices, residential apartments, studios, workshops, dwellings and public spaces are mixed across the project, creating new social and cultural relationships and allowing for sunlight, privacy needs and preexisting buildings.

Jury point of view The project presents one of the most original concepts in the whole competition. The continuous snakelike structure meanders through the surroundings in a way that is undoubtedly carefully calculated but nevertheless feels somewhat arbitrary. The “snake” does not appear to be particularly strongly linked to its location. It has a tendency to separate itself from Central Park, cutting the natural pedestrian and bicycle connections. In the end it seems to close off and create boundaries rather than open up and connect.

Helsinki (FI) special mention

Ville Hara (FI)

Martin Genet (FR)

Avanto Architects Ltd,

Sasu Hälikkä (FI)

Laura Nenonen (FI)

Kalevankatu 31 a 3

Anu Puustinen (FI)

students in architecture

00100 Helsinki, Finland

architects

T. +358 503531095 ark@avan.to www.avan.to

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Confetti Team point of view The design consists of several areas with different building typologies, a patchwork approach that makes the urban layout very adaptable. Separate clusters can be built in several phases and the flexible concept enables design changes to be made as needs change.

A mix of functions makes the area lively 24/7. Blurring the boundaries between public and private services makes the proposed new health village an active meeting place. Different urban rhythms are catered for by sharing spaces. For example raising the level of use of the sports and rehabilitation facilities in the two hospital areas reduces the need for new building spaces. This is not just ecologically and financially sustainable but is also a way to connect the previously isolated hospital areas to surrounding city fabric. aerial view, the most precious open rocks have been saved

Jury point of view The entry is balanced, realistic and feasible, and presents an urban scale that catches the spirit of the place and the existing urban grain in a peaceful yet convincing way. The connections to the surrounding city are well thought out, although they do not actually present any new ways to make the area more physically or mentally accessible to the public. To combat this and to emphasize urbanity, the proposed new point blocks by Reijolankatu could, for instance, have been more boldly brought close to the edge of the street.

health care centre with mixed private and public functions

general plan

functions scheme demonstrates the scattered confetti idea

Helsinki (FI) Special mention

Alessandro Bua (IT)

info@pla-c.eu

Ilaria Ariolfo (IT)

www.pla-c.eu

Andrea Alessio (IT)

studioerrante@gmail.com

Davide Barreri (IT)

www.studioerrantearchitec-

Sara Becchio (IT)

ture.tumblr.com

Paolo Borghino (IT)

andreatomasi.1985@gmail.com

Andrea Tomasi (IT) architects

193 Institutes without boundaries Team point of view Laakso Aurora is seeking a new institution: an urban health care prototype that is more than just a hospital but a space for physical and psychic reintegration. To achieve Institutes without boundaries, four strategies are required: 1. to eliminate existing physical boundaries and enhance pedestrian mobility; 2. to redistribute existing hospital/outpatient care and managerial functions to four institutes through extensions and on-site reconstructions; 3. to achieve greater south-north permeability by redefining the street hierarchy based around new underground car parks; 4. to conceive buildings as open platforms, which generate a collective mix, in which patients are simple citizens actively involved in communal life.

Jury point of view This project’s most interesting contribution is its initial aim of breaking boundaries, both physical and mental. How well the project succeeds in this is, however, debatable. As far as physical boundaries are concerned, this does not seem to be particularly emphasised other than in the removal of all the surrounding fences. In fact, the proposed interventions do not actually improve the area’s connection to the surrounding urban structure. The great strengths of the project lie in the thinking behind it and the strong belief in the power of small-scale interventions.

Kaiserslautern Deutschland (DE)

LOCATION Kaiserslautern –

SITE PROPOSED BY

Pfaff area

city of Kaiserslautern

POPULATION 98,100 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE ± 30 ha

Insolvency administrator

SITE OF PROJECT 21.7 ha

interview

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of the site’s representative Joachim Wilhelm, department for urban development, Kaiserlautern

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy The 19.5 ha planning area is located in the south-west part of Kaiserslautern about 1.5 km from the city centre. The site is close to the university, and the “Uni-Park” with its related institutions is a decisive locational factor. It enjoys direct proximity to research and teaching facilities. Furthermore, companies located here will only be a short distance from the public and private amenities in the city centre.

The downsizing of Pfaff Industriemaschinen AG and loss of jobs triggered a shortage of functions for the factory premises and adjacent areas. At the same time, however, this functional weakness has released enormous potential. The availability of a contiguous commercial area creates a development potential that can provide new stimuli for the city.

Analogous to the successful conversion of the Holzendorff Barracks and former goods depot on Trippstadter Strasse, the aim is to set aside the easily accessible areas close to the city centre for forward-looking uses.

The city of Kaiserslautern plans to continue growing as a commercial and technological centre.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

With the collapse of industry and the need to develop the area internally and convert it to new uses, the former Pfaff site is a prime example of a “from mono-large to multi-mix” project. In the light of the increasing need for companies and facilities to adjust quickly in a globalised commercial arena, a stable and at the same time flexible access system must be achieved by specifying urban planning parameters and structures capable of reacting to future demands.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

Kaiserslautern City Council is seeking new uses for the “Pfaff site” as a technology park. They should tie in with the institutions of the nearby UniPark and companies in Kaiserslautern, in particular with a primary focus on information and communications technology. Priority should be placed on the fields of research, services, health and wellness. Urban vitality should be achieved by creating a horizontal and vertical mix of residential uses, restaurants and small businesses. Due to the large size of the area, a gradual process of development is called for. Interim uses that enhance the local character are conceivable for subareas.

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Kaiserslautern (DE) winner

Jeroen van Aerle (NL)

Atelier to the Bone (AttB),

Beerd Gieteling (NL)

Hoogstraat 4

Philippe Rol (NL)

5911 HX Venlo, the Netherlands

Jeroen van Poppel (NL)

T. +31 652628183

architects

info@attb.nl www.attb.nl

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initiating development

Team point of view Pattern for Progress proposes a growth model rather than a static image for the future. Because value creation depends on people, different groups are encouraged to provide input.

The plan proposes a balance between defining necessary features such as access and safety, and leaving the future inhabitants free to shape their environment. It defines and stimulates the kind of development suitable for each part of the site. The core of the plan is the large halls in the centre of the area, which are divided into plots that simply need to be permeable to light and traffic. Environmental quality is achieved through matrices that define the desirability of certain functions and the authorised building volume. These are related to how the public and area benefit from the development.

Jury point of view The project reaches well beyond the regular spectrum of an urban planning draft. It does not offer a ready-made solution, but describes a development process and challenges us to explore new avenues. Everyone involved is activated; movement, change and development are initiated. Five zones in the planning area have been defined.

These sub-zones are then developed in phases. This begins the slow, long-term transformation of the sites.

on going development

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Kaiserslautern (DE) runner-up

Heiko Ruddigkeit (DE)

STUDIO RW, FürbringerstraSSe 20a

Stefan Wiebersinsky (DE)

10961 Berlin, Germany

landscape architects

T. +49 17622938680

Pablo Tena Gomez (ES)

mail@studio-rw.de

architect

www.studio-rw.de

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A parlour game Team point of view In the form of an open-ended and unpredictable parlour game, the draft design shows how the Pfaff site can be developed using a planning methodology with specific rules for the access system, building height, building plots and open space typology. Demolitions, new construction and intermediate uses can take place concurrently with the proposed concept. Existing spatial corridors are proposed as a means of overriding access systems. They will be combined with variously defined open-space figures to form a robust open space system that accommodates a deliberate mix of uses. Different specifications have been set for specific building uses, enabling both vertical and horizontal mixes for the creation of lively and diverse neighbourhoods.

Jury point of view In the form of an open-ended parlour game with unforeseeable outcomes, the design project demonstrates how the Pfaff site can be developed on the basis of a planning methodology with specific rules pertaining to the access system, building height, building plots and typology of open space. The methodological procedure prescribes narrowly or broadly defined parameters for the distribution of uses in various areas, providing the greatest possible flexibility for investors.

GAME RULES

TRYOUT PERSPECTIVE

Kaiserslautern (DE) Special mention

Javier Jiménez Iniesta (ES)

David Jiménez Iniesta (ES)

Passage Bocabella 5,

architect

Mª Ángeles Peñalver

08013 Barcelona, Spain

Oriol Bordes Domenech (ES)

Izaguirre (ES)

T. +34 620835773

3D designer

students in architecture

javilands@gmail.com

199 P.F.A.F.F Preserve Fable - AboutArchitecture Factory Facilities Team point of view Our project for the new PFAFF proposes the generation of an urban-scale double communication arch. A big “X” in the city whose centre would be the new PFAFF. The project will transform the existing asphalted floor, removing it in 80% of the proposed area, and replacing it with a green platform to become one of the lungs of the city.

All the factories will be identified and categorized by type of deck, structure and quality of their enclosures. These factories will be part of a temporary accommodation programme aimed at students and young researchers.

The housing will consist of wooden structures interconnected within this circuit and generating communal open spaces which provide services such as coffee areas, laundries, kitchens or computer rooms.

Jury point of view For the development of the Pfaff site the team proposes a sensitive treatment of existing structures and their careful transformation, on the basis of real parameters, into a habitable park landscape.

The submission is strongly geared to the existing situation and proposes a radical new residential concept. Researchers, producers or visitors live in the proposed parasitic buildings for periods of different length, developing a new concept of neighbourhood.

Marly Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/ Svizra (CH)

LOCATION Marly - Winckler

SITE PROPOSED BY

and Saint-Sacrement

town of Marly

POPULATION 7,900 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE 23 ha

several private landowners,

SITE OF PROJECT 4.5 ha

the municipality has a right

(Winckler) - 1.7 ha (Saint-

of first refusal on the site

Sacrement)

of the Saint-Sacrement

interview of the site’s representative Jean-Marc Boéchat, Municipal Councillor, Director

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of the Department of Planning, Construction, Environment, Transport, Mobility and Energy, Marly

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Like many rural communities in Switzerland, during the 19th and particularly the 20th centuries the Marly region experienced substantial industrial development to add to the traditional activities of agriculture and livestock. Marly therefore underwent significant growth, reflected in a better standard of living and increased population. Unfortunately, the successive economic crises of the 20th century wrecked certain big industries, notably the Winckler Corporation which ceased trading in 1981. Nonetheless, Marly remained an industrial town with activities in watchmaking and cosmetics, and the arrival of the firm Ciba in 1990. The Winckler factory’s industrial site is located north of the town, bounded to the north and west by the cantonal road linking Marly to Fribourg. Over the years, housing developed around this site, which still contains obsolete industrial buildings. To the west of the site, on the other side of the cantonal road, detached housing has grown up, while the buildings to the south and east are mostly apartment blocks. The municipality would like to promote high quality development in this area, with a focus on urban construction along the cantonal road and a mixed zone on the rest of the site.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The aims of the project are to offer the future inhabitants and users of this area a high-quality environment, consonant with the character of the village, and to contribute to the regeneration of the northern entrance to Marly.

The municipality would like to see a renewal and densification of the existing urbanisation linked to the Fribourg road. It is also an opportunity to remodel the road itself. The brief is to work on increasing density by a balanced volume ratio between buildings and public and semipublic spaces, in order to reinforce the vitality of the site and its connection with the adjacent areas.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

Marly is located on the Fribourg-Bulle road axis. It is served by a network of regional and urban railway lines. There are thus regular links between Fribourg and Marly stations, every 10 minutes, connecting with train departures on the CFF intercity lines. Marly is one of 10 villages within the Fribourg conurbation, which has developed a global transport policy to encourage alternative mobility, with the development of services such as P+R, self-service bicycles, car sharing, etc. The Municipality wants a project for an exemplary new neighbourhood on this site, combining housing and activities in a contemporary vision and interpretation of urbanisation, which will attract both new businesses and new residents. In this respect, therefore, public spaces and relations with the village and the adjacent neighbourhoods should play a primary role. The foundations of sustainable development can be found in Marly’s direct environment. The very strong presence of natural landscape will help to enrich and integrate this concept into the design of the buildings and public spaces, which benefit directly from the environment of the Sarine.

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marly (CH) winner

Cristian Panaité (BE/RO)

Chaussée d’Alsemberg 287, BP.9,

architect - urban planner

1190 Bruxelles, Belgium

Mircea Munteanu (RO/BE)

T. + 32 485441079

architect - urban planner -

c.panaa@gmail.com

landscape designer

202 Le parc des falaises Team point of view How can Marly improve its urban quality while capitalizing on its natural surroundings? A linear public space structures the development, catalysing a mix of activities. Anchored in the cantonal road it blends into the existing open space network. It works also as a multi-layered green infrastructure for rainwater retention, ecological flows or urban agriculture. It is framed by a series of towers defining Marly’s entrance silhouette and by a ‘garden-city’ strip of parallel blocks and row-houses. This section (towers-park-rows) is the DNA of the development, permitting various gradual/adaptive implementation scenarios leading to a new more coherent neighbourhood structure. The Saint-Sacrement area is consolidated through the addition of sports amenities, a multipurpose hall and student housing.

Jury point of view The project proposes a structured development along a green strip. The built front contains two building typologies. This proposal leaves some architectural questions unanswered about the two sides of the empty space (green space), but creates a good connection with the existing urban fabric and offers a coherent and diversified urban response.

It suggests the possibility of a phased implementation.

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marly (CH) runner-up

Alessandro Pretolani (IT)

CAVEJA STUDIO, via Ambrosoli 37

Filippo Pambianco (IT)

47121 Forlí, Italy

Davide Lorenzato (IT)

T. +39 3383822047

Andrea Sperandio (IT)

info@cavejastudio.com

architects

www.cavejastudio.com

204 Dancing density Team point of view The first element in the definition of the project is to calculate the building density, drawing on the analysis of the surrounding neighbourhoods.

The urban project for this case study was chosen on the initial assumption that the contemporary approach to living in the city should be more human-centred. The project for Marly’s town’ is therefore not confined to a single function and just one kind of building (mono-large); instead, it involves buildings of different heights and kinds (multi-mix), creating an average building density in keeping with the project area.

Single unit dimensions can vary according to the site chosen and can be adapted to other similar sites, without losing the human aspect and its multifunctional value, essential to the development of a new way of living.

Jury point of view The project proposes a built urban area with a mixed typology and two different scales. Ground level colonization takes the form of a single-layer wafer which generates a built front that clearly defines a pedestrian public space. The second scale relates to residential buildings located on the wafer. The vertical deployment of the volumes increases the density. The proposal has strong architectural potential.

marly (CH) Special mention

Simone Moggia (IT)

Via Felice Cavallotti 22/2

Tiziana d’Angelantonio (IT)

19121 La Spezia, Italy

Giulio Pons (IT)

T. +39 01871995805

architects

studio@kkarchitettiassociati. com www.kkarchitettiassociati.com

205 Slow poles Team point of view The goal is to transform Route de Fribourg into a single boulevard from Fribourg train station to Marly. The project aims to strengthen the connections between public functions and Route de Fribourg with cycle and pedestrian paths. So the project site will be a first cross-connection between the school campus sports area and the Saint Sacrement Church.

The urban model proposed for the transformation of the site is based on free-form buildings like the existing structures. The choice of functions for the buildings and public spaces relates to the concept of time: the quality of individual and collective time and the influence of typological choices and distribution of functions on temporal cycle. The proposed strategy aims to create paths for physical, temporal and functional transition.

Jury point of view This project is the only one that identifies the Fribourg highway as the main challenge to Marly’s urban development. To resolve the dilemma, the project extends beyond the boundaries of the site and suggests ideas that are applicable to other metropolitan cities. It assumes that the real centre is Fribourg, rather than trying to identify a centre for Marly. It proposes a number of thematic centre-types along the Fribourg road and considers directional landmarks as parts of a network of pedestrian and cycle routes, independent of the highway.

marly (CH) Special mention

Alberto Mottola (IT)

Olga Trebuhina (LV)

demogo studio di architettura,

Simone Gobbo (IT)

student in architecture

via Cornarotta 14

architects

31100 Treviso, Italy

Davide De Marchi (IT)

T. +39 04221741014

graphic designer

info@demogo.it www.demogo.it

206 Urban archipelago Team point of view A condition where parts are separated yet united by the fact of their juxtaposition, where a crucial feature is understood to be the struggle of parts whose forms are finite and yet, by virtue of their finiteness, are in constant relationship both with each other and with the ‘sea’ that frames and delimits them. The ‘islands’ of architecture stand in dialectical contrast to the space of urbanization, the city at large.

Through the ‘metaphor’ of the archipelago, it is possible to identify the plan for the city, addressed through transformations wrought through the elaboration of specific and strategic architectural forms.

Jury point of view The Urban archipelago project creates an urban structure into in 3 thematic clusters, like archipelagos with islands corresponding to buildings clustered around common themes. The project was selected for its interesting ideas, including linking Marly-Fribourg by means of an urban boulevard.

urban front and gates of marly

attraction magnets

urban porosity

increasing density

inner boulevard

Urretxu_Irimo España (ES)

LOCATION Urretxu (Gipuzkoa)

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION 6,961 inhab.

Urretxuko udala / Gipuzkoako

STRATEGIC SITE Irimo 75,000m2 +

Foru Aldundia

surrounding area of influence

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE public and private owners

interview of the site’s representative

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Iñaki Mendizábal, Municipal architect Ibon Salaberría, Participation process coordinator

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy This site is the municipality’s largest window of opportunity, combining a local perspective with a territorial vision. Its strategic value is due to its contextual location in the municipality, the district and the rest of the region, and also its quality as a repository of industrial memories and identity for the community. We believe that Irimo should be able to adapt to the real needs of both Urretxu and – why not – of the broader territory as well.

The Irimo area contains many buildings that are not only unused but also seem to form an industrial desert on the edge of the town. This area’s current state, the outcome of the public participation process and the current socio-economic situation, all point to a strategy which should help to transform the area and be responsive to unforeseeable future needs and transformations.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The interpretation of the results of the on-going participatory process – which includes the winning Europan proposal – is now generating urban planning initiatives and strategies based on existing resources and open proposals that do not preclude any future scenarios. The site encourages new ideas about the way that public spaces can accommodate not only some particular use (industrial, business, cultural, housing…) but indeed (almost) any function at different times and with minimal effort. With a view to “shaping the social city”, this approach opts for “chrono-urbanism”, which is able to stagger initiatives over time, using strategies that catalyse the urban character of this area.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The proposed development is part of a citizen participation process that all sectors are invited to join: business and cultural stakeholders, neighbourhood associations, citizens, technicians, municipal council and the winners of the Europan 12 competition for this site. The municipal properties in the project area could be used as the seed structures for a new social, economic and cultural production processes.

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Urretxu_Irimo (ES) winner

Carlos Soria Sánchez (ES)

Avda. Doctor Federico Rubio y

Laura Fernández García (ES)

Galí 31, 3 A

Irene Vitorica Donezar (ES)

28039 Madrid, Spain

Ana Rosa Soria Sánchez (ES)

T. +34 636802615

architects

correodecarlossoria@ gmail.com

210 Piztutako Irimo Team point of view Our proposal’s success depends on the initial strategy.

Using a non-form initial approach, we were able to develop the project as a complex electronic object with no hierarchy between function and form. It is not an architecture of metaphor but of actions and ideas.

We deal with a non-form architecture that can absorb additions, subtractions and modifications spontaneously and easily without changing its sense of order. The design will absorb uncertainty, variations of every kind and the inevitability of change. It is a non-symbolic, indeterminate, nonlinear, rhizomatic diagram. What we work with is an operative mechanism rather than a restrictive document.

Jury point of view The authors propose an operation on both a general and a detailed scale. They use three strategies – “shade/perforate/invade” – that can be staggered over time. The project takes into account various usage options, and anticipates the changes that inevitably accompany the passage of time. Alternative uses are suggested for the existing buildings, while the residential function, associated with potential agricultural uses, is relocated closer to the town centre. With a parallel operation that redefines the road levels, circulations and transversal elements, this project aims to convert Irimo into a focal point for activities, an interface between urban and industrial areas.

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Urretxu_Irimo (ES) runner-up

Gisela Morera Maiquez (ES)

Santiago 25 casa 13,

Jordi Flores Puig (ES)

08290 Cerdanyola del Vallès,

Joan Sanz Oliver (ES)

Barcelona, Spain

Andrea Zupan-Dover (ES)

T. +34 690606525

architects

giselamorera@hotmail.com

212 Section Sarralde

Tempos of colonization

Collage

Team point of view A city has many layers (palimpsest), which accumulate over time in an adaptable equation. One has to look very carefully to unravel the site’s opportunities. We overlaid the past (pre-existing) onto the present (existing) boundaries, so that future projections could be made.

The project looks at the existing civic spine and extends it through a sequence of exterior, covered and interior voids, where activity branches off the vacant spaces.

Extending the civic spine connects four neighbourhoods. People from different backgrounds are brought together in activities at various scales.

The historical legacy becomes collective social space, making accomplices of these versatile and adaptable zones that people have to appropriate to work and adapt to the needs of the moment. Fixed structures allow changing activities.

Jury point of view The internal connections suggest a sequence between exterior, covered and interior voids in which these voids are colonised by activities. The mobility system gives rise to this appropriation of the spaces, in kind of flooding process.

Civic Spine Ground Floor Plan

Civic Spine

Urretxu_Irimo (ES) Special mention

Juan Moya Romero (ES)

Carlos Nieto Ventaja (ES)

Camino de Ronda Street 101,

architect

Nicola Simonelli (IT)

Torre Atalaya, oficina B

architects

18003 Granada, Spain T. +34 958290521 / +34 615158080 info@juanmoya.com www.juanmoya.com

213 Reversibilidad eCOlectiva Team point of view The strategy seeks to reverse the direction of the resources consumption-industrial production process by supra-reusing (upcycling) industrial infrastructures as technological resources with the potential to project a socio-economic process of environmental production and dissemination over the territory. Industrial pollution now becomes the raw fuel for new “eco-social factories” which will restore the natural resources that had been taken before.

Boundaries and preconceived architectural labels are diluted, building a dormant infrastructural landscape with urban energy available for its use and the elasticity to absorb the timeframes and changes of social activity. Collective initiatives will give specificity to the urban model through natural and artificial mechanisms of urban colonization, able to debug the landscape and thereby create favourable conditions for social cohesion at every locus on the space-time line.

Jury point of view The project aims to commence small-scale urban transformation processes that will help reverse the negative effects of the industrial model. For this purpose, the authors propose furniture-like elements that encourage social activity and natural strategies to restore a healthier environment. Small-scale actions will achieve larger-scale results, in the manner of a social or natural colonization.

Simulation of the urban colonization process

Current heavy industry and potential eco-social industry in Goierri.

Eco-social cycle

Urretxu_Irimo (ES) Special mention

Livia Álvarez Salgueiro (ES)

Avd. Pablo Béjar, 155

Javier Gigosos Ruipérez (ES)

12500 Vinaròs (Castellón), Spain

Pedro Rodriguez Ruipérez (ES)

T. +34 699296458

Jan Valls Fernández (ES)

livia.alvar@gmail.com

architects

214 Encuentros en la tercera fase Team point of view The intervention is divided into 3 phases (short, mid and long term).

Phase 1 – Conditioning of spaces and face washing. These are low-cost operations whose basic purpose is to reactivate the area. Most of these activities can be resolved in a community process.

Phase 2 – On a one-year timeframe, the linear park works will start, as they are essential to the overall improvement of the area in terms of traffic calming and making a pedestrian friendly space.

Three years after the process starts full renovation of the public buildings will begin, with the retention of self-managed activities.

Phase 3 – Renovation of Irimo warehouses to create 3 different spaces: A flexible mixed market and workshops on the ground floor; a communal working space on the first floor and a communal sky village on the former roof.

Jury point of view The project is divided into three phases. The first landscape-oriented approach proposes moving vehicle traffic to the street at the rear of the site and turning the former roadway into a sort of landscaped pedestrian space. The project pays close attention to the pre-existing situation. The industrial pavilions are renovated and converted into housing.

The proposed architecture is flexible and provides for the inclusion of public participation. In the third phase, the project proposes an office-business incubator in the Irimo pavilion with dwellings on the roof.

Urretxu_Irimo (ES) Special mention

Mónica Pérez Zorrilla (ES)

Condesa Mencia Street, 123, 10º A

Virginia Herrera Ruiz (ES)

09006 Burgos, Spain

architects

T. +34 650901420 monipz21@hotmail.com

215 Everything anytime Team point of view The industrial heritage is exploited and maintained as far as possible through rehabilitation and adaptation. The project can be implemented in stages and uses can be inserted at any point in the temporary line, with subsequent modification and readaptation if necessary. An actuation that shifts constantly to satisfy the needs of residents and offer opportunities. A polluted area is converted to a square for recreational use, with systems to improve water and soil conditions (garden hollows and mounds and filtration lagoons). In designing the pavilions, we reuse the whole fabric with minimal intervention and maximum versatility. They have an engine core containing all the services and are sustainable. We create a promenade with vertical gardens as a noise barrier.

Jury point of view One of the most remarkable aspects of the project is that it is based on a multi- disciplinary analysis of the area, which clearly shows the importance and the congruence of relating architecture to other fields of social analysis. The authors’ focus is on enhancing pedestrian movement, purifying polluted areas by converting them into recycling and public usage zones, converting the industrial facilities to socio-cultural uses, and exploring the feasibility of maximizing reuse of the existing infrastructure. The feature that defines the value of this project is the role and design of the architecture, above all for its restorative or healing potential.

Wien-Siemensäcker Österreich (AT)

LOCATION Wien - Floridsdorf

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION 1,750,000 inhab.

city of Vienna

STRATEGIC SITE 84 ha

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

SITE OF PROJECT 6.7 / 11.7 / 8.4 ha

Siemens

interview of the site’s representative Susanne Fabian, MD 21, Urban District Planning and Land Use,

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Section North 1, 21st district, Vienna City Administration Balázs Atzél, Siemens Real Estate Strategy CEE

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy The Siemens site is located in a classic early 20th-century industrial zone.

At that time, the focus of the developing industrial areas was largely on heavy production industry. Over the past 10-15 years many of these have taken a different direction, evolving as research/service industry sites or closing down altogether. Siemens continues to be a powerful “trademark” for the site and influences the character of the area through its presence.

The opportunity has now arisen to partly do away with the separation between working and living that arose from the nature of industrial production companies and to establish a mixed-use urban area.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

Siemens has been at the site in Vienna’s 21st District since the early 20th century. The operational requirements at this location have changed many times since then. Current framework conditions have now created the opportunity to link this site better with the surrounding urban structure and to make mixed usage possible in the marginal areas.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

What we now foresee is a complete overall development of the area in 3 differently timed phases. The important point here is for each development phase to be able to take place independently of the others. This will be possible with the winning (and also the runner-up) project. The three areas communicate with each other and link the surroundings to the Siemens site. Since the company is itself dedicated to sustainability at global level, the entire area can provide a response to the adaptable city question with the help of Europan.

