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Living Cities /1 Europan 16 results The Europan 16 results catalogue presents at the European scale the 127 prize-winning projects in 40 cities from 9 participating countries, taking into account the theme of the session Living Cities.

The projects of 40 winners, 41 runners-up and 46 special mentions are classified into 3 main thematic families: 1. REVITALIZATION Reinforcing Biodiversity Transforming from the Infrastructures Making Territories Performative 2. RECOVERY Intensifying Districts Stimulating Interfaces Dynamizing Landscapes 3. CARE Valorizing Natural Elements and Landscapes Dealing with New Uses Reinventing Rurality and Productive Heritage Each of these three themes —Revitalization, Recovery, Care— is introduced by three points of view of experts putting into perspective a selection of projects in relation to the corresponding topic.

Each site is presented by an interview of the representative.

Each project is presented through images, a text of the team and the point of view of the jury (for the winners and runners-up).

Preface

The 16th session of the Europan competition took place in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic; the context did not prevent the competition from taking place, although with some consequences.

First of all, the European cities only proposed 40 sites in the 9 countries that were able to participate. And the sites were proposed under a theme that was also partly related to the health crisis: Living Cities, Metabolic Vitalities — Inclusive Vitalities.

The question asked to the competitors was: “In the conditions of the Anthropocene —a new bio-geological period in which human activities on the global scale have a destructive impact on life on earth— how to face climate change and inequalities? How to imagine other possibilities to inhabit Planet Earth?”

This theme focuses on Living Cities as a paradigm in which new synergies can be considered between the environmental, biological, social, economic, cultural and political dimensions of inhabited environments. This paradigm has led the participating teams to think of space in terms of coevolution and interactions, and to work with regenerative project dynamics, combining metabolic vitality (considering natural cycles and the cycle of the circular economy) and inclusive vitality (promoting territorial justice articulating social with ecological aspects).

9 national juries (Austria, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland) analysed and assessed the 677 submitted projects. The juries met in two sessions during the second half of 2021.The first meeting allowed them to exchange with the site representatives to better understand their expectations and to shortlist the most interesting ideas, representing between 25 and 30% of the submitted projects.The second meeting resulted in the selection of the winning projects and the awarding of the prizes: 40 Winning projects receiving €12,000; 41 Runner-Up projects receiving €6,000; and 46 projects receiving a Special Mention.

Complex and dynamic configurations of the regenerative capacities of living environments are revealed through the rewarded projects, leading to the creation of new ecologies that go beyond the opposition between nature and culture, and anthropocentrism. In the Europan 16 projects various recurring themes make it possible to reconnect with both what is inherited and what is already there, based on the coexistence between human and non-human actors, on living with nature, on transmission and creation, on the reinstatement of scales of proximity and continuity, on common ground through the mobilisation of stakeholders and on the start of a second life for the inhabited environments.

The 127 projects presented in this catalogue are divided into 9 thematic site families.

Articles by European experts —some of whom participated in the juries— compare the projects and highlight their connections with the themes. These are innovative ideas, new ways of thinking and designing by articulating the scales of the territory and of architecture. But most of them are process-projects proposing operating modes for implementations over time.

Let us hope that the local actors can grasp these ideas embodied in environments to regenerate and accompanied by “user manuals”, and implement them in the post-­ competition phase, that is: the implementation phase.

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Table of Contents 1

Preface

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Europan 16 Map of sites

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Results

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Renaissances Introduction article

by Didier Rebois (FR), architect, teacher and Secretaty General of Europan + Chris Younès (FR), anthro-philosopher, researcher and professor

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1. REVITALIZATION

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Transforming Urban Ecologies Miriam García García (ES), PhD in architecture, landscape architect and urban designer

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Blurred Infrastructure Aglaée Degros (BE), architect, teacher and director of the Institute of Urban Planning at Graz University of Technology Activating Territories as Actors of the Project Carlos Arroyo Zapatero (ES), architect, urbanist, linguist and teacher

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Theme 1 — A Reinforcing Biodiversity

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Bitonto (IT) Winner – Learning from the Lama Runner-up – An Atlas of Rituals Special mention – Along the Green River Special mention – DOP Diffuse Olive Park

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Madrid (ES) Winner – More-Than-Farming Madrid Special mention – Greenmad Special mention – Loose Parts

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Namur (BE) Winner – A Non-binary Ecology Runner-up – Le sol, le roseau et le cycliste

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Västerås (SE) Winner – Vitality!

Runner-up – Landscapes of Encounters Special mention – Making Space Special mention – NY VÄG! Move around

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Theme 1 — B Transforming from the infrastructures Klagenfurt (AT) Winner – 5 Squares of New Learning Runner-up – Tracing Domains La Porte du Hainaut (FR) Winner – Short Stories from the Fragmented City Runner-up – L’école-village Runner-up – Eco-hub Raismes Risøy (NO) Winner – Ripples in the Water Winner – The Third Space Special mention – Life in All its Settings Special mention – Sleeping Beauty Special mention – Ri-Torn Varberg (SE) Winner – Make the Backs Fronts (Again)!

Runner-up – Trädlycke, a New Centre Special mention – Lifeline

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Theme 1 — C Making Territories Performative

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Alzira (ES) Winner – Orangerie Special mention – Breezeblocks

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Bassens / Bordeaux Métropole (FR) Winner – Symbiotic BOOM! Runner-up – River (S)trips Special mention – Garonne Metropole

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Douaisis Agglo (FR) Winner – The Bet of the Living Runner-up – Don’t Wait for the Metropole Special mention – Breeding Ground Fagerstrand (NO) Winner – Living City, Living Sea Runner-up – Once Upon a Time in Forestrand Special mention – Equalines Special mention – Fagerstrand Intertwined Special mention – Hygge Wernigerode (DE) Winner – Duet Runner-up – Domestic Machines Runner-up – United Gardens of Wernigerode

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2. RECOVERY

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The Exciting Discovery of the Already There Bernd Vlay (AT), Architect and teacher

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The Fertile Ground of Public Spaces Céline Bodart (BE), PhD in architecture, researcher and professor, Paris (FR)

100 Frames of Interdependency “…an environment in the process to be reinvented” Julio de la Fuente (ES), Architect and urban planner

104 Theme 2 — A Intensifying Districts 106 Almendralejo (ES) 107 Winner – La increíble historia del temporero que encontró en Almendralejo su hogar 108 Runner-up – Contemporary Primitivism 109 Special mention – Social Scaffolding Special mention – Oraș echilibrat 110 Barcelona (ES) 111 Winner – Industrial Re-Evolution 112 Runner-up – El Tablero de l’Estadella 113 Special mention – Liminal City Special mention – The SEED of a living INDUSTRY 114 Biel/Bienne (CH) 115 Winner – My House 116 Winner – The City As a Living Organism 118 119 120 121

Levanger (NO) Winner – Hello, Woods!

Runner-up – Seednergies Special mention – Building Up on Values Special mention – Kultur-hub-set!

122 Special mention – LS* Levanger — Linking Squares Special mention – Reveal/Relink/ Rebuild 124 Linz (AT) 125 Winner – Bio-based Idiolect

126 Theme 2 — B Stimulating Interfaces 128 129 130 131

Aulnat (FR) Runner-up – Aulnat centripète Runner-up – Vi(e)abiliser Special mention – Cardo

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Graz (AT) Runner-up – Free Mühlgang Runner-up – Post-Shopping Runner-up – Urban Solutions Superstructure

136 Quimper (FR) 137 Runner-up – La place Roz 138 Special mention – Dour, Koad, Kêr Special mention – Terre Glaz 140 141 142 143

Roquetas de Mar (ES) Winner – Costa Plástica Runner-up – Second Life Special mention – Open Horizons

144 Selb (DE) 145 Winner – Selb Step by Step

146 Theme 2 — C Dynamizing Landscapes 148 149 150 151

Grenoble (FR) Winner – LABO RABO Runner-up – The Urban Refuge Special mention – Arc des Vivants

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Pont-Aven (FR) Winner – Beatmatching Winner – Magnétisme Salin Runner-up – Invisibility of the Visible

156 Schwäbisch Gmünd (DE) 157 Winner – Viriditas ante portas 158 Runner-up – Gmünder Talfinger & the Rems Valley Metropolis 159 Special mention – RISE

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3. CARE

162 Caring for…? Towards a Territorial Geographic Repair Approach Socrates Stratis (CY), PhD in architecture, urbanist and associate professor 166 Back to Life!

Nicolás Martínez Rueda (ES), Architect 170 Caring for Our Milieus: Which “Shifts” to Take Now? Dimitri Szuter (FR), Architect, researcher, dancer and performer

174 Theme 3 — A Valorizing Natural Elements and Landscapes

216 Theme 3 — C Reinventing Rurality and Productive Heritage

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218 Aalst (BE) 219 Winner – A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall 220 Runner-up – Living Heritage

Carouge (CH) Winner – Gold Line Runner-up – Cultivating Synergies Runner-up – Regenerating Carouge Grounds

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Hjertelia (NO) Winner – Building the Ecotone Runner-up – Growing a Community Special mention – Back to Nature Special mention – født i skogen 184 Special mention – Middle Earth Special mention – Self Nurturing City 186 187 188 189

Karlskoga (SE) Winner – Embrace Karlskoga Runner-up – At the Edge of Town Special mention – K_BTW

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Niort (FR) Winner – Niort, Port Terrestre Winner – Mutual Valleys Runner-up – Des jumelles, du fil et un panier : danser au bord de Niort

194 Theme 3 — B Dealing with New Uses 196 Brussels (BE) 197 Winner – Architecture Centre for Regenerative Materials 198 Runner-up – Grow 4 Brussels 199 Special mention – Jardin de repos 200 201 202 203

Istres (FR) Runner-up – Devising the Milieu Runner-up – Eco(Re)START Special mention – From Collagesystems to Ecosystem

204 Landshut (DE) 205 Winner – Archive of European Culture 206 Special mention – Medieval Experimentarium 208 Limoges (FR) 209 Runner-up – Les petits ventres-villes 210 Runner-up – The Cure: Anatomy and Regeneration of a Critical Metabolism 211 Special mention – Vivifica 212 San Donà Venezia (IT) 213 Winner – Agroecological Condenser 214 Runner-up – NODO 215 Special mention – Living Between the Lines

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Auneuil (FR) Winner – École des arts de la terre Runner-up – Continuum Special mention – Inter-Tenement

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Beizama (ES) Winner – Ongi Etorri Runner-up – Rhizoma Special mention – Basoko Herria Special mention – Being Beizama 230 Special mention – KURBI Special mention – Up the Hill 232 233 234 235 236

Esparreguera-Colonia Sedó (ES) Winner – Deconfining the Colony Runner-up – The ways of Sedó Runner-up – Re-colonizar Special mention – Barrejant Colonia Sedó

238 Ettlingen (DE) 239 Winner – Ettlingen Querbeet 240 Winner – Multilayer City

242 Conclusion 244 In What Way? — Co-evaluation 245 The Europan 16 Juries Discuss Evaluation Criteria Extracts of a workshop during the E16 Forum of Cities & Juries in San Sebastián - Nov. 2022 252 Europan 16 juries Presentation 258 And After?

— Co-production Didier Rebois (FR), architect, teacher and Secretaty General of Europan 266 Europan 16 Secretariats 268 Credits

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Europan 16 Map of sites

Levanger

Hjertelia Fagerstrand Risøy

Västerås Karlskoga Varberg

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Aalst Wernigerode Brussels Capital Region Douaisis Agglo Namur La Porte du Hainaut Selb Auneuil Ettlingen Quimper Schwäbisch Gmünd Pont-Aven Landshut Linz Biel/Bienne Graz Niort Aulnat Carouge Klagenfurt Bassens/Bordeaux Grenoble Limoges Métropole San Donà Venezia Beizama Istres Madrid

Esparreguera-Colonia Sedó Barcelona

Almendralejo Alzira

Roquetas de Mar

Bitonto

REVITALIZATION

Reinforcing Biodiversity Transforming from the Infrastructures Making Territories Performative RECOVERY

Intensifying Districts Stimulating Interfaces Dynamizing Landscapes CARE

Valorizing Natural Elements and Landscapes Dealing with New Uses Reinventing Rurality and Productive Heritage

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Aalst Brussels Capital Region Namur

ITALIA

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Bitonto San Donà Venezia

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NORGE DEUTSCHLAND

Ettlingen Landshut Selb Schwäbisch Gmünd Wernigerode

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ESPAÑA

Almendralejo Alzira Barcelona Beizama Esparreguera-Colonia Sedó Roquetas de Mar Madrid

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Fagerstrand Hjertelia Levanger Risøy

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ÖSTERREICH

Graz Klagenfurt Linz

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SCHWEIZ / SUISSE / SVIZZERA / SVIZRA

Biel/Bienne Carouge

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SVERIGE FRANCE

Auneuil Aulnat Bassens / Bordeaux Métropole Douaisis Agglo Grenoble Istres La Porte du Hainaut Limoges Niort Pont-Aven Quimper

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Karlskoga Varberg Västerås

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Renaissances INTRODUCTION ARTICLE BY CHRIS YOUNÈS (FR) — ANTHRO-PHILOSOPHER OF INHABITED MILIEUS, PROFESSOR AT PARIS’S ÉCOLE SPÉCIALE D’ARCHITECTURE (ESA) AND MEMBER OF EUROPAN’S SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE. FOUNDER MEMBER OF ARENA (ARCHITECTURAL RESEARCH EUROPEAN NETWORK). FOUNDER AND MEMBER OF THE GERPHAU RESEARCH LABORATORY WWW.GERPHAU.ARCHI.FR AND DIDIER REBOIS (FR) — ARCHITECT, TEACHER AT PARIS’S ÉCOLE SPÉCIALE D’ARCHITECTURE (ESA).

GENERAL SECRETARY OF EUROPAN AND COORDINATOR OF THE SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE WWW.EUROPAN-EUROPE.EU

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In times marked by devastation and climatic emergency, the questioning of the regenerative capacities of living milieus is at the hear t of new ecologies that go beyond anthropocentrism and the nature/culture opposition. Complex, holistic and dynamic reconfigurations are asserting. In order to reanimate a biotic and ethical community, many projects tend to activate reconnections that are symbiotic (vital relationships between distinct beings) and synergistic (actions taken in concert between different elements, organs or stakeholders). Outlining such ways of being to the world implies recognising the affiliations and interactions that are at stake.

A paradigm shift is underway leading to the question of how to reconcile things and beings with each other at a time when the

1 — Fagerstrand (NO), winner — Living City, Living Sea > See more P.81

2 — Alzira (ES), special mention — Breezeblocks > See more P.70

habitability of the planet Earth is at stake. Local and translocal strategies are being associated with issues of metabolism, but also of equity and of solidarity.

In the Europan 16 projects, different keys allow us to reconnect with both what we inherit and what is already there, case by case and on site. We present six particularly significant keys, between ideas and projects, that are based on the coexistence of humans and non-humans, on living with nature, on transmission and creation, on the reinstatement of scales of proximity and of continuity, on common ground through mobilisation of stakeholders, and on the start of a second life.

Idea 1: Coexistence of Humans and Non-Humans The coexistence of humans and non-human beings is all the more evident when the vulnerability of human cultures is linked to the one of biodiversity. In his magnificent novel The Overstory, Richard Powers describes how intertwined they are and how invisible they are often left: “That’s the trouble with people, their root problem.

Life runs alongside them, unseen. Right here, right next. Creating the soil. Cycling water.Trading in nutrients. Making weather. Building atmosphere. Feeding and curing and sheltering more kinds of creatures than people know how to count” (Richard Powers, The Overstory, 2018).

Projects — Maintain Natural Reconnections and Reinforce Biodiversity On the very large site of Fagerstrand (NO), the municipality wants to reconnect the inhabitants and their lives with nature by taking

3 — Niort (FR), winner — Niort, Port Terrestre > See more P.191

5 — La Porte du Hainaut (FR), runner-up — Eco-hub Raismes > See more P.55

4 — Namur (BE), runner-up — Le sol, le roseau et le cycliste > See more P.40

6 — Hjertelia (NO), special mention — født i skogen> See more P.183

advantage of large ecological corridors that are rich in biodiversity. The project Living City, Living Sea (fig.1) proposes to base the urbanization on the model of a park-city structured around a green corridor and inhabited polarities, seeking a “healthy balance” between porous building ensembles and the preservation of the fauna and flora irrigating it.

In Alzira (ES), where the issue is to “minimise environmental footprint through bioclimatic strategies”, the project Breezeblocks (fig.2) develops agricultural production and a circular economy in a network of existing green areas to connect the districts together and the city to the La Murta park. On the site scale, this repaired natural environment is host to a permeable and energy-efficient housing.

In Niort (FR), the challenge is to “strengthen the synergy between the urban system on the conurbation scale and the local marsh agro-ecosystem”. The project Niort, Port Terrestre (fig.3) star ts from a geographical and landscape analysi­s­­of the territory including the marsh to propose a PLNUi strategy —an Intercommunal Natural Development and Urbanization Plan. This strategy should let the territory develop over time by putting nature and urbanisation together in synergy.

management of the fauna and flora. Throughout the Almanac, a contextualised and precise narrative presents ethical, aesthetic, scientific and practical reflections, particularly in the famous chapter entitled “Thinking Like a Mountain”. And it takes time to understand and to learn the proper use of the relations of interdependence that are established (A. Leopold, A Sand County Almanac,1949).

Projects — Repairing by hybridising Architecture and Natural Evolution of the Sites In Namur (BE), the site raises the question of “How to create ecological continuities beyond the landscape ruptures?” The project Le sol, le roseau et le cycliste (fig.4) starts with a detailed analysis of the existing situation —the wasteland of the military base has become a “shelter” for the fauna and flora, a rich heritage that needs to be enhanced and strengthened, and to use to connect the fragmented parts of the territory through a park. This approach is par t of the “site’s exceptional geography” and takes great care of the landscape. Some acupuncture work inserts leisure programs in the already asphalted or concreted areas in tune with the existing neighbouring facilities.

On the mining site of La Porte du Hainault (FR), the project ­Eco-hub Raismes (fig.5) aims at fighting against the biodiversity decline and at better managing the area’s resources (soil, forest, water, industrial heritage, etc.) To do so, “reconnection with nature” is put forward through the creation of a European wildlife park with inaccessible areas to allow the redevelopment of “multiple life forms” and other, more open areas for recreation and education to nature.

In Hjertelia (NO), the author of the project født i skogen (Born in the Forest) (fig.6) answers the city’s controversial request to develop new urban areas on agricultural and forest land by

Regenerative capacities of

living milieus is at the heart of

new ecologies that go beyond the nature/culture opposition

Idea 2: Living with the Forest In his book A Sand County Almanac, considered a decisive pioneering milestone in advocating an “earth ethic”, Aldo Leopold discusses the need to be part of the earth’s activity and excoriates blind productivism. He highlights the consequences of human action on the balance of what he calls the biotic community, i.e. the community of living organisms. On his Wisconsin farm near the woods, month after month, he observes and takes notes about animal behaviour, plant development and the correlations arising from good or bad

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7 — Pont-Aven (FR), winner — Beatmatching > See more P.153

8 — Auneuil (FR), runner-up — Continuum > See more P.224

developing an explicitly critical and “situationist” response: rather than removing the existing forest, he proposes to strengthen it and make it habitable for different forms of living beings, referring to his own experience, as the project title indicates. He designs a wooden habitat that is drowned in the forest and set on stilts, allowing animals to occupy the ground while humans inhabit on the upper floors, therefore promoting their cohabitation.

la Belle Angèle) act as a backbone from the existing village to the estuary. All along this axis, a partition of gardens, parks, promenades, “fragments of landscape”, and paths is emphasized, hybridizing with the preserved built space (redesigned industrial heritage of the old canneries) or with new built space (cultural “relais”, housing), forming a successful interconnection of nature and culture. This sort of open grid-pattern allows for a variety of uses (agriculture, leisure, culture, seasonal or non-seasonal housing) that vary with the natural cycles and rhythms, the seasons and social life.

In Auneuil (FR), the project Continuum (fig.8) creates a landscape continuity —from the micro to the macro-scale— based on a “continuous narrative through the understanding of the pre-­ existing built and landscape structures of the territory”. The intention is to follow the traces of the existing —a series of juxtaposed spaces— by bringing it back to life to form a “living, non-fixed organ”.

The project reinvests the strong industrial heritage that has been preserved while making it evolve by inserting a new dynamic of collective and private uses.

The “Colonia” in Esparreguera (ES) is a social and built heritage between rurality and industry that was reduced to two uses: industrial production and housing. The project The Ways of Sedó (fig.9) first proposes to connect the isolated entity to the city and its natural environment through a system of interconnected routes at different scales, from the valley to the neighbourhood. These routes (paths, canals, networks…) allow to reconnect with the rhythms and cycles of the natural environment, placing the district

Idea 3: Transmission and Creation, Tuning Rhythms The exhaustion of people and of milieus, instability and disorder are questioning our landmarks. The palimpsest of heritages and the concern for the long-term are impelling other vectors than the trap of museification. Multiple and vivid imprints and memories are revalued in order to create fruitful transversalities between the present, the past and the future. Between transmission and creation, arrangements star t to ar ticulate different spatiotemporal scales corresponding not to a priori urban forms, but to revivals and hybridisations inspired by nature and culture. Resonances are established with biological, cosmic and anthropological cycles and rhythms subject to the alternations and variations of days and nights, seasons, sunrise and sunset, tides, but also social rituals.

Moving towards a livelier city

through relations that re-engage senses and meaning as close as possible to everydayness

Projects — Regenerating with Multi-Scalar Connections and Adapting Heritage to Life Cycles and Rhythms In the project Beatmatching (fig.7) in Pont-Aven (FR), the largescale parallel territorial continuities (the Aven river and the Rue de

in a circular economy (self-sufficient agricultural production) and reducing the ecological footprint. The reuse of buildings enhances the value of the heritage while integrating a “participatory model that is adjustable according to user needs”, thus crossing metabolic and inclusive approaches.

In Beizama (ES), the rural metabolic dimension of the village, set in a breath-taking natural landscape, is already present in the close relationship between nature and the inhabitants. However, as the number of inhabitants is decreasing, the goal is to attract new ones.

The project Ongi Etorri (fig.10) takes the decision to structure the village in a linear way, extending it along a public street. It accommodates new discontinuous “houses”, which fit into the undulating typology of the ground while connecting the linear street with the surrounding mountain landscape. They host housing, but also services and some shops on the street. In this way, this intensification of the village is anchored in the ground while reinforcing the site’s rural character.

Idea 4: Restoring Scales of Proximity and of Territorial Continuity With the Covid-19 pandemic, the potential of proximity has been increasingly recognised and treated as an art of places and connections between near and far, against the risks of withdrawal or isolation. It implies moving towards a livelier city in all its aspects through relations that re-engage senses and meaning as close as possible to everydayness —the pleasure of a walking-distance, of passing by trees, of caring for plants, of rediscovering public spaces and common areas, or of taking advantage of courtyards, balconies

and rooftops… But it also means promoting short supply chains, soil fertilisation, permaculture, bio-sourced materials…

Projects — Creating a Close Common and Connecting it to the Territory The project Les petits ventres-villes (fig.11) in Limoges (FR) aims to repair the broken connection between the city centre and the Jacobins / Sœurs de la Rivière district; to do so, it creates pedestrian and landscape fluidity anew through voids —sub­tracting degraded buildings. This allows a network of public spaces to emerge, forming small centralities connected to each other until the river banks and participating in the constitution of a bio-region on a larger scale.