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Wien-Siemensäcker (AT) winner

Miriam Lišková (SK)

Marian Dušinský (SK)

Klariská 10

architect

architect

81103 Bratislava, Slovakia t. +421 948190031 slla@slla.net www.slla.net

218 Cluster / Streetscape Team point of view The proposed urban fabric is defined through the combination of compatible uses. Balance is sought within mixture and diversity, from the perspective of both urban form and activity. A strong plan for public space is inserted into the fragmented urban structure – central parks and open public spaces are a starting point for the creation of a dense surrounding structure. The software and hardware are defined: Cluster as a system for organising activities and Streetscape for the physical environment of parks, greenery, trees, squares, plazas, streets, curbs and walkways. Urban and social continuity and cohesion will be achieved more by complementary then by uniform elements. The proposed scheme is open to future needs, while maintaining stable quality.

Jury point of view The overall landscape strategy of the project is to introduce strips of landscape at several locations in the surroundings.

This landscape approach facilitates a strategy of creating structure and identity without too many restrictions on built development along the landscaped strips. The project is highly adaptable, and offers stable qualities through a certain robustness. Since it is more a promising scheme than a fully detailed design, the open future of Siemens can be easily embedded.

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wien-siemensäcker (AT) runner-up

Enrique Arenas Laorga (ES)

Almudena Cano Piñeiro (ES)

Arenas Basabe Palacios,

Luis Basabe Palacios (ES)

architect

Plaza del Cordón 2, 5º izq

Luis Palacios Labrador (ES)

Ana Isabel Prieto (ES)

28005 Madrid, Spain

architects

Paula Fernández (ES)

T. +34 911427075

Kerstin Pluch (AT)

estudio@arenasbasabepalacios.

students in architecture

com www.arenasbasabepalacios. com

220 Urban software Team point of view The project seeks a solution to the complex “Siemensäcker” area through a matrix that crosses 3 very different existing urban situations by means of 3 instruments. Each situation requires an unconventional approach: an urban void awaiting occupation; a tertiary fabric awaiting completion; and an old factory seeking a new use.

We propose 3 tools to solve the different situations: the design of flexible SUPPORTS; a SYNTAX that describes the production of the urban fabric without defining the outcome; SOFTWARE that manages the supports.

Employing the 3 tools in the 3 identified situations generates a strategic approach to the project that will be the start of a negotiation between the different actors involved in deciding the production of the city.

Jury point of view The project is based on a comprehensive development matrix that works with parameters of participation, object-development, typological configuration, living models, and dynamics of growth.

What it delivers is not an architectural design but a manual suggesting possible development scenarios. The mixing of different living-models provokes and enriches the rhythms of the living programme, making possible a new syntax for community life.

WINNING PROJECTS TOPIC 4

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Eco-rhythms The contemporary city aims to anticipate the future and adapt to its unpredictable changes. Various strategies are currently being developed to achieve a creative resilience, in other words adapt to a changing environment. Working on Eco-rhythms means basing urban development on a strong synergy between urban and natural environments, in order to break with a principle of opposition that has separated city dwellers from natural realities and gradually undermined those realities.

This separation between the city-dweller and nature is not only spatial, but also temporal. Indeed, a landscape is not a pretty image, but a living environment governed by cycles (seasons, day and night, tides, climate variations, flora and fauna) forces of growth, fast and slow movement, migration and transhumance, etc.

In contrast with modernist town planning, which reinforced a division between urban rhythms and nature, the remit – through the strong presence of landscape on the sites – is to encourage the introduction of operational processes based on the maintenance or regeneration of these Eco-rhythms.

BÆRUM (NO)

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FOSSES (FR)

230

HÖGANÄS (SE)

236

KAUFBEUREN (DE)

242

Konstanz (DE) / Kreuzlingen (CH)

248

MILANO (IT)

254

PARIS - SACLAY (FR)

264

VICHY VAL D’ALLIER (FR)

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Bærum Norge (NO)

LOCATION Bærum - Hamang,

SITE PROPOSED BY

Sandvika

city of Bærum

POPULATION Bærum

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

116,000 inhab.

various private owners

STRATEGIC SITE 164 ha SITE OF PROJECT 25 ha

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interview Europan Norge

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy The post-industrial area of Hamang in northern Sandvika, the urban centre of Bærum municipality, is about to undergo a fundamental transformation.

The E16 highway, which currently splits the area, will be rerouted into a new tunnel, opening up this central part of the city for new uses. Competitors were asked to propose a strategy for the development of a carbon neutral area in one of the Oslo region’s most central nodes. The brief was to provide a concept for the programme, landscape and built volume that gives the site a new identity. The River Sandvika runs through the site, providing a rich biodiversity. The city wants a plan that demonstrates how the river can be integrated into the urban fabric and utilised more actively, while protecting the local ecosystem. The competition seeks a strategy for the use of the waterway, including plans for infrastructure as well as new programmes for the river and riverbed. Climate change imposes restrictions on flood risk areas. An important part of the task is to find suitable programmes and infrastructure that can adapt to various water levels.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The municipality wanted to use the competition to explore the site and city’s capacity for growth. At the same time, demographic and programmatic factors are essential. Who can live here? What can people do here?

It is important that the site reflects a regional context, but at the same time develops a local identity, complementing the other areas in Sandvika.

The site is part of the Futurebuilt programme for carbon neutral urban development and competitors are encouraged to show how the objective of climate neutrality can be met.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The Hamang site is not affected by economic crisis, quite the contrary.

The Hamang site’s main challenges can be summed up in the following key points: the ability to absorb growth, adaptability to Sandvika and the greater Oslo Region, how the flood restricted riverscape can be programmed, reuse of former industrial buildings, and finally how to introduce smaller, temporary projects on site, adapting over time. The jury picked a winner and a runner-up that complement each other very well, one focusing on landscape, the other on architecture. The municipality, the landscape architects and architects are now (February 2014) negotiating a contract that will regulate the work on a zoning plan for the site as well as an activity plan for the riverbed.

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Bærum (NO) winner

Hanna Haukøya Storemyr (NO)

hauk.storemyr@gmail.com

Sigrid Urnes (NO)

sigridurnes@gmail.com

landscape architects

226 Social riverscape Team point of view As a strong structuring component, the River Sandvika forms the base for the new development. Social programs are placed along the river to create natural destinations in the area, making the river an active part of the city. The built fabric and nature together establish a new social riverscape. The buildings live with the river, adjusting to reflect its character, creating a new way of living with the river.

Social riverscape is a structure that grows around the community of Sandvika.

Different programs are placed strategically along the river, generating different kinds of rhythm. These social rooms provide the opportunity for multiple encounters, linking local and regional through different neighbourhood features, jobs and housing.

Jury point of view The proposal has an analytical and intellectual approach that is of great interest. It shows how efficient new public transport increases the needs of communities on the site and how they could be created. The river space and the river itself are the base for the proposed new development. The keywords are rhythm, nature, urban development.

The rhythms of people, built spaces and nature are very well described and can also be seen in the proposed structure.

Examples of design principles for the various riverspaces

227 Riverspaces Beveled edge Open riverspace High banks Dynamic riverscape

Bærum (NO) runner-up

Elisabeth Sjodahl (SE)

Alejandro Navarrete (ES)

Worksonland, Grini Mølle

architect - landscape

architect

Grinidammen 10

architect

1359 Eiksmarka, Norway T. +47 99866734 elisabeth.sjodahl@gmail.com www.worksonland.com

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Landscape and buildings are adapted to a changing water level

Elasti-city

The ELASTIC AXIS linking Hamang with the city of Sandvika / 1, 2 & 3 Articulation points of the axis with local importance

Team point of view The main goal in this project is to bind together a rich but complex milieu: the different city districts, topography and nature, history and expanded timeframes…

ELASTIC AXIS is a fluctuating spine linking Hamang with the city of Sandvika and the fjord. Two interconnected rings, integrating public transport, a mixture of programs and public spaces, bind Hamang to East and West Sandvika.

ELASTIC RIVERBEDS is the design strategy for managing the fluctuations in water levels and improving flood protection. Terraced sequences of flexible and permeable spaces enhance retention capacity along the watercourse, the adaptability to changing conditions. The older buildings on the site accommodate new uses and the new mixed scale blocks permit future adaptation to density and programmes.

Jury point of view Elasti-city deals with the area’s need for density by proposing a building typology that resolves both collective and individual programmes. Kjørbotangen is retained as a natural and recreational area without built structures. Programmatically, the project distributes mixed uses throughout the big semi-closed blocks, deploying a well-developed overall section that relates the river banks to the interior of the blocks.

This provides a public solution for both the river edges and the collective interior spaces.

The axis with urban and natural intensity, brings together Hamang with Sandvika

Interconnected blocks with fluctuating paths that constantly adapt the shape to the varying conditions

The river Sandvika has a great recreational value

Bærum (NO) Special mention

Ben Addy (UK)

Tim Murray (UK)

Moxon Architects, 65 Alfred

Pauline Marcombe (FR)

Adam Holicska (HU)

Road

architects

architects

W2 5EU London, United Kingdom

Ness Lafoy (UK)

T. +44 2070340088

student in architecture

info@moxonarchitects.com www.moxonarchitects.com

229 Hamang riparian zone Team point of view The essential theme of this proposal is to let the river act naturally. Processes of sedimentation and erosion, flooding and water course alterations are given priority; the river is the governing factor in the urban design. A semi-wilderness will develop spontaneously, a space for exploration, education and recreation. The proposal is concerned with the idea of rhythms: natural, social and spatial. The temporal aspect of the site’s uses and the seasonal cycles form the program structure. Adaptability is key: each place within the site can be used differently at different times through the idea of time-based programming. Interaction between the different populations on the site is encouraged by a large dining table used by elderly residents, school students and workers.

Jury point of view The project situates the development of the site within the topographical and ecological context of the Sandviks River and its hydrological dynamics. The proposal not only addresses seasonal flooding but also the meandering that occurs naturally over time with unchannelled watercourses. It seeks to accommodate these future changes by giving space to the river, on the principle that it is this riparian system – including the specific and diverse flora and fauna that develop over time – which defines the character of the site.

Plan

Sandvika: A Dynamic River

Examples of Program Rotation

Narrative Section

River Sections / Valley - Site - City Centre

Fosses France (FR)

LOCATION Fosses - North area

SITE PROPOSED BY

of the Paris Basin (95470)

city of Fosses with those

POPULATION 10,000 inhab.

partners on the project:

STRATEGIC SITE 126 ha

Communauté d’Agglomération,

SITE OF PROJECT 8.6 ha

PNR-OPF, CC Pays de France, CG95, DRAC, JPGF OWNER(S) OF THE SITE city of Fosses and private owners

interview of the site’s representative Albert-Gilles Cohen, expert of site, Christine Bulot for the city of Fosses

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Rita Ceccherini-Lepic, Deputy Director CA Roissy Porte de France (excerptS from the competition brief)

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy A member of the Roissy Porte de France District, the town of Fosses is located within the urbanised ring around the Parisian metropolis, within the Grand Roissy development perimeter and the direct sphere of influence of the Paris/CDG airport complex.

Its location, its particular geography, its elongated urban shape, make it a gateway and connection between city and countryside.

At the heart of the old town, away from more recent development, the project site today has a preserved character that calls for regeneration.

The project is multiscalar. At territorial scale, the brief is to create a model operation on the edge of the natural and agricultural landscape; to imagine it as a stage in a regional network of processes linking different towns. At town scale, the objective is to establish a dynamic capable of giving the village a new identity. At site scale, the remit is to explore the proximities and exchanges between the contemporary character of the project and the character of the historic centre with its archaeological heritage.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The goal is to articulate the shift from the urban centre to the countryside.

As regards the time factor, the idea is to take an experimental approach to successive phases of implementation in the development of public space, and in constructing or refurbishing buildings. In order to establish stable prospects, the project must be able to accommodate morphological changes, programmatic shifts, temporary activities and even reversibility, in order to achieve a flexible approach to local urban character and to the form of the inhabited spaces.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The land around the project is currently occupied by numerous municipal amenities and services and by housing. Possible changes, drawing for example on a new approach to the role and management of these technical departments, should be based on proposals around the relation between housing, work, schools, shops, economic activity and tourism, and more generally around the pooling of uses and a mix of programmes on the site. The presence of places of culture and worship therefore offers an opportunity to be grasped. Like a reflexive interface between city and nature, commensurate with a sustainable landscape, the goal is to devise and test the morphology of a new urban centre, sensitive to the existing context, raising questions of density and porosity, and establishing organic links between housing, amenities, activities and culture.

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Fosses (FR) winner

Julien Boidot (FR)

68, Avenue du général Michel

Mathieu Holdrinet (FR)

Bizot

Arnaud Ledu (FR)

75012 Paris, France

Emilien Robin (FR)

+33 144683961

architects

contact@lamateurfosses.fr www.lamateurfosses.fr

232 The amateur… makes what is unpredictable possible Team point of view The Amateur is driven by a passion and interest.

He wants to share his culture and knowledge to create high quality architecture in opposition to an ever-growing consumer system that stifles originality. The suggested approach draws on the economic model of the cooperative, in which builders and beneficiaries work together to adapt the local heritage. An emphasis on drawing as a tool of dialogue generates a comprehensive architecture. This approach has the versatility to adapt to diverse territorial contexts, through a non-interventionist political sharing of skills and power between specialist and citizen.

Jury point of view This project-process focuses on the levers needed for the town to transform itself on itself. The jury considered the proposed method appropriate in its scale and principle. The proposed process was felt to be innovative but also very serious, robust and well constructed, able to serve as a model for other similar sites. The project process fully meets the objectives of the session theme, particularly in its capacity to put in place a catalyst that is sensitive to the existing qualities.

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Fosses (FR) runner-up

Morvan Rabin (FR)

Tangi Rabin (FR)

terau@mailoo.org

Urban planner

gardener - botanist

www.terau.fr

Alline Correa-Bouric (BR) Vincent Prié (FR) architects - urban planners

234 Crossings-over Team point of view The Europan competition is a step in the long evolution of a territory. Rather than looking for a project that looks attractive in the short-term but offers little long-term potential, we tried to identify the territorial foundations of the project. Shifting the positioning to a larger scale and to long-term dynamics directly fed into the project’s structure and scale. A possibilities plan summarises its fundamental organisational principles, which may trigger interventions on different timescales without losing overall coherence. The project combines three main themes that relate to different timeframes and systems of actors: “adapting the village”, “adapting agriculture” and “adapting housing”.

Jury point of view The systematic connection drawn between metropolitan strategy objectives and urban strategy and its architectural expression gives the project a high degree of coherence. The rural renewal project highlights 3 research priorities around local urban agriculture, strengthening the village centre, and stimulating individual initiatives. The project’s spatial complexity reflects the desire gradually to interweave urban and natural systems. The programming is refined, clear and exerts an influence beyond the project site.

Large scale and long term at the service of the project

Themes of the project’s implementation process

Architectural typologies adapted to each micro-context

Fosses (FR) runner-up

Hans Lefevre (FR)

2:pm architectures,

Matthieu Bergeret (FR)

14 rue Lauzin 75019 Paris, France

Paul Rolland (FR)

T. +33 954319844

Julien Rouger (FR)

contact@2pma.com

architects

www.2pma.com

Flavien Bézy (FR) urban planner

235 Phases of the development process

Par la grande porte Team point of view In the “Vieux-Fosses“ case, we need to identify and reveal the vectors of identity that enable it to exist firstly as a dynamic and attractive town, secondly in relation to the “plateau de la Cabine“ and finally within the “Parc Naturel Regional Oise-Pays de France“, which will be a strong source of identity at regional and national level. The PNR will drive Fosses towards 21st century’ urbanism, focusing on local cultural values and the rhythm of the seasons. In this process, the international Paris airport will bring Fosses real advantages, especially economically and in terms of visitors.

We suggest a long term strategy (illustrated here) based on an existing landscape (mineral and vegetal) which constitutes the fundamental foundation of the place, the distinctive essence of the project.

Jury point of view The project starts with a fine restructuring and marked densification of the town by means of housing, before opening up to the meadowland and the regional natural park (PNR). The jury appreciated the refinement of the landscape integration. Par la grande porte is an attractive, elegant project, appropriate to the typical landscapes of Île de France.

Nonetheless, the jury would have liked the team to develop processrelated issues in greater depth.

General axonometric view from the first phase (structure and live the village)

Perspective from the square, new centrality

Perspective from the courtyard of the pedagogical Farm

Höganäs Sverige (SE)

LOCATION County of Höganäs/

SITE PROPOSED BY

Skåne

city of Höganäs

POPULATION city 8,553 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

conurbation 24,900 inhab.

city of Höganäs

STRATEGIC SITE 180 ha SITE OF PROJECT 24 ha

interview

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of the site’s representative Mila Sladic, head of the Planning department

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Höganäs has successfully undergone a transformation from fishing village to mining camp, and now to what is today a modern industrial community.

A transformation reflected in the slogan “from coal to diamond”.

Its geographical position in the northern part of the Malmö-Copenhagen region also brings in the need to connect it to the regional scale and to establish a profile within the region. Both the region and Höganäs are growing fast. The Chinese, therefore, is to meet housing demand without putting quantity before quality. Höganäs needs a plan for future expansion, based on contemporary planning ideals in terms of density, sustainability, public transport, etc. To develop a community that is attractive to live in and able to take advantage of the markets in the region. How can a new neighbourhood achieve organic expansion while at the same time integrating into the existing urban fabric? How can long-term sustainable development help to heal isolated areas? How should an expansion incorporate the existing city centre and historical and cultural qualities?

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

Höganäs has very strong potential for the creation of attractive housing areas close to the sea and nature. It has a dramatic coastline, the most fertile land in Sweden and even an urban beach. This, in combination with a lively city centre, should guarantee steady development for the town and the municipality. Because of the town’s small-scale, however, new development will shift its centre of gravity. How will this affect the existing architectural and cultural qualities? How do visitors experience arrival in the town? How should the contemporary community relate to new ways of life, work and movement? How can the new development achieve high density and urban quality without conflicting with the small scale of the existing town and surrounding nature?

Planning is also about capacity. Capacity to implement. We therefore have a comparatively large planning department with young and committed staff. Our work reflects the commitment and belief in the future that we find in our citizens and politicians. One of the key questions in Höganäs is how to deal with building on agricultural land. Is it possible to keep agricultural food production close to housing? Is it even possible to create a new type of housing close to locally grown crops? A hedonistic living style with food production beyond the allotment garden?

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

One of the main reasons for participating in Europan is to find a concept that can be built and developed in the course of time. We are also trying to avoid reproducing the homogeneous housing projects that are found all over Sweden.

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Höganäs (SE) winner

Enrique Arenas Laorga (ES)

Almudena Cano Piñeiro (ES)

Arenas Basabe Palacios,

Luis Basabe Palacios (ES)

architect

Plaza del Cordón 2, 5º izq

Luis Palacios Labrador (ES)

Ana Isabel Prieto (ES)

28005 Madrid, Spain

architects

Paula Fernández (ES)

T. +34 911427075

Kerstin Pluch (AT)

estudio@arenasbasabepala-

students in architecture

cios.com www.arenasbasabepalacios.com

238 Twinphenomena Team point of view Twinphenomena proposes to generate new settlements in Höganäs through reconciling the URBAN and the RURAL. The project colonizes the territory by a strategy of densification over time. It also integrates the agricultural landscape into the voids of the urban fabric, always seeking a low-footprint urban development.

In order to achieve these goals, we propose a network of public spaces that manage their own constructability and a grid of productive gardens to exploit the agricultural landscape. We define the rules that ensure its proper operation and the guidelines for its subsequent management.

A dual linear narrative (urban vector/rural vector) transforms each concept in the intervention towards reconciliation between urbanity and agriculture.

Jury point of view The project is an example of how to do urban planning primarily from the perspective of designing a city that is adaptable overtime. It is a time-based proposal, which focuses on processes and relations rather than closed or only formal definition. It is organised in stages and sequences. The system can produce multiple outcomes, as the set of rules can be implemented with variants. The fabric is defined by developing and comparing the twin phenomena of urban quality and agriculture at the same level. Every parameter considered is approached from this dual perspective.

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Höganäs (SE) runner-up

Anna Weber (SE)

weberannas@gmail.com

architect

www.annaweber.se

240 Urbedible Team point of view Urbedible has its starting point in the global food situation and the relation between rural and urban. The population is due to double by 2050, when arable land will be insufficient to cover food needs. The project proposes a conscious juxtaposition of urban and rural, to increase food knowledge and re-adapt the city to its surroundings, creating the potential to address future challenges.

Höganäs is surrounded by 2 kinds of food sources; arable land and the sea. The city faces the sea and backs onto farmland. The site is proposed on some of the best farmland in Sweden. With a global shortage of arable land, a new urban rhythm needs to be injected, a rhythm that involves the most basic source of our existence –the production of food.

Jury point of view The project depicts an urban development based on agriculture, farmland and food production. The starting point is a detailed and interesting study of food science, global population problems and isolation from nature. The outcome is a hybridized typology where food production is located at ground level and domesticity above. This, together with other programmes such as business offices, opens up a challenging arena. This co-existence of programmes creates reciprocal benefits in terms of economics, energy, thermodynamics and health.

Höganäs (SE) Special mention

Marco Miglioranzi (DE)

Matteo Giusti (SE)

Erderstrasse 34

urban planner

PhD candidate in Sustainability

30451 Hannover, Germany

Alessandra Bonometti (DE)

Science

T. +49 17662422064

architect

ma.miglioranzi@gmail.com www.smarteam.org

241 Höganäs, unresolved, reconnected, resilient, urbanity Team point of view We have not designed one sustainable Höganäs, but many sustainable Höganäs. First, the existing social fabric is interwoven with reinvigorated ecological dynamics. The result is a sustainable urbanity: a social-ecological landscape that restores the balance between urban consumption and production, and grounds all our spatial interventions. Second, we address the resilience of such sustainable urbanity over time. We do not design impositions, but rather spatial opportunities that nurture sustainable routines. We do not design compilations of pretentiously immutable sustainable technologies. We set Höganäs in motion on a sustainable trajectory that is not resolved, but is adaptable and resilient.

Jury point of view The project works with the connection between humans and environments, within a framework that allows each of the parts to remain essentially “wild” and grow with corresponding intensity.

Sustainability here is understood in terms of spatial and temporal inputs and the project focuses on coexistence without domestication. It also works also with a kind of archetype of nature, reminiscent of romanticism.

Kaufbeuren Deutschland (DE)

LOCATION Kaufbeuren - Air Base

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION 43,100 inhab.

city of Kaufbeuren

STRATEGIC SITE ± 580 ha

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

SITE OF PROJECT 230 ha

Bundesanstalt for Immobilienaufgaben (Institute for Federal Real Estate: BImA) on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany

interview

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of the site’s representative Werner Fehr, Urban Planning Department, Kaufbeuren

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Kaufbeuren, located in the Bavarian part of Swabia, was for many decades marked by the German air force base. Established in 1935, it was also one of the largest local employers. The announced closure in 2017 as part of a new stationing concept has posed great social and economic challenges to the town and entire region. These must be addressed with a long-term conversion strategy to ensure that the opportunities arising from the conversion are actively exploited. The follow-up use of the military site should include areas for working, living, leisure and recreation and social/cultural facilities to compensate for existing deficits and create a future-proof urban district. The redevelopment and restructuring of the site should be adapted to the rapid pace of our times and programmatic change.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The 230 hectares air base is embedded in scenic landscape to the south of the town with an Alpine panorama. The topographical location on a plateau, about 30 metres above the old town, is a barrier that must be overcome. Great emphasis will thus be placed on close links between the new neighbourhood and the town centre and integration into the existing surroundings. Future urban growth must be based on a balanced interaction of urban planning and ecological principles.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

Preparatory studies pursuant to the Federal Building Code are currently being carried out to lay the groundwork for urban development and prepare it for a broad range of development scenarios. An in-depth, interdisciplinary analysis and urban, economic, transport, landscape, demographic, social and cultural development concept is to be prepared with the participation and cooperation of those concerned: The results of the Europan Competition will be incorporated into this.

The conversion of the Kaufbeuren air base calls for a careful approach.

Experience in other cities shows how complex and time-consuming the final withdrawal of military units can be. The future development will be contingent on local factors, for example demographic change and regional influences.

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Kaufbeuren (DE) winner

Elisenda Lurbes Soriano (ES)

Nou de Sadurni 9, 2º 4ª

landscape engineer

08001 Barcelona, Spain

Ana Quintana Zazurca (ES)

T. +34 656612927 / T. +34 699955970

Sergio Romero Moreno (ES)

ana.quintana.zazurca@

Giorgia Sgarbossa (IT)

gmail.com

architects

244 Integration through exploiting local identity

Fasten your seatbelt!

Team point of view The main issue is the way the architecture and the landscape interact at the territorial scale and enact a new relationship with the city using a multi-layered approach which consists of a structure that leads to a flexible process. Different rhythms coexist at the urban scale: urban farming, research activities, energy production and variable living styles. The design issues adaptability, conserving the identity of the old military airbase by exploiting the main lines of its layout; it also aims to resolve the disconnection with the old town, giving new value to the existing walls and pre-existing fabric. The development is part of a phased process where the architectural structures will be planned flexibly to meet the town’s changing needs.

Jury point of view The project makes a distinction between a well-defined urban style park next to the town centre and the more open treatment of the largest part of the area as an extensive landscape park. One major factor of attraction is that the runway is preserved as a design element forming a central visual axis in the landscape. The project ensures that the redevelopment can be realised in several phases. The subdivision of the site provides a strong framework for the flexibility of future development.

Adaptable structure leads to productive open scenarios

Cross section uses

Territorial scale, Kaufbeuren as Belly Button

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The runaway is the main axis of the urban park

Variety of types planned to meet the town’s urban rhythm

Productive structure gives new perception to the flat area

Layer Project structure Multiples habitats, ecology and diversity

Kaufbeuren (DE) runner-up

Marco Chitti (IT)

Via G.C. Abba 1

Stefano Manzo (IT)

40141 Bologna, Italy

architects

T. +39 3407234133 marcochitti@hotmail.it

246 Long-lasting landing landscaping Team point of view The project breaks down the idea of “adaptability” – the capacity to adjust without shocks to an ever changing economic and social context – into two major concepts: “resilience”, represented by a defined framework of public spaces with a clear hierarchy and character, and “ecological succession”, a flexible and adaptive transformation on a long timeframe, where “pioneering” temporary uses prepare the environment for more advanced functions. The “urban rhythm” is imagined as a clear sequence of open spaces modulating, through the variation of scale and patterns, the transition between a city-scale environment, close to the old city, and a wider landscape in the south opening onto the Alps.

The existing runway constitutes the visual and physical link between the city and its territory.

Jury point of view The concept highlights the existing runway as a link between the town centre and the distant view over the open landscape towards the Alps. A flexible and robust development concept is oriented towards response to long-term influences. The redevelopment process rightly begins in the north with infilling of the existing building structure.

The project represents a flexible contribution to the further development of Kaufbeuren that effectively frames the special location and southerly exposure to the open landscape.

Kaufbeuren (DE) Special mention

Alessandro Bua (IT)

info@pla-c.eu

Ilaria Ariolfo (IT)

www.pla-c.eu

Andrea Alessio (IT)

studioerrante@gmail.com

Davide Barreri (IT)

www.studioerrantearchitec-

Sara Becchio (IT)

ture.tumblr.com

Paolo Borghino (IT)

andreatomasi.1985@gmail.com

Andrea Tomasi (IT) architects

247 Air sharing Team point of view Airports are no ordinary places; they usually represent urban disjunctions, limited by clearly defined no-go areas that transform airports into extraordinary non-places. Given the chance to rethink the future of Kaufbeuren through the potentialities of its airport, we envision a long-term strategy of sustainable development based on the ability to bring together different economic and social actors. Within a wider regional context characterized by a high density of similar infrastructure, Air sharing will profit from cooperation with other bases to develop new sustainable air travel. The runway and its surroundings ’will no longer be exclusive spaces, but will instead become an opportunity to explore possible coexistences between functions and shared facilities.

Jury point of view This is a locally focused and at the same time visionary project. The air base – hitherto inaccessible, topographically separate and a no-man’s land for Kaufbeuren’s residents – becomes a catalyst for the local economy of the region. The project proposes appropriate use of existing resources such as buildings and infrastructure, prudently supplemented by research and educational facilities.

Konstanz (Deutschland) Kreuzlingen (Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/ Svizra)

LOCATION Konstanz (DE) –

SITE PROPOSED BY

Kreuzlingen (CH)

towns of Konstanz (DE)

POPULATION 100,000 inhab.

and Kreuzlingen (CH)

(Konstanz 80,000 / Kreuzlingen

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

20,000)

towns of Konstanz (DE)

STRATEGIC SITE 125 ha

and Kreuzlingen (CH)

SITE OF PROJECT 26.9 ha

interview of the site’s representative Heinz Theus, local building authority, Kreuzlingen (CH)

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Mechthild Kreis, department for urban planning and environment, Konstanz (DE)

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy The characteristic space-defining elements of the Kreuzlingen-Konstanz agglomeration are the lake, the Bodanrück and Seerücken landscapes and the merging town centres of Kreuzlingen and Konstanz, together with adjoining neighbourhoods. The built-up area is to be developed primarily by means of qualified infill development (conversion, intensification of use and activation of building land reserves) and the creation of growth nuclei at points that are well served by public transport.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

In the agglomeration programme for the two towns, Little Venice has been proposed as a development nucleus for leisure, recreation and activities.

Building sites are to be designated for mixed uses along the railway tracks in the fringe areas. The lakeshore itself is to be redeveloped to provide extensive centrally located open spaces with a high amenity value. To meet cultural and economic use demands, suitable areas are to be set aside for traditional temporary events such as trade fairs, festivals and circus performances. The upgrading of the lakeside and improved public accessibility will be a prime concern. Major obstacles also need to be overcome in the Little Venice area. Firstly, north-south links must be created between the towns of Konstanz and Kreuzlingen. Secondly, attractive east-west crossovers, in particular for pedestrians and cyclists, need to be built over the railway lines running parallel to the lakeside.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The planning concept requires sufficient flexibility to meet future demands.

This relates in particular to the areas where costly buildings and infrastructure are proposed. For this reason the planning instruments also require adequate margins. Against this background, the area development of both towns should be planned in order to enable the remaining open space to be used in as many different ways as possible and adapted at minimum expense.

On the basis of the vision for site development shared with Europan, the two towns will quickly undertake a feasibility assessment. In particular the legislation pertaining to water conservation, treatment of contaminated sites, etc., must be adhered to at an early stage in order to develop suitable procedures for their implementation. The process is funded jointly by the EU and Interreg IV ABH.

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Konstanz (DE)

David Vogel (DE)

Merdingerstrasse 4

Kreuzlingen (CH)

architect

79206 Breisach, Germany

winner

T. +49 1774982102 davidbvogel@googlemail.com

250 Der weg ist das ziel!

Team point of view The task was to open the site up naturally, crossing the barriers of railway tracks and national borders. This happens with the “Highline”, which” creates a direct connection between the centres of Konstanz and Kreuzlingen. At the midpoint will be a cultural building which works as a gateway to the other side. It defines the other side spatially and forces transparency and exchange on the basis of common history and topography. It`s the hotspot for the exploitation of “Klein Venedig”.

In a further phase, the old shore is exposed again. This creates an island, designed as recreational area. The concept offers a chance for an adaptable and sustainable urban development which will bring both cities and the lake closer together.

Jury point of view The presentations in this project are to not to be interpreted literally, but rather as an urban development concept with place markers and in the sense of a design idea. In urban development terms, this work points the way to future changes. It takes today’s uses sensibly towards new scales. The area is clearly structured and arranged. The five architectural proposals that are effective in terms of urban space are seen as identity-forming. The project provides a robust concept that can be developed in phases.

Idea of the connections and concept

Perspective from the Highline in Switzerland to the cultural building

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Section of the cultural building and the Highline

Masterplan

Perspective from the new island

Ground-floor at the level of the highline from the cultural building

Konstanz (DE)

Hugo Alzingre (FR)

Kreuzlingen (CH)

Arthur Poiret (FR)

75011 Paris, France

architects - urban planners

7, rue Klein,

Anaïs Godefroy-Rieb (FR)

67000 Strasbourg, France

Charles Mannenc (FR)

T. +33 649497663

Thibaut Muller (FR)

contact2K24@gmail.com

architects

www.cargocollective.com/2k24

runner-up

4, impasse Delauney,

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2K24 Team point of view At the crossroads of two countries, the “Little Venice” site is now disconnected today and underexploited, but because of its unique and atypical location, it is key to the future of the two towns.

Our proposal presents a vision for 2024: the site becomes a structured and landscaped thread presenting different atmospheres and incorporating a comprehensive public facility. Moreover, it will easily accessible from the town through the extension of structuring axes that foster walking, cycling and public transport, as well as a lakeshore promenade. A vision on this scale cannot be set in stone, but must remain open to changes and developments in use; the landscape is sufficiently flexible to produce an area as unique and unusual as the site itself.

Jury point of view This landscape proposal demonstrates how the peninsula can be converted to a destination in its own right through landscape design. The work brings colour into the landscape; it paints with nature.

In impressively fine-detailed pictures, this proposal illustrates the connection between land and water. This is done through a forceful structuring in bands and green bridges. At moderate density the project proposes sensible connections, links and interactions with the surrounding countryside.

Masterplan _ a vision for horizon 2024

Selected programme examples

Adaptability_ cultural, sports or entertaining installations

Konstanz (DE)

Joan Solà Font (ES)

Carrer Bertran 44, local 3.

Kreuzlingen (CH)

Carles Crosas Armengol (ES)

08024 Barcelona, Spain

architects

T. +34 934183848

Javier Barriuso Domingo (ES)

sfca@coac.net

Special mention

artist

253 KLEIN VENEDIG - DYNAMIC PARK

Joint promenade Team point of view DIE TRANSNATIONALE ALLÉE. A new green street inserted between the railway tracks improves lakeside connections “two cities – one route”, not only for pedestrians but also for eco-buses and non-polluting vehicles. The Allée’s varied cross section allows people to move from the heart of old Konstanz to the Bodensee area.

CROSS-STATION. The railway track partly becomes public space in the Joint Promenade. A new central point is established between the railway and bus stations where citizens meet. The station’s historical building adapts to the new context through new underground connections.

THE PLATFORM. It gives the site a new scale, in a dialogue between the huge commercial centre, the park and the old town’s façade. New volumes and programmes are attracted above and below it.

A new DYNAMIC PARK spreads to the TRIANGULAR RAIL JUNCTION combining leisure programmes with facilities, upcycling former industrial uses.

Jury point of view This project seeks to make mobility, exterior spaces and macro-structures work together to create a fourth quality. The work represents a substantial contribution to urban and mobility development, remedying the headache of traffic problems. The traffic infrastructure is presented in the context of new technologies which today’s cities need to grapple with in an innovative spirit and from new perspectives. The project is exclusively dedicated to the concept of an energy-efficient infrastructure.

THE PLATFORM

SITE: CURRENT SITUATION / UPCOMING SITUATION

DIE TRANSNATIONALE ALLÉE

STATION CROSS SECTION: Bahnhofstrasse / Historical Building / Joint Promenade / Central Access / Tracks and platforms / Lakeside

Milano Italia (it)

LOCATION Milano – Porto di

SITE PROPOSED BY

Mare

Councillor for Urbanism,

POPULATION city 1,324,000 inhab.

Ada Lucia De Cesaris

conurbation 20,000 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE ± 490 ha

municipality of Milano

SITE OF PROJECT 36 + 72 ha

interview

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of the site’s representative Ada Lucia De Cesaris, Town Planning Councillor, Milano

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Porto di Mare is the name of the subway stop that, together with Rogoredo train station, makes the site accessible and connects it to the city.

The long abandoned Porto di Mare district is a “legend” in the Milan area.

There has been a succession of proposals and ideas for it since the mid1990s, but no real, careful analysis of the territorial, social and environmental situation or assessment of the place in relation to its surroundings.

The area is partially owned by the Municipality and will soon become totally in public property. The Consortium Canale Milano-Cremona-Po has worked in the area for several years. In the site, over the years, they are located business activities of varying legality, many without a contract.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

Porto di Mare is territorially very interesting. It contains in coexistence: a protected park, a large part of South Milan Agricultural Park, with a still active farming zone, a typical feature of this part of Milan; small rural settlements to be retained, because they reflect the history of the site; sports activities; some productive and residential functions. Furthermore, the area is adjacent to one of Milan’s oldest neighbourhoods, the Mazzini/ Corvetto ROM, which is somewhat isolated from the rest of the city and could benefit from the regeneration of the site.

The programme suggested ideas for new features such as a BIC (business innovation centre), small businesses, commercial and craft activities, social housing.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The Europan competition designers have proposed highly sensitive developments of the relationship with South Park, the presence of an “artificial hill” a former landfill site and the relationship with the Mazzini / Corvetto district.

The competition results have stimulated the Administration to experiment with new ways to address the development of a programme in one of Milan’s most difficult locations, but also one most representative of the future of a different Milan.

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Milano (it) winner

Cyrille Lamouche (FR)

T. +33 668538351

Cécilia Robergeaud (FR)

cyrille.lamouche@gmail.com

Guillaume Chatelain (FR)

T. +33 670018303

architects

c.robergeaud@gmail.com T. +39 3240850090 guillaume.j.chatelain@ gmail.com

256 Landscape transition Team point of view The renewal of the “Porto di Mare” area is intended to create a new focal point within Milan’s green belt.

Introducing a mall as an extension to the existing park maintains the continuity of the green systems towards Milan city centre. This rural boulevard is the spine of the project, generating a mobility network and concentrating social hubs. A genuine link between the various points of interest, it contains identified sequences, opens onto the landscape and gives the area a new identity.

Drawing on the site’s existing structure, the project offers temporal flexibility and seeks to integrate with the rural landscape.

The proposal provides a new way to inhabit the transition between Milan’s urban and rural fabric.

2nd sequence: opening on agriculture

Jury point of view The project adheres fully to the concept of a “unifying project” referred to in the subsequent phases of project. The patterns presented show a good level of control of the elements that contribute to the creation of an urban design and an ability to work at that scale.

The project combines the constraints in place with a vision of the contemporary city filtered through more traditional elements, but revisited, like the “rural boulevard and landscape” that is proposed as a structuring and qualifying spatial element.

3rd sequence: living between city and countryside

Render 1st sequence: a new centrality

Render 2nd sequence: opening on agriculture

257 A green boulevard as backbone for the project development

Green belt of Milan

Masterplan

Render 3rd sequence: living between city and countryside

Render 4th sequence: opening on landscape

Milano (it) runner-up

Jonathan Galli (IT)

Emiliano Capasso (IT)

Via due fonti 86H,

architect

Roberto Alesi (IT)

62100 Macerata (MC), Italy

engineers-architects

T. +39 3476048274

Serena Armandi (IT)

info@massivearchitects.eu

Serafino D’Emidio (IT)

www.massivearchitects.eu

Giammario Volatili (IT) architects

258 Porto agricolo

Renewable resources and bio-climatic techniques

Team point of view The project is based on an iconic approach. There is a link between the past of the area and the water, so’ the project aims to symbolise a great “harbour” through an elevated surface. The dock overlooks the sea of farmland, reunifying the fragmentation created by the remnants of the past and bringing the area concrete solutions and real quality. It is a dock where the various planned activities are moored. The urban plan, with a central public space, shows a variety of typology and architecture and defined rules for the relationship between spaces. The modularity of the collective housing meets the need for a malleable and socially mixed space.

This new area of Milan has been designed to become progressively more energy efficient, thanks to renewable resources and bio-climatic techniques.

Jury point of view The urban settlement, organized with a central public space, shows a variety of types and well-defined architectural rules for the relations between private, public and semiprivate spaces. The project determines the urban hierarchy starting from the open spaces and respects the agricultural nature of the site. It is clear that the intention of a reticular and multicentric vision is to establish new central places to generate new uses based on communication, interaction and interchange between inhabitants.

Masterplan and modularity of agriculture

Square M3; Business Incubator; Co-Housing (from top to bottom)

Milano (it) Special mention

Andrea Fradegrada (IT)

Fabio Bonaventura (IT)

Viale Matteotti 404

Valentina Celeste (IT)

Elena Dalbon (IT)

20099 Sesto San Giovanni (MI),

Giovanni Munafò (IT)

Giuseppe Marchica (IT)

Italy

Simone Natoli (IT)

Marco Maria Montalbano (IT)

T. +39 3460913689

Riccardo Riva (IT)

Davide Natarelli (IT)

info@morfemaarchitects.com

architects

Giulia Laura Suardi (IT)

www.morfemaarchitects.com

students in architecture

259 San Rocco Team point of view The proposed design procedure seeks to interpret urban phenomena in order to devise a project that places the priority on landscape. A key objective of the project is to reconcile the rural area with the city, and the project area with the adjacent residential fabric. The former is achieved by means of a clear demarcation line to emphasize the distinction, in a way that could also be replicated on a large scale. The latter is resolved through the archetypal figure of the fence, seen as a symbol of the memory of the place, and highlighting the key areas in the district using a traditional shape as a means of reconnecting past and present. At the same time, the settlement typologies try to satisfy the needs of contemporary society with new kinds of connection across different levels.

Jury point of view The site has a new benchmark with an intervention that will increase its scale and importance. Courageously, the project proposes a strong geometric definition of the built fabrics and a stronger contrast between building and landscape, being one of those proposals characterized by “peremptory” urbanity, which have moved away from the guidelines provided by the site’s promoters.

Milano (it) Special mention

Louis Bauchet (FR)

Julie Siol, 6 rue Aubriot

engineer-architect

75004 Paris, France

David Pistre (FR)

T. +33 760419580

Julie Siol (FR)

coinducahier@gmail.com

architects

www.coinducahier.com

260 Co-working process

Visioning Porto di mare 2035

View of the urban fabric

Team point of view The project proposes a development framework that preserves and strengthens resources and activities in a neighbourhood on the border of three distinct areas (city, agricultural park and rapid exchange infrastructures), as the basis of a residential district co-created by its citizens.

The neighbourhood’s agricultural and artisanal character is expressed through the collective practice of its amenities and public spaces. The urban fabric is the preferred place for the creation of a resilient neighbourhood (policy centre, public forum, cooperative workshops) based on resilience principles: - Diversity (actors, entities and functions) - Modularity (boost interactions) - Feedback (learn from experience and react quickly) Jury point of view The project has value especially in the proposal for a shared agricultural park and in the interesting residential experimentation.

An organizational framework that reveals the quality of the site, which will be built step by step through the inclusion of citizens in the process of design and construction.

Axonometric view step 3 - framework, basis of consultation

Strengthen and diversify natural spaces

View of the collective garden in the heart block

Milano (it) Special mention

Sante Simone (IT)

Kurmak (Laura Fabriani,

Ester Bonsante (IT)

Sante Simone, Alessandro

Laura Fabriani (IT)

Zappaterreni) + Ester Bonsante

Alessandro Zappaterreni (IT)

via Gabrio Serbelloni, 74

architects

00176 Roma, Italy T. +39 3207034127 info.kurmak@gmail.com www.kurmak.tumblr.com

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Pomerio Team point of view The project area requires thought about the definition of a boundary between the city of Milan and the plain outlined by farmland toward Chiaravalle. Milan’s forma urbis is a history of radial development from within concentric wall rings, ‘neglected since the city plan of 1931.

The failure of that experiment (as the city melted into the countryside) creates the need to define a boundary. Ideally this boundary should achieve a substantial rever-sal: the city no longer acts as a barrier to the countryside, but the countryside forms a boundary to the city. The residential building is intended as a border, an enlarged fragment of the cascina, icon of rural Lombardy architecture, in order to protect a place and its genius.

Jury point of view As part of its “peremptory” approach, the project proposes a boundary that creates a clear separation between the built environment and nature.

New urban centrality Porto di mare

Pomerio ground floor plan

View

Milano (it) Special mention

Lina Malfona (IT)

Laura Zerella (IT)

lina malfona, via gradoli 71

Elena Mattia (IT)

Giada Domenici (IT)

00189 Roma, Italy

Monica Manicone (IT)

Dario Polistena (IT)

linamalfona@uniroma1.it

Gregorio Froio (IT)

Charles Batach (LB)

www.petrinimalfona.it

architects

architects

262 Project layout, indication of development steps

xx

RoomScape_Milano

Team point of view xx.

Team point of view The concept of room_scapes combines 3 operative components: the grid, the courtyard & towers, the landscape. Each component works inside the others. The grid generates points and lines that are used flexibly to control occupation of the area in a way that can be developed in time. The courtyards, taken from the city’s characteristic urban fabrics, are flexible space that continuously alternates between inside and outside. Vertical towers are used as point references. Landscapes are generated through superimposition and juxtaposition, containing different programs that develop the urban floor: agricultural fields, sports fields, sculpture park… Several paths connect the urban surroundings with the site zone: walking and cycling track, horse track, boulevard.

Jury point of view xx.

Jury point of view As part of this “peremptory” approach, the project proposes a rigid built grid that pervades the agricultural land.

General plan and relationship with the surroundings

Image of the courtyards system and landscape

towers system and the urban platform

Paris-Saclay France (FR)

LOCATION Bures-sur-Yvette –

SITE PROPOSED BY

Paris-Saclay territory

Etablissement Public Paris-

POPULATION Bures-sur-Yvette

Saclay (EPPS), with those

9,900 inhab. - Orsay 16,600 inhab. -

partners on the project:

University Paris-South 27,000

University Paris-South, cities

students and 2,500 teachers-

of Bures-sur-Yvette and Orsay,

researchers

Communauté d’Agglomération

STRATEGIC SITE 290 ha

du Plateau de Saclay, CROUS,

SITE OF PROJECT 33.5 ha

State OWNER(S) OF THE SITE State

interview of the site’s representative EPPS

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Laurence Schlumberger-Gued, expert of site (excerptS from the competition brief)

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy In the near future, Paris-Saclay will be a world-class innovation cluster, networked with all the city of Paris’s development hubs, linked by a new Grand Paris Express metro line. It will rely on the interactions between higher education research and industry, contributing to job creation and growth.

The valley campus study site and the adjacent town centres of Bures-surYvette and Orsay form part of the wider area of the Yvette Valley [from Palaiseau to Saint-Rémy les Chevreuse], and link with the first development of Paris-Saclay on the plateau, north of the building-free slopes.

Embedded in a protected natural site, the location enjoys a landscape of great quality. However, it suffers from a lack of connections between town and university, and from insufficiently developed public spaces. As it stands, it does not offer the amenities one might expect from a university town. The project site, at the western end of the study site, stands at the intersection of the urban fabric of Bures-sur-Yvette and one of the teaching hubs of the valley campus which is set to become the core of a teaching cluster. It possesses all the assets needed to enjoy short-term quality improvements.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

At Paris-Saclay, the adaptable city means: a new balance between city and nature which offers the amenities of an urban centre within a setting that celebrates natural spaces; urban intensity which facilitates communal practices and encounters between people of all kinds; economical management of space through compactness and the pooling of public spaces and amenities; open planning leaving room for sociological changes and innovation.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

As a historical site of French scientific research, the Université Paris-Sud campus in the Yvette Valley is devising the third generation of universities.

The municipalities of Bures-sur-Yvette and Orsay, where it is located, wish to see the campus open up and develop links with the surrounding urban fabrics. EPPS supports the participants and guarantees the coherence of the overall project, notably with the Saclay Plateau South urban project. The western entrance to the campus, designated as the Europan project site, has been identified by all the partners as suitable, in the short term, for the creation of the adaptable campus.

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Paris-Saclay (FR) winner

Yvan Okotnikoff (FR)

Collectif Georges,

Aurélien Delchet (FR)

15, bd de Picpus

architects

75012 Paris, France

Thibault Barbier (FR)

contact@collectifgeorges.fr

Mathieu Delorme (FR)

www.ateliergeorges.fr

landscape engineers – urban planners Thomas Nouailler (FR) architects - urban planner

266 Negotiation lab Team point of view Urban quality depends more on acceptance by residents than on initial design. It is not predetermined but is refined on a dayto-day basis.

On the basis of this observation, we looked at the development of “VilleCampus” not as a goal but more as a particular moment where the framework of the permanent negotiations required to create a human settlement is defined.

The project is thus built on an open system, embodied in five projects, five platforms used for: - Permanent adjustments between the site’s metropolitan role and its daily life - Convergence between natural and urban dynamics - Operational proposals so that this city fragment may acquire and retain a certain plasticity, that it remains adaptable “in the flesh” Jury point of view The jury stressed the project’s ambitious pursuit of links between the town and the plateau. It also appreciated the bottom-up approach to stakeholder participation. The proposal for a cable car linking the valley to the plateau was seen as a very effective way to meet the needs of students and university staff. The system of densification platforms established by the team reflects a very subtle and contextual reading of the site’s topography and uses.

the mobility promotes intensities on each platform

The shortest way from the train station to the plateau

mixed-use building: sports centre and cooperative housing

267 the new axis connecting all strata of the valley

statement: repartition of the natural and urban challenges

the sports platform in the mid- and in the long-term

proposal: articulation of the natural and urban stakes

Paris-Saclay (FR) winner

Yoann Dupouy (FR)

TU-DU

Maia Tüür (EE)

95, rue de la Roquette

architects – urban planners

75011 Paris, France contact@tu-du.fr www.tu-du.fr

268 Reversing the grid

The double coherence: a territorial project

Team point of view Our project seeks to connect different territories while revealing their specificities. The quest for territorial cohesion is twofold, affecting both the metropolitan territory and the existing districts in the valley. This dual cohesion is achieved by inverting the urban project in progress on the plateau: the urban grid becomes a natural grid in the valley; the plateau’s structuring public spaces re-appear around the existing university buildings as universityscapes. Finally, the concept of intermediate nature gives way to that of intermediate cityscape on contact with the districts in the valley. The concept gives the territory a strong structure, but each “environment” preserves its own pattern of development. This configuration guarantees the project genuine adaptability and generates different rhythms that coexist within this large area.

Jury point of view The jury considered the strategy for connecting the plateau, the town and the university very well conceived. It welcomed the coherence of the approach of introducing three identifiable milieus and the flexibility of a low-intervention strategy. The spatial framing, mirroring the plateau project, was seen as both a powerful and an adaptable concept, with the capacity to tighten distended space and clarify the site’s street structure. The jury also approved the proposed densification on the edges of the campus, which opens the door to mixing between residents and students.

Three distinct but interdependent environments for an adaptable city: the natural grid, the univercityscapes and the intervening cityscape

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The small-scale adaptable architectural features, to frame the territorial coherence in long term

A coexistence of different urban rhythms within the same territory

Paris-Saclay (FR) Special mention

Suzanne Jubert (FR)

jubertsuzanne@gmail.com

architect

270 Gather in/parcel out: 2 ways to differentiate development Team point of view New urban and landscape entities form the basis for the recomposition and then development of a campus today structured only by its road system, where the exceptional natural environment has never been considered or valued. Courtyards and landscape strips: these flexible and readable complementary schemes moulded on the topography (the valley, the start of the hillside), quickly restructure the site with few programs and do the groundwork for progressive urban planning, while taxing a dual requirement: the compactness needed for sharing and a vibrant campus life; the porosity needed to optimise the landscape and for the development of a park shared both by town and campus, for a road network on the site itself and spreading to the town centre and to the cluster.

Jury point of view The quality of this project lies in its introduction of two complementary urban entities: courtyards and strips. The jury liked the relevance of this strategy of gathering urban and architectural forms around oriented courtyards, which restores a sense of scale to the expanse of the Campus site. The jury also noted the adaptable nature of the proposal, which offers an interesting phasing process.

Vichy Val d’Allier France (FR)

LOCATION Bellerive-sur-Allier

SITE PROPOSED BY

and Charmeil

Vichy Val d’Allier Intermunicipal

POPULATION conurbation

District

80,000 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE 400 ha

Manurhin Defense – GIAT

SITE OF PROJECT 128 ha

Industries

interview of the site’s representative

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Emmanuel Redoutey, site expert and Vichy Val D’Allier District Council (excerptS from the competition brief)

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Since 1937, the Montpertuis Palazol site has been occupied by the firm Manurhin Défense, a subsidiary of GIAT Industries, specialising in the manufacture of weapons and munitions. The factory closed in 2006.

The conversion of the site is a major priority for the economic development of the conurbation at the heart of the Clermont-Ferrand Riom Vichy metropolitan platform. VVA wishes to reopen the site to the population and to introduce new uses in a remarkable location on the left bank of the conurbation, where road access will soon be improved. This slightly uneven plateau is located within an entirely wooded environment, overlooking the Allier Valley. It holds a place in the collective memory of local people and those who worked on the site over the years.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

Vichy Val d’Allier’s objective is to maintain the site’s productive and economic role, while adapting it to new activities. The brief is to invent a new generation industrial campus that mixes different types of economic entity (from 200 to 10,000 m²) and several types of programme, including specific housing and services, generated by the activities themselves.