In Risøy (NO), the city is looking for a “public space strategy” to connect the city centre to the neighbouring island, hosting the harbour and a residential district. To do so, the project Ripples in the Water (fig.12) first proposes to reconsider the large separating canal as a central recreational area, the most important public space in the city.The residential area —a juxtaposition of individual houses— evolves to compose a series of large blocks around a grid of streets forming different neighbourhoods and around common spaces, like intensity points connected by a pedestrian loop that also ensures the interface between the harbour and the city.

Idea 5: Common Grounds The search for a common ground also plays a decisive role in the opened project processes, leading to cooperation —from the design stage through the implementation and management— not

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11 — Limoges (FR), runner-up — Les petits ventres-villes > See more P.209

9 — Esparreguera-Colonio Sedó (ES), runner-up — The Ways of Sedó > See more P.234

10 — Beizama (FR), winner — Ongi Etorri > See more P.227

12 — Risøy (NO), winner — Ripples in the Water > See more P.57

13 — Douaisis Agglo (FR), winner — The Bet of the Living > See more P.77

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14 — Västerås (SE), winner — Vitality! > See more P.43

15 — Almendralejo (ES), winner — La increíble historia del temporero que encontró en Almendralejo su hogar > See more P.107

only between the architect and the client, but also including the stakeholders, i.e. the users and associations.The processes therefore include collaborative methods and principles to collect data, adjust to the specificities of situations, conflicts and divergent points of view, and co-produce meaning. Many projects explicitly aim to take advantage of these inclusive, pragmatic and democratic approaches, which are seen as valuable resources for “doing with the others”.

housing blocks, the ecological project tries to articulate a social dimension with the inhabitants’ democratic participation and to create a process of natural and inclusive coevolution around several specific intense places of proximity life.

Projects — Involving the Inhabitants in the Ecological Transition of the Districts In Douaisis Agglo (FR) —a territory marked by coal extraction and abandoned mine shafts— the project The Bet of the Living (fig.13) aims to “reverse the extractivist memory of the exploitation of human and non-human resources” to reinforce the resilience of the inhabitants with the already-there. Based on a “vernacular” knowledge of the conurbation territory and on the commitment of the field team backed by experts, the project proposes a participative game, in which “the Action Cards for the Living” mobilize the various actors’ skills, desires and needs. The goal is to set up with the inhabitants a process of social and ecological reinvestment of the site.

The city of Västerås (SE) was willing to revegetalise the industrial territory, but the answer of the project Vitality! (fig.14) goes further, adopting a metabolic approach with a multi-layered global assessment of resources over time and the identification of areas where the soil is decontaminated, fertilised and planted, and where the fjord water is purified through algae, giving life to underwater species. Between the large industry buildings still in activity and the

Idea 6: Second Lives Double-sided socio-environmental rebounds can be an opportunity for metamorphosis for milieus that have reached a critical threshold. New figures enriched by reuse and recycling, mixing temporalities and mobilities, combine densities and mobilities to recreate the conditions of potential urbanities. The quality of urban life —inseparable from the way in which the composite common ground irrigates it in the forms of squares, streets and landscapes— is not a matter of quantity, but of spaces and flows punctuated by borders and passages that facilitate the fluidity of itineraries and sharing.

Projects — Reinvesting Obsolete Places through Eco-Solidary Projects In Almendralejo (ES), the challenge is to regenerate a housing area that is currently poor, run-down and far from the fields, and to integrate a community of immigrant seasonal workers into it.

The project La increible historia del temporero que encontró en Almendralejo su hogar (fig.15) starts from the experience of each seasonal worker, from their arrival to their settlement, to propose the creation of a landscape of adapted green pathways. The obsolete housing area becomes a social condenser and recycles degraded buildings into diversified temporary housing and public

services. To renovate the existing buildings, a modular system with reversible use is added to the facades to make the intermediate spaces livelier (courtyards, balconies, activity areas).

Roquetas de Mar (ES) is a small town built between the Mediterranean Sea and a huge agricultural plain that has become a plastic sea covering plantations and preventing the town from expanding beyond its geographical limits.The idea behind the proj­ ect Second Life (fig.16) is to use a carefully catalogued legacy of colonial houses and buildings that have been abandoned after the 2008 crisis. The project aims to “give these ignored places a second life” through the revaluation of heritage and the consideration of climate change. By reusing forgotten construction methods, the goal is to foster the solidary and sustainable social integration of part of the population.

In the Venice lagoon, the city of San Donà (IT) is facing climate change and natural degradation. The proposed site is a bus station —a brutalist concrete infrastructure to reinvest with a new use.

Rather than simply designing spaces for commercial and communal activities, the project Agroecologic Condenser (fig.17) expands the strategic territory. An urban ecology is restored for the whole city

centre in order to make life exist in all its forms. In this context, the old station becomes a place of agricultural production. The existing vertical structure in large slabs hosts a layered diversity of plantations that contribute to the city’s goal of food self-sufficiency.

In Istres (FR), the recovery of an abandoned building is taking place in a completely different context: a magnificent landscape of pine forests on the Mediterranean coast. A modular school, once an experimental project at the time of its creation, is now obsolete and frees up a place to reconsider.

The proj­e ct Devising the Milieu (fig.18) reinterprets the buildings by highlighting not their character as objects, but their organic dimension, made up of different modules that can accommodate various cultural programs. By creating a “pathway with an open pavilion, extending a performance hall and creating new connections through micro-passages and suspended walkways”, the architects aim at creating a “milieu”, a place to live and stay.

Regenerating milieus through compatible revitalizations of nature and human activities

17 — San Donà Venezia (IT), winner — Agroecological Condenser > See more P.213

16 — Roquetas de Mar (ES), runner-up — Second Life > See more P.142

Conclusion as a Perspective The presented projects are not models to follow, nor are they totalizing visions; they are part of a pluralist impetus on the path of transitions by regenerating milieus through compatible revitalizations of nature and human activities. This project dynamic that is visible in the Europan 16 results analysed here, could be studied further in a second session —Europan 17— on the same topic of Living Cities. It would add more emphasis on the creation of alternatives that are attentive and welcoming to differences and vulnerabilities, nourished and suppor ted by ways of caring for inhabited milieus in a quest for meaning: by re-imagining sustainable architectures and by keeping as close as possible to what “maintains, continues and repairs”, after the three principles set out by political scientist Joan Tronto to weave together the web of life and of the world.

18 — Istres (FR), runner-up — Divising the Milieu > See more P.201

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Revitalization On these sites, the impetus for the transformation comes from the territory and the use of all the resources (natural, ecological, infrastructural) to regenerate them.

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To regenerate the milieus is to give them life… In the Europan 16 projects, the concept of life included humans but also —and with insistence— non-human actors. The proposals all seem to be working on putting ecology, landscape, nature, whatever the name is on the plan, the section, the territory. In this very green and vivid vision of our environment, we can observe the importance of biodiversity, of the transformation of infrastructures and of the existence of intrinsic qualities of the territories to valorise. These great driving transformation forces require a reconsideration of our intervention strategies. Valuing biodiversity seems obvious in view of the objective of regenerating the environment, but transforming the infrastructure requires a paradigm shift that considers the space rather than its function. As well, this paradigm shift is required to consider the performance of the territory itself, which is a fundamentally different vision of our environment.

Therefore, the projects all have in common that they support a different value system where ecology is a mediator, with a process

1 — Madrid (ES), winner — More-Than-Farming Madrid > See more P.35

where the relationships between the agents are reversed and the routines of making the space are questioned.

Reinforcing biodiversity was the subtopic shared by the sites of Bitonto (IT), Madrid (ES), Namur (BE) and Västerås (SE). On these sites, the impetus for the transformation comes from the territory and from the use of all the resources (natural, ecological, infrastructural) to regenerate them. Here, the driving force of change is the transformation of the urban ecology.

According to the proposals of the Europan 16 young architects the reinforcement of biodiversity can be achieved on the sites through different symbiotic relationships that will act as ­shapers of biodiversity.

The idea is therefore about to promote a symbiotic metabolism that enhances biodiversity by reinforcing fluxes and relations and to go over the complexities of each site at multiples scales (territorial, city, local). Here, symbiotic relationships modify the physiology of the interacting “partners”, influence their ecological dynamics and evolutionary processes, alter the distribution of species, and ultimately play a role in shaping biodiversity. This strategy reminds us of the book “Symbiotic Earth”, in which renowned scientist

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2 — Bitonto (IT), winner — Learning from the Lama > See more P.31

Lynn Margulis demonstrates the role of symbiosis, which simply means that members of different species live together, in physical contact, as a source of evolutionary innovation.

The project More-Than-Farming Madrid (fig.1) proposes strategies coming from the world of agriculture with a clear goal to plant a new seed in the urban fabric of Madrid.The project recognizes the scales of the territory, the temporality, the complexity of the urban substrate and the necessary actors to ensure a specific, precise, and metabolic implantation. The winning team emphasize on the idea to generate a “seedstem” applicable to the whole city where the minimum study unit is the district and not a single plot of land. The idea is to plan the management of the different districts’ environments in collaboration with other human and non-human agents and in relation to both the environment and the physical context. Different typologies of agricultural productions are designed; they are scalable and adaptable to a diversity of plots, agents, timeframes or budgets, and remain reversible, resulting into a powerful urban transformation strategy-tool.The proposal is not only site-specific, grounded in the place, but are also linked to the social fabric, ensuring its maintenance. In this sense, the proposal seems to be replicable and scalable, voluntarily avoiding rigid and serial systematization.

In Bitonto, the project Learning from the Lama (fig.2) analyses the mechanisms that regulate the territory, developing processes between the places in transformation and their reference contexts. This way, the Lama Balice (long and shallow karst furrows

that cross the plain of Bari from the Murgia hills to the coastline) becomes an opportunity to merge the urban public space with the landscape and generate a positive outcome from a biological and livability point of view. The Lama Balice is a puzzle of diverse and various biotope in coexistence: uncultivated grassland, woods, Mediterranean “maquis” shrubland, caves and cliffs, agricultural polycultures, quarries, and olive and wine cultures. The idea is to have the Lama Balice penetrate the green areas inside the city in order to generate a positive outcome from a biological and livability point of view. Through a measured intervention on the land uses that accompanies the different cycles and systems, a 0-km supply chain can be developed, as well as new agricultural services and rural tourism, from the hamlets towards the centre of Bitonto. Finally, the open space of the four designed squares articulates a slope that slowly goes down from piazza Aldo Moro to piazza Castello, facing the Lama Balice and connecting with the cycle-pedestrian system and that of greenery.

In both proposals the aforementioned symbiotic approach is rooted in a holistic knowledge of the sites integrated in their territorial and local contexts, unveiling new relations between human and non-human actors through design, and ending up reinforcing biodiversity.

Overlapping systems to densify and intensify is another way of symbiotic activation, which leads to an increase in biodiversity.

In fact, biological diversity is a broad concept that has been used to embody the variability among all living organisms. In this way valorising and reinforcing the multiplicity of tangible and intangible

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3 — Bitonto (IT), runner-up — An Atlas of Rituals > See more P.32

site systems is a qualitative and quantitative strategy to catalyse new environments and relations.

This overlapping can also be digital as in the project An Atlas of Rituals (fig.3) in Bitonto, which proposes an alternative vision connected to the digital infrastructure as an instrument of knowledge and narration of the territory. Starting from the essence of the particular moments of the olive cultivation cycle, the project generates events, activities and rituals. It proposes different levels of overlapping systems: hydrographic network trails, ecological connectivity trails between Lama Balice and Alta Murgia, circulatory trails, local production trails, and socio-cultural and heritage trails. All layers and rituals are connected and articulated through the processes of olive cultivation. Within this framework, the layers of connection become trails of rituals while the squares act as stations of these rituals. Each trail is revitalised with a catalogue of eco-spatial strategies to reinforce the connectivity. This approach reinterprets

the connotations of a productive landscape; it aims to become not only a project of passive preservation and re-­naturalisation, but also one of characterisation and symbiotic activation.

The project A Non-binar y Ecology (fig.4) in Namur works the material between two opposite definitions such as urban/rural, soft/hard, organic/human-made and so on. The wining proposal focuses on every force and gradation that stands between the two extremes, enhancing them at all design scales to reveal and appreciate their hidden potential and to respect and identify the fertile landscapes.They are all activated on the former military site, giving space to a “Third-Landscape”, after the concept developed

by French landscape architect Gilles Clément. Clément calls these fragments the Third-Landscape —the sum of all the land disturbed by human through which natural processes still occur. For the team, the loss of nature is a starting point. Different intensities are used

in the strategies of non-binary ecology throughout the plot, with extremely delicate elements at some times —small interventions that transform abandoned areas into innovative cultural devices— while at others, it is the intensity of construction that becomes a radical statement —like the Adaptive Tower, the point of maximum density. This varying intensity of actions covers the whole site, but with a recognizable coherence based on the ecological continuities and a new network of running tracks and cycle paths organized through closed rings that intertwine in a strong network of integrated slow-mobility, but also as tactical elements that punctuate the fields with a calligraphy of lines and colours.

space for people, plants and animals. Although we have to admit that the use of the wilderness and the uncertainty can be provocative, what is interesting about the project is that by finding different symbioses with the outside of the site, the biodiversity of the built system is reinforced through different circularity processes.

Also in Västerås, the project Making Space (fig.6) shares with the previous project the idea of making space for something more than us in order to reinforce biodiversity. It introduces an enigmatic motto —“Showing some Grace and Leaving Be”— that is complemented with a project of restoration and regeneration. In this way, the project proposes a large rain garden to manage, buffer and clean rainwater runoff. Floating gardens are also created along the waterfront as a natural filtration system to improve water quality and provide additional habitat for a diverse range of species. Finally, Making Space transforms Mälarporten into a completely new and poetic landscape where the wilderness meets the abandoned industrial landscape with installations and facilities in suitable scales.

The driving force of change is the transformation of the urban ecology

This strategy of mediation is also developed in Västerås. The former industrial site in the middle of the city shares some characteristics with the abandoned military site in Namur. Here too, an abandoned site opened the doors to natural recolonization by pioneer species; and both projects have the potential to increase —with the design— the ecological variability through mediation with the multitude of species on site. In this context, the strength of the project Landscape of Encounters (fig.5) lies in how it deals with the site to increase biodiversity. The project proposes a set of strat­ egies collected under the categories of Vegetation & Habitats, Built Elements, Events and Reuse. The district of Mälarporten, primarily through natural processes, becomes a more sustainable place with

Thus, according to the proposals of the Europan 16 young architects, reinforcing biodiversity implies unveiling the diversity of value systems, of knowledge and of culture of the sites, showing curiosity towards other ways of living and designing with nature mediating relations and empowering emerging agencies and actors.

It is an important step towards a multi-species city, because a living city is a diverse city, a place where natural processes, human and non-human actors intertwine in each other’s environments. A process of regenerative design that catalyses, at the same time, life, community interactions and a circular economy potentially based on nature.

As we have seen, all the projects share innovative techniques that will need renewed regulations and management techniques to be implemented to work with multidisciplinary teams together with local managers.

5 — Västerås (SE), runner-up — Landscapes of Encounters > See more P.44

4 — Namur (BE), winner — A Non-binary Ecology > See more P.39

6 — Västerås (SE), special mention — Making Space > See more P.45

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Blurred Infrastructure

Infrastructures are an integral part of the city, they enable mobility. As mobility is changing in the face of decarbonisation, so are the infrastructures. We only need to observe the emergence of master­plans for bicycles or pedestrians, almost everywhere in Europe, or all the projects submitted in the framework of the Europan 16 competition to appreciate this phenomenon. Active mobility (pedestrians and cyclists) is taking on an increasingly important role in the modal split. Not only for ecological purpose but walking and cycling have been reinforced by the Covid19 crisis.

The crisis made us rediscover the advantages of active mobility and enabled the setting up of temporary installations during the various lockdowns, which have become permanent, as is currently happening in Berlin, Paris and Milano.

Moreover, with the re-discovery of our immediate surroundings during the lockdown —“suddenly we were no longer from everywhere but from somewhere”—, it seems that the competitors

have discovered the profusion of infrastructures around themselves. With the separation of functions during the modernity —production, work, leisure, residence…— the number of infrastructures has significantly increased as a consequence of zoning planning. If you do not work where you live, if you do not spend your free time where you reside, if you do not produce where you consume, you or the goods have to move and therefore, you need infrastructure. One could sometimes consider infrastructure as a kind of collateral damage of modern planning and specifically question its actual necessity, or at least part of it. This is why there is more and more talk of infrastructure obsolescence.

Of course, in the submitted projects, we can observe that not all infrastructures are obsolete, but the space dedicated to traffic can nevertheless be optimised and allow for other uses. It is not the whole infrastructure space that is transformed, but part of it.These transformations, whether they concern obsolete infrastructures or those in activity, remind us that infrastructures are also public spaces, even if we have sometimes forgotten it, as they are so much taken over by traffic engineering. Infrastructures therefore play a dual role in urban transformation. Their revitalisation allows the transition to new forms of more sustainable mobility while their obsolescence or the optimisation of the space dedicated to traffic allows the reconquest of public space.

1 — Risøy (NO), winner — Ripples in the Water > See more P.57

2 — Varberg (SE), winner — Make the Backs Fronts (Again)! > See more P.63

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3 — Varberg (SE), special mention — Lifeline > See more P.65

4 — Klagenfurt (AT), runner-up — Tracing Domains > See more P.50

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5 — Varberg (SE), runner-up – Trädlycke, a New Centre > See more P.64

Active Mobility and Revitalisation The sites of Risøy (NO), Varberg (SE) and Klagenfurt (AT) are strongly marked by the transformation of mobility. In Risøy it involves the construction of a pedestrian bridge linking the island and the town centre. In Varberg a new regional railway station allows the transformation of the 2.6km-long road that crosses the site. In Klagenfurt, the construction of a tunnel will allow the city to be much more accessible by train and the station will consequently be much more attractive.

In this context, the proposals use this mobility shift and benefit from it to revitalise the space. The Ripples in the Water project proposed in Risøy restructures the circulation according to the inspiration of the superblock. A hierarchy is introduced in the road network in order to transform the streets in the heart of the superblock into an axis dedicated to active mobility, while the surrounding street are dedicated to public traffic (fig.1). It is also a transformation of the organisation of mobility that allows the revitalisation of the site of Varberg. In the project Make the Backs Fronts (Again)!, a so-called smart mobility is proposed. Mobility hubs, among other things, punctuate the main street, reducing individual traffic by proposing alternative ways of vehicles mutualisation (fig.2). With the Lifeline project submitted on the same site, different principles to encourage active mobility are implemented with a multiplication of routes for pedestrians but also principles of prioritisation of active

mobility above other kind of mobilities, for example at crossings (fig.3). For the area close to the Klagenfurt station, the focus is on active mobility as the first or “last mile” to the station. The Tracing Domains project even proposes the construction of a footbridge over the railway tracks to extend pedestrian accessibility to the area on the other side of the tracks (fig.4). These projects improve the mobility offer based on individual movement, which does not rely on private car ownership. This includes pedestrian mobility and all types of cycling mobility, but also car-sharing systems. Because of the limited space taken by these forms of mobility, these developments reduce the footprint of mobility in the urban fabric.

Moreover, because of the more limited range of action compared to motorised mobility, active mobility creates a different urban network based on proximity. In these projects, a number of proximity amenities are developed, such as the 15-minute city.The underlying idea of the 15-minute city aims at a decentralised urban structure.

According to this idea, each neighbourhood is equipped with local suppliers, doctors, open spaces and recreation areas, sports facilities, shared offices, schools, day-care centres, etc. This makes it possible to access all the functions of daily needs within a quarter of an hour on foot or by bicycle from anywhere in the city. This is exactly what is proposed in the project Trädlycke, a New Centre for the Varberg site, where a new centre with various local functions is developed in relation with new mobility (fig.5).

7 — La Porte du Hainaut (FR), winner — Short Stories from the Fragmented City > See more P.53

obsolete traffic spaces. They demonstrate the potential that the transformation of an infrastructure can have for a neighbourhood or even an entire city: the Highline has become not only a popular space for people living and working nearby, but also one of the most visited tourist attractions in New York (fig.7). In this sense, the Eco-hub Raimes project makes the infrastructure disappear under its rewild­ing. In this proposal, the notion of obsolescence is not limited to the infrastructure, it is a whole territory that becomes obsolete (fig.8).

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6 — Risøy (NO), winner — Ripples in the Water > See more P.57

Obsolescence and Revitalisation The sites of Risøy (NO) and La Porte du Hainaut (FR) are made up of numerous road and rail infrastructures, not all of which are necessarily functional. In Risøy, there is an abundance of asphalt, roads and landing docks. In La Porte du Hainaut, the infrastructure is linked to the former mine industry, including the railway network linked to the transportation of coal, in this case the infrastructure is rather linked to the transportation of goods than people.

In Risøy, the project Ripples in the Water proposes that the street and the asphalt inside the block become a green corridor with pavement, flower y meadow and orchard mix. This space revitalizes the district with its ecological character mixing water storage, infiltration and biodiversity, but also by providing a collective neighbourhood space (fig.6).

A slightly different approach is envisaged for La Porte du Hainaut.

It is a set of various elements, some of which are obsolete, such as the numerous stations linked to mining, which is the basis of the project Short Stories from the Fragmented City. The project develops loops linked to these infrastructures, without falling into nostalgia, the loops being connected to small centralities with facilities developed around the stops of the metropolitan tramway.

These proposals echo the Coulée Verte in Paris or the Highline in New York, which have been milestones in the transformation of

Optimisation and Revitalisation The sites of Risøy (NO) and Klagenfurt (AT) require infrastructure, in this case no obsolete infrastructure, as they are nodes of mobility for the ferry landing in Risøy, and for the proximity of the railway station in Klagenfurt.

The Third Space project in Risøy reconnects the different fragments of the site: “the infrastructure that was once conceived to connect functions has in many places changed into a barrier both spatially and socially”. In this sense the strategic placement of a new bridge for active mobility creates a new loop with the centre of Haugesund, transforming the car park where the pedestrian bridge landed into a square articulating the island and the coast.

The infrastructural space dedicated to the car becomes a real public space (fig.9).

In Klagenfurt, the 5 Square of New Learning project proposes that “An enfilade of public spaces create the main circulation route and form a spine of public space (fig.10). It will connect all the site’s areas with the historical centre and the main railway station”.

The interstitial spaces (between buildings) normally monopolised and designed for mobility are not considered as residual spaces but rather as structuring spaces. This is an interpretation of the infrastructure not as functional but as spatial, i.e. as a sequence of spaces where one strolls more than a corridor solely dedicated to passage.

These proposals, while maintaining the infrastructure, reduce the space dedicated to traffic, as did Lola Domenech’s famous transformation of Barcelona’s Passeig de Sant Joan (ES). The pavements of the wide urban boulevard, previously mainly dedicated to car traffic, have been widened and used to accommodate new

The space dedicated to traffic can be optimised and allow for other uses

planting and recreational spaces. A cycle path was laid out in the middle of the road and the width of the lanes reserved for individual motorised transpor t was reduced to a minimum. Here, the norms and rules that favour the flow of car traffic have not only been challenged, they have been circumvented. In the Tracing Domains project in Klagenfurt, a similar principle is deployed: the interstitial space articulates the built environment, but this time, in a linear way.The typology used is the one of green boulevards and alleys, it is a space where one can linger; it is not a traffic corridor but a constructed and staged space (fig.11). This project questions the way of making the city and of constructing the urban texture when the idea of traffic no longer dominates the organisation of the urban texture.

We could learn from the different projects proposed that the revitalisation through infrastructures offers an organi­ sation of the urban texture that is not dominated by the infrastructures, which blur into the territory giving birth to a city of proximity.