At present, these activities cannot be fully identified, hence the need to devise a gradual and adaptable process of change. Finally, the opening of the site to the population and to the city is an opportunity to reflect on the future of the left bank within local and metropolitan dynamics, in its urban and landscape components, notably with a view to protecting areas where urbanisation has not taken place.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The size of the project site (more than 100 ha) entails the need to build a strategy of transformation that is flexible in its process, modular in its spatial approach, and adaptable over time, with the capacity to be implemented over different timescales.

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Vichy Val d’Allier (FR) winner

Anne-Laure Marchal (FR)

62 rue Félibien

architect - urban planner

44000 Nantes, France

Mathieu Delmas (FR)

contact@bintj.fr

Léa Hommage (FR)

www.bintj.fr

landscape architects

contact@laformeetlusage.com

Sébastien Deldique (FR)

www.laformeetlusage.com

artist

274 Pioneer fringes

The Park du champ de tir seen from the new entrance

Palazol and the dike-road seen from the earth-bund belvedere

Team point of view Our project seeks to re-open the site to its territory while preserving the unique features of Montpertuis and Palazol. The site’s occupation begins and is organised from the fringes. From 2015, the project implementation process establishes a geometry, paths and allocations that outline specific places that will flourish and gain density over time.

The proposal combines: - a considered spatial composition based on the site’s assets and constraints; - spatial and functional conditions that both enable the installation of new economic activities and create a multiplicity of ambiences; - a permanent location that welcomes users into a constantly evolving and lively landscape.

Each step has an objective and is self-sufficient. The final step completes a long-term vision without restricting the inherent value of those before.

Jury point of view With no specific programming, the project proposes to introduce a landscape framework capable of accommodating programmatic randomness and achieving a certain balance and autonomy. The project links 3 of the site’s landscape entities via its fringes, highlighting them as activity interfaces. In this way, it establishes a landscape infrastructure capable of accommodating evolving programmes and contributes to a degree of energy autonomy on the site. The jury emphasised the proposal’s highly adaptable character, at both landscape and building level.

Inherited forms from the passed activity The 53 terrace (café and exhibition room)

In the courtyard of the artisanal units

The project site put together 4 different landscape entities

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Step 3: 2025-2040 spread and densify

The three project’ steps

Vichy Val d’Allier (FR) runner-up

Céline Frattesi Bros (FR)

29 rue Bouret, 75019 Paris,

architect - urban planner

France

César Canet (FR)

T. +33 601746010

Laura Chavy (FR)

lcaucarre@gmail.com

Laetitia Paradis (FR)

www.lcaucarre.com

architects

276 view of the principal clearing

Clearings archipelago: connecting uses - assembling landscapes

activities, ways, intensities: processing steps

Team point of view Among the questions asked by the MontpertuisPalazol site, two stand out: how to revitalize an industrial and military site, and, therefore, how to transform a no-go area into a centre of attraction.

To answer, we tried to anchor new uses and to give the place a unified identity, progressively and sustainably, while integrating the factors of time and change. To open the site and bring it back into synergy with the territory, we relied on its own inherent potential and adaptability. This was about exploiting the landscape of clearings and reactivating the existing architectural forms (rifle range, earth barricade and building 53). Finally, the timber theme is employed as a both flexible and structuring programmatic framework.

Jury point of view The jury liked the development of a “landscape in the landscape” and the adaptability of the proposal. It stressed the qualities of urban and landscape insertion developed in the project. The jury felt that the project explored the richness of the site’s military legacy without nostalgia, reinserting it into a new cycle of activity.

top view of Palazol, cultural activities

axonometric view of insertions in existing architectural forms

view of the shooting range, a new public place

Vichy Val d’Allier (FR) Special mention

Nils Le Bot (FR)

Laura Albaric (FR)

UM Collectif c/o Mathilde

architect - urban planner

environmental engineer

Busca, 18 cité de Trévise

Mathilde Busca (FR)

75009 Paris, France

Laurent Naud (FR)

T. +33 686599476

Lucille Thiery (FR)

umcollectif@gmail.com

architects

www.umcollectif.fr

277 Arboripôle5: an eco-conscious reappropriation Team point of view The objective of Arboripole is for the MontpertuisPalazol site to achieve environmental excellence within 20 years, through gradual and adaptable development and the application of an eco-conscious urbanism linked with circular economics. The proposal is based on a theoretical critique of sustainable urbanism, phasing, and an evolving adaptive grid and programme.

The project is held together by a sinusoidal ribbon, which generates an adaptive grid, moving from high density at the site entrance to low-density structures inside to preserve the forest. It serves five districts, each offering a distinct programme: Agriculture, Industry, Research, Tourism and Hospitality.

Each district is symbolized by a “lighthouse” that defines its territory, where the tree canopy can be contemplated and the unity of the whole project encompassed.

Jury point of view The project’s objective is to achieve environmental excellence in 20 years by introducing eco-responsible urbanism linked to a charter and economic self-sufficiency. The project pursues programmatic diversity. The jury liked the way the site’s existing qualities are used. It found the suggestion for economic conversion interesting. The jury also stressed the proposal’s adaptability.

WINNING PROJECTS TOPIC 5

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In-between time Adaptability is about processes that offer creative possibilities for a project to incorporate uncertainty, lack of funding, the unknown future role of the competition site, or even long-term territorial transformations that affect the site.

So how can the “waiting period” before implementing a project be structured in such a way as to facilitate multiple scenarios, to involve numerous stakeholders, ultimately to allow changes to the initial vision? The intelligence of a project can depend on different processes that arise out of the dynamics of the site context. In other words, given time, a project can, so to speak, grow organically out of the site.

ASSEN (NL)

280

DONAUWÖRTH (DE)

286

KUOPIO (FI)

292

ROUEN (FR)

300

SERAING (BE)

306

VILA VIÇOSA (PT)

312

WIEN-KAGRAN (AT)

318

Assen Nederland (NL)

LOCATION Assen - Havenkwartier

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION city 67,000 inhab.

city of Assen

conurbation 200,000 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE 23 ha

city of Assen and private

SITE OF PROJECT 1.3 ha

owners

interview of the site’s representative

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Frank Aikema, Municipality of Assen

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Assen is a town that grew quickly but, as a result of the crisis, that growth is currently levelling off. The growth was facilitated by developing green residential estates on the outskirts of the town, spacious housing on large plots in green residential areas, with good facilities and pleasant residential environments for large numbers of people. The Assen 2030 structure concept provides for a large part of the growth to be accommodated within the existing town. A number of area developments are linked to the FlorijnAs development programme, which will improve Assen’s accessibility, in order to take advantage of the investment in infrastructure. Transforming Industrieweg into an urban boulevard and making the canal navigable again by constructing moveable bridges and locks, and raising the water level in the harbour, will create ideal for the development of Havenkwartier.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The town is continuously adapting to the changing urban context around it. It responds by either accommodating or initiating new developments.

Havenkwartier is an area that has functioned as a mono-functional area within the town since the sixties. Today, this mono-functionality no longer meets the needs of the area. Some buildings are run-down, others are vacant and no longer serviceable. They have proved insufficiently adaptable to changing circumstances and demand. Although the area functions well economically, its spatial structure needs to be transformed and adapted, to create a new identity so that the area retains its vitality.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

Acupunctural interventions in Havenkwartier can “change and blossom” organically to make the area suitable for what is at present partially unknown demand. One thing is certain: it will no longer remain mono-functional – it will become an area with a mix of mutually complementary living, working and recreational functions. Small-scale interventions in the public space and the buildings, or temporary functions, activities and events, will give the area a new image. The winning plan for Europan can form the first step in facilitating the creation of a new identity.

This approach to development and transformation is partly inspired by the economic situation in which the Netherlands finds itself. The traditional approach to urban development is a thing of the past: there are no largescale transformation projects any more, but a more adaptable and gradual approach to developing an area, which maintain spatial and economic vitality. An autonomous, adaptable and continuously transformable organism with a will to survive. For the authorities this means pursuing a strategy of forging coalitions, encouraging and enticing different actors in order to stimulate development, and investing in public space.

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Assen (NL) winner

Egbert de Warle (NL)

Hoofdweg 4bv

Marcus Kempers (NL)

1058 BC Amsterdam,

architects

the Netherlands T. +31 624171820 info@egbertdewarle.nl www.egbertdewarle.nl

282 Embrace the present

The plots for the project site in the brief break up the canal and harbour and actually reduce quay by blocking the north side of the harbour

One slab along the quay offers the same built volume as required in the brief, defines the canal, forms a small harbour for private yachts and adds waterfront for residents of the building

Team point of view The present must be accepted and embraced as the first step in any adaptation process. The proposed building and subsequent steps build on the existing infrastructure and seek to use and re-use materials and buildings on the site. This strategy will strengthen and develop the identity of the Havenkwartier.

The building is a catalyst for this strategy. The footprint of the brief is reshaped to align with the canal, thus creating a separate marina on the north side of the building. The slab is conceived as a double bridge construction with glass facades in between. The lower deck is level with the water so all units have direct access to the water. The upper deck is used for parking. The building will be sold by the metre so that its growth reflects market interest.

Jury point of view The project advances convincing arguments for a single, bold, 260 metre-long building for the intervention area, rather than two as the required by the brief. It is an intervention that is both powerful and respectful of the existing fabric. The building has everything required to act as a catalyst for a series of subsequent interventions. Step-by-step, a new, robust urban environment can develop that suddenly will suddenly make Assen attractive for a new group of inhabitants.

The Havenkwartier with the proposed building and several subsequent steps

The streets will get a new profile, more suited to pedestrians and cyclists, with sidewalks and a clear distinction between public space and the adjoining private plots. Shown here is the Storkweg

283 View through the building with on the left the harbour and on the right the canal and the quay. The building is the first incision in the area

Proposed 260m long slab along the quay along the canal acts as a catalyst for the transformation process of the Havenkwartier

The opening in the building provides a framed view from the Hobokenstraat of the characteristic industrial buildings on the Havenkade and vice versa

Assen (NL) runner-up

Marieke Kums (NL)

Diana Ciufo (IT)

STUDIO MAKS,

architect

Aster Sittoni (IT)

Westewagenstraat 66

architects

3011 AT Rotterdam,

Geerte Baars (NL)

the Netherlands

Yihan Xiang (CN)

T. +31 102133030

Kevin Westerveld (NL)

info@studiomaks.nl

students in architecture

www.studiomaks.nl

284 Masterplan proposal

Urban nature Team point of view Assen municipality and big developers no longer have the resources to redevelop the harbour area top-down. We propose to involve existing landowners and renew the plots grain by grain. As the changes that occur are driven by personal demand rather than economic investment, change is achieved by a quiet accumulation of urban elements rooted in daily life. Existing building envelopes will become frameworks for new developments.

In addition to this slow grain development, a catalyst project will be proposed in the heart of the harbour, an urban infrastructure, programmatically and spatially rooted in the daily lives of its users. It accommodates housing, offices, floating restaurants and gardens. It gradually grows over time and can thus anticipate the demands of new users and investors.

Concept diagram

Jury point of view A thorough analysis has led to a fascinating concept in which the waterfront is conceived as a tabula rasa for an initial infill. This should then give the initial impetus for interventions elsewhere in the area, which are understood to be conceived as the counterpart to a tabula rasa, tailored to the existing structure and grain size. Because these interventions are selected from more or less autonomous components, the solutions can always be geared to specific situations.

Site plan

View of the project

Project proposal

Assen (NL) Special mention

Vicente Molina Domínguez (ES)

César Molina Domínguez (ES)

av. de la osa mayor,54. 2ºc

architect

Óscar Llorente Martínez (ES)

28023 Madrid, SPAIN

Matt Sholander (US)

T. +34 659694160

Alfonso Aracil Sánchez (ES)

v.molina@vicentemolina.net

Paula Vidal García (ES)

www.mtresstudio.com

Ariel Minelli (US) students in architecture

285 Waste?Land Team point of view “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime” We propose a new, smarter way to foster growth and transform Havenkwartier into an urban community in Assen, through an in-depth analysis of the commodities, industries, and people in the site and the region. This strategy is designed to identify the existing resources and inherent knowledge embedded in the site, to create a community ecosystem that naturally encourages development in the district.

Our strategy empowers people in the community to shift the role of the citizen in the city from a passive inhabitant to an active participant, and the role of an architect from a designer solely of form to a catalyst that orchestrates and facilitates the evolution of the city.

Jury point of view The project focuses on sustainability. Assuming that, as time goes on, more and more businesses will leave Havenkwartier, the designers have developed a concept for entering the materials from the disused industrial buildings into a catalogue. A community could grow up in the area and reuse these materials to build housing. In addition to a clear presentation of the process on which this is based, the submission addresses a subject of topical interest by pointing out the changing role of the architect.

Donauwörth Deutschland (DE)

LOCATION Donauwörth – Alfred

SITE PROPOSED BY

Delp Barracks

town of Donauwörth

POPULATION ± 18,300 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE ± 245 ha

Bundesanstalt for

SITE OF PROJECT ± 30 ha

Immobilienaufgaben (Institute for Federal Real Estate: BImA) on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany, Donauwörth Town Council is checking to acquire the site

interview of the site’s representative

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Kay Wannick, town master mason, Marco Schwartz, urban planning department, Donauwörth

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy The Alfred-Delp Barracks are located on the Schellenberg (a promontory of the Jura Mountains) to the South-East of the Parkstadt. At an altitude of approx. 100m above Donauwörth’s town centre, they cover an area of approx. 30 ha. To the south, the site borders the Schellenberg neighbourhood and to the north the Parkstadt residential area. To the west of the site, opposite the main gate, is the municipal swimming pool. Agricultural areas adjoin the site on its north and east sides.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

During the forthcoming reform of the armed forces, in October 2011 Donauwörth Town Council was informed that the local Bundeswehr base was to be reduced in size and that the former Alfred-Delp Barracks would no longer be needed for military purposes. The last soldiers were to be withdrawn by the end of 2013. The Council was faced with the task of finding a new use for the barracks site. To what extent could the existing buildings and facilities be put to new uses as supplementary amenities for the adjacent residential neighbourhoods?

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The guiding principle for the conversion is: “From military site to futureoriented urban development.” The first task will be to network it optimally with the surrounding settlement structure of the Parkstadt and Schellenberg residential areas. Furthermore, in the course of conversion, its links to the old town must be significantly improved. It is unattractive in particular for pedestrians and cyclists: in addition to the large altitude difference, this is due to the barrier effect of the four-lane B2 trunk road. The existing infrastructure of the barracks could also be adopted for the new land use. Certain amenities (e.g. sports ground and parade ground) of the former barracks are worth preserving and could enhance quality of life for residents of the Parkstadt.

The site is to undergo an energy-saving, ecological, cross-generation and recreation-oriented development for the purpose of creating a vibrant neighbourhood for living and working.

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Donauwörth (DE) winner

Valentin Cordebar (FR)

8 rue Jolivet

Raphaël Masson (FR)

75014 Paris, France

architects

T. +33 626174770 keptsoil@gmail.com

288 Kept soil Team point of view The Alfred Delp barracks form a separate, landlocked and autonomous entity. The aim is to connect this area to the city and to generate a new urban fragment. Kept soil answers this question of adaptability with a respectful, sensitive and ambitious approach to the site. The project establishes a series of reasoned initiatives to offer public spaces with high spatial qualities and to create an overall density appropriate to the district. The analysis shows three prevalent existing building typologies.

The approach is to convert each of them into a new residential unit: the former dormitories are rehabilitated to become townhouses, concrete garages retain their structure and become covered villages and metal garages are demolished to give way to villas on stilts.

Jury point of view The submission takes a stringent conceptual approach that focuses on the resource-saving conversion of the existing structures: the structure for future development is directly derived from the existing buildings and infrastructure. There should be no further sealed surfaces other than those already existing. Suggestions have been made for three building typologies that can be developed from these basic elements: it results in a differentiated range of housing types with a density that is globally appropriate for the town district.

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Donauwörth (DE) runner-up

Sigrid Müller-Welt (DE)

Lukas Pazmandy (AT)

UTA architekten stadtplaner,

Mechthild Weber (DE)

Philipp Soeparno (AT)

Charlottenstrasse 29 - 31

Zsuzsanna Werner (HU)

architects

70182 Stuttgart, Germany

Anita Barthelemy (FR)

T. +49 71141470139

Fabien Barthelemy (FR)

office@urban-tool.com

Bence Horvath (HU)

www.urban-tool.com

architects Dominique Dinies (DE) Markus Vogl (DE) architects - urban planners

290 View from Volkspark with Follie to the Housing Area

Multiple city Team point of view According to postmodern ideas, the days of big stories are over and have been replaced by concepts of lifestyle individualisation and pluralisation. The urban strategy therefore provides a mythological response with a change of perspective and scale to focus on a reflexive modernity in urbanism (U. Beck) with an open, explorative and interpretative approach to the built environment as found in the Alfred-Delp-Barracks.

Multiple city is based on E. Soja’s thirdspace-concept and explores space in a versatile and contingent way. The plan seeks to be attentive to day-today conditions and to offer a robust spatial and temporal framework for the everyday tactics (M. de Certeau) of its future inhabitants by transforming the existing atmospheres into appropriable urban spaces.

direct link between the city-centre and the new centrality Waldstadt

Urban Strategy for the new city Quarter Waldstadt including four development phases

Waldstadt-bridge and Leisure-Time-Slide span the barrier of the national road

Jury point of view The proposal makes a poetic, sculptural gesture that forms a functional and convincing link between the traditional old town and the new ‘Waldstadt’ with its appropriable spaces. It offers three crossing paths of differing qualities in conjunction with a green corridor: an elevated cycle path, a romantic footpath on the ground and above, combined with the swimming pool, and the ‘Feierabendrutsche’ as a rapid connection and identifying infrastructural element.

Existing housing and a variation of housing typologies form new yards

Kuopio Suomi-Finland (FI)

LOCATION Kuopio - Hatsala

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION city 105,000 inhab.

city of Kuopio

conurbation 123,676 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE 40 ha

city of Kuopio and Savonia

SITE OF PROJECT 9 ha

University of Applied Sciences

interview of the site’s representative

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Tapio Räsänen, Architect SAFA, Planning Director, City of Kuopio

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy The area is located at the northern edge of the city centre, along the entrance traffic artery, within the master plan’s public service zone. The competition area consists of a school buildings dating from the 1960s , 1970s and 1980s, which are being made available for other purposes, 1960s sports buildings reaching the end of their life cycle, as well as a railway cutting between them.

West and south of the area are sports halls and school buildings, and on the east side are a museum and cemetery. The motorway functions as a backbone for the ribbon-like urban structure, with its exits immediately to the north of the planning area.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The objective is to defragment the urban structure, possibly with superimposed infill building above the railway line, to look for ideas for the reuse of the soon to be vacant educational institutions and sport facilities, as well as to improve the area’s urban image. Under the urban strategy, the proposed ideas for activities can be supported by the existing recreational services in the city centre and vicinity. Through building over the railway tracks, the Hatsala campus becomes more tightly linked into the adjacent Kuntolaakso sports area and the city centre.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

In the future, depending on the needs of the time, the area can be used for different types of housing, services, workplaces, schools and other functions typical of a city centre. The area of the adjacent multi-purpose hall may evolve into a conference and congress area, which must be taken into consideration in the development of the competition area.

The economic crisis may alter plans to relocate the school from the competition area and delay the plan to develop the adjacent Kuntolaakso area with sports and recreational services. This means that it must be possible to implement the overall plan in stages without heavy investment in amenities such as railway overpasses and mass car-parking facilities.

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Kuopio (FI) winner

Kuutti Halinen (FI)

Anssi Lauttia

Anssi Lauttia (FI)

T.+358415494448

Tuomas Raikamo (FI)

anssi.lauttia@hotmail.com

architects

294 Savo nueva Team point of view Savo nueva consists of the new Health Campus with residential quarters around it. Both are linked to Kuopio city centre via a new pedestrian bridge. Meandering housing blocks on both sides of the railway (Hatsala Hill & North west Hatsala) enhance urban quality in the east-west axis. Former Savonia University of Applied Sciences campus is being converted to a Health Campus. The main objective is to provide housing and wellness services for both elderly people and students, who share similar living requirements, providing synergistic and flexible advantages for both. The Health Campus is also a cultural hub. The former sports hall is renovated into a multi-purpose hall, which can serve as a venue for sports and cultural events. The Health Campus is part of the new public attractions for outside visitors.

Masterplan

View from pedestrian bridge to Health Campus

Jury point of view The three blocks containing apartment buildings as well as townhouses on Hatsala Hill, just south of and parallel to the railway, together with the bridge over the railway and its continuation as the “Health Bazaar”, form one of the competition’s most interesting and original urban ensembles of the competition. The wide bridge over the railway that going north turns into the Health Bazaar has the potential to become one of the most handsome public spaces in Kuopio. This “health axis” also provides the programmatic “meat” for the new area.

295 Façade to Karjalankatu

Diagram of Health Campus main building A=Housing for elderly people / B=Services / C=Restaurant / D=Multipurpose hall Aerial view from South

”Hatsala hill town”, view from Mustilampi

Kuopio (FI) runner-up

Joaquin Millán Villamuelas

Cristina Vicario del Cojo (ES)

OOIIO Architecture,

(ES)

architect

Calle Galileo 91, 2º2.

architect

Maria Soledad Antón Vicente (ES)

28003 Madrid, Spain

Sergio González Gómez (ES)

T. +34 912826219

Patricia Moreno Blasco (ES)

info@ooiio.com

Juan Naranjo García (ES)

www.ooiio.com

Lorena Villoria Casado (ES) students in architecture

296 Somewhere over the train flow…

Rethinking the problem as the solution Team point of view The train divides this city area and generates disconnected areas that automatically become “b zones”. We decided to change that problem by going straight over it. Why not recycle this wasted space?

Over the railway we have created a pedestrian bridge street, with a wellness centre, shops, restaurants, gym…

Instead of building over the whole south railway plot zone, which would apparently be the easiest place to fulfil the entire project brief, we decided to concentrate the buildings programme on both sides of our pedestrian Wellness Centre bridge-street, obtaining free space for a park on the whole proposed plot. We think that this strategy of bridge-constructions over railways could be an excellent idea to export to other city plots, to solve Kuopio´s problem with its railway barrier.

Jury point of view The proposal immediately strikes the viewer as intriguing and fascinating. It conjures up images of the urban utopias and megastructures of the 1960s and 1970s, while at the same time containing many topical and fashionable ideas, both in the chosen architectural language and in the diverse and lively hybridity of the proposed functions. The architecture, however, presents problems. The relationship between solids and voids on the facades and the monochrome colour scheme presented actually exaggerate the heaviness and scale of the individual masses and the whole composition. This leads to a situation where many would see the proposal as a dystopia rather than a utopia.

Kuopio (FI) Special mention

Tuulikki Höglund (FI)

T. +358504099961

Jaana Keränen (FI)

tuulikki.a.hoglund@gmail.com

Miia Mäkinen (FI)

T. +358407283965

architects

jaana.m.keranen@gmail.com T. +35850407448217 miia@miiamakinen.fi

297 Section through the site

Run to the hills Team point of view The central concept is the green deck that stretches over the railroad, connecting the surrounding green areas and taking the main pedestrian road smoothly into the city centre. The deck also serves as a recreational area linking the sports facilities. The deck is bordered with four new blocks that consist mainly of housing. The blocks are a combination of two baselines, the central grid plan and freely shaped surroundings.

On the west side, apartment buildings form the backbone of the blocks; inside, smaller scale town-houses border the deck and higher apartment buildings connect the area to the adjacent housing area. Apartments vary from senior and student studios to family townhouses with the aim of offering suitable housing for everybody and forming a vibrant area that enriches the city centre.

Jury point of view The project is based on a fairly lightweight planted deck covering the railway line. This is a realistic starting point, especially since the deck becomes part of a natural route through the proposed pleasantly scaled and semi-enclosed urban housing blocks. In these housing blocks, together with the directional green park sections that form the connecting elements between them, lie the principal merits of this project.

It is professionally presented and clearly shows that its author(s) possess the potential to create urban interventions of high quality.

Visualization of the master plan

Master plan

3D structural model

Perspective picture of the green deck

Kuopio (FI) Special mention

Tomi Jaskari (FI)

Laura Hietakorpi (FI)

Museokatu 42 A 12

architect

architect

00100 Helsinki, Finland

Jussi Viinikka (FI)

T. +358 405278050

student in architecture

tomijaskari@gmail.com

298 Phasing

Meetings and greetings Team point of view The proposal tackles the question of adaptability by reinforcing the existing Kuopio city centre grid. The urban block structure that has proved its resilience and versatility over the years is completed with six new blocks that reinterpret the traditional Kuopio block system and the alternative street network called “rännikadut”.

The block structure is clear and rigid to form an identifiable entity while allowing variation in typology and uses and staged completion. Inside, the five storey high perimeter, three storey buildings form pleasant alleys with a picturesque scale for the pedestrian environment. Within the blocks, the newly implemented “rännikadut” with two-storey buildings forms a lively human scale for the courtyards, which encourages social interaction.

Aerial view from east, the existing city grid on the left

Jury point of view The project provides a lightweight decking solution over the railway carrying a pedestrian and cycling route through the area as well as communal allotments. This is a sensible and realistic starting point.

The main feature of the project is the new interpretation of the Kuopio grid, including its special feature, the alleyways that traverse the urban blocks.

The resulting five urban blocks provide a dense urban environment that forms a natural-looking continuation to the structure of the city centre as well as a strong urban edge along Karjalankatu.

Aerial view from south

Site plan

Block structure and building types

Kuopio (FI) Special mention

Eleonora Burlando (IT)

Gloria Castellini (IT)

NEOSTUDIO architetti associati

Riccardo Miselli (IT)

Guya Di Bella (IT)

T. +39 0105702692

architects

Boris Hamzeian (IT)

neostudio.aa@gmail.com

Olmo Martellacci (IT)

www.neostudio.info

Nicola Masotti (IT)

HC2M Re_Produce Architecture

Cristina Parodi (IT)

info@hc2m.eu

Enrico Salvo (IT)

wwww.hc2m.eu

Fabio Stranieri (IT) Silvia Torterolo (IT) students in architecture

299 Cronotopia Team point of view The particular context of Kuopio becomes the locus for a radical proposal based on a living infrastructure capable of focusing attention on the relationship between the traces of the urban forms and the need for an architectural programme able to adapt to various urban scenarios.

Working as a reaction to 3 keywords (urban grid, connectivity and greenbelt), our proposal fills the urban gap between the centre and the suburbs through a combination of complementary elements: a superimposed living infrastructure capable of filling the urban hiatus and meeting the programme needs; 7 sculptural devices capable of generating human densification and spreading urban rhythms; a crono-spatial programme based on an abacus of temporary precast elements ready to respond to the urban changes of the future.

Jury point of view This very theoretical proposal appears to be trying to solve all the problems with a couple of swift strokes of the pen. Going deeper into the ideas, you realize that these two strokes actually generate a lot of potential variety and that the development of the ideas shows a certain promising rationality. Unfortunately, on this particular site, the chosen approach helps to solve very few problems. The project is beautifully presented, the typological graphs are fascinating as well as fun, and the general approach is utterly refreshing.

ROUEN France (FR)

LOCATION Rouen

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION city 113,500 inhab

city of Rouen with those

conurbation 486,200 inhab.

partners on the project:

STRATEGIC SITE 111 ha

RFF - SNCF

SITE OF PROJECT 35 ha

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE city of Rouen, RFF - SNCF, State (waterways and main roads)

interview of the site’s representative

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Albert-Gilles Cohen, site expert and Rouen municipality (excerptS from the competition brief)

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Geographical coherence makes the Seine embankment an essential guid­ ing thread in the transformation of the heart of the conurbation. More broadly, these ideas of metamorphoses relate in passing to different scales, where the “Seine axis” emerges as a vector of integration and territorial development: – the scale of the wide areas through which the river flows from Paris to Le Havre (a structural, logistical and ecological economic network), including the arrival of a high-speed rail line between Paris and Normandie; – the scale of Rouen conurbation, enhanced by its position as a landmark and major development hub; – the scale of the old town and the newly restored attractiveness of the city and its river. As a showcase for the city’s contemporary image and its associated structures, the municipality wishes to change the perception of the river, giving the city’s population multiple ways of using and enjoying the area.

The arrival of the station, the renovation of Île Lacroix, the handling of the Seine embankments are significant events, essential factors in the transformation of the East district, which require a transversal approach informed by sociocultural concerns.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The station, still some 15 years off, and the island – a built-up and inhabited space with remodelled boundaries – will need to adapt to each other. A long-term perspective on the project to anticipate the changes in these factors, reflection on the rhythms of change, an adaptation of current and future practices, are essential so that an urban ensemble can emerge out of two distinct areas, sharing the river as their common denominator and united by its banks.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The enrichment of the substance of the ongoing metamorphosis will require a formal and lasting framework of public space, adaptable to longterm changes, capable of accepting and absorbing alterations, potential programme combinations, mixed occupancy and complementary uses.

Being adaptable to change means planning intermediate phases of implementation, linked with particular events; it means combining particular timeframes experimentally for public space, for the construction or refurbishment of buildings. Establishing stable prospects for urban quality and sociable housing areas means accepting morphological variations, temporary activities, a degree of reversibility.

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Rouen (FR) winner

Nicolas Cèbe (FR)

Louise Naudin & Jérôme Stablon,

Louise Naudin (FR)

236 rue de Tolbiac

architects

75013 Paris, France

Juliette Lafille (FR)

T. +33 609462409

geographer - urban planner

nicolascebe@hotmail.fr

Jérôme Stablon (FR) architect - urban planner Thomas Bernard (FR) graphic designer

302 Que m’Anquetil ?

Team point of view In Rouen, the question of the future of the Saint-Sever site, without waiting for the station, meets that of the adaptable city. Pioneering uses foster appropriation of spaces over time, their initially temporary nature not precluding the possibility of long-term development. Flexibility and multiple possibilities enhance the credibility of an urban project, which is not a rigid design but a process. The existing city’s ability to evolve is acknowledged, even its apparently most fixed and inflexible features.

Hostile though it is, the quai Anquetil road infrastructure is thus inhabited, nibbled, diverted from its previous use and, finally, adapted to new needs, forming a new viewing point over the landscape.

Jury point of view The project tackles both the wider scale of the city and the scale of the study site: all the important elements of the site are addressed. The river becomes a central element again, linking all the interventions. The jury considered the project very relevant to the session’s theme of adaptability. It establishes a simple strategy which defines a flexible process for occupation of the site. By putting in place a “capable structure” as a potential ground for all possibilities, the project builds a strong urban vision that gives the place a genuine sense of identity.

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The “lived-in” quai Anquetil

Rouen (FR) runner-up

Francisco Pomares Pamplona

Filippo Fanciotti (IT)

(ES)

Nicolas Lee (CA)

75003 Paris, France

Saimon Gomez Idiakez (ES)

Hugo Maffre (FR)

T. +34 627539505

Irena Nowacka (PL)

Jonathan Schuster (DE)

bluefoamit@gmail.com

Johannes Pilz (AT)

students in architecture

www.bluefoamit.eu

6 rue des Haudriettes,

architects

304 Perspective: Railway promenade village

“On the move”

Tool 1: Conceptual Diagram - The Cloud

Tool 2: Catalogue of Rules

2040: Colonization of new typologies, density and activities

Team point of view “On the move” is an assertion with two meanings. On the one hand a reference to the subject in terms of adaptability, movement and change; on the other depicting a necessary attitude to a critical world situation. The proposal suggests a participatory process through which the city’s needs are constantly updated and responded to. It consists of 3 generic tools (Cloud, Prototypologies and Rules) that are applicable to any specific condition and adaptable to time. The negative aspects of a neglected and disconnected site evolve into positive assets, such as a new multimodal hub in the old Saint Sever Station, new links and bridges or cultural activities along the embankment warehouses. The result is a network structure that is constantly adapting to moving functions, urban flows and rhythms.

Jury point of view The jury felt that this project looked at the site in an unconventional and fruitful way. By proposing absolute adaptability structured around a highly flexible toolbox, the project challenges contemporary possibilities for making the city in a relevant and productive manner. The jury liked the variety of architectural typologies proposed. It also stressed that this project was one of the few to treat both banks of the Seine so comprehensively. Finally, the development of prefabrication was identified as a very interesting avenue to pursue.

Rouen (FR) Special mention

Achille Racine (FR)

drum.contact@gmail.com

Juliette Laurence (FR) Lucile Osmont (FR) architects

305 the station addresses both the left and right bank neighbourhoods

A station for the two banks Team point of view On a site organized into three longitudinal strips (the embankments, the tracks and the buildings), the train station will be the first cross-link. With its two concourses, it addresses both the left and right banks of the city, across an island and the river.

Instead of covering the railway infrastructures, the future neighbourhood forms a dense development beside the tracks. This big “void” becomes a landscape for the whole neighbourhood and offers arriving travellers a spectacular panorama of the city and its landmarks: the river, the cathedral and the hills. A temporary scaffolding structure erected on the future station site will host cultural events that will be an opportunity for residents to take ownership of an isolated site and to follow its evolution.

Jury point of view This project makes the future station a transverse link between the left bank districts, the Seine and the island. The jury emphasised the conceptual strength of a project that tackles the issues of the session theme. A station for the two banks is an evolving, open and totally reversible acupunctural project. However, the jury felt that the project’s architectural formalisation would have merited further development.

the train station is the first transversal link

a temporary structure to follow the mutation of the site

A link between the two banks

Seraing Belgique/België/ Belgien (BE)

LOCATION Seraing – 50°36’54’’ N

SITE PROPOSED BY

+5°’30’32’’ E

Eriges, Spi, Arcelor Mittal

POPULATION 64,449 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE ± 10 ha

SPI and Arcelor Mittal

SITE OF PROJECT ± 3 ha

interview

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of the site’s representative Anne DALLA TOFFOLA, Architect, Secretary of Europan Belgique

Summary of the preparations made with the help of Françoise Lejeune, Chief Executive of SPI, the Liège Province Development Agency, and Emmanuel Laurent, Head of the Property Development Department, Arcelor Mittal Belgium Real Estate.

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy The decline of heavy industry, which has hit the town of Seraing particularly hard, promises to have a heavy impact on its economy but also on the quality of its urban landscape. Against this background, the municipality has adopted an urban strategy that anticipates the challenges raised by areas long occupied by industry. Nearly 10 years ago, therefore, it instigated an ambitious “master plan” for an area of more than 800 hectares. The key elements of this plan are a new entrance to the town, to break the excessive visual contrast between traditional urban fabric and industry, and the creation of an urban boulevard to facilitate east-west travel across the town and resolve significant mobility problems. The site proposed for the Europan competition is situated close to this new urban boulevard and to a substantial section of the old industrial zone.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The municipality wanted to tackle the theme of “adaptability” through the prism of social cohesion and the “meantime”. It would like the uncertainty associated with the future of part of the site to be dealt with creatively. The site is divided between two owners. The first, a provincial institution, is notably tasked with developing sites of this type; the second, Arcelor Mittal, wants to promote the development of small businesses. The first zone needs to be operational quite quickly, while development of the other is likely to be delayed depending on economic conditions. The challenge is therefore to develop a segment of “adaptable” urban fabric on the site, which finds a coherent solution for combining the use of “waiting” land with plots that can be more directly developed. The remit is to create new urban dynamics that will also maintain social cohesion with existing neighbourhoods.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

As regards sustainability, the development of Seraing is governed by a “low carbon” policy. This operation, funded by Federal Policy for “Big Cities”, combines companies in clusters as an innovative way of enhancing synergy between them. The redevelopment of each area in the town’s master plan is embedded in this environmental process. The Europan site needs to be of high environmental quality, with low-energy architecture, local shops, a minimum presence of cars within the site… The implementation process is likely to be a public-private partnership. This method of funding should enable the project to be implemented at this time of economic crisis.

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seraing (BE) winner

Luis Masia Massoni (ES)

14, rue des Taillandiers

Fabio Cavaterra (IT)

75011 Paris, France

architects

T. +33 650402299 cavaterramasia@gmail.com

308 Concept – plot´s configuration

Synergy Team point of view The project was named Synergy because its aim is to create a positive and satisfactory harmony between the various areas of the city and the environment.

The urban strategy is to colonize all the available space on the ‘strategic site’ and give Seraing a uniform urban appearance through a frame adapted to the pre-existing urban structure and morphology, including the movements of the sun. Modern evolving types will be arranged around a central common green courtyard. The communicating vegetable patches will be shared amongst residents to increase productivity and encourage cultural exchanges. We formalized the public spaces in order to exploit the site’s special topography and natural features (elevations, river…).

The green track – the cultural path

section - hubs

The market square

Jury point of view The analysis in this project takes into account Seraing’s fragmented land layout, the land on both side of the new urban boulevard, the particular topography of the site and the demand for the creation of two green flows. The project’s analysis of the plots takes a sociological approach based on sharing, in the organization of a new city block.

This approach gives it a factual originality by creating very structured semicollective gardens.

309 evolutionary type of dwellings

Master plan – strategic site

section – ateliers and courtyard

courtyard – shared vegetable gardens

Master plan – project site

seraing (BE) special mention

Amélie Fontaine (FR)

Atelier Amélie Fontaine,

architect - urban planner

architecture & urbanisme 30 rue de Taisnières 59244 GRAND-FAYT – France T. +33 671590932 / contact@ atelier-ameliefontaine.com www.atelier-ameliefontaine.com

310 Exploratory models on the block composition

Between Meuse and forest… the weft of possibles Team point of view A system able to adapt to emerging needs of the city is proposed. New programs are already planned, but the urban pattern should offer the possibility for activities and their distribution to change during and after the implementation process. The capture process begins with the development of a 6x6 metre grid. This framework is used to define different types of constructions and to adjust the distribution of activities.

The inhabitants themselves at individual dwelling scale can change the system: renting extra space, building an extra floor, detaching one section, etc., depending on lifestyles. At larger scale, the layer of buildings can absorb new spaces or French while maintaining global cohesion. The weft provides a basis for spatial change and flexibility.

An adaptable weft, able to evolve

Jury point of view The project explores the site in its entirety. It considers the wider landscape as well as the priorities of Seraing’s urban plan. The orientation of the urban boulevard on the central part of the site becomes the model for a conceptual grid that forms the orthogonal basis of the project organization. This rational approach to of the site avoids rigidity in the allocation of the different plots which, arranged in a simple and coherent geometry, will be set aside.

Territorial approach

Urban principles

With the same point of view: 4 options for the same plot

Vila Viçosa Portugal (PT)

LOCATION Vila Viçosa

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION city 4,000 inhab.

city of Vila Viçosa

conurbation 8,300 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE 80 ha

public and private owners

SITE OF PROJECT 6 ha

interview of the site’s representative

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Manuel Lapão, Architect, City representative (excerpt from the competition brief)

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Vila Viçosa is situated in Alentejo, near Spain, in a sparsely populated region.

The municipality wishes to manage its territory by preserving an important architectural and urban legacy while at the same time reactivating urban life and resources. For urban spaces to adapt to changes in an uncertain future, their uses need to be optimised with new economic, social and cultural meaning, without losing the sense of inherited identities. The Vila Viçosa Europan site is located at the southern entrance to the village, previously polarized by the railway and the currently crisis-hit marble industries.

The regeneration issues: a) Old industrial marble processing units (now obsolete) and an adjacent roundabout and highway to be integrated into the new village entrance and activity centre, with a new image; b) The abandoned railway line and warehouses to be adapted to new structures supporting leisure, religious and culture activities around a cycling greenway and multi-use public spaces.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

To ensure continuity with the valuable historical urban fabric, new urban concepts need to be introduced: to find alternatives that adapt the traditional large-scale public spaces (carrascais) to new kinds of events, to enhance the site’s attractiveness at the local, regional, national and international scales: a) New ‘entrance’ to the village, with the regeneration of surrounding disused areas and a positive image; - Exhibition and social area, to attract new uses and functions (technology, research and exhibition centre), relating to marble production and marketing; b) New tourist destination (business, religious, eco-cultural); - Transition/integration spaces in a cultural landscape that can be adapted to new activities and lifestyles; - Alternatives to car use within the village.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

There is an on-going strategic development and urban regeneration plan that seeks to rehabilitate, recover and integrate the urban landscape values, with genuine public participation and shared responsibility by local partners in sustaining their cultural legacy through financial support for the implementation programme. The objectives of this plan are: a) To activate the strategic potential of Vila Viçosa as an urban model of national identity in the historical, social, landscape, urban and architectural spheres; b) To provide solutions for the existing architectural, urban and landscape clutter, with the economic and social contribution of the marble processing industry.

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Vila Viçosa (PT) winner

Bruno Oliveira (PT)

Goldra 295F

Marlene dos Santos (PT)

8100-223 Loulé, Portugal

architects

T. +351 289412699 estudiods@estudiods.com www.estudiods.com

314 Reused building, interior view

Between landscapes Team point of view In Vila Viçosa, we identified five distinct landscapes: geological, productive, extractive, industrial and urban; each of these landscapes has a deep sense of time. We are interested in the marks left in the territory over time, marks that we propose to expose, improve and intensify. If we understand these landscapes as the result of a set of actions implemented over time, we can think an intervention for Vila Viçosa that introduces new actions. We propose an intervention of actions developed over time, in a slow but durable process, resulting from the evolution of a network of natural, productive, social and constructive systems. For Vila Viçosa, we propose 24 mechanisms grouped into 6 families of actions, addressing the intervention in terms of the Adaptability and RE-generation of the identified landscapes.

Jury point of view The conceptual content of the proposal is interesting and meets the programme objectives by using elements that mark the passing of time, although in some cases they are not clearly argued in terms of adaptability. Treated from a temporal perspective with the aim of minimising rigidity, several proposals have solutions for upgrading existing elements to future uses, seeking to respond to the various objectives of the brief, including the proposed use of the railway infrastructure.

Study area proposal

Project area perspective

Intervention of chronological actions (Project concept)

315 General section

New attraction poles for Vila Viçosa

Innovation park, general view

Vila Viçosa (PT) runner-up

Nicola Lunardi (IT)

Danilo Chiesa (IT)

Via San Lorenzo 2/1

Federico Bellegoni (IT)

student in architecture

16123 Genova, Italy

Lorenzo Trompetto (IT)

T. +39 0104075789

Veronica Rusca (IT)

info@gosplan.it

architects

www.gosplan.it

316 The concept of the project: pavement / people / tent

Tupperware party – on the relational field

The lowered square in front of the conference hall

The geometrical pavement turns into cultivate fields

The guest rooms in the olive plantation

The site plan with the big tent on wheels in the middle

Team point of view Vila Viçosa doesn’t need new buildings. We propose a wide empty rectangular field, defined by a big tent and a distinctive pavement. They are both designed using a geometric matrix, but inspired by two traditional features: the idea of the tridimensional tent comes from the manueline gothic vaults; the pavement is a variation on the theme of the traditional basalt and limestone pavements.

This outdoor arrangement connects several existing buildings and it changes the city border whilst adding almost nothing.

Pre-existing and new buildings are arranged on the field like plastic boxes on a picnic blanket: as happens in vintage tupperware parties, our project prompts people to meet each other in the open air, to get out and enter the relational field.

Jury point of view The conceptual content was considered interesting and well contextualised for the local community, including aspects that reflect the diversity of cultural identity. In terms of adaptability, the principal space created as a reinvention of a “square” at the entrance to the village, as well as the areas adjacent to it, offer a diversity and multiplicity of uses.

Wien-Kagran Österreich (AT)

LOCATION Wien - Donaustadt

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION 1,750,000 inhab.

City of Vienna and site owner

STRATEGIC SITE 40.3 ha

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

SITE OF PROJECT 3.2 ha

private developer

interview of the site’s representative Elfrieda Göpfrich-Millner, Urban District Planning MD 21, City of Vienna

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Philipp Fleischmann, Urban District Planning MD 21, Head of Section (22nd district), City of Vienna

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy A new and previously unknown scale of development began to be introduced in Donaustadt in the 1970s, when, as a result of the development of the road and rail networks, large-scale residential blocks, commercial areas, shops, specialist retail and logistics centres were erected, resulting in a car-oriented and functionally divided city space. The Europan area is located between two major transportation routes, the S-Bahn suburban railway line (Vienna – Laa an der Thaya) and the A 23/S2 motorway, which while spatially isolating the site, simultaneously provide a link to the regional transport network. A recently opened tangential tram connection has now also improved the public transport link. The area is largely monofunctional, with a retail park consisting essentially of independent shops each with its own separate parking facilities and access, leading to very large spatial requirements. The objective here is to create a structurally concentrated city district with wider potential for use, focusing here both on forecast population development in Vienna and on a responsible and sustainable use of resources.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The future of mono-functional, car-oriented specialist retail stores is uncertain. While they were a successful business model in the 20th century, the question today is whether this type of shopping will not be increasingly replaced in future by online shopping. Against this background, it is important to think how these specialised locations can adjust in the future, in order to make sensible and appropriate use of the good transport connections and also to allow good-quality urban development, regardless of whether the shopping habits remain the same in the future.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The area needs to be developed within temporal and spatial frameworks.

The existing structure includes free spaces where the first development steps can be taken and evolve independently. Suggestions for a networked and sustainable city area have been made in the Europan 12 framework, in the context of the overall strategic discussions for this city area, which, with the involvement of quality assurance processes, have a medium-term likelihood of implementation.

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Wien-Kagran (AT) runner-up

Marco Corazza (IT)

Silvia Marta Flavia Di Stefano (IT)

itCH Società d’architettura sa,

Giulia Castelli (CH)

Giulia Minini (IT)

via Ciusaretta 22

architects

Sara Saggiorato (IT)

6933 Muzzano, Switzerland

Alessandro Mingolo (IT)

Daniele Torresin (IT)

T. +41 912258557

architect - urban planner

students in architecture

info@itch-studio.com

Vincenzo Di Salvia (IT)

www.itch-studio.com

graphic designer

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Monument in fertile country Team point of view The contemporary city highlights the difficulties of achieving direct connection between areas and establishing a homogeneous image. Urban rhythms dictate shared choices; these have to provide flexibility in managing the designed spaces. In our project, adaptability becomes a feature because it does not erase what is already there. The project creates an order in which even the commercial buildings can be relocated within a context of mixed functions. The aim of this process of phased construction for the single elements along with the infrastructural transformations is to achieve a finished shape. Monument in fertile country is not a single entity but a sequence of individual operations, which allows space for identifying new situations.

Jury point of view The project proposes detailed research into the surroundings and the existing buildings, from whose typologies a new and complex city is formed. A collage of coherent patterns maps the historical farming plots. Elevated pedestrian bridges provide a connection to the surroundings.

Reconstituting the ‘medieval plot’

Functional stratigraphical development and flow’s distribution

Mixity: office ‘blades’; commercial ‘rocks’; residential ‘prisms’

Wien-Kagran (AT) runner-up

Hans Focketyn (BE)

Focketyn del Rio studio,

Miquel del Río Sanín (ES)

Südquaistrasse 14

architects

4057 Basel, Switzerland T +41 787245302 info@fdrstudio.ch www.fdrstudio.ch

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kaleidoscope Team point of view Wien faces new situations in its quest to fulfil its growing needs. Kagran is a single-use plot of shopping malls isolated from the rest of the city by a highway and a railway line that is converted into a multi-functional urban morsel without destroying the specific values of the existing situation.

Typology: the proposed typology takes the existing elements (parking and shopping) and adds small shops and services at ground level, matching the scale of the shopping walls, topped by a delicate arabesque of housing. The vertical combination of these two elements creates a DNA with the capacity to evolve over time and host multiple uses.

Public space: the existing road is converted into a vibrant public space with living areas and controlled traffic, which colonizes the existing parking areas, while a new typology is introduced to absorb the surrounding parking.

Jury point of view Despite its clarity and simplicity, this project embodies a thoroughly intelligent concept. The dimensions of the structures are relatively large and they possess development potential. Hybrid high-density blocks create vertically organized micro-environments, absorbing the car-infrastructure into their mixed-used-basement; housing the developed above the basement block.

Possible plan of intervention after 15 years

Downward: Initial / Infill / Mixed option 1 / Mixed option 2

Possible ensemble after 15 years

Section showing multi-functional base with housing on top

Plan of public stripe

Wien-Kagran (AT) runner-up

Lorena Del Rio (ES)

Carly Dean (US)

irgimeno@gmail.com

architect

Alicia Hergenroeder (US)

www.lorenadelrio.com

Neeraj Bhatia (CA)

Jonathan Negron (US)

neeraj.bhatia@

architect - urban planner

De Peter Yi (US)

theopenworkshop.ca

students in architecture

www.theopenworkshop.ca

Wei Zhao (CN) architect

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En pointe!

Team point of view The site is unique in that it is characterized by complete infrastructural separation, forming an island of building types that operate at an urban scale. Our proposal begins by adding a civic architectural type – the arcade – to reconcile the two scales of inhabitation – architectural and urban – through a strategy of consolidating domestic programmes into infrastructural bars that utilize the arcades below to produce rhythm and organization. These bars contain nine housing types and touch down on the site lightly to activate the arcaded public realm below. The question of adaptability is addressed through the notion of time.

A large coded surface operates as a multi-programmed public realm that is timeshared through a schedule, to allow a more diverse and wider set of public programmes.

Axonometric showing house types and collective surface

Ground Surface Plan

Upper Housing Plan

View of malleable surface and arcaded public realm

Jury point of view This project strengthens the surrounding neighbourhoods by integrating them by means of massive bridges and ribbon development. Absent any historical analysis of the site, the project can be seen as the tabula-rasa insertion of an urban environment with generic historical references to the idea of urbanity.

Schedule and programming of the surface by year, week, and hour

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Networked territories Some sites have expanded urban potential because of their connection with a larger entity. This entity might have a concrete physicality, such as a mobility infrastructure, or might be a virtual network of relationships between a number of urban nodes. Although the communities inhabiting or utilising these sites may be small and apparently isolated, the connection with the network opens up possibilities for a richer urban life, for a new mix of different programmes and a more complex urbanity.

How can we prepare these territories to endure the different scenarios that might emerge on the other elements of the network or in the network itself? Should they be arranged in a way that makes it possible for them to adopt different roles within the network? How can they adapt to the possibility of major changes to the network, even its disappearance, through the definition of their own urban and architectural characteristics?

ALMADA - PORTO BRANDÃO (PT)

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ÅS (NO)

332

BARCELONA (ES)

340

CINEY (BE)

348

KALMAR (SE)

354

MANNHEIM (DE)

362

MÜNCHEN (DE)

368

PARIS (FR)

374

VENEZIA (IT)

380

Almada - Porto Brandão Portugal (PT)

LOCATION Almada – Porto

SITE PROPOSED BY

Brandão

city of Almada

POPULATION city 174,000 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

conurbation 2,822,000 inhab.

several (public and private)

STRATEGIC SITE 117 ha SITE OF PROJECT 8 ha

interview of the site’s representative

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Maria Amélia Pardal, Councilwoman for Planning, Territory Administration and Contemporary Art

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Almada’s privileged geographical position, natural wealth and high environmental quality, resulting from its location in the Tagus estuary and on the Atlantic waterfront, give the town close links with the water and great competitiveness in tourism, recreation and leisure in the regional and national context, with the potential to generate new dynamics.

Porto Brandão is a unique location, a key site in its proximity to the Lisbon Metropolitan Area’s second largest university campus, the municipality’s Research and Development (R&D) hub under the Almada-Monte de Caparica Municipal Master Plan, and also in its direct connection to one of the Lisbon Metropolitan Area’s largest centres of tourist attraction – Belém.

For the site area, the strategy encompasses the regeneration of the riverfront’s existing industry, by defining an axis of tourist activities, recreation and leisure, and the expansion and consolidation of the university campus with strong connection to R&D activities.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

There is a clear dichotomy between the description of what Porto Brandão is today and previous reports on this same site.

Historically, it played an important role in connecting banks; today, however, this has been lost, though it is still geographically central and part of a primary urban infrastructure network. We believe that this reality can be transformed by identifying suitable programmes that will attract young people seeking new or different ways of living and working, and form an urban community open to the world, based on recovered and valued traditions. The challenge is not to make Porto Brandão adaptable, but to create conditions for the community itself to be the agent of transformation and the territory to become a dynamic and adaptable foundation for such a process.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

Since this is a very complex territory, there can be no single, specific solution, but rather a set of initiatives, connected in time and space, which seek to create the conditions for the development of Porto Brandão. Exploiting the natural resources of the area, investing in traditional fishing and wine production activities, recovering in gastronomic reputation, revealing the historical and cultural legacy associated with the processes of urban regeneration, as have been successfully tested (eg. Cacilhas) are potential ways to generate value and social and economic dynamics. The articulation with the Lisbon Port Administration for the rehabilitation of the riverfront and the regeneration of the dormant port activities, with public transport operators to reinforce the network, with the University as a privileged interlocutor in the field of Research and Development, with owners / developers and the community, are further key elements of Porto Brandão’s urban development process.

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Almada - Porto Brandão (PT) winner

Simona Fazio (IT)

Via Francesco Dell’Anno 10

Emanuela Ortolani (IT)

00136 Roma, Italy

Michela Romano (IT)

T. +39 3343433581

Federica Spinaci (IT)

forsv.arch@gmail.com

David Vecchi (IT) architects

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Valpollicella, Soave Castle

Eraclea Minoa, Greek theatre

Porto novo Team point of view Porto Brandão, situated in the Almada suburbs, constitutes a potential “urban catalyst” because of its territorial and landscape peculiarities.