This is obviously a huge paradigm shift in urban design, the interstitial space is structuring but is no longer necessarily an infrastructure, it becomes a space in its own right. This change challenges many planning and urban design routines. For the moment it seems that the routines of modernity are unshakeable… even though they have replaced other secular routines. The challenge for the projects mentioned is to prove, through their implementation, that it is possible to leave the routines of modernity behind us.

8 — La Porte du Hainaut (FR), runner-up — Eco-hub Raismes > See more P.55

11 — Klagenfurt (AT), runner-up — Tracing Domains > See more P.50

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9 — Risøy (NO), winner — The Third Space > See more P.58

10 — Klagenfurt (AT), winner — 5 Squares of New Learning > See more P.49

Activating Territories as Actors of the Project

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Our growing understanding of the delicate balances in our ecosystems has led to the acknowledgement of complex networks and interactions at the territorial scale where each agent can and will influence the rest. This has demanded an approach to design that leaves room for those other agents to develop, mutate, or simply gain agency. In this pursuit, we no longer design objects in space, nor linear elements of infrastructure; we arrange for potentials to develop, for events to be triggered, for conditions to emerge, and for the territories where we operate to become the agents of the design.

The proposals in this group blur the limits between the traditional roles of subject (user), object (constructions) and designer (architect) in a context (space), resulting in a continuum where users may be designers, or the context may be the subject.

1 — Fagerstrand (NO), winner — Living City, Living Sea > See more P.81

When intervening in a territory with the prospect of revitalization, we may not require an injection of external agents, but find the elements in the territory itself. Such is the case on the sites in this set, where the agency of the territory may be given the opportunity to reconnect to the social context and develop its own creative and cultural qualities.

Proposals in this group do not focus on spatial formal entities as such, but on the actions and events that they may trigger, particularly those that may be performed by the territory itself, heralding an urbanism of natural cycles. This approach requires the development of a new language, a kind of script that allows for the territory to perform its own role in the theatre of the world —a language we shall try to identify in each of the works in this session.

The Stage as a Performing Character In a first subset, we may look at proposals where territorial ecosystems can be the agents to facilitate the socio-economic revitalization of urban areas, which are no longer seen as separate entities.

In Fagerstrand (NO) the winning proposal, Living City, Living Sea, shows a relationship between the city and the sea that is very far

2 — Fagerstrand (NO), winner — Living City, Living Sea > See more P.81

3 — Fagerstrand (NO), runner-up — One Upon a Time in Forestrand > See more P.82

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4 — Fagerstrand (NO), runner-up — One Upon a Time in Forestrand > See more P.82

from the “waterfront” concepts of the past. Rather than portraying the ocean as something to look at from a waterfront café, they offer the rare view of a section of the fjord, giving half the stage to the bottom of the sea and the creatures that may develop in the healthy environment they intend to regenerate (fig.1). The program is also centred on the water, the management of rainwater, a circular water system for human use, and productive strategies using hydroponics and fish farming (fig.2). It is an extreme take on the idea of blue infrastructure, that permeates the whole design, accompanied by green infrastructure. Blue and green form a network that provides the base for human activity, including mobility —as cars are relegated to a peripheral role.

The runner-up in Fagerstrand (NO), Once Upon a Time in Forestrand, in contrast, looks at the forest, and not at the sea, as a main character in the plot (fig.3). The role given to the already existing forest is defined as a fourth landscape, a synchronization

of the three classical natures (first, wilderness; second, agricultural and urban; third, gardens and parks) to create a fourth, an inhabited natural system. In their graphics, the forest speaks with the speech-bubbles that are typical of comic strips (fig.4). The project embraces its fictional nature from the title and with its motto: Form follows fiction. The forest redefines our relationship with it through storytelling and performance.

The title of the winning proposal in Bassens/Bordeaux Métropole (FR) is explicit in this symbiotic approach that aims to trigger the emergence of renovated energies: Symbiotic BOOM! They propose a hybrid model where the regeneration of the port area is driven simultaneously by three strategies: renaturalization, circular economy and collaborative resource-management. The ecological, the productive and the social are physically intertwined, with devices like the “life stripes” that deal with the biotic elements of the context with an infrastructural approach, in parallel to mobility

5 — Bassens / Bordeaux Métropole (FR), winner — Symbiotic Boom! > See more P.73

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6 — Wernigerode (DE), runner-up — United Gardens of Wernigerode > See more P.89

7 — Wernigerode (DE), winner — Duet > See more P.87

infrastructure, and providing opportunities for social interaction (fig.5). The graphics are equally intertwined, charting the program for phased action with text in three colours, that are also reflected in the drawings, visualizing the balanced importance of the three in pan and section.

tool. This transforms the houses-on-a-plot-each scheme into a houses-in-a-shared-park arrangement, where the former fences become pathways amongst a variety of gardens, all animated by self-built civic devices (fig.7).

In Alzira (ES), a location with a much higher density, the winning project, Orangerie, proposes an equivalent approach by linking together several spaces that would be perceived as internal courtyards in a classical enclosed-block urban morphology. Each inner courtyard is a plantation of orange trees and other aromatic species; the courtyards are open on one corner and linked to the others at that point to form a continuous promenade on the edge of the blocks (fig.8). The chorus of hortus in-conclusus orange groves finds a counterpoint on the gal­leries and on the roofs, where garden roofs are articulated from a greenhouse on the edge of the opening of each block, providing social as well as productive functions. This punctuated choir of greenery is referenced on a strict partiture, a perfectly abstract pentagram of structural lines.

A Chorus of Landscapes The sea or the forest can be strong characters in the play, the heroes, but in other contexts the action may be carried by a collection of characters to develop a choral design.

Such is the approach exemplified by the runner-up proposal in Wernigerode (DE), United Gardens of Wernigerode, where the main points in the program consist of a series of interventions in open spaces, in gardens that are linked together by lifting fences and opening gates while keeping their individual characters. Soft mobility, community building, circular economy, soft dwelling, intergenerational living, different functions are addressed by means of garden interventions, where huts and soft constructions integrate into a home-grown chorus of connected landscapes (fig.6). All the documents share a subtle graphic code by which softer actions and agents (workshops, plants, furniture) are shown in brown, and harder elements (buildings, infrastructure) are drawn in sharp blue lines. The old plot divisions are therefore drawn in hard blue, but they are cancelled by the huts and activities that create the new link, in soft brown.

The winning proposal Duet, on the other hand, radically erases the old plot lines by overlaying thin strips of public property, as if correcting a drawing with Tipp-ex tape or with Photoshop’s healing

Users may be designers; the context may be the subject

The Improvised Play The rediscovered agency of the landscape calls for a script­writing technique that may allow for uncer tainties in the territorial decision­-making process.

This is particularly true if the ultimate aim of a project is renaturalization, as is the case in the runner-up proposal in Alzira (ES), Breezeblocks. The very idea of rewilding implies losing control as designers, it requires us to let the territory (and the population) take control of the decision-making process. The timeline for this

is long, as it is impor tant to set the conditions for the natural cycles (and the circular economies) to be self-sufficient. In this context, the breezeblocks in the title are modular elements that can be used flexibly, like Lego pieces, large or small. This is the narrative proposed by the team, to allow for a phased implementation that is able to take change and improvise new arrangements. They also describe an equivalently flexible piece of landscape, the green vector, that can be introduced in the urban tissue to prepare the soil for a freer evolution in the future. The resulting imagery is a combination of agriculture, biotic and non-biotic productive activity, combined with flexible housing (fig.9).

In the winning proposal for Douaisis Agglo (FR), The Bet of the Living: Rethinking (Ourselves) Together, a series of actions are imagined, to be discussed and decided upon in a Latourian parliament of things, including the opinion of humans and non-humans. The documents include a range of options, instructions for debate, imagery to be proposed, all designed and written with the intention to reach the general public, as well as to interrogate the non-human agents of the territory. The third panel is a simulation of events, and as such the drawing technique changes, adopting a non-expert style recalling children’s drawings, very far from the stylized drawings in the first panel (fig.10). This reads as a very conscious reminder of the fact that some kind of pidgin language

must be found, if we are to give voice to non-designer agents in the implementation process.

Conclusions Over the successive sessions of Europan we can identify a growing set of tools being developed to work with time. Participants increasingly consider the journey as destination, the process as the project. This is particularly important in territorial scales, where long-term design thinking is called for, where initial designs can only be visualized as a simulation of events.

On the other hand, the initial actions proposed by the teams in this scale are very far from the territorial actions of the past, which could be caricaturised as a combination of automobile and transport infrastructure around which to colour-paint a zoning plan. Teams are proposing alternative actions, such as water harvesting infrastructure or pathways in the forest as a way to activate the hidden values of the territory and reconnect them to the community.

Young architects are interrogating territories to understand what these can do, rather than engaging in form-finding exercises.Young architects are intent in making territories performative.

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8 — Alzira (ES), winner —Orangerie > See more P.69

9 — Alzira (ES), special mention — Breezeblocks > See more P.70

10 — Douaisis Agglo (FR), winner — The Bet of the Living > See more P.77

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Namur (BE)

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Västerås (SE)

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Bitonto (IT) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — SISTEMA URBANO BITONTO, PALOMBAIO, MARIOTTO POPULATION — 56,000 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 100 HA / PROJECT SITE — 5 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF BITONTO ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — CITY OF BITONTO OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — PUBLIC PROPERTY

MICHELE ABBATICCHIO — Mayor, City of Bitonto

COSIMO BONASIA — Assessor for greenery and urban

decor, transport, traffic and local police, City of Bitonto

Mariotto

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Palombaio

Piazze Aldo Moro, Marconi & Cavour, Bitonto

Piazza Milite Ignoto, Palombaio

Piazza Roma, Mariotto

1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

The strategic area includes the Alta Murgia and Lama Balice Park, with the anthropized fabric that focuses both on the squares system and on the naturalistic and rural system, a necessary key to connect with urban metabolisms. The City program addresses the enhancement of the City-Countryside relationship, which is expressed mainly through its nodal centres: the squares.

The participating teams were asked to relate the public spaces of Bitonto, Palombaio and Mariotto, using the naturalistic and rural system present and implement public services considering the parks as an element of connection. The projects have centered this program by offering innovative ideas and making concrete the systematization of all the territorial values.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The program has oriented competitors towards the reduction of environmental impacts and the consumption of resources, addressing issues of mobility and forms for new inclusive social practices.

It is necessary to imagine new metabolisms for Bitonto, Palombaio and Mariotto through a shared collective vision, made up of cultural experiences to be lived in the area, from the local creative industry to everything that exists.

I imagine seeing the physical distance between Bitonto and the two hamlets canceled out by using nature as an additional resource in daily life, but also by transferring daily activities to natural environments, in the countryside, along the ridge, which is the hinge between Bitonto and the hamlets: schools and open-air theaters, shops, sports and business activities related to daily life.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

Living Cities is linked to the requalification programs already launched by the City in recent years. Living Cities is linked to the requalification programs already launched by the City in recent years. With Europan we decided to complete the reflections on the relationship between landscape and city (city / countryside) with the recovery of the Lama Balice and the stretch of Via Cela towards the hamlets of Palombaio and Mariotto and towards the Alta Murgia National Park. We are satisfied with the project proposals, with interesting ideas on the squares of Bitonto, on new ways of relating the landscape, production and connectivity to favor the use of all services. We have planned a workshop with the awarded teams as the starting point of the process which, we hope, will involve citizens and all the actors of the future of Bitonto.

Bitonto (IT) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

LUCA LUINI (IT), ARCHITECT RICCARDO MASIERO (IT) ARCHITECT, URBANIST

LUMAA LAB VIA FARINI 53, 20159 MILANO (IT) +39 3470613671 LUMAA.LAB@GMAIL.COM WWW.LUMAALAB.COM

Learning from the Lama

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Team point of view — The need to regenerate Bitonto itself in the light of the challenges of the Anthropocene is possible through an enhancement of the functioning of its three main scopes: the urban scope, the agricultural scope, and the naturalistic scope of Lama Balice. The latter is the one whose potential currently is the least developed. The analysis of the natural mechanisms ex­­ isting within the Lama and the study of its complex biology generate exchange models that, once implemented and replicated, could contribute to reinforcing the biodiversity with positive effects on environmental quality, urban liveability, and economic processes.

The piazzas of Bitonto, Palombaio, and Mariotto would then become the physical places where these regenerative processes would take place on a human scale.

Jury point of view — The proposal is complete and integrates the open space project with a system that also involves the urban programs in progress. It presents an interesting insight in terms of territorial interpretation and identity of the area through the identification of three areas (urban / rural / natural) that integrate with each other. It manages to identify a common thread between the existing urban spaces that connects the centres of Palombaio and Mariotto. The Lama Balice becomes an opportunity to contaminate urban public spaces with the landscape.

Bitonto (IT) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

CARLOS ZARCO SANZ (ES) ZUHAL KOL (TR) ARCHITECTS, URBANISTS

ZEYNEP KÜHEYLAN (TR) OZAN ŞEN (TR) ARCHITECTS BERNA YAYLALI (TR) LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

OPENACT ARCHITECTURE MADRID (ES) / ISTANBUL (TR) INFO@OPENACT.EU WWW.OPENACT.EU @OPENACT.STUDIO

An Atlas of Rituals

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Team point of view — Interpreting the connection between heritage and nature through exploring Olive Tree’s existence in Bitonto, the project proposes a “process-driven” design approach, and probes instigating a new form of “connectedness” through a framework that revolves around the cyclical rituals of olive to enable dynamic coexistence of socio-ecological/cultural/economic mutations. All layers of connectivity and all rituals are harmonised with each other through the processes of olive; and within this multilayered framework, the layers of connection become trails of rituals while the squares, stations of these rituals.

Jury point of view — The project proposes an alternative vision linked to the digital infrastructure as an instrument of knowledge and narrativity of the territory. Starting from the essence of the moments of the olive cultivation cycle, the project generates events, activities and rituals. It proposes different levels of over­ lapping systems —hydrographic network paths, ecological connectivity paths between Lama Balice and Alta Murgia, circulation paths, local production paths, socio-cultural and heritage paths.

Bitonto (IT) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ANDREA PIZZINI (IT), ELENA CALAFATI (IT) GIANLUCA MASIERO (IT), ARCHITECTS URBANISTS MATTIA CHINELLATO (IT), ARCHITECT

PIZZINI.ANDREA3@GMAIL.COM

Along the Green River Team point of view — The project for the renovation of the main squares of Bitonto, Palombaio and Mariotto represents an opportunity to propose a new vision for the territory. Lama Balice, the fertile bed of a hidden river, becomes the natural infrastructure able to reconnect the three urban areas with the main richness of this territory: the olive groves. As a result, the squares provide a starting point for imagining a series of public spaces that extend into the agricultural land through social and productive practices, reaffirming the notion of Bitonto as an extended park. The design of the three squares incorporates the theme of stocking and channelling water, collected from the impermeable surfaces of the public spaces, to seek a strong relationship with the lama Balice.

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Bitonto (IT) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ALESSANDRO ROSA (IT), ARCHITECT, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT GIULIA AZARIA (IT), CARMELO RADEGLIA (IT) ARCHITECTS

421 OMVAL 1096HR AMSTERDAM (NL) +31 646536569 ALESSANDRO.ROSA_AR@LIBERO.IT

DOP Diffuse Olive Park Team point of view — New inclusive synergies among the different local actors are needed to enrich and diversify the potentiality of the territory of Bitonto and its hamlets. We want to think of the olive orchards as an open-air museum, where farmers and the local community invite people to explore, experience, and learn.

Via Cela represents the spine of the new Diffuse Olive Park: the new network of slow mobility becomes the place where all the elements scattered in the landscape are preserved, protected, and re-connected. The diversification of tourism will develop a yearround program, with naturalistic hikes, archaeological and agrofood experiences; a system of activities that emphasises the local identity will form the foundation for sustainable and multifunctional use of the territory.

Madrid (ES) SCALE — L/S URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL / ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — 5 URBAN PLOTS IN MADRID (3 IN SAN BLAS - CANILLEJAS DISTRICT + 1 IN FUENCARRAL DISTRICT + 1 IN BARAJAS DISTRICT) POPULATION — 3,275,195 INHAB. PROJECT SITES — 5,557.48 SQM; 11,137.24 SQM; 36,329.38 SQM; 1,085.85 SQM; 242,552.37 SQM SITE PROPOSED BY — DIRECTORATE-GENERAL OF STRATEGIC PLANNING, URBAN DEVELOPMENT AREA, MADRID CITY COUNCIL SITE(S) OWNER(S) — MADRID CITY COUNCIL. THE ROOFS OF THE TRADE FAIR PRECINCT BELONG TO THE IFEMA CONSORTIUM, IN WHICH THE MADRID CITY COUNCIL IS A MEMBER.

1/ Plot G, Gran San Blas

2/ Plot F, Gran San Blas

FRANCISCO JAVIER GARCÍA ALCOBENDAS —

Chief Architect of the Department of Actions for Urban Renovation. General Sub-Directorate for Renovation and City Project. Directorate General of Strategic Planning.

Urban Development Government Area. City of Madrid

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3/ Plot in Las Rosas, San Blas — Canillejas District

1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

Competitors were invited to submit a general reflection on the presence of urban agriculture in Madrid and how to insert it in various types of representative built-up environments. They were asked to study local food production, its contribution to the improvement of environmental conditions and biodiversity, recycling and efficient use of water, reduction of heat islands, the use of renewable energy, etc., along with the landscape component.

Social acceptance was expected to be facilitated, with the aim of generating new ecosystems mid-way between nature and culture.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

“Producer Districts” focuses on living territories. It calls for the design of creative project-processes to regenerate inhabited environments. It proposes a multifaceted approach to environmental, biological, social, economic, cultural and political aspects, estab­ lishing synergies in a strategic project aimed at the regeneration of neighbourhoods and the creation of a city superstructure that is able to combine metabolic and inclusive dynamics.

4/ Plot in Fuencarral District

5/ Roofs of buildings in the IFEMA trade fair

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3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

The project requires successive development that will start with a neighbourhood participation process and a specific analysis of the spaces under consideration. It then continues with the identification and design of the elements required for the implementation of the most appropriate agro-ecological model in each case, including testing and prototyping.The final stage is the formal definition, with the necessary level of detail to permit its material implementation in a specific area.These reflections will lead to a design guide which will steer the rest of the interventions in the city. All of this is defined, to a greater or lesser extent, in the winning project’s ideas.

Madrid (ES) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

DIEGO MARTÍN SÁNCHEZ (ES) NOEMÍ GÓMEZ LOBO (ES) ARCHITECTS

YOKO KIHARA (JP) JIANGHANG JIANG (CN) ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS

FURII STUDIO / MADRID (ES) +34 609071434 / HOLA@FURIISTUDIO.COM WWW.FURIISTUDIO.COM / @FURIISTUDIO

More-Than-Farming Madrid Team point of view — A garden can change the life of a person.

Farming can change life in the city. Urban agriculture, as a caring practice, can repair ecosystems, strengthening local food supplies and constructing commons. But it must overcome an anthropocentric vision, fostering a symbiotic metabolism that enhances biodiversity. It needs to be more-than-farming. Implementations should be site-specific as well as network-specific. Taking San Blas neighbourhood as an environmental unit, we consider latent resources expanding the activities around farming such as pro­ cessing, distributing, recycling or cooking. Diverse farm-forms adapt in a seed-stem to various sites, members or schedules. Rooted in place, three scenarios emerged: caring neighbour-food, growing local livelihoods and biodiversity front yard.

Jury point of view — The project proposes strategies coming from the world of agriculture with a clear vocation to plant a new seed in the urban fabric of Madrid. The project understands the scales of the territory, the temporality, the complexity of the urban substrate and the necessary actors to warrant a specific, precise, and metabolic implantation. Thanks to its lightweight and transportable materials, it solves multiple situations with a low budget, offering a reversible condition that turns it into a powerful urban transformation tool. It is worth highlighting its ability to adapt to different contexts through flexible tools, which allow to imagine resilient scenarios.

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Madrid (ES) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

MARCOS GONZÁLEZ GONZÁLEZ (ES) ARCHITECT

CARMEN POVEDANO OLLEROS (ES) HERNÁN GONZÁLEZ GONZÁLEZ (ES) PABLO JAVIER NAVAS DIAZ (ES) ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS

MADRID (ES) +34 628405167 MARCOS.GONZALEZ. GONZALEZ@HOTMAIL.ES

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

KATERINA PSEGIANNAKI (GR), ARCHITECT ANA GONZÁLEZ TORREMOCHA (ES) ARCHITECTURE STUDENT

LUCÍA SÁNCHEZ GUTIÉRREZ CABELLO (ES), ARCHITECTURE STUDENT

KUNEOFFICE, MADRID (ES) JFK@KUNEOFFICE.COM WWW.KUNEOFFICE.COM

Greenmad Team point of view — Is it really possible to farm in a sustainable way and inside the city limits? Of course yes. Geographic conditions are not a boundary anymore for the place to farm.

Innovation in agriculture allows us to grow our vegetables near the areas of the consumers: the city. The project development follows a logical sequence of: locate the bonds to intervene and to study the conditions; select the optimal culture purpose and technology; propose a new architectural typology; illustrate it’s physical formalisation. The project develops 7 architectural types in the already existing urban grid. The idea is to build small pieces that are combined to the global ecosystem.

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Madrid (ES) — Special mention

Loose Parts Team point of view — In his theory of Loose Par ts, Simon Nicholson defines them as those variables or elements that anyone can play, experiment, discover, invent, and have fun. Madrid’s Producer District challenge is faced as an opportunity to fill the proposed urban voids with a program that gives back to the inhabitants of the city, adults, and kids, not only their relationship with nature but also their inventiveness and creativity and their desire to play, experiment, interact and discover. A set of five “parts” are designed to cover the basic needs of a minimum water-sufficient urban market garden. With these parts, the community can play and adapt them to different places and needs, enabling a basic structure for farming in the city and at the same time enhancing their creative and cooperative skills.

Namur (BE) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — NAMUR, WALLOON REGION CAPITAL POPULATION —112,000 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 37 HA / PROJECT SITE — 27 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF NAMUR ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — URBAN PLANNING DEPARTMENT, ASBL NEW OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — MINISTRY OF DEFENSE BELGIUM

BERTRAND IPPERSIEL — Head of Department. Technical

Service and Territorial Develop­ment. Department of Urban Planning – DAU. City of Namur 1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

What to do with this site overlooking the plain of Jambes? How to recover and enhance the existing buildings? How to create living ecological continuities beyond the landscape ruptures? Given the available space and the wooded character of certain parts of the site, what recreational activities could potentially complement productive activities of a community nature? What housing model on this site where the public interest predominates with a share of public housings to be proposed by the candidates?

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2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

Neither rural nor urban, this site is an in-between. Close to the urban developments in the plain of Jambe, and distant by its landscape characteristics, the site of Sart Hulet offers the opportunity of an original urban development, associating the strength of the landscape to the future buildings’ morphology, whose economy and ecology will take care to lean on the existing one to suggest intelligent re-employments.The diversity of the constructions, their size, their constructive qualities (military means), and the amplitude of their structures, offer a wide range of programmatic possibilities, from housing, to productive activities, passing by micro agriculture, breeding, sport, leisure, etc. It is therefore a whole model of living in a community that must be reinvented from the traces of the past by proposing balances based on the development forces at work in the Walloon capital, while respecting and creating links with the neighbouring habitat. But beyond the forms, it is above all a process of appropriation of the site that must be proposed, leaving to time the force of organic arbitrations associating nature with the culture of buildings and the landscape.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

The city vision is to create, beyond Public Housing, a “PlanetBike” with at least a “velodrome” on the site. For this program, the city has engaged a Quantity Surveyor study to evaluate de feasibility conditions of the whole project. Following a meeting with the Minister of Sport and Budget, the Mayor of Namur, the alderwoman of Ecological Transition, and different administration representatives, the process will start by a workshop in February with the winning and runner-up teams, crossing their vision with the feasibility study results. According to the workshop, the city will decide with which team the project shall be developed to get to a masterplan integrating the feasibility issues by the end of May 2022.