The project aims to give Porto Brandão the role of a new centrality on the Lisbon “outro lado”, in order to promote the transformation of the metabolic city and revitalize its socio-economic and cultural scene. In particular, certain project aims like the waterfront development and the new harbour, the revitalization of the area’s economy through the re-introduction of wine production around the Lazareto, and the introduction of a public transport line, will help to create a sense of “place”, in response to the specific needs of different generations in terms of “space” and “program facilities”, while enhancing their active role in city life.

Jury point of view By betting on a low-density solution and using the landscape as a working tool, remodelling, reusing and reinforcing its values, this project achieves change through a diversified strategy that opens up a range of adaptability options. The methods used to transform the landscape – cultivating vines, work on the riverfront, a new geometry and a strong image for the new “port” – reveal a capacity for reactivation and promote a “renewed” identity.

Strategic site

Porto Brandao, Lazareto area, 2025

Porto Brandao, silos area - amphitheatre, 2025

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Porto Brandao, “Porto Novo”, 2025

Axonometric view of project site

Section

Roman coin, Trajan’s harbour

Almada - Porto Brandão (PT) runner-up

Fanny Costecalde (FR)

71 bd Barbes

Guillaume Wittmann (FR)

75018 Paris, France

Benjamin Froger (FR)

T. +33 672020750

architects

fanny.costecalde@gmail.com www.fbg-ponctuation.com

330 Punctuation Team point of view Inspired by the distinctive topography of the south bank of the Tagus, the project firmly orchestrates a number of contrasting functions. Each activity is laid out not so much on a surface as within a thickness, free to extend across the territory as it requires, and possibly to cross the river towards Lisbon. In Porto Brandão, the heart of the operation, several axes of differing thickness are remodelled. Their encounter creates focal points for the introduction of public spaces, whose conception is based on the principles of relation to the earth and sky. Each one of these “events” is mounted in different phases, with time gaps that allow real uses and practices to be expressed and to influence the form these punctuations take.

Jury point of view The project, with its clear and novel strategic solution of removal or reconstruction and further recovery of the pre-existing matrix, reveals the potential and feasibility of the approach to adaptability.

It demonstrates sensitivity in detailing the various programmes for uses, particularly in its relationship with topography and pre-existing urban fabric and it communicates different “environments” with great care and detail.

Almada - Porto Brandão (PT) Special mention

André Costa (PT)

Martin Benavidez (AR)

Rua Gonçalves Correia, 45,

Marta Pavão (PT)

architect

Albarraque

architects

2635-037 Rio de Mouro, Portugal

Guilherme de Bivar (PT)

T. +351 916080894 / +55 11954832292

Rafael Costa (IT)

andrerodcosta@gmail.com

architects - urban planners

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Timeline Team point of view Various events have affected Porto Brandão, a place today forgotten by time, but possessing a distinctiveness that makes it unique in the context of Tagus estuary. Marked by interventions that radically altered the local topography, the waterfront between Trafaria and Almada is atypical and inaccessible. The oil industry’s occupation of the area has led to segregation and discontinuity. The legacy serves as a starting point for a recovery strategy, by reordering mobility and improving activities that were once the engine of the local economy. The reintegration of the site into the socio-economic context of Almada will generate polarities capable of promoting the development of the whole south bank of the Tagus River.

Proposed “lines” will restore lost cohesion and regenerate the entire region, unifying different timescales.

Jury point of view The proposal very effectively tackles the formalization of various brief programmes, with a particular focus on the low altimetry installations. The urban design solution, with the proposed plaza and the functional reuse of industrial infrastructure, is effective in establishing separate connections to areas of high-intensity occupation. The various solutions are clearly represented and communicated, making their feasibility clear. Adaptability is achieved through a phased implementation of the design.

Reuse of industrial infrastructure

Waterfront

Waterfront and housing plans 1. Porto Brandão’s new main square / 2. Market – requalification of existing building / 3. Shading structure / 4. Market extension / 5. Proposed waterfront / 6. Bicycle path / 7. Galleries – retail/ boats box / 8. Museum / 9. Vertical connection to Lazareto / 10. Bar / 11. New platforms / 12. Collective studios – requalification of the old canned factory / 13. River terminal / 14. Proposed jetties / 15. Marina / 16. Housing – typology T3 / 17. Housing | Mixed typology T1 e T3 / 18. School / 19. Equipments / 20. Public garden / 21. New access / 22. Pedestrian path Masterplan

Ås Norge (NO)

LOCATION Ås

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION 18,000 inhab.

city of Ås

STRATEGIC SITE and site

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

of the project 1.4 ha

Odd Tandberg, Anne Lene Skotterud, Ørjan Eriksen

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interview Europan Norge

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Ås is a municipality on the outskirts of the capital region of Oslo, and is now seeing clear signs of an expanding capital that lacks space for both housing and industry and is therefore putting increased pressure on its surrounding areas. Among municipalities in the region, forecast population growth in Ås is among the highest, expected to double from approximately 18,000 in 2013 to approximately 32,000 in 2040. Ås’s population growth and the town’s adaptation creates two primary challenges: first to meet regional housing demand and second house without this to local conditions in Ås. Ås is the largest agricultural municipality in Akershus and home to the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. An overarching objective for the competition is to better improve connections between university life and urban life in Ås town centre.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

Politicians, planners, developers and the university have joined forces in the Europan competition to see how they can use a central plot to improve Ås further. How can this site become something different and unique, in comparison with the existing fabric? How can the site become a model for the future, balancing the demand for dense development with high-quality urban spaces? How can the site help to strengthen the connection with its surroundings and trigger the creation of a territorial network? How can the site contribute to better co-existence between Ås and the university?

The municipality views the development of the site through four lenses: the growth city (the ability to absorb growth), the university town (to strengthen the relationship between municipality and university), the edge city (where rural and urban meet) and finally through the culture town (using cultural programmes as a tool for development).

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

With strong national and regional pressures to focus population growth around train stations in order to strengthen public transport, the village of Ås stands on the cusp of great change. The small and sleepy village faces a turning point of challenges and possibilities. The municipality has received an impressive number of high-quality projects forming a corpus that can help Ås navigate in the future. The winning project by office UGO was well received by the site owners, municipality and politicians. The municipality has been in close discussion with the winning team on ways to implement the proposal.

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ÅS (NO) winner

Luca Moscelli (IT)

Raffaele Patitucci (IT)

UGO | Architecture

Angelo Renna (IT)

architect

and urban design ‘s-Gravendijkwal 125C

Davide Sacconi (IT)

3021EK Rotterdam,

architects

The Netherlands T. +31 639572859 mail@office-ugo.com www.office-ugo.com

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Team point of view Architecture can frame changes through space and over time as a means of defining an open field of possibilities, rather than being subject to the volatile demands of the market. The founding of a new civic dimension for Ås is marked through an enclosure, a boundary that identifies a space, providing a coherent frame for different potential speeds and intensities of development. Without strictly prescribing the quantities, programs and types of intervention, the project establishes a strategy of densification: three possible scenarios for growth within a field of possibilities.

Such a strategy places the focus on existing resources, fostering a diversity of programs and subjects involved in the transformation and directing urban development while accommodating unforeseeable changes.

Scenario 1

Urban growth strategy

Jury point of view The project manages on the one hand to create a frame for development and on the other hand shows awareness that urban planning today is not about designing and controlling but about responding and adapting to an unpredictable future. This is realised through a literal ‘frame’ construction that ‘will embrace an open field of possibilities’. The project proposes a development in phases. The first phase integrates the existing buildings, which may be altered to incorporate further additions. Two more steps are described as possible future scenarios, with different levels of density.

Striated space

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Strategy

Scenario 3

Scenario 2

Smooth space

Sequential space

ÅS (NO) runner-up

Laura Alvarez (ES)

Alvarez Ouburg Architects,

Jarrik Ouburg (NL)

Gaasterlandstraat 5

architects

1079 RH Amsterdam, the Netherlands T. +31 615298655 / +31 634504275 info@aoarchitects.com www.aoarchitects.com

336 Hortus conclusus Team point of view In the near future Ås will transform from a village in a rural setting into a small town. The proposed urban strategy is to clarify the borders between rural and urban in order to strengthen the qualities of both countryside and city.

A green cultural corridor makes a connection between the centre of Ås and the UMB. Perpendicular to this, a high-density housing strip is proposed that will accommodate future housing demand.

The project site is located at the intersection of these two new urban strips.

On this site, the programmes of both UMB and the municipality will come together within a walled garden, a Hortus conclusus. The variety of functions form a beautiful composition within this new garden, a composition which, like Tandberg paintings, is unique, but can nevertheless be painted and therefore transformed once more.

Jury point of view The project is based on a clear and well-articulated spatial strategy to strengthen the relationship between university campus and Ås town centre by means of a green cultural corridor offset by a welldefined, grid-structured, high-density housing strip. Within the wider area strategy the project site becomes an anchor point between the town’s two new proposed axes and is envisaged as an inward facing, car-free, Hortus conclusus. A peripheral garden wall into a new urban ensemble unifies various separate urban elements, including the two historic wooden buildings.

ÅS (NO) Special mention

Filippo Nanni (IT)

Filippo Nanni, Via Conti 22/e

Lucia Zamponi (IT)

40068 San Lazzaro, Italy

architects

T. +39 3337427015 info@homu.it www.homu.it

337 All eyes on Ås Team point of view UMB is linked to Ås town centre through a 1Km long strip with facilities, offices, hotels and the new Innovation Centre. A second axis, parallel to the railway, intensifies the existing urban fabric with a residential program. All existing buildings on the site are preserved, each one functionally and morphologically characterising one of the four corners. A tangent curve integrates Odd Tandberg house with the new museum. The MEGA building is converted to a housing block with a new facade. A domestic courtyard in the student house opens onto the central alley. A public plaza is carved out between Åsheim house and Food Lab. Here, locals, commuters and visitors will find a vibrant nexus of Art, Trade, University and Community. Ås will have the opportunity to intensify locally and expand worldwide.

Jury point of view An intensified cross section with four strong and distinctive urban features and complementary programming, aims to generate and structure the future urbanization of Ås. The project argues that the vitality of student life in Ås operates on local community level while the University itself functions at a global scale for research and business.

Combining these potentials, the site is proposed as a SHOWCASE for Ås to the outside world, “intensifying locally – expanding world wide”.

View of retail interior

Odd Tandberg Museum and sculpture garden

New buildings, existing ones and open areas

Research & Innovation Hub masterplan

Ground floor axonometric view

ÅS (NO) Special mention

Simón Francés Martínez (ES)

Madrid, Spain

Judith Sastre Arce (ES)

arquitectos@francessastre.

architects

com www.francessastre.com

338 Straight line Team point of view Our proposal cannot be restricted to the proposed reference plot alone, since a linear element needs to be added to guarantee connection between the university area and the city centre.

This new urban component is conceived as a hybrid, an elevated transport infrastructure on which a bike lane coexists with a big university residence composed of small communities.

On the reference plot, the project proposes a new elevated construction that provides continuity with the linear geometry while freeing up ground space for a big public square. This square will be partly covered to provide a protected space for a wide range of urban activities in rough winter weather conditions, whereas the roofless outdoor section will be southfacing to maximize solar exposure.

Jury point of view The project gives physical expression to a strong proposed linkage between the university and town by means of an elevated linear structural element composed of a hybrid urban programme of student housing, cycle lane and public space. This singular linear element is envisaged as a series of linked communities, culminating in a new mixeduse high-density city centre, which is elevated above a big public square.

This linear structure also articulates and frames the intermediate agricultural landscape in one grand but ultimately playful gesture.

barcelona España (ES)

LOCATION Barcelona – Sant

SITE PROPOSED BY

Andreu

city of Barcelona

POPULATION Barcelona

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

1,615,448 inhab. - Sant Andreu

public housing company

146,956 inhab.

STRATEGIC SITE 39 ha SITE OF PROJECT 5.3 ha

interview of the site’s representative

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Jaume Barnada, deputy chief architect, urban housing department, City of Barcelona

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy This site is located in northern Barcelona. It is part of a zone that will define a new central urban area for the city, focused on the new Sagrera TGV station, a major transport interchange with housing, shops, services and other varied business activities. The project is structured along a linear park that will be one of the urban reference points in coming years. We are working to promote a mixed city where people can enjoy high-quality lifestyles. La Sagrera will be an overarching space that will resolve the relations with the surrounding districts and their shortfalls. One of the most interesting analyses of the proposals in the “study and project areas” should be the relationship between existing and newly created urban spaces. Cities are shaped by systems of urban relationships that facilitate interaction and multifunctionality between urban fabrics and activities.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

Barcelona City Council has proposed a new urban strategy based on sustainable urban regeneration. The projects currently underway aim to turn Barcelona into a self-sufficient city with productive, human-paced districts within a hyperconnected, zero-emission metropolis. The proposed strategic area must therefore blend planning, housing, infrastructure, the environment, communication and information technologies. Europan competitors were therefore asked to develop a series of concepts that we regard as basic to an adaptive city, such as: - Begin an urban regeneration process, understood as a multifunctional proposal that is urbanistically coherent with both the city as a whole and with its surroundings, improving cross-connections between the northern suburbs and blending new urban fabrics into the environs of the park.

- Look further into the idea of renaturalisation by interconnecting the system of public spaces and city parks that include the beach, Ciutadella Park, Glòries Plaza, Clot Park, Sagrera Park, Trinitat Park, the River Besòs, etc..

- Set aside spaces linked to the apartment blocks for new local production systems: Fab Lab - Develop renewable energy proposals aimed at energy self-sufficiency in the area.

- Set aside spaces for facilities that are integrated into the urban fabric.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

In order to adapt the projects for this urban area to Barcelona City Council’s current financial circumstances, a specific management area has been set up to oversee the suitability, distribution and timetable of the investments and projects in La Sagrera.

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Barcelona (ES) winner

Eduard Balcells (ES)

Ma Li (CN)

Travessera de les Corts 265

Honorata Grzesikowska (PL)

architect

esc.A 6o2a

architects - urban planners

Joan Gallego (ES)

08014 Barcelona, Spain

Balbina Mateo (ES)

Cristina Aznar (ES)

T. +34 686 464 185

Valentin Kokudev (BG)

Mike Swords (IE)

eduardbalcells@coac.net

Andrés Lupiáñez (ES)

students in architecture

www.eduardbalcells.com

Marcos Ruiz De Clavijo (ES)

www.honoratagrzesikowska.com

architects

www.balbinamateo.wix. com/balbinamateo www.arq-lupianez.com www.vkarq.net

342 Rambles verdes Team point of view Barcelona is organized by axes parallel and perpendicular to the sea. To the east, the parallel axes are extended to complete the system of public spaces and to establish transversal links between the project site and the surrounding neighbourhoods. Through the site, these transversal links form the Green ramblas (Rambles verdes), which are the main public spaces and play a key role in managing the climate and the water cycle: creeks let the surface runoff infiltrate and ponds clean the waste water. Between them, strips of potential building space can absorb, over time, the different functions, populations, incomes, housing typologies and ways of life. The Green ramblas are also the main social focus, bringing a truly vibrant new neighbourhood to life.

City scale strategies and urban tissues of northern Besòs

The public spaces system of at the north of Besòs river

Barcelona’s public spaces system from Serra de Marina

Jury point of view The project aims to give the urban grid a new transversality and create a clearer relationship between the linear La Sagrera Park and the Bon Pastor district, by means of ramblas, civic focal points and green zones. The project breaks away from Barcelona’s historical organization in parallel lines running perpendicular to the sea, while at the same time striving to recover the traditional meaning of the “riera” and its natural function of ecological regeneration for these areas. The project’s focus on these different scales is remarkable. It also deals with important factors such as the qualities of collective well-being in the public spaces and housing quality standards.

343 The Rambles Verdes as ecological regulators on the site

Rambles Verdes: rules for a new adaptive neighbourhood

Plan of the proposal and its links with the surroundings

Public spaces, possible building typologies and program

Barcelona (ES) winner

Carles Enrich (ES)

Angel Rosales (ES)

Calle Fraternitat 38, PB.

architect

Ada Sanchez (ES)

08012 Barcelona, Spain

students in architecture

T. + 34 649769786 carles@carlesenrich.com www.carlesenrich.com

344 Urban insertions Team point of view The site’s privileged situation is a great opportunity to improve the connection between Barcelona and Santa Coloma and to the banks of the Besos River. Our proposal is based on claiming this natural path and enhancing its connection with Sagrera Park, keeping the competition site as an empty space that becomes the vertex of the future urban green belt.

To achieve this, we propose a re-naturing of the streets leading towards the river and a new pedestrian bridge that provides a better connection between both sides. Extending the scope of the competition, we relocate the 80,000 m2 housing program in the adjacent industrial area, inserting small habitable pieces into the existing structures and adding activity at ground floor level to revitalise the district.

Jury point of view This is a brave, intelligent proposal that works simultaneously with global strategies and local actions. It pinpoints the value of the site as the vertex of the urban green belt that runs alongside the Besòs River, which in consequence is incorporated as an additional constructionfree green zone. To fulfil the brief, it relocates the 80,000m2 to the adjacent industrial area and regenerates the district from within. It also proposes to renaturalise the streets leading to the river and to connect the two sides.

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Barcelona (ES) Special mention

Giulia Toscani (IT)

Carlos Macías Caparros(ES)

Calle General Pardiñas 34, 3ºD

Jorge Martín Sainz de los

political scientist

28001 Madrid, Spain

Terreros (ES)

Alberto Martín Sanchez (ES)

exposeproposepoliticise@

Miguel Martín Sanchez (ES)

agricultural engineering

gmail.com

architects

student

www.exposeproposepoliticise.

Rachelle Pacifici (US)

com

civil engineer Oriol Guasch (ES) technical architect Elena Mostazo Romeo (ES) landscape engineer

346 Right to infrastructure Team point of view The project confronts the rhythm proposed by the Sagrera transport plan with the urban rhythms that Barcelona currently faces at the time of socio-economic crisis. Instead of building new housing, we propose smaller cycles of investment and financial sums and shorter timescales, to allow the city to react to the crisis. The project (1) EXPOSES the problems of financial and social crisis, unoccupied housing and gentrification, and (2) PROPOSES an improved city scale social policy for unoccupied housing, and the introduction of an infrastructure that creates cycles for the conversion of local waste into neighbourhood resources. Finally, it (3) POLITICISES the democratic management of the new infrastructure, empowers local residents and achieves decommodification through visibility.

Jury point of view The strength of the project lies in its incorporation of the Baró de Viver and Bon Pastor districts into the area’s transformation process, and its ideas on the heightened visibility of the infrastructure and its operation as an architectural material for producing a city.

Barcelona (ES) Special mention

Sandra Hernández (ES)

Bac de Roda, 118

Álvaro Solís (ES)

08019 Barcelona, Spain

architects

T. +34 609418009 / +34 659619916 kb720@konkritblu.com www.konkritblu.com

347 Tafetán Team point of view The site as reflection of sustainable growth.

The project adopts Bon Pastor’s Cartesian industrial layout, promoting the site’s west-east axis as the natural connection between the river and the future park, a new green route into Barcelona; it prolongs the Fòrums de Sant Andreu promenade, from La Maquinista to Baró de Viver’s residential neighbourhood, including the former slum in the urban centre of the same name. The arrangement evokes aspects of the adjacent urbanism, and the site is colonised through a physically and visually porous ensemble that acts as a catalyst for the different meshes. A system of hollows and interstices creates permeability towards the block, eliminating the typical boundary idea of the compact city and the hustle caused by industrial overspill.

Jury point of view A key factor in the proposal is the underlying conceptual component: the tensions that have arisen at different times during the 20th and 21st centuries, driven by property speculation, excessive consumerism and pollution. In the project, this is proposed as a beacon for a transition towards sustainability-related concepts that should guide the present and immediate future of this architecture.

Ciney Belgique/België/ Belgien (BE)

LOCATION Ciney – Quai de

SITE PROPOSED BY

l’Industrie

City of Ciney

POPULATION 15,716 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE ± 9.50 ha

private real estate companies

SITE OF PROJECT 2.2 ha

and Infrabel (SNCB - Belgium Rail)

interview

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of the site’s representative Jean-Michel Degraeve, Architect, Vice-President, Europan Belgium

Summary of preparations made with the help of Jean-Marie Cheffert, Burgmeister of the Town of Ciney and Frédérick Botin, 1st Alderman, Head of Spatial Planning for the Municipality of Ciney Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy In order to strengthen its role as a sub-regional hub in Condroz, the Ciney local authorities wish to make the station district a strategic area for urbanisation, supporting the town centre. The basic elements of this redevelopment are the removal of the level crossing and the relocation of traffic on Quai de l’Industrie along the railway line.

To the north-east of the station, the plots between the railway and Quai de l’Industrie constitute the town centre’s remaining land reserve. The objective is to transform this former industrial area into a mixed housing and business zone, which will structure the space around the station and fulfil the need for offices, housing and car parks. The aim is to insert this programme between the train and bus passenger platforms, the banks of the River Leignon and Quai de l’Industrie, with its lining of converted former factories.

The Municipality wants a framework plan that will bring together the relevant stakeholders – municipality, railway operator, private landowners – around a global project to create a new hub that connects with the existing facilities and infrastructures.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The uncertain nature of the programmatic elements in the conversion of this former industrial district into an urban entity requires a “management of uncertainty”. The aim is to get away from an approach based on one-off or sectoral initiatives to produce a global vision that will introduce a neighbourhood dynamic with flexible, phased development.

In a constantly changing world, more than a catalogue of good ideas, we need an inventory of potential uses of the site and representations of possibilities that incorporate changes to it: uncertainty about the organisation of mobility within the district, creation of adaptable functions – housing that can be converted to offices and vice versa, adaptability to new ways of working and inhabiting.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

Sustainable developments are needed, in particular high housing density, minimum energy consumption and a reduction in waste from buildings, both during construction and in use. We also need a well-managed water cycle, which will contain the risks of flooding from the river and make it part of the neighbourhood ecosystem.

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Ciney (BE) runner-up

Marie Gil (FR)

12 rue Abbe Boisne

Dorothee Broche (FR)

14920 Mathieu, France

Architects

T. +33 667194031

Matthieu Preuvot (FR)

marie.gil1@free.fr

urban planner topographer

350 Master Plan

Rubik’s

Rubik’s Concept, flexible device, mutable and inventive

Team point of view Our concept is based on a new perception of the land with the implementation of a 16 m x 16 m urban network and an evolutionary process of urbanization.

With the existing fabric providing the fundamental anchor, specific actions and goals appear as a multitude of impulses that gradually revitalise, redefine and rebalance the district. The spatial and temporal organization generates versatile, adjustable, modular and architectural closed spaces and an ecological landscape. This Rubik’s style mesh effectively depicts the work of composition and develops a method of processing the site.

Without a formal proposal or predefined hierarchy, the project seeks to be autonomous, with every typology responding individually to needs, without losing general urban coherence.

Jury point of view The project proposes a real planning tool for an evolutionary development process. The establishment of urban “stimuli” suggests future choices. This approach builds a structured project where different elements of the programme are interwoven in a global logic that is gradually affirmed. However it proposes no architecture or building scales, except a grid and a small study on the “in-between”.

2017: the preserved site of the nuisances of the road and the railway 2025: the city evolves according to the needs 2043: the return to nature like one of the many adaptability of land

Concept applied

2043: The concept applied / 2080: Back to the nature

Ciney (BE) runner-up

Niccolò Benghi (IT)

Giulia Rigoni (IT)

Mattia Valenti

Enrico Busato (IT)

architect

54011 Aulla (MS)

Paolo De Nardi (IT)

and 20146 Milano, Italy

Benedetta Malaisi Costa (IT)

t. +39 3803463308

Sara Pezzutti (IT)

mattia_valenti@yahoo.it

Mattia Valenti (IT) architects

351 The Leignon River produce a flexible natural space

Chute Team point of view The aim of the project for Ciney is to turn it into a new service and residential hub as well as a new park along the River Leignon.

We propose to solve the problem of traffic by building a new vehicular underpass and a hanging walkway to enhance pedestrian access from the town and railway station to the park-and-ride facility and shopping centre.

A continuous parking basement along the railway acts as an acoustic barrier for the housing behind it. Above it, are office buildings. On the other side, to define the character of the existing street front, we propose terraced housing units, with garages alternating with workshops at ground floor level. The materials employed reflect the Belgian figurative tradition, giving a project with which people can easily identify.

A basement along the railway works as acoustic

Defining the character of the existing street front

Jury point of view While respecting the existing urban fabric, the project proposes a rational solution to the through-traffic problem. The originality of the project is that it manages to reduce the disadvantages of the site by isolating the neighbourhood from the noise of the railway by creating a volume that contains the car park, which serves as a base for offices. The required flexibility is achieved. The different options are feasible despite encouraging the construction on the noisy side of the railway and the development of urban activities near Quai de l’Industrie.

Flexible space, able to accommodate the flood of the river

A new pole for services and residential development

ciney (BE) Special mention

Fanny Landeau (FR)

Jose Prieto (CL)

Atelier 56s

architect

architect

16 rue Eugène Carrière

Gwenaël Massot (FR)

75018 Paris, France

architect - urban planner

T. +33 608620344 56.s.atelier@gmail.com www.atelier56s.com

352 Specific indetermination Team point of view After determining the project’s approach to urban morphology, we began the proposal on the river crossing the site, and introduced components that define the adaptability of a building and urban fabric. Capacity volumes are defined by program: parking at ground level, offices along railroads and residential inside the urban block. The buildings are designed to offer maximum possibilities for use and definition. The project will include its own capacity to evolve.

To define this adaptability, we propose six rules: - Thickness - Indeterminacy - Evolution - Union / Division / Extension - Transposability - Participation Jury point of view The project is designed on the right scale, determining sociable spaces by incorporating the natural components of the site.

However, the project does not fulfil the brief in terms of mobility (connection to the station). And it shows a certain rigidity in the housing stratification: three-storey housing on Quai de l’Industrie, two-storey housing in the inner blocks three-storey offices along the railway.

ciney (BE) Special mention

Leo Pollard (FR)

67, rue Belliard

Clément Boitel (FR)

75018, Paris, France

architects

T. +33 625549651 pollard.leo@gmail.com

353 Walk the line Team point of view The arrival of railways has deeply influenced the urban development of Ciney. The town is developing progressively toward the train station. This focus of urbanization along ‘rue du Commerce’ allows commercial activities to combine with the main pedestrian flows.

To initiate a change in the way the town is used, we propose a new way to stroll between the historic centre and the train station. This greenway gives a new view of Ciney. The proposed route proposed passes through the project site from east to west crossing different areas, a topographical break near the former quarries, the industrial docks connected with Ciney’s forges, the greenway, the Leignon, a new trucking road from the concrete factory and finally the railways.

Jury point of view The project offers an interesting urban design approach (study of a connection to the historic centre through a loop route) and the overall originality of a strong project. However, while the intellectual method may be approved, the project is undermined by disproportions and inconsistencies (administrative centre disproportionate to anticipated demand, the bridge overlooking the railway is too big, offices with blind facades that cannot be converted into housing…).

Kalmar Sverige (SE)

LOCATION County of Kalmar

SITE PROPOSED BY

POPULATION city 63,505 inhab.

city of Kalmar

conurbation 160,000 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE 2,168 ha

city of Kalmar

SITE OF PROJECT 127 ha

interview

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of the site’s representative Hanna Olsson, Planning Architect

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Kalmar, one of Sweden’s oldest towns, wishes to maintain its attractiveness in the future. Being more or less equidistant from Stockholm, Malmö and Göteborg, it is positioning itself as a regional hub. This is being achieved partly by developing Linnéuniversitetet as the region’s knowledge centre, and partly by promoting tourism.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The competition site, Södra staden, is earmarked in the strategic land plan as one of five designated areas for future growth. It is the coastal part of an archipelago landscape that has undergone human intervention for hundreds of years, and is again facing changes. The site presents an opportunity to explore the relationship between man and nature. The area could be transformed from a monofunctional zone of detached single family housing to a more diversified community. The plan is to double the size of Södra staden by adding another 1500 dwellings. Rerouting the main road opens up possibilities for the creation of an attractive seaside borough. A local centre is also needed. The natural landscape on the eastern part of the road is exceptional, so the brief is to make this nature accessible without consuming it. What is needed is organic, phased expansion to create a unique identity/character, accompanied by new dwelling typologies. The brief is also to explore the interface between man and nature.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The vast majority of researchers believe that future climatic change will dramatically affect our societies, amongst other things through sea level rises measured in metres. What today is coastal land will become islands.

It is crucial in the future that landscape architecture skills should become much more part of the planning processes than they are today. The seemingly untouched natural landscape here is in fact the product of centuries of cultivation, grazing and logging. This long human interaction with the landscape has blurred the boundaries between natural and man-made land. This must be taken into account in any expansion into this area. The city will expand here, but it must be done sensitively, nurturing the surrounding landscape as people have done throughout history.

We have to attempt to predict of the future; what will be tomorrow’s needs and values? How can we create a socially sustainable society? This last question is pivotal for us, since public space is the realm and responsibility of the municipality. We have to create places where people can meet, socialize and interact with each other and their surroundings.

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Kalmar (SE) winner

Verónica Sánchez Carrera (ES)

C/ Juan de Urbieta, 10. Loc. Dcha.

Indalecio Batlles Abad (ES)

28007 Madrid, Spain

Julia Font Moreno (ES)

T. +34 636226196

Beatriz Sendín Jiménez (ES)

info@nundo.org

architects

www.nUNDO.org

356 Conservation, densification and complexity Team point of view n´UNDO proposes for Kalmar an intervention based on No Construction, Minimization, Reuse and Dismantling. Urban development based on density and complexity, prioritising the conservation of the environment and the territory.

No construction, out of respect for the territory and areas of high environmental value that constitute the identity of Kalmar; Minimization, with criteria of minimal energy, environmental and visual impact caused by new constructions; Reuse of existing spaces and infrastructure, through revision and optimisation. Densification of the existing framework without losing the human scale. For a genuinely sustainable city, we would need to consider less energy-hungry systems and greater urban complexity.

Jury point of view The proposal focuses on increasing density in the existing areas along the road rather than proposing new developments, making reuse and densification its main tools. The purpose of this choice is to keep the natural environment and wetlands untouched and to occupy the voids present in the urban fabric. The project is very successful in its self-restraint, working for a more sustainable – in other words compact – city, and protecting the ecosystem.

LAND CONSERVATION RINKABYHOLM_SÖDRA STADEN_KALMAR_SWEDEN “Architecture is not only a question of technique or aesthetics (or economics), but the frame of a – at best reasonable- way of living.“ Bernard Rudofsky

357 Voids and gaps

Preservation areas

Urban road

Car trouble

Mixed use

COMPLEXITY OF THE GRID: Efficiency | DENSIFICATION against GROWTH: Sustainability RINKABYHOLM_SÖDRA STADEN_KALMAR_SWEDEN “So that our territories are truly complex, they must accommodate varied forms of settlement, in accordance with the regions they are part. They should aim to self-sufficiency“ José Fariña

Kalmar (SE) runner-up

Konrad Basan (PL)

Poland

Ewa Odyjas (PL)

T. +48 509730214

Agnieszka Morga (PL)

contact@bomp.eu

Jakub Pudo (PL)

www.bomp.eu

architects

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Topography / Estimated sea level / “Cells” / Forests / Transportation / Buildings / Project

Bombelek Team point of view The main idea is based on spatial and social adaptation. The adaptation accommodates to existing conditions and applies know-how to partly predictable scenarios. In spatial terms, the adaptation is seen as compatible with natural conditions, including probable scenarios for change (water level rise): natural hills, existing valleys, prime waterfront; built environment, including changing social structure, a new form of habitat, a new role for communities, new intergenerational relations, new form of communication: development structure, communication and transportation network, service infrastructure.

Each aspect is specified for two areas, depending on the scope of operations. A Voronoi diagram was used as a mathematical method of spatial subdivision.

Jury point of view The proposal works with two aspects of adaptability, spatial and social. The project structures territory and communities by means of a geometrical pattern. While almost totally uniform, this pattern becomes produces unique outcomes in each of the different parts of this diverse territory. Overall, the project generates an interesting vision of how to live in a natural environment. It begins by simply marking pieces of landscape and then, through gradual appropriation, making stronger connections between the community and nature.

Neighbourhood site // Eco contour / Topography / Floodplains / Settlement types / Semi – public space

Aerial view

Kalmar (SE) runner-up

Marco Pusterla (SE)

René Andersson (SE)

co Fojab, Hallenborgs Gata 1A

Edvin Bylander (SE)

Emilie Dafgård (SE)

211 19 Malmö, Sweden

architects

Madeleine Heckler (SE)

T. +46 703642846

students in architecture

marco.pusterla@fojab.se www.kalmar-europan. blogspot.se

359 In-between landscapes Team point of view The in-between landscapes connect a new and existing development with the natural landscape. As the water level rises, the character of the landscape will change and over the next century it will gradually become a new waterfront. Three unique and strongly defined sectors are created around the landscape-park. Together with the existing neighbourhood they form a stronger relationship to Kalmar, both spatially and cognitively.

The proposal uses boundaries as the key element for negotiating relationships between private and public space. Clear boundaries between landscape/neighbourhood, blocks and plots create a framework that can allow different kind of housing typologies and individual buildings, and provide high quality public space.

Jury point of view Three new, strongly defined neighbourhoods are proposed with several intermediate landscapes amongst them. Compactness, mixed use and variability are the model for these neighbourhoods.

The new settlements connect with the “do-it‐yourself” culture and so give the area social diversity. The project works by creating permeable limits, which separate nature from city, water from earth and community from public space.

View towards Rinkabyholm

Public spaces along the landscape

Vision year 2125

Kalmar (SE) Special mention

Anders Berensson (SE)

Artillerigatan 20, 1 trp

Ulf Mejergren (SE)

11450 Stockholm, Sweden

architects

T.+46 737315821 visiondivision@gmail.com

360 Forts of fanaticism Team point of view When national psyches and borders become less interesting and important, citizens start to define their identities and sense of belonging for themselves. This has led to a Europe that can be seen as a single large country. With so many people easily able to move and communicate, a new market for people to join physical settlements has been created. Settlements created for a common passion.

These new dedicated settlements can be built anywhere in Europe, even in the far distant Kalmar region. These settlements can also be architecturally more extravagant and utopian than architecture erected to please a local crowd.

We have designed five forts where a common passion for a specific subject has been the driving force of the design.

Jury point of view The project casts a critical and cynical eye on our society and on the Europan competition, in a clever and humorous way leavened with doses of romanticism and fantasy. It could be read as a collection of laboratory tests where the conditions are taken to the limits. But the outcome of this fresh explosion is also to produce fascinating amenities and a range of collective or isolated public spaces, working with virtual relations and, indeed, hyperbolic depictions of our society.

Kalmar (SE) Special mention

Nadia Mateo Duque (ES)

Calle Oria 14

Juan Jacobo González

28002 Madrid, Spain

Muñoz (ES)

T. +34 615193932

Cristina Domínguez Lucas (ES)

munozduque@gmail.com

Fernando Hernández-Gil

www.munozduque.com

Ruano (ES)

www.lucasyhernandezgil.com

Marta García Jiménez (ES) architects

361 Kon // Kalmar Team point of view Our proposal is built on 10 strategies: 1. Increase density of uses on the boundary of the new street 2. Locate voids inside the project’s dense green area 3. Housing units inserted to minimise land use and maximise density with the construction of slender towers 4. The towers – away from the main street – are approached by reusing existing routes so there is no need to build new streets 5. Several routes intersect amongst the towers 6. Why towers? In response to the brief to minimise the impact of the proposal, the towers provide greater density with a smaller footprint 7. The towers have a wide range of dwelling types to meet the different needs of the future inhabitants 8. Compact housing means compact infrastructures and services 9. Free ground floor for gardening 10. The proposal will create an attractive seafront with an iconic landscape Jury point of view This proposal uses the typology of towers to make maximum use of the landscape through an awareness of the horizon and minimum land use. The slender high-rise buildings are located in the clearing in the woods, creating an alternative “wood” that complements the existing woodland. The towers are mix-use, but primarily dedicated to housing. At the lower level, a platform creates a sense of community within this individualistic spatial configuration. The process also includes phasing and clean and rapid construction through prefabricated sections.

1. STRATEGY: URBAN ACUPUNCTURE / 2. CONCEPT: STACK + OCCUPY A SMALL GROUND AREA + EXTRACT STAIRS / 3. ORIENTATION:STRUCTURAL «L» FACING NORTH - GLASS FACADE TO THE S/E AND S/W

Mannheim Deutschland (DE)

LOCATION Mannheim –

SITE PROPOSED BY

Stadteingang Nordost

city of Mannheim

POPULATION 330,000 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE ± 180 ha

Bundesanstalt for

SITE OF PROJECT to be defined

Immobilienaufgaben (Institute

by participants

for Federal Real Estate: BImA) on behalf of the Federal Republic of Germany, private ownership, city of Mannheim

interview of the site’s representative

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Jens Weisener, City of Mannheim, department for urban development

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Since the foundation of Mannheim as a Quadratestadt (city of squares) in the 17th century, the original seat of royal power and subsequent industrial city has always been marked by dynamic processes of change and adjustment. The city is the largest in the Rhine-Neckar metropolitan region.

It grew up on the right bank of the River Rhine at its confluence with the River Neckar, and together with Ludwigshafen on the opposite bank it today forms a powerful nucleus of the metropolitan region. Mannheim has always played a significant role due to its favourable location and economic diversity. The “Adaptable City” theme is a phenomenon that has always been of great importance in its urban development and the city is experiencing a new dimension due to the current withdrawal of US troops and facilities.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The phased closure of the US military sites up to 2015 is now an opportunity for the city council to positively influence development in strategic areas and enhance its flair as a strong European city. The North-Eastern entrance to the city is to be redeveloped and the areas along federal road B 38 are to be upgraded. Huge potential is to be seen in the development of an Engineering Mile along the B 38 between the city centre and the autobahn access at Viernheimer Kreuz. The latter will form the backbone for Mannheim’s future growth corridor. The Taylor Barracks and Benjamin Franklin Village conversion sites offer an opportunity to rethink the development corridor. The entrance to the city can be redefined and cross-links between the neighbourhoods improved.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

Uses, buildings and open space structure need to define a worthy entrance location in which the street and its accompanying elements enter into a highquality spatial symbiosis. Within the context of sustainable development, the barrier effect of the B 38 is to be reduced and networking between the individual neighbourhoods and uses improved. The objective of networking will be to create short routes and find solutions that offer new forms of mobility and promote non-motorised traffic. In this way, local challenges from the peripheral situation in the urban region and military conversion will be combined with the vision of a ‘post-car-friendly’ city. Solutions are being sought to adapt the large-scale post-war infrastructural networks to future uses and exploit the potential for integration into a generous open-space system for high-quality, sustainable urban development. The City of Mannheim will implement the results to date from competing procedures with the aid of an outline development plan that includes an overarching development and greenbelt model for the Benjamin Franklin Village/city entrance area. Concepts for urban planning areas focusing on specific themes are to be pursued in further competitions as a basis for future local development plans.

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Mannheim (DE) winner

Alessandro delli Ponti (IT)

Camille Alwan (FR)

KH studio

architect - urban planner

architect - urban planner

44, rue des Vinaigriers

Ilaria Novielli (IT)

Marc Blume (DE)

75010 – Paris, france

architect

landscape architect

T. +33 623889462

Clelia Bartolomei (IT)

Info@khstudio.org

Verdiana Spicciarelli (IT)

www.khstudio.org

students in architecture

364 Mannheim’s connection Team point of view Mannheim’s Connection is the story of a boundary (B38) growing to become a vector of urban continuity. The systemic strategy it presents unveils potential relations between previously disconnected urban areas. The new intense mixed sector alternates newly built areas with structuring green voids, giving an intense depth of field to the bi-dimensional image of B38’s entrance to Mannheim. The progressive development of a new intermodal public transport network optimizes access to the site locally while amplifying its attractiveness at regional scale. Mannheim’s connection is an open evolving story, with structuring episodes and a series of urban protagonists gradually emerging from a process that re-combines inherited urban forms, innovative mobility and enhanced landscapes.

Jury point of view Mannheim’s Connection is convincing with a design that re-formulates the entrance to the city as a space to be experienced and used. It links intelligently with the existing buildings in Benjamin Franklin Village and develops them towards the B38 road in dense, mixed-utility building clusters rhythmically alternating with green spaces on the route into the city. The project is a very sustainable conceptual contribution to the “adaptable city”. The project offers the best way to combine the local challenges of a peripheral urban situation and military conversion with the vision of a “post-car-friendly” town.

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Mannheim (DE) runner-up

Juan Socas (ES)

Miguel Martin de la Sierra (ES)

20 Place Saint-Bruno

architect

student in architecture

38000 Grenoble, France

366 Re-evolution Team point of view The project is structured around a series of open interventions designed to evolve along with the city.

The urban seeds planted will be the starting point of a slow and ramified process, the creation of a new city, with its multiple discourses, challenges and questions.

The main purpose of these seeds is to strengthen the city entrance as an area for development, bringing new opportunities to the city. The consolidation around the agricultural belt area can bring new models of industry and sustainable development, resulting in a production chain covering all sectors.

Jury point of view The project sees the future of the area on both sides of the B38 within the pressure of an open urban development process, which manages to involve as many actors as possible in place. The goal is to foster a number of planning, social and economic initiatives in such a way that these take on the role of a network and can be perceived as a joint transformation.

Mannheim (DE) Special mention

Kawahara Tatsuya (DE)

KAWAHARA KRAUSE ARCHITECTS,

Ellen Kristina Krause (DE)

Wendenstr. 45C

architects

20097 Hamburg, Germany T. +49 4021999511 mail@kawahara-krause.com www.kawahara-krause.com

367 Classic boulevard and concept of the Inverse Boulevard

Inverse boulevard Team point of view Normally a boulevard is a wide street within a dense, urban area, where buildings define a clear edge along both sides of the street. A green area between the lanes gives it a generous and characteristic appearance.

The areas on both sides of the B38 are characterized by a diffuse and open building structure with a high percentage of green. In order to retain these characteristics while at the same time creating a new representative urban entrance to Mannheim, we propose an inverse boulevard. Instead of creating a clear edge on the sides of the street, a dense and urban building structure is injected between the lanes. On both sides, the open structures and green areas keep their character and are bound to each other by the inverse boulevard.

Urban hybrid buildings with a permeable public structure

Jury point of view Inverse boulevard is a bold and refreshing project. It turns the principle of the boulevard on its head, shifting the focus of definition from the edges to the newly created middle. Everything in this project is convincing, because of its visionary urban approach to the development of the city entrance. The design is intriguing as a valuable contribution that breaks with the traditional pattern of a vehicle-oriented city and creates a very metropolitan alternative for Mannheim.

Engineers’ mile as a new urban city entrance

An urban inlay connecting areas on both sides of the street

München Deutschland (DE)

LOCATION München –

SITE PROPOSED BY

Bacherstrasse

GEWOFAG Wohnen GmbH

POPULATION 1,382,000 inhab.

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

STRATEGIC SITE urban

GEWOFAG Wohnen GmbH

surroundings SITE OF PROJECT 6.130 m2

interview

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of the site’s representative Svenja Kraus, GEWOFAG München

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy The Bavarian state capital of Munich is Germany’s second largest employment centre with about 960,000 wage earners in the metropolitan area. Today Munich is Germany’s third largest city with a population of about 1.4 million and it continues to grow against the general trend in the republic. Its population is expected to increase to over 1.5 million by 2030 at the latest. It presents Munich with the challenge of preparing and implementing foresighted city planning and infrastructural policies for sustainable urban development alongside steady growth.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The project area with the Bacherstrasse housing complex, owned by the municipal housing association GEWOFAG, lies to the south of the city centre, directly on the Mittlerer Ring and close to Chiemgaustrasse. It occupies a central location and has excellent private and public transport links. Although it makes only a small contribution to the above-named sustainable urban development, it can be understood as an example for urban infill projects within the context of sustainable urban development and long-term development of the built-up area. It is also covered by two City of Munich subsidy programmes for the redevelopment of inner city areas.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The “Living on the Ring” programme is a City of Munich municipal incentive scheme, whose purpose is to improve quality of life on the Mittlerer Ring, Munich’s main orbital road. To ensure that these well-connected, popular inner-city residential neighbourhoods are equipped for the future, an emphasis is being placed on improved quality of life. The aim is to promote innovative ideas for noise abatement, while at the same time achieving added quality of life for residents.

In addition, the “Social City” Federal & State Urban Regeneration Programme aims to prevent spatial disparities and to initiate an upward trend in the neighbourhood overall. It promotes projects that contribute to neighbourhood improvements in the following areas: accommodation, residential environment, noise abatement | public sphere and public open space | urban townscape, urban structure and traffic | centre structure and local amenities | social infrastructure, health | education and recreation | neighbourhood culture and coexistence, public participation | job market and employment.

The Bacherstrasse project is itself an active part of the “Adaptable City”. Existing neighbourhoods in Munich are being redeveloped in response to the need for more living space, giving due consideration to the existing social conditions and infrastructure. The competition task was to find solutions for handling future trends, such as changes in individual transport, by means of structural flexibility.

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München (DE) winner

Joost Hartwig (DE)

El-Lissitzky-Strasse 1,

Ingo Lenz (DE)

64287 Darmstadt, Germany

Nikola Mahal (DE)

T. +49 61511540188

Patrick Pick (DE)

info@ina-darmstadt.de

Johanna Henrich (DE)

www.ina-darmstadt.de

Isabell Passig (DE) Michael Keller (DE) Matthias Hampe (DE) architects

370 Wohnen am Ring Team point of view The proposed project explores the process of transforming Chiemgaustrasse, possibly including a couple under the ring, and seeks to separate the two main functional aspects: accommodation and noise protection. The current east-west facing structures will be extended to the south. This creates new apartments facing the gardens. The wide spaces between the buildings also allow for an additional floor above.

The noise protection comes from a temporary building designed on Chiemgaustrasse, which includes additional non-residential, noise-resistant functions and creates a facade onto the street. If noise levels fall, the board may be removed. In this case, another block of flats can fill the reduced street space of Chiemgaustrasse.

Jury point of view The design concept shows how little funding is needed to retain the quality of the existing buildings and combine them with new construction in a further development project. A multipurpose row of containers will be placed between the extension of the existing rows to provide noise abatement for the area behind it, as well as space for new uses. This generates a new identity on the Ring that arouses curiosity.

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München (DE) runner-up

Antoine Fouchier (FR)

27, rue de Valois

engineer

75001 Paris, France

Aurélien Masson (FR)

T. +33 618834274

architect – urban planner

contact@lafabriqueplurielle.fr

Rémi Nunes Vilarinho (FR)

www.lafabriqueplurielle.fr

architect

372 Preserve the orientation, insulate, densify, extend

COMBined process Team point of view The principle of densification proposed keeps the good north-south “herringbone” orientation of the existing buildings while blocking noise from the boulevard. The buildings erected on the Bacherstraße enclose the site and restore the gardens. The typology of the roadside design is adaptable to urban rhythms. It introduces a corridor into the main façade which, in the short-term, insulates the apartments from noise and gives them a courtyard exposure. In the long-term, the boulevard can be reduced to a single lane street to cut traffic. The corridor extends the building onto available new land with the addition of a network of new rooms. This typology can be transposed to help the city adapt to its own changes.

Jury point of view The proposal grapples intensely with the conceptual formulation of an “adaptable city” and delivers an interesting contribution that convinces by virtue of the proposed interweaving of residential and commercial use in the buildings on the Chiemgaustrasse, and the flexible, processlike further development and aggregation of the urban planning structures.

The process of construction and implementation focuses on acceptance by the residents of the district, by including them in the equation.

Common floor plan _ extension and flexibility

Protection, permeability and depth

BacherstraSSe view

München (DE) Special mention

Jean Scherer (FR)

Ulrike Schildbach (DE)

Amalienstr. 49a

Yannick Signani (FR)

geographer

80799 Munich, Germany

Florian Zirnheld (FR)

T. +49 15141856396

architects

yannick.signani@live.fr

Nicolas Schuster (FR)

www.issuu.com/Z3S

architect - urban planner

373 Schachbrettspiel Team point of view The addition of a row of buildings parallel to the Ring orbital road creates a quieter environment for the existing residents. The courtyards are connected to the outside by passageways as well as a permeable ground floor, housing community-oriented enterprises meant that will attract new populations and uses to a changing area.

The typological principle of the new row of houses is a response to a dual challenge: how to admit sunlight from the south while protecting from noise, and also how to offer housing types appropriate to new and constantly evolving lifestyles.

The project establishes a new link between the existing buildings and the Ring and therefore provides a solution constant with the theme of the “adaptable city”.

Jury point of view The proposal is persuasive by virtue of its rigorously organised concept for the complex situation around Mittlerer Ring, on both the urban planning and typological fronts: a row of buildings set forward towards the street creates quiet courtyards for local residents, while still connecting them to the immediate surroundings with ground floors earmarked for use by community-oriented enterprises, as well as well-placed passageways in and out.

Paris France (FR)

LOCATION Paris - North-east

SITE PROPOSED BY

area – Porte des Poissonniers

city of Paris with those

POPULATION conurbation 10

partners on the project:

millions inhab. - city 2.2 millions

borough hall, RATP, Defence

inhab. -18th arr. 200,000 inhab.

Ministry

STRATEGIC SITE 27 ha

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

SITE OF PROJECT 4 ha

Defence Ministry and city of Paris

interview of the site’s representative

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Anne Chabert, Project Manager “Paris Nord Est”, Department of Urban Planning, Paris City Hall – Excerpts

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy Located on the edge of former inner-suburban districts, the area is distinguished by large plots containing one of the main RATP (Autonomous Paris Transport Board) sites, social housing estates built in the 1960s-1970s, amenities of different kinds, in particular sports facilities, the site of a former barracks and the presence of major Parisian road and railway infrastructures. The site is part of a large, fast changing area of northern Paris, an area that is now the focus of strategic planning to maintain the development of a dense and sustainable city and to infiltrate the city of tomorrow into the city of today.

Its location makes it a strategic site, because it stands at the interface between Paris and the city’s inner suburbs, on the axis linking new centres in the Greater Paris region, between the two poles of the Gare du Nord and the Gare de l’Est stations, and the future Pleyel hub multimodal station at Saint Denis. It is a component of the big “North-East Paris” urban regeneration project, which stretches across 200 hectares of Paris, and is near Porte de la Chapelle, one of the four big gateways to the city.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

Changes of use and timeframe are big challenges for the adaptable city in a place like Paris, where there is less and less available land. Given the specificity of this site’s location, the topic of adaptability is approached from four angles: the networked and accessible city, the mixed and dense city, the city as host to nature and timescale management, i.e. treating time as a parameter in the making and liveliness of the city.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The possibilities for change in this sector must harmonise with both the metropolitan and the local scales, by fostering the establishment of an urban framework to support the development of a dense fabric that will permit the emergence of new neighbourhoods and more dynamic and diverse economic activity.

The question of timeframes will combine two approaches: - the long term of the land-use change strategy and the flexibility of its implementation; - the timescale of everyday life, of the possible pooling of new facilities, of possible spatiotemporal uses of public space.

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paris (FR) runner-up

Annelise Bideaud (FR)

MWAB Architectes Urbanistes,

architect - urban planner

115 rue Manin

Matthieu Wotling (FR)

75 019 Paris, France

architect

T +33 661924081 contact@mwab.eu www.mwab.eu

376 Green belt dilatation Team point of view Through a park and a dense cluster, the Green belt Dilatation project explores the place of nature in the city at a time of sharp change.

The reactivated Green belt and “petite ceinture” (inner suburbs) are waymarks in a green network across Grand Paris, between the focal points of Gare du Nord and the future Pleyel Station. The “fertile cluster” answers new challenges on density and durability. A layer of interconnected courtyards and gardens opens views up to the rooftops of Paris while projections emerge at the level of the surrounding towers. Autonomous in its programmatic mix and designed to accommodate rapid change, this typology could be extended to the green belt to reinforce its founding principle: 50% green, 50% dense.

Jury point of view The project proposes the creation of a large green space connected with the inner ring suburbs (named low line in reference to New York’s high line) south of boulevard Ney, in an expansive vision of green spaces on the edges of Paris. An approach that connects different scales and time horizons. The jury liked the project’s territorial approach as applied to footpaths and cycle tracks. It also appreciated the return to the greenbelt theme, which provides breathing space in the city and makes the neighbourhood part of a network.

paris (FR) runner-up

Fabian Wallmueller (AT)

Eva Radenich (AT)

Hirschengasse 2/11

Christina Kimmerle (AT)

student in landscape

1060 Vienna, Austria

architects

architecture

T. +43 6506009901

Dominik Scheuch (AT)

office@fabianwallmueller.net

landscape architect

www.fabianwallmueller.net www.coarch.org www.yewo.at

377 In transition – A local metropolis Team point of view The site, characterized by heterogeneous zones, has generated a project that can adapt in time and scale to different conditions.