Namur (BE) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

CELESTE TELLARINI (IT) RICCARDO SALOMONI (IT) ARCHITECTS, URBANISTS

A MULTITUDE - BRUSSELS (BE) / MILAN (IT) +39 3493786448 / +39 3663304922 CELESTE.TELLARINI@GMAIL.COM / RICCARDO.SALOMONI95@GMAIL.COM / AMULTITUDE.XYZ@GMAIL.COM

A Non-binary Ecology Team point of view — With the expression Non-binary E­ cology we refer to all the matter that lies between two opposites definitions such as urban/rural, soft/hard, organic/human made. We want to enhance all the gradients that stand in the “infra-space”, to reveal and emphasise their hidden potential at all the design scales. The site of Namur Sart Hulet, silently standing between contrasting extremes, offers the opportunity of an original urban development that we enabled through the individuation of rules and examples: we structured our proposal with guidelines that we deepened through the design case studies. “Enhancement of the non-conforming”, “Zero Net land take” and “conscious domestication” are the three rules that guided all the design process.

Jury point of view — The jury appreciates the sensitivity of the proposal and how it goes from the global strategy to the detail.

There are different intensities in the strategies throughout the plot, with sometimes extremely delicate elements, small interventions that transform neglected areas into innovative cultural devices — while over times it is the intensity of construction that becomes a radical statement, such as the adaptive tower, the point of maximum density. The project covers the complete site, but with a recognizable coherence based on the ecological continuities, network of paths and corridors, and elements of infrastructure that follow the main routes.

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Namur (BE) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ZÉLIE DAVODEAU (FR) JULIE MAILLARD (FR) ARCHITECTS, URBANISTS

14 RUE D’ANNAM 75020 PARIS (FR) +33 65716476 / DAVODEAU.ZELIE@GMAIL.COM +33 643303320 / JULIE.YD.MAILLARD@GMAIL.COM

Le sol, le roseau et le cycliste

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Team point of view — Today, the former military base of Sart Hulet is seen as a closed and impenetrable place. This isolated area is now home to a unique flora and fauna in the middle of this largely urbanised and agricultural territory. With such open and closed landscapes, this diversity is an opportunity to enrich biodiversity. After the sites were abandoned, a rich fauna and flora naturally and peacefully strove in the area. This biodiversity is an invitation to act humbly.

How to offer the people of Namur a pleasant living environment without spoiling the Sart Hulet landscape and disturbing its biodiversity? What urban regulations can we draw from this particular case? And what if the already existing asphalt is key to preserving and revitalising the site?

Jury point of view — The jury appreciates this attentive project to the features of the environment that lets the site speak first. It offers precise and sensible analyses of the natural components of the landscape.The proposal is attentive also to the detail in the site, caring for the soil —that they intend to keep permeable, and also reused as a material for the project; keeping the existing buildings —for which adaptive programs are designated; and allowing for rewilding in substantial areas.The idea of its development plan is to focus on the cycle paths, using the strong existing car infrastructure to serve the facilities for sports, that are accommodated in the existing buildings with few extensions.

Västerås (SE) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — MÄLARPORTEN, CENTRAL VÄSTERÅS POPULATION — 154,000 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 90 HA - PROJECT SITE — 16 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF VÄSTERÅS ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — CITY OF VÄSTERÅS AND PROJECT INVOLVED PROPERTY OWNERS OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — CITY OF VÄSTERÅS AND PROJECT INVOLVED PROPERTY OWNERS

ISABELL L. EKLUND — Urban planner

VICTORIA BRANDEL — Creative Project Manager

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

With the help of temporary architecture, how can we make Mälarporten a living, attractive area while it is still being planned and built? How do we create identity and the desired values of safety, greenery, inclusion, and co-creation from the start?

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

Mälarporten is a central part of the city of Västerås, a part that already fulfils several different purposes for the city’s metabolism.

At the same time, there are many shortcomings and limitations that prevent the city’s system from working seamlessly. Barriers hinder the movement of people, abandoned spaces limit human presence and the nearly non-existent greenery fractures the city’s ecological system. By developing Mälarpor ten into a new and sustainable district, the various parts of the city will be woven together into a functioning and inclusive tapestry. Planning is already underway, and the entire area is expected to be finalised around 2045. But we can’t wait that long. We need to improve the area today, creating favourable conditions for green spaces and meetings between people. By developing temporary architecture, places and activities, we can attract residents from all over the city and make Mälarporten a living part of the city, even before the transformation of the area is completed.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

We have an idea of what the implementation process could look like and when we want the first measures in place. But since the winning proposals that we wish to engage have good ideas concerning this process, we would gladly develop those thoughts together.

Västerås (SE) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

KATHARINA IPSEN (DE), ARCHITECT TECLA SPRUIT (NL), ANTHROPOLOGIST WOLFRAM MEINER (DE), PINO HEYE (DE) ARCHITECTS, URBANISTS CÉCILE KERMAÏDIC (FR), ARCHITECT, GEOGRAPHER

CONTACT.EMERGENTLAB@GMAIL.COM

Vitality!

Team point of view — Our project proposes a metabolic approach to sustainable urban development. Our philosophy value is multilayered co-evolution in time, where the social and ecological are intertwined in synergy, as much as the Västerås municipality.

We meet the Europan 16 competition themes with vitality, from the foundations of Living Cities’s architecture to inclusive community-building. Our plan for democratic participation will spark these regenerative feedback loops. This co-evolution will happen through themed pavilions: 1. SOCIAL − for gatherings, events, and workshops; 2. GREEN − the soil from contamination, to fertilise it and plant trees; 3. WATER − purifying action of algae on polluted water, to rebirthing a habitat for aquatic species and to develop underwater ecosystems.

Jury point of view — Vitality is an airily presented proposal that shows a clear idea of the process, implementation and sustain­ ability questions. The team shows beautiful architectural additions in the form of several pavilions which can be developed into an industrial park. Vitality is based on questions about the purification of Lake Mälaren’s water and the ecology of the site. This puts the proposal in our contemporary context with the major challenges we see in the form of climate change, water level rise, population growth, etc. Vitality also includes strategies for water, greenery and social sustainability.

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Västerås (SE) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

MARCUS ANDERSSON (SE) MATS ANDERSSON (SE) MATILDA HANSSON JESSEN (SE) KLARA WAHLSTEDT (SE), ARCHITECTS

STUDIO TRÄDA +46 736879838 TRADA.ARKITEKTUR@GMAIL.COM @STUDIOTRADA

Landscapes of Encounters

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Team point of view — By enhancing existing qualities found at the site in Västerås, this proposal aims to discuss which kinds of landscapes the urban fabric could host. Vegetation, habitats, built elements, events and reuse are introduced as strategies for announcing presences and inviting the citizens to get engaged in the area. This will open-up negotiations between the species that are inhabiting the place, acknowledging the multitude of world-making agencies that the living city possesses. A living city that is to be read as a place in which natural processes, humans and non-humans are entangled in each other’s life-worlds. And in which architecture can become a guiding practice that enhances the twist and turns a process might take if we allow others to take part of it.

Jury point of view —The project has its strongest qualities in how the site is treated to increase biodiversity. By analysing the site’s conditions with ruderal plants, piles of rubble, clay quarries and other objects, a development is described where Mälarporten, primarily through natural processes, will become a more sustain­ able place with room for people, plants and animals. The method is simple on paper : first examine the site, what could be used?

Then invite interested parties. These parties move in and develop.

Västerås (SE) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

MATTIAS DAHLBERG (SE), ANTON LINDSTRÖM (SE) ARCHITECTS ANNAPAOLA BUSNARDO (IT), LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

+46 736407475 INFO@DABUARK.SE

Making Space Team point of view — This is an effort to care for old industry and dirty earth —and to display the spectacle of the work that is needed to rehabilitate the places we so diligently have grounded down. Our suggestions are simple: a cleansing marshland with a narrow red bridge, a floating garden, nurseries for the plants of future parks, and three pavilions providing modest views, roofs, and toilets for the non-non-humans. This site, like most these days, is a patchwork of spaces left over from planning for humans, producing strange corridors and appendixes. So what better way is there to plan for it than making space for something other than us? Refusing the site and re-fusing it. Showing some grace and leaving be. But not before we’ve picked up our own trash; so that maybe we’ll be welcomed back in the future.

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Västerås (SE) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

CATHERINE DEZIO (IT) MICHELE MARIA RIVA (IT) MARTA ROSSENA (IT) ARCHITECTS

GRUPPOMRMR VIA AUGUSTO RIGHI 11, 20851 LISSONE (MB), (IT) +39 3336765827 GRUPPO.MRMR@GMAIL.COM / @MICHIFROLLIS

NY VÄG! Move around Team point of view — NY VÄG is a metabolic infrastructure that works as an open platform for people to explore, learn, meet, imagine and experiment life in Mälarporten, that will become a mutable experimental district, based on accessibility, inclusion, participation and on the creative potential of people and places.

NY VÄG is an open and modifiable system capable of welcoming new flows, ideas, inputs from the community. It is composed by a main spine and its changeable nodes: the pathway, a slow ex­­ploring track for soft mobility; the transformable archetypes, that allow to experiment different way of living in relation to people’s need together with the specificity of the sites. NY VÄG, as a temporary experiment, expects a permanent outline that is people interactions and the relationship between the community and the city space.

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Transforming from the infrastructures

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On these sites, the starter for a change is the evolution of the networks integrating a new logic of mobility.

Klagenfurt (AT)

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La Porte du Hainaut (FR)

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Risøy (NO)

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Varberg (SE)

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Klagenfurt (AT) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — KLAGENFURT POPULATION — 101,403 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 66.4 HA / PROJECT SITE — 6.4 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF KLAGENFURT ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — CITY OF KLAGENFURT, STADTWERKE KLAGENFURT, KMBGMBH, AUTOWELT SINTSCHNIG, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — STADTWERKE KLAGENFURT, KMBGMBH, AUTOWELT SINTSCHNIG, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE

ROBERT PIECHL —

Director of the Planning Department, City of Klagenfurt

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

The site is one of the most attractive areas for urban development in the city within the next ten years. In the current global and climatic situation the use of this land is crucially important to provide answers for future living scenarios. Next to a regional mobility hub with a high-speed European train connection in lieu, we expect visionary ideas on living concepts without cars but with maximum mobility. The site is also located in the midst of educational institutions and, if not fenced off like it is now, would be heavily frequented by young people and those involved in education. We expect a porous, open, and inspiring quarter for learning, discovering, and exchange. Another characteristic is the substantial size of the site, 6.1 hectares in total, thus providing a scale where concepts can enfold and make an actual impact.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The term “new learning” is understood as an inclusive way of sharing knowledge: primary/secondary education meets pioneers, science, professionals, craftsmanship, innovation, digitisation, creativity, possibilities —for everyone. Education needs to be rethought to allow a fruitful, benevolent, and exciting exploration of knowledge.

This place is intended to become a lab for the cross-­fertilisation of ideas, combined with social functions and workplaces on the ground floor and housing above. A range of typologies provides living spaces for people who value a centralised and well-­ connected location. We expect the high-speed train connection to feed into this scenario to contribute to a mixed place with slow mobility, prioritising pedestrians and bikes to contribute to a lively community.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

We came to Europan at an early stage of the planning process to involve new ideas from the star t and set the stage to welcome visionary input. The winning proposal suggests a stringent and robust structure of urban sequences, which seems very suit­ able. Realistically, it will take a couple of years until existing tenants move out and the first plots become available to build. Our aim is to involve and consult the winning team where possible in the further processes.

Klagenfurt (AT) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

ARTEM KITAEV (RU) DMITRII PRIKHODKO (RU) LEONID SLONIMSKIY (RU) ARCHITECTS, URBANISTS

GRIGORI PARFJONOV (EE), URBAN MOBILITY EXPERT LAVRENTY CHELTSOV (RU), DILIARA NURISLAMOVA (RU) SEMEN SELYUTIN (RU), ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS

KOSMOS, GRAZ (AT) WWW.K-S-M-S.COM @KOSMOS_ARCHITECTS

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Team point of view — Working, living, making, learning, & enjoying Our site becomes an alternative, new centre of Klagenfur t. It is a new centre of attraction for citizens, students, businesses.

The system of existing green spaces around the historical centre is supported by a New green ring.The spine of public spaces offers a new pedestrian connection. The enfilade of public squares creates the main circulation route and forms a spine of public spaces of the site. Each of the 5 squares has their own scale, function and atmo­ sphere: Educational; Multipurpose square; Makers square; Cultural square; Market square. Each of the 5 parks celebrates the diversity of greenery in the city. Dispersed education as one of the main functions on the site exists almost in every building.

Jury point of view — The jury values the strong concept, its clear presentation and attractive narrative. The coherence between the development of the ground floors, the built volumes and the different types of spaces is convincing, resulting in a specified urban pattern adequate for this site. The sequence of spaces conveys a certain fluidity, whereby a lot of attention is put into achieving a variety of public spaces, a sequence of squares with networked courtyards and gardens. It is much appreciated that the proposal emerges from an analysis of the larger context and incorporates the scale and tonality of the existing city.

Klagenfurt (AT) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

IZABELA SŁODKA (PL) XANDER VAN DIJK (NL) ARCHITECTS

STUDIO IZA SŁODKA, ROTTERDAM (NL) CONTACT@IZASLODKA.COM / WWW.IZASLODKA.COM XANDER VAN DIJK ARCHITECTUUR, AMSTERDAM (NL) XANDER@XVANDIJK.NL / WWW.XVANDIJK.NL

Tracing Domains

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Team point of view — At the heart of Viktringer Vorstadt lies a site in desperate need of a new structure — not a superimposed model, but a resilient framework for future growth. To create a unique part of the city, the proposed strategy is to investigate the existing fabric and its domains, to identify and complete them, so they can propagate outwards and revitalize each other.

Overlapping domains meet and form an open network of public interiors — a new realm for sharing, exchange, and learning. Each mediates with the context, while creating a defined assemblage of various typologies. The site is a laboratory of interconnected domestic prototypes, mixed with interdisciplinary education and diverse green public spaces thus reinforcing Klagenfurt as a destination along the Baltic-Adriatic corridor.

Jury point of view —The project is valued for its comprehensively worked out structure of public spaces and for creating thoughtful continuities. It proposes a flexible logic of agglomeration of the different significant parts, for which the structure of public spaces creates a unifying framework; within this framework each operation can articulate its own autonomy and its own meaning.

The quality of walking through the public space is estimated, its elegantly meandering situation reasonably addressed: courtyards, a linear structure, covered areas… It is one of the projects that communicates with the outside in an interesting and subtle way.

La Porte du Hainaut (FR) SCALE — XL/L/S TERRITORIAL / URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL / ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — COMMUNAUTÉ D’AGGLOMÉRATION DE LA PORTE DU HAINAUT (59), HAUTS-DE-FRANCE POPULATION — 158,789 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 14 HA CAPH MINING COMMUNITIES PROJECT SITES — ESCAUTPONT: 3,8 HA + RAISMES: 60,6 HA + WALLERS: 4,9 HA + ESCAUDIN-LOURCHES: 27,5 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — COMMUNAUTÉ D’AGGLOMÉRATION LA PORTE DU HAINAUT ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — COMMUNAUTÉ D’AGGLOMÉRATION LA PORTE DU HAINAUT, CAUE DU NORD, MISSION BASSIN MINIER, LANDLORDS MAISONS&CITÉS ET SIA OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — PUBLIC ACTORS

JEAN-PAUL MOTTIER — Head of Major Projects, Agglomeration Community of the Porte du Hainaut and elected representative of Raismes

Wallers

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Escautpont

Raismes

Escaudain-Lourches

1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

— How do you plan to make these mining sites evolve so that they remain the witnesses of a memory that must be alive and evolving, a will of all the local actors and a condition to be respected to remain listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site?

— How do you see the links to be maintained and sometimes rebuilt between these different mining sites that line the “mining vine” of Hainaut being materialized on the ground? How do you plan their evolution so that they become a major element of the existing urban fabric and participate in the attractiveness of their territories?

— The participation of the inhabitants, in the reclaiming of their mining territories, is a shared desire, in what ways could it become a reality?

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The “Hainaut mining vine” has proved since the 80’s, when the exploitation of its different pits was closed, the rapidity of its “natural metabolic” evolution and its efficiency. Nature has regained its rights, it has regained possession of the landscape, which it shapes “by hand”, day after day. Have men developed this same capacity of resilience? Inclusivity can be understood, in this case, as the need to involve the greatest number of inhabitants of these mining towns in the evolution of their living environment and thus perpetuate the cooperation and mutual aid that still characterizes the social life of these towns. Is it still relevant?

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

The will is to include the three selected projects in a “co-­ construction/implementation” approach. At first, we are going to invite the three teams to present their project to the elected officials and technicians concerned. This meeting will be an opportunity to discuss with them a working method that we hope will be collaborative, in the sense of co-construction with all the actors concerned and in particular the inhabitants. Finally, we hope that this collaborative work will lead, if all the conditions are met, to concrete implementations, through the setting up of implementation missions.

La Porte du Hainaut (FR) — Winner

AUTHOR(S) MARION LACAS (FR), ARCHITECT JACQUES IPPOLITI (FR), ARCHITECT, URBANIST

CONTACT VIS-À-VIS ARCHITECTURE - URBANISME 2 RUE THÉOPHILE ROUSSEL, 75012 PARIS (FR) +33 664725735 CONTACT@VIS-A-VIS.LAND / WWW.VIS-A-VIS.LAND

Short Stories from the Fragmented City

Waterways

Historical village centre

Wetland

Industries (auto/aero/pharma)

Agricultural landscape

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Weak Urbanism — New local collaborations

Fringe Urbanism — Reweave without densifying

Team point of view — The project Shor t Stories from the Fragmented City takes the form of four micro-territorial short stories, each of which takes as its starting point the observation of a local phenomenon, specific uses and situated lifestyles.This in order to imagine the reconfiguration of a situation, the development of a “weak” centrality to try to trace its large-scale implications. This zoomed-out approach suggests thinking of the territory through the vitality of these fragments in order to grasp the potentialities of organisation on a large scale, instead of starting from a definition of a large territory that would give particular qualities to the local.

Jury point of view — The team proposes a clever method of analysis and projection, suitable to a multipolar territory, with a capacity to project to a territorial scale based on a typology of localised situations and proposals. The panels are immediately legible and coherent, showing how each element plays a role and how the assemblage of the fragments constitutes a narrative. This proposal establishes pertinent milestones for a project approach with the capacity to connect all the scales.

Constellation Urbanism — Playful magnets

La Porte du Hainaut (FR) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

NATHAN HENON-HILAIRE (FR), THOMAS LECOURT (FR), EDOUARD CAILLIAU (FR) ARCHITECTS ROMAIN AUBIN (FR), LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

ATELIER NATHAN HENON-HILAIRE 22 RUE EMILE DESMET, 59000 LILLE (FR) +33 787701175 ATELIER@NATHANHENONHILAIRE.FR

L’école-village

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Team point of view — The school becomes the support for future history. We see the school of tomorrow as a place to develop interaction and life within the community. It’s a school for and by the village. It is multifaceted, living and ever-evolving.

It’s a vector for the development of future inhabitants; it’s a place of possibilities: that of the interactions. It opens towards the village, with unexpected crossings, and then it closes itself once and again to protect its students.This new equipment is simultaneously intended for the school’s students and the local population, benefiting from new places: a library, a sports hall, a music room, a dining area, workshops… The use range of such a facility extends beyond itself and revitalises the urban fabric. This way, the town becomes “walkable”, facilitating the encounters. Adapted to the different scales, a string of micro-interventions develops itself along this thread and broadens the uses. Thus, the school comes out of its boundaries and makes village and community.

Jury point of view — The team targets one of the project sites and provides a pertinent response to the sub- theme of inclusive vitalities based on the school as a place for living, encounter and natural convergence. The project is remarkably well drawn.

It proposes a mode of action that complements other territorial proposals, which immediately addresses the next generation and can play a very strong catalytic role for wider urban changes.

La Porte du Hainaut (FR) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

BJÖRN BRACKE (BE) JOKE VANDE MAELE (BE) LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS, URBANISTS

NATAN VAN LOON (BE) LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

KOLLEKTIF LANDSCAPE SASSEVAARTSTRAAT 46/209 9000 GENT (BE) INFO@KOLLEKTIF.BE WWW.KOLLEKTIF.BE

Eco-hub Raismes Team point of view — The Eco-hub Raismes project builds on an ambitious vision for a “European Wildlife Park Hainaut” as an answer to the accelerating decline of biodiversity on our planet.

The park encompasses a strategic region in Belgium and France with unique and diverse habitat areas where nature can be actively cultivated and experienced. Within this framework, Raismes becomes an important hotspot to experience nature and a laboratory for new, nature-inclusive, templates for recreation, food, nature management, education, research, etc. Nature becomes a catalyst for new activities and opportunities for the region in which the unique mining history can also take up a new role.The Eco-hub will be further developed with a clear ecological framework and a focus on sustainable mobility, local integration, and natural capital.

Jury point of view — The emphasis on the transborder scale was unanimously judged as highly relevant, in particular in a European competition of ideas. However, the project is subject to interpretation regarding the relationship to nature and prompted contrasting reactions. Part of the jury supported this proposal: rather than treating nature as a sanctuary, the project proposes to experience rather than exploit it, and contributes to creating a positive imaginative identification. Some jury members criticised modes of representation that suggest the atmosphere of a tourist park, which does not fully reflect the variety of the landscapes.

Peregrine falcon

European honey buzzard

Greater horseshoe bat

Red deer

Northern crested newt

Red fox

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Risøy (NO)

Photo: Birger Hovland ©Aibel

SCALE — L - URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — RISØY, HAUGESUND POPULATION — 570 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 195 HA / PROJECT SITE — 27 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — HAUGESUND MUNICIPALITY ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — HAUGESUND MUNICIPALITY OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — PRIVATE AND PUBLIC LAND OWNERS

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Photo: Jacob Sætre ©Aibel

CITY OF RISØY & EUROPAN NORWAY —

1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

The main question is how to make Risøy a better place to live.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The site is closely linked to the inclusivity theme. The island suffers from a lack of services and poor upkeep of public space. Even though it is so close to the centre it is poorly connected and suffers from a poor reputation. Despite all this the local identity is strong and proud, and the island is crucial to the city’s economy and an important gateway. It requires a very sensitive approach.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

We use Europan to coordinate a larger municipal strategy at Risøy that spans across many departments, from urban planning, to social housing and culture. We find that Europan has a great potential to unite many different measures under a unified idea. We hope it will bring people together. The commission for the winning teams was part of the competition program. It includes a set of temporary interventions to kickstart the transformation, and then designing a courtyard for some municipality owned buildings and a street use plan.

Risøy (NO) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ERLEND STRØNSTAD (NO), AGATHE MONNET (FR) ONA M. AUSKELYTE (LT), IDA J. VE (NO) OLAV KILDAL (NO), ARCHITECTS

HELGESENS GATE 82 E 0563 OSLO (NO) +47 95079714 E.STROENSTAD@GMAIL.COM

Ripples in the Water

Conceptual layer 1 — Commons

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Conceptual layer 4 — Loop

Team point of view — The project approaches the task by first defining a renewed vision for Smedasundet as a recreational grand canal. It states that a successful strategy for the city centre as a whole depends on the role and vitality of Smedasundet as the most important public space in the city.

Through a series of scenarios, it investigates how developments at Risøy can contribute to this vision while it also takes advantage of a stronger integration in the city to spark social and economic investments in its internal neighbourhoods and public spaces.

As a design response, the project proposes six conceptual layers that can be adapted to short-term and long-term actions. The conceptual layers should be considered as flexible ideas that can be implemented step-by-step and through experimental methods in collaboration between local authorities, private developers and residents.

Jury point of view — The main idea in this winning concept is to connect the island of Risøy closer to the mainland of Haugesund.

The strength of the proposal is the clear and convincing plan that underlines this connection and utilises the unused qualities of Risøy as an asset to both Risøy and the town of Haugesund. The grid layout from the old street structure from 1856 is used and further developed to integrate the two parts in a common structure and framework. The role of the water in a biodiversity perspective is considered and understood. The coherent promenade around the island and access to the waterfront is also important in this perspective.

Risøy (NO) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

JOHAN VAN LING (NL), THIJS DE BOER (NL), URBANISTS LYNN EWALTS (NL), ARCHITECT CHARLOTTE VAN DER WOUDE (NL), LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

VOID URBANISM JOHAN@VOIDSPACES.EU WWW.VOIDSPACES.EU

The Third Space

Infrastructure as barrier

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The Third Space as a connector

Team point of view — Third places “host the regular, voluntary, informal, and happily anticipated gatherings of individuals beyond the realms of home (first space) and work (second space)’’.

The infrastructure that was once conceived to connect functions, has changed into a barrier which separates the harbour area, cruise pier and residential area both spatially and socially.The Third Space brings these users and functions together in the heart of the island and divides this line into roughly three places, corresponding to the three time-layers and users. In all three places, a spatial mix of landscape, urban grid and harbour is formed to create a Risøy specific identity. A mixed zone, which can cope with different uses, quantities of users, rhythms of use, meanings and target groups.

Jury point of view — The project presents a holistic take on the development of Risøy. It is a comprehensive proposal that brings together the whole island and all the key actors in a new urban mix — a third space. The authors address four fundamental changes influencing Risøy: climate change, the end of the fossil era, demography and growth in tourism and see them as opportunities and “drivers of change”. This leads to a strategy handling local issues of lack of qualitative public space, no reasons to visit and the barriers between port, pier, and residential areas.

Risøy (NO) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

JENS NYBOE ANDERSEN (DK), KARL JOHAN BAGGINS (DK) LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS BENEDICTE RAHBEK (DK), ARCHITECT

KRONPRINSESSEGADE 10, 3 TV. 1306 COPENHAGEN K (DK) JENSNYBOEANDERSEN@GMAIL.COM

Life in All its Settings Team point of view — We propose to implement a new recreational connection on the edge of Risøy.The Risøy Route has experiential variation, and can be divided into an urban part, a harbour part and an industrial part. By making the nature, the sea, and the industrial cultural heritage accessible, the edge of the island and the island itself will become a destination for Haugesund, potentially the entire Haugeland. Everyone will have more access to the common area which surrounds the island: the water. Residents and visitors can watch and follow the fascinating industry of Aibel and the structures which are under development: a facilitation of the story of a century long cultural heritage and still to this day vital workplace in Haugesund. The combination of nature and largescale industry so close to a city centre is simply unique. The town needs to embrace the shipyard.

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Risøy (NO) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ILYA PUGACHENKO (RU), ALLA ANISKOVA (RU) ANDREI SAIKO (RU), ARCHITECTS

NEDRE HOLMEGATE, 4006 STAVANGER (NO) +47 96839343 ILYAPUGACHENKO@GMAIL.COM

Sleeping Beauty Team point of view — Risøy is like a tiny world in itself but with an excellent connection and closest proximity to the centre of Haugesund. There are enough municipal areas including green parks that can be developed into high-quality outdoor spaces and be actively used by all generations and social groups. There are also several municipal or semi/private buildings that have a great potential to become successful commercial public places.The proj­ ect tells a story of how the potential of the island is used to create a place with the high quality of living. We suggest a sequence of interventions. Starting from tiny changes outside the houses that can be made by the residents already now in 2021 and ending with dramatic transformation of the existing bridge into an iconic park that can be planned for 2025-2026.

Risøy (NO) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

DIEGO SOLOGUREN (ES) JUAN ROQUE URRUTIA (ES) ARCHITECTS

DIEGO SOLOGUREN RUE DE L’ALE 30, 1003 LAUSANNE (CH) +41 787427811 / DIEGOSOLOGUREN@GMAIL.COM WWW.DIEGOSOLOGUREN.COM / WWW.SHARONI-URRUTIA.COM

Ri-Torn Team point of view — A defined, yet open, framework for growth. We propose a model for urban development that merges sensibilities, rights, and interests through an adaptative strategy.The proposal is a time-based system constructed together: celebrating and integrating differences, taking care of the vulnerable, and offering space for the new. The project sketches an interdependency within a territory with two differentiated areas: a charismatic neighbourhood and a busy shipyard shifting towards sustainable activities. Overtime, it allows Risøy’s reposition as a research campus in a league of North Sea cities. The settlement of initiatives within the island will be the materialisation of civic agreements, ultimately becoming a destination with the new places for its community.

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Varberg (SE) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — VARBERG POPULATION — 65,000 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 300 HA / PROJECT SITE — 12 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — MUNICIPALITY OF VARBERG ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — MUNICIPALITY OF VARBERG OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — MUNICIPALITY OF VARBERG AND PRIVATE

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

The main questions asked to the competitors are related to the transformation of the current road and barrier into a living environment. The main focus has been on four main themes: to create an integrating structure through new connections and relations, to propose new mobility solutions and how they could be a part of the new design, to preserve and develop the green structures with a focus on ecosystem services as well as climate adaptations and social values and to propose a feasible implementation by suggesting processes, uses and starting points for implementation.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The site is very clearly linked to the two subtopics of metabolism and inclusivity. The focus of the transformations is, as described above, both to handle the role of the study site in the general structure of a resilient city and to create a new connectivity and exchange between existing neighbourhoods.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

We have not yet defined a specific process for the further development of the site. The site is defined in strategic documents and will be addressed through regular processes of planning, but within that framework the competition brief has asked for the proposals to address the question and the future process of dialogue and development of the area.

Varberg (SE) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

MARTA BENEDETTI (IT), DAVID VECCHI (IT) DAVIDE FUSER (IT), MARIA LETIZIA GARZOLI (IT) ARCHITECTS

DAVIDE MAGGIO (IT) ARCHITECT

E16MILIEU@GMAIL.COM

Make the Backs Fronts (Again)!

Team point of view — The human, but also the living, are at the centre of our city making again. Renewed awareness of holistic urban ecosystems has identified and inspired the need for more caring cities, landscapes for living cities.

The ongoing development of our societies’ lifestyle prompts new strategies for sustainable neighbourhood planning. Working habits, shifting productive economies, living patterns, health and well-being, leisure and socialisation are interconnected and call for greater integration at all scales.

Make The Backs Fronts (Again)! aims at a gentle, human scale densification, a smarter urbanisation. Trädlyckevägen is the epicentre of this action, a high street of the newest generation, one that can satisfy the physical, mental and social health of the neighbourhood.

Jury point of view — The team takes an impressive holistic approach for the project and develops the site with a proposal that can do many different things at the same time. The proposal has a clear strategy for implementation, starting with Trädlyckevägen and the area around Håstens torg to make an attractive centre.

And then develop in a second phase the so-called mobility Hubs.

The proposal is justified based on the objectives in the Living Cities concept and has a clear climate perspective.The districts of Håsten and Karlberg will be connected by different means. The buildings have a nice scale that is connected to the place.

Gaustadbekken Syd, Oslo (NO)

Sankt-Kjelds-Square, Copenhagen (DK)

Klima Byen, Middelfart (DK)

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Varberg (SE) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

PELLE JUUL CARLSEN (DK) OSKAR VESTERGAARD (DK) ARCHITECTS

JUUL CARLSEN STUDIO, AARHUS (DK) +45 31517274 WWW.JUULCARLSENSTUDIO.DK WWW.OVJARKITEKTER.DK

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Team point of view — Our proposal for the future development of Trädlycke revolves around creating the best conditions for a lively and regenerative neighbourhood where nature and biodiversity plays an integrated and significant role. The proposal works through a premise that secures urban life and liveability in synergy with the surrounding districts. Furthermore, it creates easy transitions and connections to the adjoining contextual features.

These new connections are paramount to make sure residents and users from the adjacent neighbourhoods contribute to the new community and vice versa. Creating differentiated building typologies in addition to catering to a wide demographic group creates a diverse and coherent city district that binds the existing city together.

Jury point of view — The team presents a complete project adapted to the site with many empathetic solutions elegantly pres­ ented. The buildings are docked in the existing districts in a skilful way. Trädlyckevägen remains in its position but narrows down, which the jury has found to be the solution that best utilizes ex­­ isting resources in the form of street infrastructures and ex­­isting pipelines while providing the best flexibility for the expansion.

Håstens torg is presented as a place across Trädlyckevägen. The proposal is clearly presented with a visualization that emphasizes the connection from north to south.

Varberg (SE) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ÁLVARO CLUA UCEDA (ES) JAVI MORERA MINGUEZA (ES) ARCHITECTS, URBANISTS ALEIX SALAZAR ALOY (ES), ARCHITECT MIKEL BERRA SANDÍN (ES), URBANIST

ALVAROCLUA@GMAIL.COM / WWW.ALVAROCLUA.COM JAVIMORERA10@HOTMAIL.COM / WWW.JAVIMORERA.COM ALEIX.SALAZARALOY@GMAIL.COM MIKEL.BERRASANDIN@GMAIL.COM / WWW.MIKELBERRASANDIN.COM

Lifeline Team point of view — Our project aims to give a new character to Trädlyckevägen, transforming it into a living and active street towards Varberg’s city centre, a LIFELINE. To do so, the project inserts a new logic of mobility which gathers all modes and fosters closer distances. This allows gentle growth along the street, with several buildings that integrate in the existing fabric while adding new activities and creating a vibrant centre. The intervention enhances the natural values of the place and is to be developed in a participatory and gradual manner. The holistic and integrative approach of the project creates a human-scale realm that brings the area back to life. Therefore, we are offering Varberg the LIFELINE it needs to keep growing as a vibrant and liveable city.

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Making territories performative

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On these sites, the territory needs to be reconnected to its social context to add new creative and cultural qualities.

Alzira (ES)

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Bassens / Bordeaux Métropole (FR)

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Douaisis Agglo (FR)

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Fagerstrand (NO)

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Wernigerode (DE)

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Alzira (ES) SCALE — L/S URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL / ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — ALZIRA, VALENCIA POPULATION — 44,352 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 12.5 HA / PROJECT SITE — 10.945 SQM SITE PROPOSED BY — VALENCIA REGIONAL GOVERNMENT ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — ALZIRA MUNICIPALITY OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — PUBLIC/PRIVATE

NURIA MATARREDONA DESANTES —

General Director of Ecological Building Innovation (Vice-presidency of Valencia Regional Government) 1/ What are the main questions asked of the competitors for the transformation of the site?

How to generate the growth of the city and the integration of the different urban plots? Is it possible that the transformation seeks to respond to the inclusion of different social, economic and cultural conditions of the different areas of the city?

Can the architecture of the area respond to the needs of different families? Bioclimatic architecture should not generate a new neighbourhood or ghetto, but rather integrate different classes and social needs of the city, in order to generate a city and not establish boundaries between neighbourhoods and building typologies.

What aspects of the proposal go in this direction?

In the area of reflection, how is the network of public spaces configured and how does it collaborate in the connection of the nearby natural environment? Or how does the materiality of the building systems define the elements of urbanization and urban spaces in the area?

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2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

This site is considered as a living metabolism capable of transforming the way of living in the city of Alzira. It is located in a sector of developable land in development activated by municipal management with provision for administrative and social services, along with a network of open spaces, not only in the sector itself, but in the scope of the entire city.

The articulation of the urban areas of the existing city has equality, gender perspective, inclusion and universal accessibility as a priority.

The proposal of this site as the beginning of an inclusive dynamic plan between different areas of the city with unequal economic, social and cultural characteristics. Innovative responses in an area of the city that solves the problems inherent to the dispersion of neighbourhoods, their isolation and urban disconnection, as is the case of the neighbourhoods of Torretxo and l’Alquerieta.

View of the school and the site

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a process proposal from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their winning projects?

The urban planning, in preparation, foresees that the Sector PPR11 (area scale L) will be developed through the planning instrument of the Partial Plan. Based on the winning ideas, the starting point is established to propose to the teams the elaboration of a document of preliminary studies of the urban planning of the area of reflection (yellow area, macro residential block), also the Basic Preliminary Project of Bioclimatic Building for the plot indicated as S scale.

Alzira (ES) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

HÉCTOR SALCEDO GARCÍA (ES) ARCHITECT

STUDIO SWES ARCHITECTS, SEVILLA (ES) +34 667557451 / STUDIOSWES@GMAIL.COM WWW.STUDIOSWES.COM

Orangerie Team point of view — The values of the landscape of orange trees have progressively lost relevance. For this reason, Orangerie proposes to recover the social, productive, identity and environmental values of this historic territory, based on the canonic structure of the orange trees orchard: an orthogonal grid of orange trees, stone walls, water ponds, and beautiful ornamental gardens.

We use some architectural references to build the idea of the project. Our proposal takes an urban configuration based on the “Espansiva building system” designed by Jørn Utzon. The proposal recognises and respects the historical condition of the site, symbolically relating to agriculture and the orange tree orchards. The materials, the light, the shapes, the scheme of the façade, and the new public space create a bridge between the productive past of the place with the time in which we currently find ourselves.

Jury point of view — In this project there is a new principal axis that should articulate the future urban form in this area of Alzira.

It is an element capable of linking to each other the open spaces, the historic uses of this area and city facilities, putting them in direct connection to their territory. Orangerie proposes to recover the social, productive, identity and environmental values of this historic territory, by the orthogonal grid of the orange trees orchards. The jury likes the way in which the only rudimentary surviving old landscape structure of retaining walls and irrigation structure is used and revitalized.

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Alzira (ES) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

SERGIO LLOBREGAT (ES), JOAN MARAVILLA (ES) ÁLVARO OLIVARES (ES), ESTHER SANCHIS (ES) ARCHITECTS

CALLE MAYOR, 31, 46110 GODELLA (VALENCIA) (ES) +34 637562478 ALVARO.OLIVARES.1@GMAIL.COM

Breezeblocks Team point of view — The proposal seeks to complete a network of green areas that serve Alzira and link it to its natural spaces. The intervention is then used not only to connect the city with its hospital, but also to create a new access to La Murta and, in addition, materialise the union between the neighbourhoods of La Alquerieta, Torretxó and the city. A social rescue plan is proposed, supported by agricultural work, the use of water and energy production to involve all citizens, thus closing a circular economy system that recovers traditional activities and favours social miscegenation. The breezeblocks are introduced, a sequenced housing blocks characterised by visual permeability and energy efficiency.

This model of collective housing includes productive uses and leisure spaces so that the architecture itself acts as a social catalyst and dissolves, in turn, the housing-work binomial.

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Bassens / Bordeaux Métropole (FR) SCALE — XL/S TERRITORIAL / ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — BASSENS (33) POPULATION — BASSENS 7,500 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 2300 HA / PROJECT SITE — 340 HA (2 SITES) SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF BASSENS, BORDEAUX METROPOLE, GRAND PORT MARITIME OF BORDEAUX ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — CITY OF BASSENS, BORDEAUX METROPOLE, GRAND PORT MARITIME OF BORDEAUX, GPV RIVE DROITE OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — CITY OF BASSENS, BORDEAUX METROPOLE, GRAND PORT MARITIME OF BORDEAUX AND PRIVATE

HÉLÈNE LACASSAGNE — Urban Project Manager,

Grand Projet des Villes, Rive Droite

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

How to offer a living relationship to the Garonne and to the natural spaces? How to encourage synergies between economic actors and citizens in favour of a circular economy, the decarbonization of industrial-port activities and the development of know-how? How can we meet the different needs for mobility and encourage the fluidity of movements, by relying on river, rail and road transport, by deploying active modes and by linking the industrial-port plain to the inhabited area, but also to the two banks of the Garonne?

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

Regarding metabolism, the site questions the management of interfaces between natural and urban spaces for the preservation of biodiversity, adaptation to climate change and the ecological transition. It requires symbiosis and hybridization.

And with regard to inclusivity, the site involves not only workers, inhabitants and visitors, but also non-human living beings. It opens up reflections on the accessibility of the river for different uses and the vocation of urban wastelands for a re-appropriation for the benefit of all and of biodiversity.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

The three partners, the City of Bassens, Bordeaux Metropole and the Grand Port Maritime of Bordeaux, are currently defining collectively the follow-up to this Europan 16 competition with all the complexity that such a vast site, in transition, at the crossroads of issues implies. A proposal for a process of implementation by the winning candidates is welcomed.

Bassens / Bordeaux Métropole (FR) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

T. MONTARNIER-MICHAELOUDES (FR) M. MONTARNIER-MICHAELOUDES (FR) P. DE CATHELINEAU (FR), ARCHITECTS K. MICHELS (FR), LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

H. UTEAU (FR), E.FILLIAT (FR) E. VANBORREN (FR), ARCHITECTS S. BRAZ (FR), LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT E. LECLERCQ (FR), PHILOSOPHER Z. BAURENS (FR), ARCHITECTURE STUDENT

CONTACT

KENO ARCHITECTES 16 RUE CHARLES DE FOUCAULD 33150 CENON (FR) CONTACT@KENO.ARCHI WWW.KENO.ARCHI

Symbiotic BOOM! Team point of view — The Anthropocene’s state is critical, but not lost. Bassens represents a way to rebuild a society that is more sustainable, attractive and inclusive. At the nexus of biotic and abiotic infrastructures, the industrial port territory has the potential to transcend an ownership economy into an economy of usage, through bountiful land and logistic infrastructures. To rethink an urbanised Gaia, we need to reinstate collaborative intelligence in human and natural systems. The result is a symbiotic economy where every single element is valued for the potential it carries rather than for its immediate worth. SYMBIOTIC BOOM! seeks resilience. Through functional hybridisation, what is already there can become welcoming. With the “right to use”, citizens are united in rebuilding a social capital.

Jury point of view — The jury praised a proposal that is systemic, complete and rounded, including in architectural terms. The team applies method and employs a set of urban, logistical and architectural solutions that echo the Productive Cities theme of the previous Europan session. The project entails an upheaval in ways of doing things and constitutes matter for thought about catalysts for synergies between the territory’s public and economic actors.

The proposed modus operandi is clearly rooted in a rationale of metabolism.

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Bassens / Bordeaux Métropole (FR) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

MARINE OUDARD (FR) LYDIA BLASCO YUBERO (ES) ARCHITECTS, URBANISTS

BENOITE DANEELS LE FÈVRE (FR) LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

MARINE OUDARD, PARIS (FR) +33 778020121 MARINEOUDARD@BERKELEY.EDU

River (S)trips Team point of view — 2050, the port of Bassens has become THE model of an urban and sustainable port! The frontier that existed between the industrial zone and the inhabited plateau in the 2020s has disappeared. River (S)trips have reconnected the city, the port and the river, supporting soft mobility and varied uses. We like to discover the formidable industrial heritage by bike: frescoes on the silos, a new park in the depolluted oil tanks or belvederes and observation platforms.

And biodiversity has returned! Long absent from a port that was heavily mineralised, the landscaping has borne fruit! Whether in the Green Window Park or in the Biomass Forest, one can discover ecological environments of great diversity.

Finally, these strips are also great production areas and the port now produces 100% of the energy it consumes! A successful challenge thanks to the Bassens Vivant 2050 Charter!

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Jury point of view — The team reveals issues of landscape, biodiversity and reconnection to the Garonne, by applying a principle of plot composition and organisation characteristic of the right bank in Bordeaux. The proposal to structure the site by means of multifunctional landscape strips (landscape windows, biodiversity corridors, active mobilities and micro-stays…) is to be treated as a principle of planning that requires more detailed work, in order not to compromise the operation and logistical flows of the dock zone. The proposal appears credible in landscape terms, although its systematism was criticised by some jury members.

Bassens / Bordeaux Métropole (FR) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S) JULIEN DOUILLET (FR) ELENA GÁMEZ MIGUÉLEZ (ES) JAVIER PELÁEZ GARCÍA (ES) ARCHITECTS

CONTACT BEIJING (CN) / MADRID (ES) HOLA@FOAMS.ES WWW.FOAMS.ES

Garonne Metropole Team point of view — Garonne Metropole is an urban strategy to re-imagine the region of Bassens and its surrounding territories. The goal is to transform the Garonne River into a singular downtown that generates revitalised dynamics between port, landscape and city. These three longitudinal systems currently operate as a constellation of independent islands, neglecting access to the waterfront. Four strategies are suggested to achieve alternative centrality: open, connect, protect, and stimulate. New transversal axes re-connect the plateau with the river, overcoming their topo­ graphic disconnection. These spaces of interaction showcase an open metabolism through a mix of civic scenographies. Therefore, the ecological and social value of the Garonne is reclaimed with new proximities in Bassens. The plug-in character of bringing the city into the water expands the dimension of public space.

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Douaisis Agglo (FR) SCALE — L/S URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL / ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — CITY OF DOUAI, CITY OF FLERS-EN-ESCREBIEUX, NORD (59) POPULATION — DOUAISIS AGGLO 148,910 INHAB., DOUAI 39,700 INHAB., FLERS-EN-ESCREBIEUX 5,856 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 152 HA PROJECT SITES — SITE 1: 2.8 HA + SITE 2: 8.5 HA + SITE 3: 4.4 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — DOUAISIS AGGLO, CITY OF DOUAI, CITY OF FLERS-EN- ESCREBIEUX ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — DOUAISIS AGGLO, CITY OF DOUAI, CITY OF FLERS-EN- ESCREBIEUX, NATIONAL OFFICE FOR URBAN RENOVATION OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — MINING COMPANY, RFF/SNCF, CITY OF DOUAI, CITY OF FLERS-EN-ERCREBIEUX, NORÉVIE (SOCIAL LANDLORD), PRIVATE

FREDDY KACZMAREK — 13° Vice-President Douaisis Agglo.

Social Cohesion. City Policy. NPRU.

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

How to give meaning to the landscape and the environment where nature has been completely conquered?

How can we use the spaces to be reclaimed to make them places of virtuous revitalization?

How to take advantage of the presence of water with the canal?

What is the fate of the tower of the château Delattre whose anachronistic volumetry is a challenge?

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

Metabolism in this site consists in moving from subservience to symbiosis. Disused buildings or those to be rehabilitated offer the opportunity for reuse that is conducive to human activity that is concerned with its environmental impact. The potential exists around thermal renovation and recovery and recycling activities.

Nature and polluted soils are a particular concern here.

Inclusivity. The district is part of the city’s policy. It must be taken into account in the requalification projects by relying on the skills of the population living there.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

The agglomeration is focusing on the industrial wasteland to develop recycling and short circuit production activities. The rehabilitation of the tower will be approached in a spirit of innovation. The rehabilitation of the barges for housing or office use will be addressed.

A sociological study will evaluate the potential of the informal economy in the district. We will meet with the teams to consider the work targets.