New process-related developments will be implemented, ranging from short-term, informal interventions to a long-term urbanism based on a combination of small and large scale buildings. Small scale buildings establish a vibrant permeable ground floor, 100% public and equipped with multiple functions and urban spaces adapted to human scale. This ground floor can integrate existing structures and establishes a common ground for high-rise buildings, being visible from a distance and offering great views over the Parisian cityscape. The simultaneity of small and big, local and metropolitan scale, will create a unique vision of a contemporary city.

Jury point of view The project establishes a relevant strategy that is developed on all spatial and temporal scales right through to architectural expression. The jury liked the forward-looking character of the proposal, which offers distinctive ideas on the tower as an architectural type. In fact, the project establishes a “granular” urban system which goes further than the logic of objects or blocks. The jury also stressed the quality of the typologies developed and the vertical richness of the programme, which gives real quality of use.

paris (FR) runner-up

Julia Tournaire (FR)

63 rue Servan

Marie-Charlotte Dalin (FR)

75011 Paris, France

architects

T. + 33 676767280 / +33 646024965 a.collectiveunit@gmail.com

378 Collective units or ordinaries monuments of cohabitation

Collective unit Team point of view The adaptable city is a city of choice. It is a city whose urban characteristics offer a lasting seedbed for the contemporary practices of its inhabitants and that can embody their shared desires.

Experienced by poly-topian individuals, in places of multiple functions, it puts the individual (single, nomad, self-employed) in direct, non-hierarchical, unmediated contact with the wider territory. Collective unit is a new infrastructure established within Paris’s ‘collective strip’. It is a new type of collective facility, a place where these independent individual units coexist and accumulate, able to choose their temporary collaborations amongst themselves as well as with the whole territory.

Collective unit Porte des Poissonniers and its 190 cells

Individual cells and self-organization infrastructures

The Parisian collective strip, clarified and enhanced

Jury point of view The proposal interprets the study zone as a set of disparate and autonomous elements linked by a public space largely made up of vegetation. The architectural proposal concentrates on a prototype “cohabitation monument” aimed at the city’s temporary inhabitants. This proposal is a powerful interpretation of metropolitan life, whose impermanent character could even develop into an aesthetic. The jury appreciated the questions the project asked about metropolitan nomadism and new forms of inhabiting.

Venezia Italia (it)

LOCATION Venezia – Mestre

SITE PROPOSED BY

station area

Municipality of Venezia and

POPULATION city 269,331 inhab.

FS Sistemi Urbani srl

Mestre conurbation

OWNER(S) OF THE SITE

181,718 inhab.

Rete Ferroviaria Italiana SpA

STRATEGIC SITE ± 300 ha

(RFI), FS Sistemi Urbani (FSSU),

SITE OF PROJECT 6.50 ha + 2 ha

Favretti Srl, city of Venetia

+ 0.6 ha

interview

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of the site’s representative Andrea Ferrazzi, Town Planning Councillor, Venezia

Presentation of the site within the context of the city development and in terms of strategy The site, covering the areas near Mestre Station, focuses on the theme of urban renewal and the need for a dialogue with the urban fabric through infrastructure nodes. The station area is a major intermodal hub, soon to receive the graft of the new tramline, which will connect Mestre with Marghera.

Under the previous Venice City Council, the “Ferrovie dello Stato” Company prepared and submitted for approval the “Accordo di Programma” (program agreement) for the re-use of public property adjacent to Mestre railway station. The current Municipality, in consultation with FS, intended to use the Europan competition to review this project, part of which had proved unfeasible.

How can the site be integrated in the issue of the adaptable city and how do you consider this issue?

The main goal for all three areas is to give them a new identity. For the station, this means introducing urban functions for populations other than travellers.

The objective for the former goods yard is urban regeneration, involving the removal of the previous functions, the expansion of Piraghetto urban park and the creation of a residential neighbourhood with internal mobility including pedestrian and cycle paths. The focus of the third area is social deprivation, which affects all zones around the station. The aim is to make it adaptable to temporary uses, including a market. For the station area, the aim again is regeneration, e.g. the “improvement” of the existing fabric. For the former goods yard, the regeneration process entails a “transformation” of the existing fabric, even the introduction of new objects and functions.

At the time of sustainable development coupled to an economic crisis, have you already defined a specific strategy for the urban development of the site?

The young designers had to tackle certain elements already present in the areas, notably in the station area, such as the ex-Poste building, the multistorey car park and the bike-park. The project could therefore be implemented in phases.

The Europan competition provided a major platform for discussion between different stakeholders about the regeneration of the areas. The rich range of proposals will provide a framework for a new Accordo di Programma (program agreement) that will define the operating process in the area.

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Venezia (it) runner-up

Andrés Holguín (CO/IT)

Via delle Industrie 25/2

Alessandro Deana (IT)

30175 Marghera, Italy

Elena Barbiero (IT)

T. +38 041.2410255

architects

mail@studioglass.it

Gilda Lombardi (IT) sociologist

382 Urban grafts Team point of view The project proposes urban growth and development with little land use, through the recycling of obsolete structures and the insertion of new architecture capable of creating new life cycles.

The submission is divided into two parts: the first responds to the municipality’s existing requirements, while the second offers further building capacity when demand in the real estate market calls for it.

In recent years, urban densification has come through the use of empty urban remnants and obsolete structures with the potential for regeneration. This kind of development initiates a new process of sustainable urban growth.

Acting on the existing city is a way to restore spatial continuity by strengthening the urban fabric, to introduce new uses which satisfy the needs of the community, and to bring in new housing types and destinations by increasing the social and functional mix and economic value of properties.

Jury point of view The project defines the edge of the station in a less restricted way. It recognises the need for different approaches to different areas of the project. The philosophy is simple and persuasive as it works on the idea of the value of urban voids, which become an opportunity for the sustainable conversion of existing fabric. It is interesting in its identification of two project phases to take account of the city’s current and future development needs.

Venezia (it) runner-up

Francesco Messina (IT)

Giorgia Di Giorgi (IT)

BODAR_Bottega d’architettura,

Daria Caruso (IT)

student in architecture

Via A. Martino N. 29

Rosario Andrea Cristelli (IT)

98123 Messina, Italy

Francesco Fragale (IT)

T. +39 090771437

Giuseppe Messina (IT)

info@bodar.it

Anna De Marco (IT)

www.bodar.it

Francesca Mazzone (IT) architects

383 The territorial threshold Team point of view The proposal for Venice has a structuring function, needed to re-establish those parts of the city destructured by the presence of the railroad. A “wall” formed by residential buildings follows the railway track offering a clear view of different levels of urban fabric and public space. The planning strategy has to give form and identity to the edges of the city and “mend” them to describe the limit towards Marghera and the railway, turning it into a crossable border. The strategy must also become a driving force for the city and trigger new and different urban dynamics needed to enhance intermodality in the whole area. The project is a fundamental infrastructure in terms of both size and management, governing urban entities that differ in consistency and nature.

Jury point of view The project proposes a short, clear and unified urban settlement, with the capacity to communicate with the rest of the city. Also interesting is the two-level definition for the square constructed in the filter-building that turns towards the railway, in the former goods yard. This acquires an urban relationship similar to that of the most significant parts of the city such as Piazza Ferretto.

The city’s edge become a crossable border

The hall of the Station with different level of circulation

Project as infrastructure in terms of size and management

The double level square in the former goods yard area

Venezia (it) runner-up

Gregorio Indelicato (IT)

Sciacca, Italy

Mario Cottone (IT)

www.cottoneindelicato.com

Chiara Gugliotta (IT) architects

384 Percorsi per riqualificare

View from Piraghetto Park towards the new residential area

Team point of view The building of the new station and its environs becomes a fulcrum for the enhancement of Mestre’s tourist and general economy. A horizontal parallelepiped, whose linearity is interrupted by tree-lined patios which, at different levels, break the volume in correspondence with the main roads leading to the old city centre and the underpass connecting to Marghera. The internal path, punctuated with double-height spaces, is animated and even dynamism by the filtered light from the system of perforated panels. The nearby former goods yard area is absorbed into a big park, an extension of the Piraghetto, where the route of the old tracks produces the system of pedestrian and cycle ways which, running alongside the residential buildings, form wide tree-lined spaces.

Jury point of view The project seeks to achieve a linear continuity of interventions in two main areas. It respects the relations with the surroundings through alignment with the existing heights. Also the long-volume “unifier” is interrupted appropriately to match the most important roads.

In general, the project project’s unified architecture reflects a desire to repair the various interventions in place.

The station with the cantilever of the restaurant above the main entrance

Plan of the blocks with pathways coming from the old tracks layout

Ground floor plan and section of the Mestre railway station

Venezia (it) special mention

Matteo Fraschini (IT)

Camilla Fasoli (IT)

architect

Fiorella Nataly Medina

www.matteofraschini.com

Zambrano (PE) Elisa Riviera (IT) students in architecture

385 Match boxes Team point of view The first aim of the project is to reconnect the urban fabrics of Mestre and Marghera, by superimposing a pattern of different scaled elements (Match boxes) that give this urban landscape a new, unified system of references.

The backbone of the project lies along the railway line, serving as an interface between the two urban systems, reconnecting the break defined by the railroad; it acts as a porous threshold in both directions through the inclusion of a continuous and repeatable front. Its basic modules, connected together by a green track, create a motif clearly identifiable within the mesh of the city, helping to highlight the continuity of the intervention (public spaces, residential areas, station) as a unit rooted in the urban fabric..

Jury point of view The project’s originality is the repetition of two basic modules, which are rotated and combined in different forms depending on their function. These modules create a clearly identifiable design becomes a unifying and integrated feature of the urban fabric.

Venezia (it) special mention

Bianca Montorselli (IT)

Via dei Redattori, 81

Flaminia Liberati (IT)

00128 Roma, Italy

Daniele Carfagna (IT)

T. +39 3287134003

Gaia Rengo (IT)

bianca.montorselli@yahoo.it

Walter Iafrate (IT) Stefano Bigiotti (IT) Eride Caramia (IT) Leonardo Loy (IT) architects

386 Section of the Railway Station (offices area)

Urban channels

Aerial view

Concept about different ways to use time and space

Residences housing

The channel of the Railway Station

Team point of view The themes of the adaptable city and urban rhythm are applied in relation to space and time.

The rhythm of space: inserting urban rhythms means ’composing spatial sequences. The three projects seek to establish emerging new elements in the city in order to provide reference points that measure urban distances.

The rhythm of time: walking through city spaces also means establishing a temporal relationship with them. The project explores the time of use and the speed of experience to make the project fit in with different experiential timeframes. In a larger-scale future scenario, the projects will become nodes in a continuous system characterized by the interweaving of an urban corridor and a green corridor.

Jury point of view The project respects the programme brief but introduces an interesting exception by connecting the station block with the garden. An interesting compositional principle is the railway station as a long, light channel with embedded services. The longitudinal form is interrupted by the multilevel approach and the use of transparent communicating objects.

Venezia (it) Special mention

José María Sánchez García

Mariló Sánchez García (ES)

Princesa 27, 15-3

(ES)

Ignacio Hornillos (ES)

28008 Madrid, Spain

architect

architects

T. +34 915231885

Enrique García Margallo (ES)

estudio@jmsg.es

Francisco Sánchez García

www.jmsg.es

engineers-architects Alicia Regodón Puyalto (ES) Chiara Oggioni (IT) Eva Klenk (DE) Cristina Terán Sanjuán (ES) Alba González Jiménez (ES) Elena Núñez Segura (ES) Jaime Martín Rivera (ES) Paloma Diez Vallejo (ES) José Angel Ramos Navarro (ES) Fernando Escamilla (ES) students in architecture

Sewing threads Team point of view The dominant character of the project is maximum respect for the environment: the final project was based around three main ideas: To consider the project area as a waymark or an alternative entry point to the city of Venice; To respect the historical character of the railway; And to identify the connection between Mestre and Marghera, divided by the railway, the project’s protagonist.

On the old rail routes we have chosen to avoid physical and visual barriers, by elevating the project relative to the ground and minimizing the points of contact with the earth, without changing these routes. In addition, with the reuse of these lines and with our structure’s covering material, we intend to maintain the station’s historical identity with the city. The building is perceived as if it were a train.

Jury point of view The project offers a peremptory framework and its urban layout is strong and recognizable. It offers an open view and innovative proposals confirmed by the architectural and urban design.

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Venezia (it) Special mention

Alessandro C. Console (IT)

Piazza Verbano 22

Gina Oliva (IT)

00199 RomA, Italy

architects

T. +39 0698186825 studio@console-oliva.com www.console-oliva.com

388 A: the precinct; B: the wood; C: the trench

The anatomy lesson Team point of view The anatomy lesson is an effort to start rethinking the form of the city. In previous years contemporary architecture approached the city from its image.

The solution to urban problems was often handed over to the image, in the belief that make-up could hide wounds that actually need surgery. So we propose to build not the image but the form of the city of Mestre.

We carry out an anatomical dissection of the body of the city, a deconstruction to reveal hidden traces. The result is a map stripped of the disconnected parts of the city which, because of their generic character, have buried the urban form. It is a diachronic map showing only the fundamental elements: the organs of the city as a new starting point from which to generate the form.

The map shows us a Mestre in-attesa.

The map of Mestre in-attesa

The plan of the housing/precinct

Jury point of view The project offers a peremptory framework and its urban layout is strong and recognizable. It offers an open view and innovative proposals confirmed by the architectural and urban design.

The axonometric section of the railway station

INDEX

391 Europan 12, is: 51 sites 16 countries 14 national juries 170 winning teams: 43 winners 63 runners-up 64 special mentions

JURIES

392 Belgique/België/Belgien

DANMARK

DEUTSCHLAND – POLSKA (ASSOCIated)

Urban/architectural order

Urban/architectural order

Urban/architectural order

Martine RIDIAUX (BE), Architect, Direction of operational planning of Wallonia Benoit DISPA (BE), Mayor of the town of Gembloux

Ulrik WINGE (DK), Civil Engineer and Master of Public Administration, Head of City and Enviroment Departement in the Municipality of Frederiksberg Stephen WILLACY (DK/UK), Architect, City Architect of the municipality of Aarhus

Karin SANDECK (DE), Architect, Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior Munich

Urban/architectural design Alain CASARI (FR), Architect, urban planner, Nancy-Metz-Paris Alberto MOTTOLA (IT), Architect, DEMOGO, winner Europan 10, Treviso Luc HERZE (BE)‚ Ing-architect, President of ARALg, Europan 1 Winner, Liège Jean-Michel DEGRAEVE (BE), Architect, Habitat-Concept, Europan Belgique V-P

Public figure Jan KETELAER (BE), Architect, former President of National council of Order and of Royal Federation of Architect of Belgium

Urban/architectural design Jan CHRISTIANSEN (DK), Architect, Associate Professor and Researcher, The Royal School of Architecture, Copenhagen and project consultant at the state-owned company Freja Ejendomme Ole SCHRØDER (DK), Architect, partner in the architectural firm Tredje Natur and winner of Europan 11 Freek PERSYN (BE), Architect, partner in the architectural firm 51N4E Anders MELSOM (NO), Architect, owner of the architectural firm Melsom Arkitektur

Public figure Morten STRAEDE (DK), Sculptor

Urban/architectural design Hilde LéON (DE), Architect, LéonWohlhageWernik, Professor for architectural design at Leibniz University Hannover, Berlin Klaus OVERMEYER (DE), Landscape Architect, owner of the firm urban catalyst, Professor for Landscape Architecture at BU Wuppertal, Berlin Florian FISCHER (DE), Architect, Professor for architectural design at Ohm-Hochschule Nürnberg, Munich Julio DE LA FUENTE (ES), Architect, partner of the architectural firm gutiérrez-delafuente arquitectos, Europan 9 winner in Selb, Madrid Rolo FÜTTERER (DE), Architect, Kaiserslautern

Public figure Kristiaan BORRET (BE), Architect, Urban Planner, Bouwmeester of Antwerp and Professor urban design at Ghent University, Ghent

Representative europan Polska One representative of Europan Polska joins the German jury to evaluate the projects submitted on the Polish site: Jakub SZCZESNY (PL), Architect, Warszawa

393 ESPAÑA

France

Italia

Urban/architectural order

Urban/architectural order

Urban/architectural order

Sebastià JORNET (ES), Architect, urban planner, Barcelona Victoria ACEBO (ES), Architect, Madrid

Jean-Marc OFFNER (FR), Director of Agence d’Urbanisme Bordeaux Métropole Aquitaine, a’urba Serge CONTAT (FR), General Director of RIVP (Régie Immobilière Ville de Paris)

Patrizia GABELLINI (IT), Architect, professor, urban councillor at Municipality of Bologna

Urban/architectural design

Rodolphe LUSCHER (CH), Architect, president of Europan Suisse, Lausanne Alfonso PORRELLO (IT), Architect, professor at the University of Palermo - Industrial Design Department, former president of Europan Italia, Palermo Franco PURINI (IT), Architect, essayst and professor, Roma Juan Manuel PALERM SALAZAR (ES), Landscape architect, professor of architectural design at the School of Architecture of Las Palmas, Santa Cruz di Tenerife Lapo RUFFI (IT), Architect, Europan 10 winner in Montreux, Pistoia Valeria SASSANELLI (IT), Architect, runner up Europan 6 in Frascati, Roma

Urban/architectural design Joao Luis CARRILHO DA GRAÇA (PT), Architect, Lisboa Víctor NAVARRO (ES), Architect, Madrid Christophe HUTIN (FR), Architect, Bordeaux Clara MURADO (ES), Architect, former winner EUROPAN, Madrid

Public figure Fredy MASSAD (ES/ARG), Architect, journalist

Tania CONCKO (NL), Architect and urban designer, Amsterdam Brigitte MÉTRA (FR), Architect, METRA&ASSOCIATES, Paris João NUNES (PT), Landscaper, PROAP, Lisbon Pascal ROLLET (FR), Architect, Lipsky&Rollet Architects, Paris

Public figure Bertrand-Pierre GALEY (FR), Architecture Director, Ministry of culture and communication, president of the jury

Substitutes Nicolas REYMOND (FR), Architect & urban designer, atelier Nicolas Reymond, Paris Marion VACONSIN (FR), Architect, landscaper, Bouriette&Vaconsin architecture urbanism landscape design society, Bordeaux

Urban/architectural design

JURies

394 Österreich – Magyarország – Kosovo NEDERLAND

Norge

(ASSOCIated)

Urban/architectural order

Urban/architectural order

Urban/architectural order

Marc-Jan AHNE (NL), mayor of the municipality of Ommen Josja VAN DER VEER (NL), director FCO of the VU (university), Amsterdam

Christer LARSSON (SE), Director of Planning, Malmö

Jürg DEGEN (CH), Head of department of urban development, Basel Elisabeth MERK (DE), Head of department of urban development, Munich

Urban/architectural design Juliette BEKKERING (NL), architect Bekkering Adams architecten Rotterdam, Professors in Architecture at TU/e Julian LEWIS (UK),architect, director East architecture, landscape, urban design, London Ton SCHAAP (NL), urban planner of the municipality of Amsterdam Jean-Jacques TERRIN (FR), architect and urban planner, professor, Paris

Public figure Patrick VAN DER KLOOSTER (NL), director Architectuurcentrum Rotterdam (AIR)

Substitutes Harry ABELS (NL), architect, director IAA architecten, Enschede & Amsterdam Sara REICHWEIN (DE), architect and urban planner, Stuttgart

Urban/architectural design Eelco HOOFTMANN (NL), Landscape Architect, Gross. Max. Beatriz RAMO (ES), Architect, STAR Strategies + Architecture, Special mention Europan 11 Gro BONESMO (NO), Architect, Space Group Jens KVORNING (DK), Director/Professor, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen Juan ELVIRA (ES), Architect, Murado Elvira, winner Europan 9 Sabine MÜLLER (DE), Architect, SMAQ, winner Europan 9

Urban/architectural design Markus PERNTHALER (AT), Architect, Graz/Vienna Christoph LUCHSINGER (CH), Architect, Professor at the TU Vienna, Luzern-Vienna Henri BAVA (FR), Landscape architect, Professor at the TU Karlsruhe, Paris-Karlsruhe Marcel SMETS (BE), Architect, Professor at the KU Leuven, Chairman of IVM Paris

Public figure Michelle PROVOOST (NL), Architectural Historian, Crimson Architectural Historians, Director of the International New Town Institute (INTI) in Almere

Representative Europan Magyarország One representative of Europan Magyarország joins the Austrian jury to evaluate the projects submitted on the Hungarian site: Peter Istvan BALOGH (HU), Landscape Architect, Phd., Associate Professor at Corvinus University, Budapest

Representative Europan Kosovo One representative of Europan Kosovo joins the Austrian jury to evaluate the projects submitted on the Kosovar site: Lulzim KABASHI (HR), Architect, Zagreb

Substitutes Lisa SCHMIDT-COLINET (DE), Architect, Vienna Alexander SCHMOEGER (DE), Architect, Vienna

395 Portugal

Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra

Suomi-Finland

Urban/architectural order

Urban/architectural order

Urban/architectural order

Nuno PORTAS (PT), Emerit Professor in O’Porto University, Architect and Urban Planner with major influence in Urban Policies theory and practice in Portugal, Spain, Brazil Robert STÜSSI (CH), Urban and regional planner and advisor of governments and cities specialized in transport policy and planning for sustainable mobility

Paul RAMBERT (CH), EPFZ architect, Immopoly Sàrl, Lausanne Sofie TROCH (BE), Project leader, Vlaams Bouwmeester, Brussels

Timo HINTSANEN (FI), Architect SAFA, Director of City Planning, Turku Juha JÄÄSKELÄINEN (FI), Architect SAFA, Building Permission Architect, Vaasa

Urban/architectural design

Urban/architectural design

Pierre-Alain DUPRAZ (CH), ETS/FAS architect, Geneva Daniele MARQUES (CH), ETHZ architect, Marques AG, Lucern Léonard VEREST (CH), Urban Planner, Malnati & Verest Sàrl Urban Planning Firm, Carouge Cristina WOODS (CH), Architect, Verzone Woods Architects, Landscape architects, Urban Planners, Rougemont

Hennu KJISIK (FI), Architect SAFA, Professor of Town Planning, University of Oulu Sanna MERILÄINEN (FI), Architect SAFA, Europan 10 Winner in Järvenpää Karolina KEYZER (SE), Architect SAR/MSA, City Architect of Stockholm Leif BRODERSEN (SE), Architect SAR/MSA, Owner of A1 Arkitekter AB, former Head of KTH School of Architecture in Stockholm

Urban/architectural design Diego JIMENEZ LOPES (ES), Architect, winner of Europan 7 competition in Évora, Practice office in Granada and teacher at Malaga Architecture School Samuel TORRES DE CARVALHO (PT), Architect practicing and teaching in Madrid, winner of several Europan competitions, Lisbon practice office Francisco AIRES MATEUS (PT), Architect in Lisbon (also with his brother Manuel), teacher at Autónoma University and visiting at Harvard, Oslo, Mendrízio Ana FRANCO LEMOS (PT), Landscape architect by Évora University, teacher at art school in Caldas da Rainha

Public figure Nuno GRANDE (PT), PhD in architecture, O’Porto Faculty and teaching in Coimbra University, Architectural critic and curator of exhibitions and events

Public figure Prof. Robert PROST (FR), ENSAM Engineer, Architect DESA, Paris

Substitutes Alberto FIGUCCIO (CH), AAM OTIA architect, fil rouge architecture M. Aouabed & A. Figuccio, Winner E10 + E11, Geneva Juerg CAPOL (CH), Acquisition manager, Solvalor fund management SA, Investment Advisor to mutual funds, Lausanne

Public figure Pentti ARAJÄRVI (FI), Professor of Social Law, University of Helsinki, President of the Finnish Association for Mental Health

JURies

396 Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera/Svizra Sverige

DEUTSCHLAND (transborder site)

Urban/architectural order

The German and Swiss juries delegated some of their members to evaluate the projects on the shared site of KREUZLINGEN (CH) / KONSTANZ (DE); the composition of this specific jury is as below:

Per Fredrik VON PLATEN (SE), City planning Director, Landskrona Anders SVENSSON (SE), Plan architect, Gothenburg Municipality

Urban/architectural design Martin REIN-CANO (DE), Engineer Landscape Architect, Topotek, Berlin Katarina GRUNDSELL (SE), Architect, Marge Arkitekter AB, Stockholm Elin OLSSON (SE), Landscape Architect, (nod)C-O-M-B-I-N-E, Stockholm Martin NORDAHL (SE), Architect, Okidoki Arkitekter

Public figure Maria Auxiliadora GÁLVEZ PÉREZ (ES), Architect, Gálvez + Wieczorek arquitectura, Teacher, Madrid

Substitutes Ebba HALLIN (SE), Architect, former Europan winner Pelle BACKMAN (SE), Architect, former Europan winner

Urban/architectural order Paul RAMBERT (CH), EPFZ Architect, Immopoly Sarl, Lausanne Karin SANDECK (DE), Architect, Bavarian State Ministry of the Interior, Munich

Urban/architectural design Raoul BUNSCHOTEN (NL), Urban Planner, Professor at CHORA city &energy, Berlin Juerg CAPOL (CH), Acquisition manager, Solvalor fund management SA, Investment Advisor to mutual funds, Lausanne Claudia MEIXNER (DE), Architect, Partner of the architectural firm Meixner Schlüter Wendt, Frankfurt Léonard VEREST (CH), Urban Planner, Malnati & Verest Sàrl Urban Planning Firm, Carouge

Public figure Aglaée DEGROS (NL), Architect, Visiting Professor Faculty of Architecture TU Vienna, Rotterdam

Substitutes Sabine MÜLLER (DE), Architect, Partner of the architectural firm SMAQ, Berlin

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credits

400 Europan 12 results This book is published in the context of the twelfth session of Europan

Head of publication Didier Rebois, Secretary General of Europan Editorial secretary Françoise Bonnat, Responsible of Europan publications Authors Carlos Arroyo, architect, urban planner, teacher, Madrid (ES) Aglaée Degros, architect, Artgineering in Rotterdam (NL), teacher in Vienna (AT) Didier Rebois, architect, teacher at ENSAPLV, Europan Europe General Secretary, Paris (FR) Socrates Stratis, Dr. architect, urban planner, AA & U For Architecture, Art and Urbanism, teacher, Nicosia (CY) Chris Younès, philosopher, anthropologist, director of the research laboratory gerphau, teacher at the ENSAPLV and ESA schools of architecture in Paris (FR) English translation John Crisp Graphic design and layout General Design Maroussia Jannelle Printing UAB Balto print (Vilnius, Lithuania) Edited by Europan Europe La Grande Arche, Pilier Sud 92055 Paris La Défense Cedex France www.europan-europe.EU

ISBN n° 978-2-914296-27-4 Legally registered Third quarter 2014