Douaisis Agglo (FR) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

LOUIS ROBERT (FR), CAMILLE BONNAUD (FR) CECILIA LOPEZ (FR), ANTONIN LENGLEN (FR) ARCHITECTS

JOHANNA MUSCH (FR), DESIGNER ADRIEN FRICHETEAU (FR), ARTIST

+33 645658750 LEPARIDUVIVANT@GMAIL.COM @LEPARIDUVIVANT

The Bet of the Living Team point of view — The Bet of the Living is about reversing the extractive past of exploiting human and non-human resources; it is about investing in and with what is, what there is, relying on the competences, desires and needs of the parties involved; it is to tend towards a liberating existence focused on subsistence, catering for life.

The Bet of the Living focuses on vernacular knowledge and commitment to the field, then completed with the opinions of “exper ts”. To progress on the transformative possibilities, the collective arbitrates on the basis of “action cards for the Living”.

The first set of cards is ready to be played, and now we just need to extend the number of players with whom it can be possible to rethink Dorignies Pont-de-la-Deûle and ourselves together.

Jury point of view — The team raises a subject that is essential and central in the theme of Living Cities, which is the status of the nonhuman living world in urban projects, and the position it should occupy in human decision-making. It is a very strong proposal in terms of governance. The project seems complete and grounded.

It is based on a robust diagnosis and formulates precise and simple proposals, with an economy of resources: an eminently contextual proposal, choice of the right project places for modest interventions, identification of sectors for re- industrialisation, exposing the presence of water… In addition, its modus operandi is one that local actors can adopt.

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Douaisis Agglo (FR) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

SALOME CAPIRCHIO (BE), ARCHITECT, URBANIST GILLES HUCHETTE (FR), URBANIST BERTRAND GOGUILLON (FR) MYRIAM MABROUKI (FR), ARCHITECTS

44 RUE EUGÈNE D’HALLENDRE 59110 LA MADELEINE (FR) +33 783171031

Don’t Wait for the Metropole Team point of view — If our system can collapse, urban territories already weakened by the crises of the past like Dorignies could be the first potential victims.Yet, it’s here that the most effective answers of housing, production, sociability, can be designed.

Facing the emergency and the scarcity of resources, we suggest not to expect too much from the metropolisation, nor to wait for di­sasters, but to act today, with affordable and unexpected solutions. Let’s not wait for the shortage of material to build our own factory. Drop the metropolitan dream, and let’s set up new partnerships with surroundings cities. Call for inhabitants to take part in renovation work, because they will have to learn how to make it. And above all, let’s not forget to plan how to have regular, simple and joyful parties.

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Jury point of view — The imperative mood of the title illustrates BARGES, shared equipments a clever standpoint in the attempt to escape the dependence on or the dichotomy between metropolitan hubs and small towns.

The position advocated by the team is both very optimistic and very motivational. The jury praised the approach, which consists in accepting a situation and converting obstacles into advantages.

The team shows an interest in the conversion of housing, such as WAGONS, associative places homes on the water, and proposes a subtle and generous mechanism of intervention on the Delattre apartment block: working with the inhabitants of the building without relocating them, cre­ ating communal spaces on each floor.

THE SOCIAL CENTRE

Douaisis Agglo (FR) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S) ESTELLE BARRIOL (FR) ARCHITECT GEORGES TAMINIAU (NL) ARCHITECT, URBANIST

CONTACT STUDIO ACTE, ROTTERDAM (NL) / +31 651014013 INFO@STUDIOACTE.COM / WWW.STUDIOACTE.COM B9, ROTTERDAM (NL) / +31 618991518 GEORGES@B9.ECO / WWW.B9.ECO

Breeding Ground Team point of view — « Bâtir sur les restes un or qui sera très accueillant » — Alain Vilain lors de la dernière remontée des mines de la fosse d’Oignies. The collective memory written by the mining past reveals existing social mechanisms based on a will to do and a capability to reinvent itself. Sharing, mutual aid, and social structure have been the core of the old urban fabric. What if the collective memory of mines was the breeding ground for a new social economy? The process is based on the logic of farming (to plant / to cultivate / to pollinate), generating the vital needs for the community. Breeding Ground aims to be the driving forces for a new economy based on sustainable energies and social vitalities.

The exploitation of methane, but also of renewable materials such as the cultivation of mycelium, are keys for the new economy. The process is organised in a trust run by the community members.

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Fagerstrand (NO) SCALE — XL TERRITORIAL LOCATION — FAGERSTRAND, NESODDEN POPULATION — 3,000 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 246 HA / PROJECT SITE — 57 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — NESODDEN MUNICIPALITY ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — NESODDEN MUNICIPALITY OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — PRIVATE DEVELOPERS, NESODDEN MUNICIPALITY

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CITY OF FAGERSTRAND & EUROPAN NORWAY —

1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

There are several questions asked, but they all relate to how one can plan for Fagerstrand to become one complete place and to develop a denser settlement here while preserving the local identity and intimate connection to nature.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The site is strongly linked to both subtopics. The site encompasses areas with unique biodiversity, both in the forest and in the sea, as well as oil tanks and post-industrial facilities that make the metabolic topic very important. But with a development like this, consideration of inclusivity is important too: How to make good access to services, create good meeting places, diversity etc.

We think inclusivity can also be used when talking about how to include other species in the planning of human settlements.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

We expect the follow-up to be very process-based, with several smaller commissions and explorations that can inform a new comprehensive plan for the entire village.

Fagerstrand (NO) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

JOHN SANDEN (NO) INGVILD HODNEKVAM (NO) MATS HEGGERNÆS (NO) ARCHITECTS

SANDEN+HODNEKVAM ARKITEKTER FURUVEIEN 13, 1452 NESODDTANGEN (NO) POST@SANDENHODNEKVAM.NO WWW.SANDENHODNEKVAM.NO

Living City, Living Sea Team point of view — Living City, Living Sea proposes a new Fagerstrand where urban development, value creation and preservation of flora and fauna form a healthy balance. In light of the environmental crisis, we must address the growing biological challenges on land and in the fjord.

Industrial artefacts are integrated into a new area where sustain­ able production and innovation co-exist with urbanity. Fagerstrand prioritises health-promoting and green mobility. A green corridor serves as a recreational path weaving the area together. The project proposes strategic interventions to save the fjord — pre­ serving vegetation to retain water, improved water management and restoration of habitats. Urban structures set in the natural landscape provide better living conditions for all species, above and below sea level.

Jury point of view — The proposal addresses both Fagerstrand’s past as an important industrial node along the Oslo fjord, and the current discourse on how to densify in communities with a rural identity. It successfully addresses a range of larger regional issues and local challenges in a bold and convincing manner as it combines programs for small scale production that takes advantage of the existing infrastructure, measures to preserve marine life, the role of this development in the regional setting while retaining a flexible urban structure that extends local identities and developing Fagerstrand as one place with a unique identity.

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Fagerstrand (NO) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

PAULA FERNANDEZ (ES), MASTER IN SUSTAINABLE CITIES AND ARCHITECTURE XABIER MONTILLA (ES), ARCHITECT, BUILDING ENGINEER SARAY OSSORIO (ES), ARCHITECT, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

XABIER MONTILLA CORREDERA BAJA DE SAN PABLO 45, 3 / 28004, MADRID (ES) TEAMFORESTRAND@GMAIL.COM

Once Upon a Time in Forestrand Team point of view — Form doesn’t follow function anymore.

Forestrand is the reality that already exists, but it requires a new look at the territory. Forestrand is currently sleeping. By moving through this place, we identify a series of fictions that are linked to the forest that surrounds Fagerstrand and that allow us to discover new territorial drifts. A change takes place from an egocentric model to an ecocentric model in which the forest becomes the centre and from which a hybrid model that connects human and non-human realities will be articulated. This coexistence of realities provides us with programs dispersed throughout the territory, we call them fictions. Forestrand goes through them and gives shape to models of construction of the territory and habitats, the 4th Landscape.

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Jury point of view — The team proposes islands of development in limited parts of the landscape, responding to a good understanding of the topography as well as Fagerstrand’s rural identity.

The project’s approach deals with biodiversity in a comprehensive way, reducing barrier effects and successfully establishing a vibrant centre for Fagerstrand by the strategic placement of programs and altering the road to make an intersection. The development strategy ensures green corridors and clusters of settlements conducive of creating good human communities.

Fagerstrand (NO) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

HENRY ENDEMANN (DE), URBANIST LUKAS HÖLLER (DE), LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT REBECCA SMINK (NL), STEFANO AGLIATI (IT) ARCHITECTS URBANISTS

HENRYENDEMANN@MAIL.DE

Equalines Team point of view — Equalines explores Fagerstrand’s densification and revitalization through a simple principle: linear concentration. Various “lines” pave the way for the town’s transformation towards a prosperous, ecological, and equitable future. A central urban axis offers equal opportunities for old and new residents by establishing a strong local economy. A re-naturalised seaside restores and celebrates local ecosystems, giving the people of Fagerstrand the chance to experience a thriving post-industrial landscape along a permeable waterfront. A robust green network preserves and expands continuous habitats. The edges between built and unbuilt areas are activated through a variety of functions that enhance porosity between cultural, economic, and environmental flows.

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Fagerstrand (NO) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

MARIA CRAMMOND (DK), ARCHITECT, URBANIST HELENE SARBORG WIED (DK), ARCHITECT

VARPELEV BYGADE 22, 4652 HÅRLEV (DK) +45 50588363 MARIACRAMMOND@GMAIL.COM

Fagerstrand Intertwined Team point of view — Surrounded by nature, in the picturesque fjord of Oslo, Fagerstrand is a small city, with a bright potential to reunite the remnants of the oil industry with the raw nature.

Our vision is to cross connect the commercial centre, nature, and the seaside, so that the city’s qualities can synergise from each other. By creating new meeting points and connections between harbour, nature, and centre, the city will feel, flow and grow as one.

A harbour connection, a Nature connection, a commercial connection and a cultural connection will bind the city together.

Nature will be present everywhere in Fagerstrand and binding it all together. These new functions make a diverse city, utilising the cultural trails of a previous time as a foundation for a new ecosystem between nature and culture.

Fagerstrand (NO) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

GERONIMO FELICI FIORAVANTI (IT), URBANIST CHIARA MAGNINI (IT), LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT FRANCESCO PALMIA (IT), SOCIOLOGIST ALBERTO CRISTOFORI (IT), URBAN PLANNER

GERONIMO FELICI FIORAVANTI LOC. CASE PANARDI N. 26 58031 ARCIDOSSO (GR), (IT) GERONIMO.FELICI.FIORAVANTI@GMAIL.COM

Hygge Team point of view — Hygge explores a possible scenario to steer future developments towards an efficient and cohesive socio-economic ecosystem. It outlines priorities and implementation strategies in order to reposition humans in the natural environment, and to design vibrant spaces as a backbone of the future social life in the city. Avoiding a solutionism and static approach, it provides a set of flexible, adaptable, and scalable tools able to counteract uncertainty of decision-making. The project uses a ­multi-scalar approach. While aiming at unlocking Fagerstrand potentials at the territorial level, it consistently elaborates a vision for a cohesive and vibrant development of the seaside and central area. Governance tools are delineated to co-govern the sustainable and just transition.

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Wernigerode (DE) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION —WERNIGERODE, SAXONY-ANHALT POPULATION — 32,810 INHABITANTS STRATEGIC SITE — 22.37 HA / PROJECT SITE — 8 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — GWW ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — GWW, CITY OF WERNIGERODE OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — GWW GEBÄUDE- UND WOHNUNGSBAUGESELLSCHAFT WERNIGERODE MBH

LUISA STORM — assistant to the Management/Human

Resources in the Building and Housing Association Wernigerode mbH.

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

According to the brief, one important quest for the future development of the site is the design of a clear structure and good spatial concepts.The goal should be to give structure to the development of the heterogenous site as a residential area with recreational opportunities, and to propose the necessary social and technological infrastructure at appropriate locations. Attention should be paid to ensure a development process that, in its both flexible and gradual nature, leaves behind no rudimentary urban space. Ideas are therefore sought to expand diversity of both use and housing while also taking into account the existing commercial enterprises.

Therefore, a compatible mixture of work and housing uses is desired with the inclusion of ideas for affordable (rental) housing units, especially for young families, as there is currently a shortage of flats for them.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The goal is to develop a sustainable ecological and mixed framework plan that can be implemented in smaller, sensible building and development phases. The project sites are considered to be initiation projects that will set a framework for future development.

Open spaces gain importance with the theme of the “garden city” from a contemporary perspective that allows design of community gardens or locations for local food production and thus constitutes a significant contribution to socio-ecologically sustainable urban development instead of being mere locations for contemporary or ecosystem service. Both subtopics metabolism and inclusivity are therefore included in the planning task. The latter is furthermore shown with the demand of different types of housing that facilitates intergenerational living with communal areas for all income levels and walks of life.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

We are planning a workshop with the favourites from the local and national jury in 2022, with the aim to find an approvable variant to be implemented from 2023/2024.

Wernigerode (DE) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

CLARA FACCIO (IT), ERASMO BITETTI (IT) FEDERICO GIORGIO (IT), FRANCESCO BAGGIO (IT) ARCHITECTS

VIA VERCI 26, 36061 BASSANO DEL GRAPPA (IT) +39 3924733838 STUDIO@PRACTICEPLUS.XYZ WWW.PRACTICEPLUS.XYZ

Duet Team point of view — Duet aims to enhance the role of the strategic site as a green hinge between Wernigerode’s old town and the Bürgerpark, making it more porous by grafting a slow mobility micro-infrastructure. Pavilions with integrated energy elements (solar panels, water collection tanks and kite wind generators), self-built and modular over time, are strategically placed in the site to strengthen its energy and social network.

The new buildings at the left corners of the area define the surroundings in relation to their urban role. The first one, faces the Bürgerpark in an extroverted way. The second one, looks towards the neighbourhood in an introver ted way. Composed by the same elements, they are assembled differently in relation to their typology, defining two different buildings in character but similar in language.

Jury point of view — The project proposes almost identical simple building constellations. They differ, however, in their urban gesture, their height and in their internal structure. Open-plan areas, multi-storey apartments with arcade access and maisonettes are offered. The extremely clever internal organization — perme­ able strips with wet rooms and staircases alternate with pure room zones; facades and internal walls are offset from one another — generates many possible combinations for a differentiated range of apartments, corresponding to the diversity of today’s households.

The construction method shows awareness of the requirements for sustainability and climate suitability.

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Wernigerode (DE) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

PEDRO PITARCH ALONSO (ES) ARCHITECT

PEDRO PITARCH ARCHITECTURES & URBANISMS PALMA 59, BAJO B, 28015 MADRID (ES) MAIL@PEDROPITARCH.COM WWW.PEDROPITARCH.COM / @PEDROPITARCH

Domestic Machines

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Team point of view — This project pretends to rethink the traditional German town and update it into a contemporary paradigm.

It upgrades the model of the Garden City into the Techno-Garden City, which opens-up a new framework where rurality and urbanity are no longer opposed realms but different temporal states of the same context. Nor are the private and the public, nor work and life. Consequently, single family homes or collective housing are no longer counterpointed types. They are no longer irreconcilable situations. Through two different typologies of formalisation, the combination of Domestic Machines allows for the creation of a new type of domesticity where independence and community are no longer incompatible, but rather coexist in the same architecture, within the two new models proposed for the sites.

Jury point of view — The star ting point of the thesis is the change in the relationship of living and privacy to public during the last decades and the increasing merging of previously separate areas, here referred to as urban domesticity. City and nature are no longer seen as opposites but rather merge into one another, referred to as Techno-Garden City. The project logically advocates the spatial processing of the complexity of the present as a necessity for new typologies. The authors actively push this exchange further by transporting uses attributed to one into the other.

Wernigerode (DE) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

PAUL RAPHAEL SCHAEGER (DE) NATALIA VERA VIGARAY (ES) JOSEP GARRIGA TARRÉS (ES) PATXI MARTÍN DOMÍNGUEZ (ES) ARCHITECTS MORITZ AHLERS (DE), LAWYER

PRSCH, DÜSSELDORF (DE) INFO@PRSCH.NET / WWW.PRSCH.NET OFFICE SHOPHOUSE, MALAGA + BARCELONA (ES) HI@OFFICE-SHOPHOUSE.COM / WWW.OFFICE-SHOPHOUSE.COM MORITZ AHLERS, LL.B., HAMBURG (DE) MORITZ.AHLERS@LAW-SCHOOL.DE

United Gardens of Wernigerode Team point of view — Connective Landscapes — Reactivate the vision of a community-oriented Garden city as a green, porous neighbourhood in a walking city, with a self-governing community and agricultural activity that connects people.

Huts seeding community — The local culture of huts of various sizes, materials and, functionality will develop P1 as neighbourhood centre, with social and agricultural activities; P2 as a contemplative community garden for all ages, and a culture of sharing and local economic circles.

Soft dwelling —The architecture will offer: – Circulation areas that foster active community life; – A combination of apartments corresponds to changing lifestyles; – A locally sourced structural logic ensures economic viability, ­sustainable construction and develops vernacularism.

Jury point of view — The project outlines a process in which area development will be largely through community action.

United Gardens refers to a network of paths crisscrossing the development area with fruit trees that are collectively tended and harvested. In this consequence, the vocabulary for the two corner lots seems generic; the small-town situation is answered with vernacular symbols of rural building, new contents are camouflaged with it.

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Recovery New energy has to be found for these sites through a treatment that respects the existing environment introducing specific elements and actions able to develop a resilient city.

The Exciting Discovery of the Already There

ANALYSIS ARTICLE BY BERND VLAY (AT) — ARCHITECT, CO-FOUNDER OF STUDIOVLAYSTREERUWITZ, TEACHER IN WIEN WWW.VLST.AT/EN/

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The more physical growth becomes a meaningless player in the transformation process of our cities and territories, the more excitingly the Europan projects seem to respond to the concerns of the Living City. This counter-proportional “delicatesse” is characteristic of the projects of all 3 site families of Recovery, which have to tackle serious challenges far beyond classic densification. Instead, the sites’ bandwidth of deficiencies, such as lack of urban vitality, social cohesion, biodiversity and sustainable mobility have been causing environmental damage, economic decline, physical dilapidation, social conflicts and spatial fragmentation. All these symptoms demonstrate a serious deficit of healthy relations and fruitful relationships, which would contribute to a curing solidarity among actors, things, and processes. In other words: the sites must recover from a symptomatic scarcity as for their metabolic operation.They all long for more metabolic action, more energy, as the “agitating” verbs of the 3 titles suggest —Dynamizing, Intensifying, Stimulating.

Yet, the five sites of Intensifying Districts show a remarkable specificity. Districts are identifiable figures.They represent specific quarters or neighbourhoods, automatically installing a systemic borderline

1 — Biel (CH), winner — My House > See more P.115

around them, which weakens the awareness about the potential of larger interrelations, in so far as all neighbourhood-concerns primarily tend to circulate within the vessel of their inner universe. On the other hand, the historical, social, cultural, structural and typological specificity of these quarters represents a powerful corpus delicti that, only by the fact that it is already there, imposes maximum attention upon the design agenda.

We will look at 2 attitudes, which elaborate exciting strategies of RE-PERFORMING the already there. Both attitudes manifest an impressive faith in the transformative capacity of what already exists, excavating its latent sources to make them durable re-sources for the Living City. These manoeuvres of Re-Sourcing imply a new imagination of growing, one that is not expansive but curative, one that discovers new immunizing activities within what exists, and one that makes the existing an exciting treasure field to explore.

Re-Sourcing imagines growing towards resilience.

Re-Performing by Reconfiguring This group of projects suggests low footprint/high resilience schemes that most clearly articulate the resource-coup of small add-ons that causes big effects. Their manoeuvres of Re-Sourcing meticulously focus on small-scale interventions and their potential impact on the larger scale of the district. They promote an inspiring ecology of typological and physical micro-scale-­manipulations,

2 — Linz (AT), winner — Bio-based Idiolect > See more P.125

3 — Barcelona (ES), runner-up — El Tablero de L’Estadella > See more P.112

4 — Barcelona (ES), winner — Industrial Re-Evolution > See more P.111

which canalize the impact of moderate quantitative growth into an intense inner transformation of existing built structures, substantially re-configuring their performance.

The winning projects of Linz (AT) and Biel (CH), Bio-based Idiolect and My House, intervene in the neighbourhoods of Froschberg and Geysiried, which play an important role for the city’s inner consolidation, contributing to avoid resource-consuming settlement­-growth in the outskirts. Both projects introduce the figure of a “mansion” to deviate physical growth into a process of re-­enacting.

My House (fig.1) imagines Geysiried 2050 as an assembly of “mansions”, suggesting a new vision for the cooperative home in which private and common spaces intermingle. A meticulous analysis of how people use their homes unveils deficiencies (underused and unused areas) and potentials (thoughtful extensions) that trigger a credible process of visionar y transformation: physically (low-­maintenance materials, good atmosphere), typologically (integration of shared spaces/line of intensity), organizationally (cooperative neighbourhood), and programmatically (inclusive mix of living, working and gathering).

shall turn the partly underused monofunctional working environment into a vital and well-integrated neighbourhood. The project imagines a fictional future for the industrial heritage and its existing parcellation logics: the 12x45 meters parcel unit becomes the source of a visionary hybridization, allegorically inspired by the Medieval Townhouse (high level of adaptability, vertical layering of different uses). El Tablero reveals the sites’ sleeping beauty as an unfinished, ongoing project: Re-Sourcing, in fact, repairs the potential future of the site.

Re-Performing by Re-Relating The main concern of the re-sourcing operations in this group shifts to the animation of an operative dialogue between different scales, resulting in more multi-layered strategies that create surprising transversal complicities between actors, elements and spheres. As they somehow re-arrange diverse relationships within and between different scales, we can talk about concepts of Re-Relating. According to the specificity of the sites and tasks the projects also address scales of time (memor y, loops, rhythms, accumulation), technologies (digitalization) and governance (ethical agendas and modalities due to global or translocal paradigms).

Re-Sourcing implies a new

imagination of growing that

is not expansive but curative; growing towards resilience

The “Garden City Mansion” of Bio-based Idiolect (fig.2) reenacts the existing row house type in a Mediterranean micro-courtyard setting, enlarging the options of living and working with different shades of privacy and addressing the effects of climate change on future housing types. The mansion’s Janus-headed appearance celebrates the institutional power of Linz’s social housing-­heritage: the seemingly untouched facades give stabilizing coherence to the whole neighbourhood along the streets (“retro-calm”), whereas the energetic horizontality of the new add-ons animates a diversity of activities in the inner area of the green islands (“modern-vibrant”).

The clever “as-found” approach of El Tablero de L’Estadella (fig.3), runner-up in Barcelona (ES), provides another example for a deepgoing-type reconfiguration, especially tailored for the industrial estate of Torrent de l’Estadella, where new uses, facilities and links

In the winning contribution for Barcelona, Industrial Re-Evolution (fig.4), the mutual affection of territorial, architectural and object successfully rehabilitates the industrial character as an inspiring transformative source: the generic shed-types are reimag­ined as productive plinths of a multi-layered mixed-use typology, in which they act as multiple facilitators providing vertical parking, ­large-scale affordable production, rooftop microparks, greenhouses, and a docking platform for a pedestrian bridge to the adjacent park. In addition, the Eco Energy Plant and the Urban Living Room re-enact the industrial heritage as performative icons that radiate the area’s benefits far beyond the district limits. This physical and ­psycho-geographical metabolism makes the already there a

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5 — Biel (CH), winner — The City as a Living Organism > See more P.116

6 — Levanger (NO), winner — Hello, Woods! > See more P.119

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valu­able resource for the city, including (and not expelling) a new industrial paradigm in the inner urban realm of the city.

The City as a Living Organism, winner in Biel (fig.5), appropriates Switzerland’s famous culture of cooperative housing upscaling it to a cooperative habitat that networks and repairs Mett’s fragmented as-found variety. Mett’s accidental “en-passant derivative” manifests the consequences of local disintegration due to the territorial logics of infrastructural planning. The proj­ect inser ts two slow-motion rings that establish a scenography of local transversality: a fascinating vector of cross-coherence interweaves public spaces, landscapes, facilities and destinations, curing the fragmented en-­passant urbanism by the rewarding experience of transversal accessibilities within walking and biking distance.

Levanger’s (NO) winning contribution Hello, Woods! (fig.6) operates in the historical hear t of Levanger, which faces depopulation, pollution, heavy car traffic, poor public spaces and lack of access to natural areas. The project re-relates Levanger’s centre with regional and territorial realities by embedding a multiscale transformation of the mobility system (3 gradiently decelerating rings) in a series of interrelated “intensifiers” (intermodal station, inhabited streets, moderated participation). A new public hub, the LCCL, proclaims the library as a cultural and social centre of regional importance, whose circular construction methods and expressive harvesting of natural resources re-perform Levanger’s wooden built heritage as a resource of the Living City’s future, “biodiversifying”, literally and allegorically, the library’s mission of cultivating knowledge to create local and global inclusion.

The last two examples most significantly focus on the reliability of relations in order to generate resilient modes of multi-layered spatial interactions.

The re-relation of imaginary specificities in Seednergies (fig.7), runner­-up in Levanger, complements the strategic conceptualism of Hello, Woods! Two contrapuntal walk lines, the harbour-­culturerelated Sundet Walk and the green university-­related River Walk act as social, cultural and environmental mediators connecting the city to its surroundings, carefully “underlined” by the traces of bus and bicycle lines. Three performative social condensers along the central Park Axis “seed” public awareness about Levanger’s potential metabolism through inclusive cross-­ progr amming: THE MUSEUM crosses with performative spaces; THE LOCAL ARCHIVE mixes different forms of knowledge-production with ever yday facilities; and THE PUBLIC NURSERY introduces “a new concept of a meeting place, enhancing the awareness about metabolic relations and biodiversities”. Re-Sourcing gains reliability by setting up a fascinating scenography of transversal pedagogy.

Transversal pedagogy also appears in the winning project of Almendralejo (ES) (fig.8), which links the benefits of physical repair to the creation of new solidarities between the autochthonic population and the migrating seasonal workers. Social initiatives, institutional engagement, digital tools and political commitment offer a fascinating set of transversal commons embedding architectural and urban interventions in a process of gradual integration with “emancipating” patterns of time: by offering the seasonal workers a job to renovate the dilapidated buildings and public spaces, they not only

Relentlessly renewing the idea of the new, continuing the expedition to the Living City

fill up their low-season-vacuum, but also become caretakers for the whole neighbourhood. The comic-­like narrative brilliantly mediates the project’s tactical intelligence, navigating easily through self-evident spaces, times, operations, and facilities —Re-Sourcing at its very best.

What Promises?

The projects gave us great lessons to learn from. Let us end with three promising paradoxes which the projects have been introducing to us when exploring their ways of Recovering. The “imaginary discovery” of outer space goes ahead with the exploration of the four “news” of these paradoxes relentlessly renewing our idea of the new, when continuing the expedition to the Living City.

First Paradox: A New Horizon for Ideas The already there is the new outer space for imagination.

Second Paradox: The Power of a New Casual Design becomes spectacular by renouncing being spectacular for an operative beauty.

Third Paradox: A New Awareness of Responsibilities The Living City is available because it is not just available.

It acts responsively.

Fourth Paradox: A New Future to Be Repaired Time happens because it does not (only) go ahead, which the proj­ ects of the three Recovery families strikingly teach us: Stimulating by slowing down (see project p.138 Dour, Koad, Kêr), Dynamizing by elongating (see project p.151 Arc des Vivants), Intensifying by remembering and re-projecting (see projects p.115 My House, p.111 Industrial Re-Evolution, p.107 La Increíble Historia del Temporero…).

It is time to continue with these exciting expeditions. They make the Living City an irresistible promise —Let us look forward to Europan 17!

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7 — Levanger (NO), runner-up — Seednergies > See more P.120

8 — Almendralejo (ES), winner — La increíble historia del temporero que encontró en Almendralejo su hogar > See more P.107

The Fertile Ground of Public Spaces

ANALYSIS ARTICLE BY CÉLINE BODART (BE) — ARCHITECT, PHD IN ARCHITECTURE, RESEARCHER, PROFESSOR AT PARIS-LA-VILLETTE SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE Urban life is running out of steam… but how to face such a social and ecological exhaustion of our inhabited milieus? The first challenge is not to be overwhelmed by such a crucial, yet overall issue.

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1 — Selb (DE), winner — Selb Step by Step > See more P.145

2 — Aulnat (FR), runner-up — Aulnat centripète > See more P.129

several E16 winning teams, public spaces appear as a fertile ground to explore such imaginative challenges.This is a new understanding of the performance of public spaces that is here at stake: what can a public space do when facing the growing disparity of urban milieus? The E16 projects offer various ways of rethinking the scale of public spaces as a strategic frame of actions, micro-insertions or intertwined punctual interventions enabled to lever up the built and unbuilt environments. Three different project attitudes are here pointed out. The first attitude intensifies interdependencies between inhabited areas and their surroundings, and existing public spaces are reshaped to become the expressive support of their new metabolic proximities. Considering that our planning models are outdated, the second project attitude reconfigures existing urban spaces to make room for the emergence of alternative urban narratives. And, at last, we see how non-human agents are introduced into the spatial project strategy in order to rethink multiple temporalities of public spaces and to explore new ways to tune natural rhythms with urban paces. Through those three project attitudes, it is about noticing how new fields for actions are opened to re-perform the role given to public spaces for a living city still in becoming.

Forging Metabolic Proximities Many of the E16 sites projects are caught in the tension between heterogeneous (non-)urban components. But instead of enduring the disparity around as the source of all problems, it is about reconsidering such strategic locations as potential stimulating interfaces for their own regeneration. For these sites in close relation with various territories, recovering from disparity means rethinking such geographic closeness as potential metabolic proximities.

That means taking into consideration the large-scaled metabolic

3 — Aulnat (FR), runner-up — Aulnat Centripète > See more P.129

4 — Roquetas de Mar (ES), runner-up — Second Life > See more P.142

5 — Roquetas de Mar (ES), runner-up — Second Life > See more P.142

interdependencies, but also imagining how to give them a materiality at the scale of public spaces, which is also the scale of social daily life. In terms of design project, forging new metabolic proximities needs to entangle short-term actions and long-term perspectives.

In Selb (DE), the E16 project site is in close proximity with the city centre, but it suffers from a lack of urban qualities and vitalities.

For the winning project Selb, Step by Step, such difficult conditions are considered as an opportunity to activate a more inclusive urban space for a living city in the making over a 2050 horizon. The project maps out the variety of existing urban nodes and the location of potential new ones, expanding the network of nodes towards the city centre and the surrounding landscapes. Such an urban design approach could be assimilated to a classic one leading to a new kind of mobility map. But here, mobilities are plural and diverse, designing an inclusive mobility for all living. Public spaces trigger new metabolic proximities not only between buildings and uses, but between human and non-human habitats and human and non-human lives (fig.1).

Even more, the diversity of bodies using public spaces is taken into account (young and old bodies, disabled bodies, etc.), as the interlinking nodes are coupled with public amenities (benches, drinking water, trees and vegetation, etc.) offering refuges or place to pause along urban spaces network. For a living city, public spaces are places opened to the togetherness as well as the otherness. The runner-up project Aulnat centripète bets on the same time-horizon of 2050 to think the role of public spaces system afresh into the recovery of Aulnat (FR). As the city is located between large agricultural fields and important infrastructures (airport, railways, bus lines), it is about to reconsider this interface as a potential centripetal force exerting on the inner urban structure and its changing ways of living. As the agri-food production becomes the meeting ground between territorial scales, the project declines a range of new programmatic public spaces (fig.2), interlinked with an intermodal loop following the limit between the city and its surrounding landscapes. The role given to public spaces is here to translate metabolic proximities into social places, making productive interdependencies between territories visible (fig.3).

In some cases, such existing interfaces between territories can appear conflictual. In Roquetas de Mar (ES), between the old city districts, the surrounding urban fabric defined by a poorer quality of places and buildings and the intensive development of agricultural production shaping a continuous landscape of greenhouses around the city, territorial relations are openly strained. To enable citizens and local authorities to look beyond the present horizon, the runner-up project Second Life proposes to envision what could be new forms of solidarities between agricultural and urban territories by reconsidering their respective production of wastes as a potential collective resource. The reusing waste strategy is addressed to the existing built-up frame (transformation of the abandoned and unfinished constructions into new social and cooperative facilities— fig.4), but also concerns the various wastes from greenhouses, which currently flood the soils in the city (removed towards new treatment centres), as well as the reusing of organic wastes from agriculture (new places to sell the food products outcasted by the market at a low price—fig.5). For each of those project proposals, the role given to public spaces is to rebuild a socio-material proximity with surrounding metabolic dynamics, which means to also reintroduce them into the daily life of inhabitants. They address transformative processes which are both multi-temporal and trans-territorial.

What can a public space do when facing the growing disparity of urban milieus?

Making Room for Alternative Urban Narratives While some E16 project attitudes work with unseen or underestimated proximities as potential metabolic resources, another attitude is to intensify transformative potentialities of neglected spaces.

Such spaces are reconsidered as strategic places to make room for changes. More specifically, it is about making room for alternative urban narratives to emerge. As alternative narratives decolonize outdated imaginaries (I. Stengers) and rebuild a common ground for actions, public spaces appear as strategic points to shape such new narratives and then let them colonize the surrounding urban fabric. It is through this double gesture that the power of narratives acts into the project of transformation.

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6 — Roquetas de Mar (ES), winner — Costa Plástica > See more P.141

9 — Quimper (FR), runner-up — La place Roz > See more P.137

10 — Aulnat (FR), runner-up — Vi(e)abiliser > See more P.130

7 — Roquetas de Mar (ES), winner — Costa Plástica > See more P.141

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8 — Graz (AT), runner-up — Post-Shopping > See more P.134

In Roquetas de Mar, as the greenhouse landscape of Almeria is well-known as “the sea of plastic”, the winner project Costa Plástica proposes to narrate the transformation of its border with the built-up area as the invention of a new kind of coastline, “the plastic coastline” (fig.6). The current friction line becomes a potential fiction, which is an enhanced linear open-space to perform a sort of disruptive narrative: what if this artificial coastline could generate metabolic dynamics between intensive agricultural practices and the existing urban fabric? As a proj­ ect narrative, the coastline shapes a continuous landscape of hybrid public spaces (fig.7); it activates a new ecosystem of various uses and practices.

Other project proposals also chose to forge alternative urban narrative from the fiction of a radical shift.

In Graz (AT), the E16 project site is located at the interface of various urban forms and dynamics, in the area of an outdated shopping mall in transition. For the Post-Shopping runner-up project, imagining the physical transformation of the mall and its surroundings is above all building a new imaginary of consumption. It is going beyond the actual consumerist paradigm by shaping the narrative of a prosumption city, intertwining consumption and production activities. To implant and cultivate such a subversive narrative, public spaces are called to become a new kind of common

urban ground, troubling and blurring the traditional boundaries between public and domestic realms, between commercial, social and ­cultural ­programs (fig.8).

For other project sites, what is at stake is making room not for new urban narratives to emerge but for the existing ones to renew.

The runner-up project La place Roz in Quimper (FR) proposes to restructure the public spaces system as a common ground for the recovery of the pottery productive memory of the district. The project is based on the creation of a new public place, La place Roz, in order to reinforce continuities into the existing urban system and to enhance the site’s specific topography with a succession of plateaus (fig.9). Such a room made for the new place seems here required to make the cultural and productive heritage of the district visible and to support the forthcoming vivid public life… at least as a fiction. For La place Roz and its closed surroundings, a fictive program for local activities and events is staged by the E16 team, narrating ten years from now how the new place is become a centerpiece of the urban regeneration of the area. Narrativebased projects are not a headlong rush forward, nor some kind of refuge far from the real. On the contrary, narrating is enabling the present to support other becomings. And for cities to become living cities, the need of plural narrative imaginaries is crucial.

Thinking what a living city can be is thinking afresh our original perceptions of what a place, a space, a district or a river can do

Tuning Natural Rhythms with Urban Paces The power of imagination is also explored when it comes to designing new ways of tuning the non-human rhythms (vegetation cycles; animals’ migrations; water dynamics) with urban uses and practices. In that sense, some E16 projects imagine how to introduce hybrid temporalities into the project process in order to couple human and non-human dynamics. They propose other­-thanhuman timeframes as generators of transformative processes of existing public spaces and, concurrently, public spaces become enriched ecosystems.

In the runner-up project Vi(e)abiliser, natural ecosystems and landscape features play a crucial role in the urban transition of Aulnat.

As the three E16 project sites are currently available lands that appear as too-easy preys for real estate projects, the question is here to imagine how to resist to rapid urbanization. It is not about considering those last available places as untouchable natural shelters in an overprotective way, but rather to rethink them as strategic places to frame and improve the living conditions (of both humans and non-humans) in the existing city and for its future urban redevelopments (fig.10). The main idea is to prepare the future instead of fixing it in places. Vi(e)abiliser proposes for instance to recover the course of the river (fig.11), generating various urban places and uses according its floods and other impetuous behaviours.

In Graz, a similar attitude is at the core of the Free Mühlgang runner-up project, inasmuch as it proposes to restore the river, currently covered and channelled, on a specific section alongside the E16 project site. The renaturalization of the banks lets the river express its various rhythms (fig.12): the new public place is designed to be overflowed, turning the place into a sort of wetland park.To recover the river is also to recover its multiple ecosystems: biological (reinforcing diversity of local fauna and flora), economical (the river as historic trade route) and social ecosystems, as the place can host a large range of programs and uses allowing the inhabitants to gather around water.

To pursue this seek of new tunings between water rhythms and urban practices, special mention Dour, Koad, Kêr proposes to question the materiality of these intertwined temporalities in Quimper.

Three temporal cycles are here studied (the day, the seasons and the tides) and each of them is presented as a strategic layer of spatial interventions. Taking into consideration how the site’s poly-rhythmic footprint is inscribed into its spatial materiality, the project is also time-layered. It star ts with a prefiguration time, involving public consultations and temporary occupations in order to slow down the current urban pace (fig.13). At the same time, it addresses the issue of a climatic time, questioning from now how urban forms and uses can be adapted to uncertain times to come.

Natural ecosystems become temporal agents for the transformation of existing public spaces. Crossing natural rhythms and urban paces, the project of transformation requires to imagine processes enabled to slow the usual making of the city down. But such processes also need to be collaborative, forging new alliances between public and private stakeholders, between individual and collective initiatives, between short-term actions and long-term perspectives.

What Promises?

Whether it is to give a daily proximity to large-scaled inter­ dependencies, to support and spread alternative narratives or to

11 — Aulnat (FR), runner-up — Vi(e)abiliser > See more P.130

shape spatio-temporal frames for naturo-cultural transformations, E16 projects put forward that re-performing what a public space can do does matter. This is the promise made by this Europan session: thinking what a living city can be is thinking afresh our original perceptions of what a place, a space, a district or a river can do. Pursuing (and adjusting) the original call of Virginia Woolf: Think afresh, we must. Even more, thinking afresh the performance of urban spaces calls for a new account of time. E16 project proposals invent transformative processes that necessarily trouble the traditional linearity of time: they shuffle times to thicken our present (B. Zitouni) to enrich our current way of looking at the already there with multiple and plural potentials. Here lays another challenging promise: what if time was not only what orientates the project process? What if we could reconsider it as a sort of sticky agent for the living city project, as what is holding human and non-human vitalities together into the transformation project?

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12 — Graz (AT), runner-up — Free Mühlgang > See more P.133

13 — Quimper (FR), special mention — Dour, Koad, Kêr > See more P.138

Frames of Interdependency “…an environment in the process to be reinvented” ANALYSIS ARTICLE BY JULIO DE LA FUENTE (ES) — ARCHITECT, URBAN PLANNER, CO-FOUNDER OF GUTIÉRREZ-DELAFUENTE ARQUITECTOS IN MADRID WWW.GUTIERREZ-DELAFUENTE.COM

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Félix Guattari provided us with this quote in “The Three Ecologies” more than thirty years ago. Nowadays a collection of E16 awarded teams offers innovative perspectives in the process of fabrication of new environments through different meanings of landscape.

A common ground appears in the session to merge answers for two of our contemporary crises: the climate and the social crises. A set of strategies and operational processes are looking for meeting points of interaction between metabolism and inclusivity reconsidering landscape as a mediator.

We can observe a cultural shift in the young practitioners from an object-oriented thinking towards new logics of relationships, linked to a disciplinary mutation from urbanization developments towards territorialization processes.

On the most emblematic proposals for the sites of Grenoble (FR), Pont-Aven (FR) and Schwäbisch Gmünd (DE), the notion of interdependency is found as a primary condition regarding three main operational fields: rhythms, scales of interaction and habitats. Following these umbrellas of action, what are the specific landscapes, working as an interface between an ecological and a socio-economic perspective, to promote spatio-temporal frames of interdependency?

1 — Pont-Aven (FR), winner — Beatmatching > See more P.153

Rhythms and Cycles The theme Living Cities is smoothly integrated in a large number of narratives starting from a scientific approach to pre-existencies, geological time, biological rhythms and seasonal cycles. The proj­ ects show a revalorization of the history and a new interpretation of the ordinary components of the territory in which the site is embedded.

A new family of open-processes emerges to guide cohabitation of all bodies and encompasses ecological rhythms in long-term, including climate change prognoses in the evolution of the ideas, as for example different scenarios of global warming hypothesis.

But, how can these different rhythms and life cycles operate at different scales?

Beatmatching (fig.1), one of the two winning entries in Pont-Aven, works collectively on a new programmatic mix for La Belle Angèle through a continuous evolution of the site, orchestrating times and without imposing a fixed phasing plan. The other awarded project, Magnétisme salin, proposes an open process anchored in three different cycles: urban metabolism (exploring new links between the territory and the local scale), environmental osmosis (consolidating

2 — Grenoble (FR), special mention — Arc des Vivants > See more P.151

3 — Grenoble (FR), winner — LABO RABO > See more P.149

5 — Schwäbisch Gmünd (DE), winner — Viriditas ante portas > See more P.157

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4 — Grenoble (FR), special mention — Arc des Vivants > See more P.151

the initiatives) and the productive hamlet (landing the territorial evolution on the local ecosystem).

Based on a similar attitude, the transformation process of an “urban mountain” in Grenoble is showed by the special mention, Arc des Vivants (fig.2). It suggests a narrative of hybridization between the city and the various forms of life, where each element of the built and landscaped environment participates in the functioning of the others and reinforces the whole. A 100-year long period process is established following natural rhythms, seasons and three main moments of action: awareness, consolidation and perpetuation.

Scales of Interaction Diverse landscape-oriented strategies are able to act between the territorial XXL and the local XS scale. Some winning teams explore a disciplinary approximation to landscape as a tool for a trans-scalar transition in order to find the missing link between ecological and social realm. Building new narratives for a site from the very large scale is a shared method, through precise cartographies, to rediscover energies and potential drivers from geographical and geological perspectives. As a complementary vision, other teams work with in-between green-blue infrastructures

or from very small-scale landscape acupuncture interventions.

Yet, what are the spatial structures and landscapes to infiltrate biodiversity and promote accessibility —as a device for a better inclusivity— to natural resources?

From XXL to XS: LABO RABO (fig.3), the winning proposal in Grenoble, provides a large-scale knowledge of the site as the driver of the project strategies to break away from the historically monofunctional character of the place and to create a Climate Metropolitan Laboratory regarding the future territorial meta­b­ olism dynamics. Also, on the same location, the special mention, Arc des Vivants (fig.4), shows another XXL-scale vision with the reintegration of the site in the territory through the rediscovering of an intermediate stratum as a geographical backbone for the proposal, including fertile slopes, walls, cliffs and terraces in the new glossary of the project.

I n - b e t we e n : i n S c h w ä b i s c h Gmünd, we can find how other participants focused on green-blue infrastructures and eco-corridors as ecological transition zones. The goal is to create new developments maintaining the relation with the existing biotopes.

The winning entry Viriditas ante portas (fig.5) proposes a green

Projects show a revalorization of the history and a new

interpretation of the ordinary components of the territory

6 — Pont-Aven (FR), winner — Beatmatching > See more P.153

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7 — Grenoble (FR), runner-up — The Urban Refuge > See more P.150

spine featured by a “Green Wall” to host spaces for urban farming, sports or leisure, ensuring a high degree of accessibility between the city and the forested slopes of Nepperberg. A secondary blue corridor along the river Rems infills the landscape along the quartier, running as a retention area for heavy rainfall.

From XS to XXL: in order to continue with this trans-scalar travel, we can realize how some schemes are betting on the repetition of small landscape acupuncture interventions to reconnect a site with the local and the large scale.

Different examples of this attitude can be found in two French sites.

In Pont-Aven, Beatmatching (fig.6) designs an urban structure linked to the former cannery to guide the future of the area, redefining the street as a spine crossed by a collection of porous passages to open up the site transversally to the Aven valley and the Bois d’Amour.

Also, the runner-up in Grenoble, The Urban Refuge (fig.7), establishes a catalogue of micro interventions following a landscaped toolbox strategy. Small actions with a big impact on the large scale through a new notion of accessibility to inhabit the mountain.

Habitats and Ecosystem Services A comprehensive strategy to address new logics on the production of the territory is the infiltration and articulation of micro habitats to enlarge social and economic benefits and catalyse new labour activities. Linked to these habitats, the potential of the ecosystem services to transform the spaces of proximity is featured in different works, highlighting the powers of the supporting services to relaunch local economies, of the cultural services to empower knowledge or of the regulatory services to render new collective imaginaries.Yet, what is the impact of this new paradigm in terms of design and what kind of habitats could transform the livability of a site?

Suppor ting: a common answer found in some submissions as the winning entr y in Pont-Aven, Magnétisme salin (fig.8), is to create a series of micro habitats exploring the potential of supporting as the service of an ecosystem to promote a new economy. A new inhabited milieu is relaunched integrating existing communities with the new ones.

The representation of the new imaginaries is materialized by a

Landscape is shown in different forms as a connector between large ecological and micro socio-economic approaches

tree-nursery as a green infrastructure able to regenerate the soil, reconnect the proximity scale with the large scale of the valley and support local markets with aquatic plants for production of food.

Cultural: in LABO RABO (fig.9), the winning proposal in Grenoble, the landscape appears as a strong cultural service to empower and produce local knowledge. Caring for culture and local labour promotes new productive ecologies, or, with the words of Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny in “Critical Care, Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet”: “the knowledge of architecture and urban planning extends far beyond the built or the natural environment.

It includes planning for new models of cooperation from productive ecologies”. LABO RABO proposes a laboratory in time and space following a process with three main phases: a scientific approach to the existing elements, launching the acclimatization nursery to find the plant species that will make up the public space of tomorrow and the material library. It is a laboratory for the everyday landscape of the city-plain based on former and new knowledge to link climate change expectations, natural resources at different scales and the inhabitants of Grenoble.

Regulatory: in Gmünder Talfinger (fig.10), runner-up in Schwäbisch Gmünd, a new type of public space emerges as the representation of the new paradigm. Public space is rendered as an interactive infrastructure where the cycle of water is the design driver connecting climate regulation with the neighbours and

the local production of food: “a celebration of metabolic interactions and the alternative aesthetics of a design approach in the Anthropocene… integrating rainwater-catchers to lead it over to the Water Storage Tower, or release it as spray mist during hot days, which turns together with the hanging green vegetation the scaffolding into a climate machine”.

What Promises?

Landscape is shown in different forms as a connector between large ecological and micro socio-economic approaches in an innovative way. But what is the potential of this landscape vision as an operative and trans-scalar field to reconnect the proximity realm of the everyday life with the comprehensive strategies anchored in the ordinary components of the territory?

E16 flourishes as an ideas-nursery for tomorrow, for a new notion of time (almost geological), integrating biological rhythms, cycles and ecosystem services in rich process-oriented narratives. But what is the room for manoeuvre of the new imaginaries of this disciplinary shift to be rendered?

Hopeful promises to continue through E17 exploring the frames of interdependency and landscape as a field of operation to drive synergetic relations between re-decoded realities, divergent scales, and new logics of time!

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9 — Grenoble (FR), winner — LABO RABO > See more P.149

8 — Pont-Aven (FR), winner — Magnétisme salin > See more P.154

10 — Schwäbisch Gmünd (DE), runner-up — Gmünder Talfinger > See more P.158

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Intensifying Districts

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These sites address the scale of a larger neighbourhood that needs to be requalified and intensify, and has to be enriched with different qualities, such as uses, public space, natural elements, etc.

Almendralejo (ES)

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Barcelona (ES)

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Biel/Bienne (CH)

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Levanger (NO)

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Linz (AT)

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Almendralejo (ES) SCALE — L/S URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL / ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — SAN JOSÉ DISTRICT, ALMENDRALEJO POPULATION — 33,474 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 75.8 HA / PROJECT SITE — 2.1 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — GENERAL DIRECTION OF ARCHITECTURE, REGIONAL GOVERNMENT OF EXTREMADURA ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — ALMENDRALEJO CITY COUNCIL OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — PUBLIC / PRIVATE

ALFONSO GÓMEZ GOÑI — General Director of

Architecture and Edification of the Regional Government of Extremadura.

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

The proposed site enjoys a strategic location as it is at the intersection of several main roads. It is located close to important cities such as Badajoz, Merida, Seville, Cordoba and Lisbon.

Almendralejo is the fourth most populated municipality in the province of Badajoz. The economic activity is mainly agricultural, so many jobs are created around the grape harvest and the olive harvest. During this season, the seasonal workers can generate a floating population of between 7,000 and 9,000 people, mainly composed of Romanian people of gypsy ethnicity, who are concentrated mainly in the neighbourhood of San José.

The selected project area is located in this neighbourhood which comprises 18 blocks and a total of 160 dwellings.

In this context, a proposal for urban rehabilitation and regeneration will be designed, for community regeneration, capable of achieving neighbourhood cohesion and providing quality housing.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

Living metabolisms: The first of these allows us to understand the city as an ecosystem in which it is necessary to encourage reuse, respect for the existing… Inclusivity is the essential social component to confront segregation and the serious inequalities that exist in our cities. Accessibility to the spaces created will be guaranteed at all times, favouring the integration of people with disabilities.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

Currently, the municipality of Almendralejo has a grant from the Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda to develop a pilot project of Urban Agenda Plan in the municipality to establish future strategies to improve life in the city.The aim is to make life in cities more comfortable and more complete, working on climate change, sustainable mobility, energy efficiency, low gas emissions, social cohesion and access to housing. Therefore, and within this new framework that is opening in the municipality, and together the local and regional administrations, we are working on landing the winning proposal through a complex citizen participatory process to reach the neighbourhood that is intended with this project, and, above all, that its inhabitants are involved in the germ of the future project. Likewise, it will be necessary to move forward with the drafting of an advance of the Master Plan, so as to start working on a complete and laborious document, and on a long and positive field work.

Almendralejo (ES) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

SERGIO SAÑUDO BABIO (ES) ARCHITECT

DANIEL CUETO MONDEJAR (ES) MARTINA ALMELA SENA (ES) JOSE LUIS RAMOS CHIA (ES) MARINA FERNÁNDEZ OÑATE (ES) ARCHITECTS

MONOCHROME, MALAGA (ES) +34 676901959 SERGIO@MONOCHROME.ES PROYECTOS@MONOCHROME.ES WWW.MONOCHROME.ES

La increíble historia

del temporero que encontró en Almendralejo su hogar Team point of view — The project creates an itinerary from the arrival of the seasonal workers to Almendralejo until its consolidation within the town. This materialises in two proposals.

The equipped green corridors connect the centre with San José and intensify its complexity with a landscape of Contemporary Chimneys. The Social Condenser Typology recycles the Marques housing by a social management focused on seasonal workers and offers them temporal accommodation and public services in three phases: Arrival, Development and Consolidation. The implementation is based on the renovation of the existing thanks to a modular system of interchangeable housing types with a clean industrial image that combines abstraction from popular architecture and contemporary lattices with multicultural patterns.

Jury point of view — The jury appreciates the depth of the analysis: underlying the well-intentioned image transmitted by the illustrated story is the conviction that such a profound regeneration cannot be undertaken without previously setting the guidelines for a public participation process to facilitate the study of the systemic shortfalls from different perspectives, and address the numerous social, political, spatial and building implications of the project. Good relevance of the time variable for maturing effective solutions, the implementation of an accompaniment process for the gradual integration of the foreign-born population.

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Almendralejo (ES) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

BEATRIZ NIETO RODRÍGUEZ (ES) GUILLERMO GONZÁLEZ TOFIÑO (ES) ARCHITECTS

HYBRID SCAPES, MADRID (ES) +34 636329962 HYBRIDSCAPESARCHITECTURE@GMAIL.COM WWW.HYBRIDSCAPES.ES

Contemporary Primitivism Team point of view — Contemporary Primitivism is a proposal which moves away from grand gestures and planning; thus, it gets closer to the most everyday reality by recovering the community as an infrastructure that provides people rights.

Following the “decline” key, the project seeks to recover lost romantic realities, which were a guarantee of quality of life.

The right to relax in green areas, to celebrate with your neighbours, to share or to enjoy a night in the rooftop, to organise a party in the garden…

The project is an ode to the recovery of the already disappeared community spirit by proposing a colony model that imitates a kind of contemporary phalanstery. A series of catalogues evoke a life in common combined with personal individualities within a sustain­ able present and future.

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Jury point of view — This proposal intensifies the coexistence model by means of vertical urban renewal and flexible spaces, raising each building one floor to compensate for the housing lost at street level. The jury appreciates the consistency of this proposal, the multiplicity and interest of the typologies that it contains, and the emergence of small workspaces alongside the circulation cores. The well-thought-out energy renovation strategy in phases and blocks, the improvements to accessibility and the stimulation of neighbourhood cooperation are the basis for urban renewal in the project area.

Almendralejo (ES) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

GONZALO LOPEZ GARRIDO (ES) DIANA CRISTOBAL OLAVE (ES) TANIA ORAMAS DORTA (ES) ARCHITECTS

ALFONSO SIMELIO JURADO (ES) HAMZA HAMDEH (US) ARCHITECTS ISABEL CAMPILLO VALENCIA (CO) DESIGNER

KNITKNOT ARCHITECTURE, LONDON (UK) +1 6462750860 TEAM@KNITKNOTARCHITECTURE.COM WWW.KNITKNOTARCHITECTURE.COM

Social Scaffolding

Team point of view — “Pisos del Marqués” represent a challenge for Almendralejo, due to their insufficiency to respond to the social conditions of the population and foster neighbourhood relationships, and to the need to rehabilitate a series of obsolete elements, both in their technical and architectural performance.

That is why [SOCIAL SCAFFOLDING] starts from a detailed analysis of the architectural scale, to understand which elements of the existing built environment can be recycled and renovated, and which need to be replaced. A series of elements have been classified as problematic, which are proposed to replace; and others as identity, which are intended to reinterpret. After this approach to the architectural scale, the same method expands towards the urban and domestic scales, to define a [PRESERVATION STRATEGY] capable of regenerating while reinterpreting and emphasising the identity of the place.

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Almendralejo (ES) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

DAVID MORENO (ES) LAURA CUADRILLERO (ES) ARCHITECTS

MORENO CUADRILLERO ARQUITECTOS, MADRID (ES) DAVID@MORENOCUADRILLERO.COM LAURA@MORENOCUADRILLERO.COM WWW.MORENOCUADRILLERO.COM

Oraș echilibrat Team point of view — Oraș echilibrat is an urban regeneration project with several purposes: 1. To reverse the process of urban and social segregation in the project area. 2. To develop support for a local politic that fosters a tolerant and multicultural society.

3. To generate a coherent and suggestive image of the whole.

4. To promote the integration and reuse of existing buildings.

The fundamental problem occurs with the immigrant population, especially Romanians of gypsy ethnicity.The project focuses on the idea that the solutions to be adopted do not consist only in the reconstruction of decent housing, but to promote urban strategies that enable the gradual social integration of this population in the neighbourhood of San José. This is the only way to achieve a balanced city in terms of social equity.

Barcelona (ES) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — TORRENT DE L’ESTADELLA, SANT ANDREU DISTRICT, BARCELONA POPULATION — BARCELONA, 1,620,343 INHAB. SANT ANDREU, 148,232 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 80.5 HA - PROJECT SITE — 29 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — BARCELONA CITY COUNCIL, URBAN ECOLOGY AREA ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — URBAN ECOLOGY AREA OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — PUBLIC / PRIVATE

JAUME BARNADA — Coordinator of International

Relations Projects Management. Urban Ecology City Council of Barcelona.

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

The most impor tant issue raised by the Torrent de l’Estadella project was how to achieve a living city that includes residence, production and ecology and at the same time, provide urban complexity. Every valid solution requires an assessment of the urban fabric’s composition and its architecture, as well as the proposal of a short-term regeneration project.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

Including industry in the mix of everyday uses is a question of inclusivity within the definition of the proposal. It also involves innovation in the development of the city’s districts. The projects and processes that derive from this system are a new way of regarding metabolism as a set of actions that accommodate people’s lives in an environment-friendly way.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

In the case of Torrent de l’Estadella, the process was defined before the Europan 16 competition because it is a transformation steered by the Barcelona City Council. It has been proposed as a way to regenerate the industrial area on the right bank of the Besòs River and improve the value of the existing productive estates and housing areas. To this end, a development plan and a territorial management office are now being designed. We hope that the winning project will be able to accompany the process and provide an innovative approach. We also hope that it can be developed in the form of a series of plans and projects that generate ideas compatible with an ecological process of urban regeneration.

Barcelona (ES) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

JOSÉ LACRUZ VELA (ES) ARCHITECT

PEPELACRUZARCH, ONDA (ES) +34 639886368 PEPELACRUZARCH@GMAIL.COM WWW.PEPELACRUZARCH.COM

Industrial Re-Evolution Team point of view — INDUSTRIAL RE-EVOLUTION is the proposal to develop and transform Torrent de l’Estadella, an industrial estate in the periphery of Barcelona. The main objectives of this scheme are: renature the industrial estate closer to its original condition as an environmental torrent; connect and integrate the industrial area with the adjacent city through a series of public space and infrastructure interventions; and ensure that Torrent de l’Estadella maintains its productive character, proposing a new hybrid-industrial building typology and generating points of reference for the city through icons. The project seeks to implement these objectives on three levels: Territorial, Urban and Building.

Jury point of view — The project approaches the industrial site Torrent de l’Estadella, with a multifaceted strategy addressing three distinct scales: Territorial, Urban, Architectural, determined for a gradual site transformation with preserving the industrial identity at its core to create hybrid living/productive neighbourhood. A careful reading of the existing character and potentials of the site together with its wider territory allows for several decisions. The proposal seeks for gradual but long-lasting impact with strategic incisions, attractions aiming towards some level of self-­ sufficiency of the area.

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URBAN LIVING ROOM

The use can be divided by naves or use the entire complex

Sheltered Plaza Street Market Sport Courts Vertical Farms Permanent Market

The new plaza serves as an extension of the Urban Living Room

Co-working Space

ECO ENERGY PLANT

Energy Park

Energy Park New Residents Eco Plaza

Cultural Activities

Physical Activities Loading & Unloading

Barcelona (ES) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

CHIARA PEPORI (IT), NICOLÒ DE PAOLI (IT) ARCHITECTS FRANCESCA PELIZZARO (IT) ARCHITECT, URBANIST

FNC.PDP@GMAIL.COM

El Tablero de l’Estadella Team point of view — The Torrent de l’Estadella is a part of the modern urban history of Barcelona. Its agricultural vocation first, then its industrial one, contributed to form the area which appears very recognisable.The goal is to provide a set of tools that will allow the area to take part in these changes, while maintaining its productive vocation. The transformation of the area has to be intended as a reuse of what is already there combined with a strategy of cautious substitution of necrotic zones, always respecting the historical urban form. The proposal aims at bringing a diversity of usages of the urban space, allowing the area to stay active through time. Breaking the mono-functional character of the area and ensuring the coexistence of new and old activities will make this part of the city resilient.

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Jury point of view — The project proposes a set of tools for gradual, incremental area transformation.This bottom-up approach stretches beyond mere phasing as it employs temporary interventions and allows for in-between re-evaluation and response for the next steps of the intervention. The integration of publicness spans several levels, from the radical redefinition of the character of the roads to highlighting existing industrial heritage into cultural attractor or coexistence of industrial facility with public programs.

The sensitivity of the transformation strategy aims to create a valuable long-term community, where the mix of production, living, and culture define long lasting identity of the place.

Public facilities The re-use of the existing

Road typical section Existing situation

Facilities The integration of new facilities

Mixed-use buildings Integration of the residential function

Temporary intervention

Future scenario

Barcelona (ES) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

SANDRA GARCIA MORATA (ES) VÍCTOR NAVARRO GUILLEN (ES) ARCHITECTS

NAMO, BARCELONA (ES) +34 660128379 NAMOARQUITECTES@GMAIL.COM

Liminal City Team point of view — The Torrent de l’Estadella is located between two consolidated urban areas and the future park, the Camí Comtal.The Liminal City aims to take advantage of its transitional position between productive areas and urban areas. It means being a link-space that, together with the paradigm shift in the urban industry model, will establish a bridge to a more living city.

The transformation involves implementing regeneration strategies for the urban environment, generating a new space in the city that maintains the balance between the reproductive labour and the productive labour, through a mixed system of uses.

The new planning aims to provide public spaces of permanence and transit that will embrace the different groups of the community. The whole is proposed as a mutable space, to adapt to future changes and be more resilient.

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Barcelona (ES) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

JOSÉ SANMARTÍN GONZÁLEZ (ES) ANNAMARIA PISANI (IT) DANIEL MOLAS GUAL (ES) ARCHITECTS

PROXIMA 31, AMSTERDAM (NL) PROXIMA31@PROTONMAIL.COM WWW.PROXIMA31.COM @PROXIMA_31

The SEED of a living INDUSTRY Team point of view — We propose to create a complex, adaptable, diverse and productive neighbourhood based in a strategy of affections and proximities. The dichotomy industry-city is replaced by a strategy based on co-existence and synergy.

The reorganisation of the network of public spaces not only nourishes the housing program, but also enhances the value of architectural elements that play a fundamental role as urban hubs.

We are talking about the new industrial hubs and around them will gravitate both professional and social life.

When we reprogram with a new use, a space that was firstly conceived for a different function, a “spatial surprise” of immense value happens. This, among other qualities, is what will imbue the entire Torrent de l’Estadella neighbourhood with uniqueness and attract new generations eager to participate in its industrial memory.

Biel/Bienne (CH) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — METT, BIEL/BIENNE POPULATION — 55,000 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 144 HA / PROJECT SITE — 12 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF BIEL/BIENNE AND 8 COOPERATIVES ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — CITY OF BIEL/BIENNE AND 8 COOPERATIVES OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — CITY OF BIEL/BIENNE AND 8 COOPERATIVES

SARAH GÄUMANN — Responsible for the Planning

and Urban Space Department, Municipality of Bienne

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

— How can the neighbourhood best be renewed and densified while at the same time preserving its identity?

— How can the current rather one-sided housing supply be renewed and supplemented so that a future-oriented and diverse housing mix is created?

— How to respond to the strong division of the Geyisried neighbourhood and noise pollution from the Orpundstrasse motorway feeder road?

— How to maintain the dense greenery in the neighbourhood despite densification and how to strengthen the quality of the outdoor spaces as meeting places?

— How, despite densification, the volume of traffic and the space required for parking can be limited with clever concepts for mobility and parking, and the interior of the neighbourhood can be kept largely free of motorised traffic?

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The point of venture of the project to develop the neighbourhood is its existing buildings. Development shall take place within the existing neighbourhood, take into account its existing qualities and the needs of its population.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

While the process is not yet fully defined, the objective is to develop a concept for the development of the neighbourhood in a participative process including the cooperatives and their residents, on the basis of the results of Europan. This concept will serve as a basis to adaptation of building regulations as well as renewal projects for the cooperatives. A proposal is not expected by the competitors, but possibilities for their inclusion in the development of the concept will be examined.

Biel/Bienne (CH) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

MORTEN VESTBERG HANSEN (DK) CHRISTOPHER GALLIANO (DK) CASPER JUHLER-OLSEN (DK) ARCHITECTS

FOLK ARKITEKTER, COPENHAGEN (DK) +45 26466964 / MH@FOLKARKITEKTER.DK WWW.FOLKARKITEKTER.DK CASPER JUHLER ARKITEKTUR, COPENHAGEN (DK) +45 41173083 / CASPERJUHLER@GMAIL.COM

My House Team point of view — My house — In 2050 a home in Geyisried rivals the most mundane and attractive houses in the city of Biel/ Bienne. The resident’s perception of a classical home has changed.

Their home extends beyond the walls of a typical apartment, and contains an abundance of high-quality spaces and functions, previously unheard of in cooperative housing.

An attractive neighbourhood — Geyisried 2050 is a persistently attractive neighbourhood. By implementing tried and true elements of city-planning, the security and usability of the area is consistently supported.

Density & sustainability — Geyisried is densified and transformed with a minimal amount of economy, natural resources and outdoor spaces spent. This is to ensure that the quality of life exists.

Jury point of view — This project focuses on the micro scale.

It intervenes in the urban fabric through a process of acupuncture, maintaining the existing structures and hence the overall value recognised by the ISOS perimeter. The jury appreciated the sensitive densification strategy, which adds housing spaces but primarily focuses on intensifying uses by the addition of semi-private or public spaces at gable ends, thereby bringing greater vitality to the district. The phasing is convincing in its scheduling of interventions based on the priorities and of the age of the buildings.

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Bienne/Biel (CH) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

CHARLÉLIE MICHEL (FR), ARCHITECT, URBANIST GAETAN AMOSSÉ (FR), ARTIST SOUKAINA LAABIDA (MA), ARCHITECT

ATELIER OBSERVARE, BERN (CH) / SOUVIGNY (FR) +41 774547863 INFO@ATELIEROBSERVARE.COM / WWW.ATELIEROBSERVARE.COM

The City As a Living Organism Team point of view — A living organism is made up of a skel­ eton, vital functions and a belonging to a milieu, from which it draws the resources necessary for its life.

The project aims to consider the Geyisried neighbourhood as a living organism. By observing the neighbourhood and the territory, simple interventions complete its pre-existing skeleton.

The boulevard as a backbone, the Place d’Orpond as the head and the business park as the tail are completed by an exoskeleton: the Geyisried ring is a new soft mobility path, accessible to all.

It connects the structuring green spaces and its public facilities.

The skeleton reorganises the five vital functions of the neighbourhood: to resource, to create and innovate, to socialise, to make together and to transmit. Now there is room for every generation in Geyisried!

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Jury point of view — The project proposal starts with a largescale analysis of the territory and the depth of the fabric. The district is perceived as an element of a larger whole. The proposal brings together the existing elements, linking them through a circular path running across the neighbourhood, thus creating both an internal connection and a connection with the surrounding fabric.

It conveys the sense of a circular dynamic with the potential to counterbalance the linearity of the road. the project respects the character of the existing neighbourhood, while offering a phased programme of renewal and refurbishment.

Levanger (NO) SCALE L — URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — THE WOODEN TOWN, LEVANGER POPULATION — 10,000 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 400 HA / PROJECT SITE — 15 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — LEVANGER MUNICIPALITY ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — LEVANGER MUNICIPALITY, DEPARTMENT OF CULTURAL CERITAGE, TRØNDELAG COUNTY COUNCIL OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — LEVANGER MUNICIPALITY AND PRIVATE LANDOWNERS

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CITY OF LEVANGER & EUROPAN NORWAY —

1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

We had three main questions: — How to deal with the traffic and mobility issues?

— How to densify in a historic city?

— How to integrate a new library concept into the rejuvenation of the city of Levanger?

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

These are two sides of the same coin, and one cannot talk about one without the other. In Levanger the issue of dealing with traffic, pollution and mobility is closely linked with inclusivity as well as metabolism. Dealing with these issues are paramount in achieving an inclusive city, and without inclusive communities it’s hard to deal with environmental issues.The national heritage status of the entire town adds just another layer on top of these fundamental issues.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

Depending on the profile of the winning teams, we will either continue with a larger plan for urban spaces and use of the streets, or commission a more detailed feasibility study of the new library.

Either way, process and par ticipation will be key elements of the commission.

Levanger (NO) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

JOSE Mª MATEO (ES), VICTOR PÉREZ (ES) J. ANDRÉS RÍOS (EC/ES), FRANCIS ALMONTE (ES) TOMÁS LARIOS (ES), ÁLVARO SÁNCHEZ (ES) ARCHITECTS

C/PLAZA CASTELLINI 12 3ºB, 30201 CARTAGENA, MURCIA (ES) +34 646983897 HELLOWOODS.TEAM@GMAIL.COM

Hello, Woods!

Team point of view — Hello, Woods! welcomes a new era for Levanger.The future of the city is circular, accessible and sustainable.

A time in which cars are replaced by trees; roads and parking lots by commercial and cultural public spaces; smoke and pollution by fresh air; and you can listen to birdsongs and the river flow instead of the noise of a busy city.

Environment and energy are the centrepiece of the proposal, going over the opposition between city and nature. Hello, Woods! enhances every natural ecosystem and cycle in Levanger: the river Levangerelva, Levangersundet or the woods, as well as the parks inside and around the city. In addition, energy consumption and environmental footprint will be reduced by means of solar, wind and geothermal renewable and clean power.

Jury point of view — The authors outline a very comprehensive, multiscale and well-resolved concept for re-vitalising the heritage grid city of Levanger, and its specific geography of being hinged between two waters. The proposal offers an intriguing networked, let’s call it democratic, urban scheme using multiple already given attractions rather than emphasising one only. It surprises by deflecting the obvious town’s centrality from the main park axis into revitalised parallel streets and taking the requested bridge over the train tracks right to a point of green space fuelled by a cultural programme.

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Levanger (NO) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

LAURA SOLSONA (ES) EDUARD FERNÀNDEZ (ES) ARCHITECTS

QUYÊN LÊ (VN) URBAN DESIGNER NGUYỆT TRÂN (VN) LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

SELF-OFFICE, BARCELONA (ES) +34 618393293 / +34 618094105 SELF.SELFOFFICE@GMAIL.COM WWW.SELF-OFFICE.NET

Seednergies Team point of view — Located between the Sundet and the Levangerelva river, lies the town of Levanger. Car-based development, urban sprawl, and industrial activities have gradually emptied the town of important services, creating pressure on recreational open spaces, important for the quality of life and biodiversity. To shift this paradigm, new synergies between the built environment, local ecosystems, and the use of public space must be established in order to create more resilient cities. Rather than fixed solutions, a series of long-term strategies will establish new living conditions shifting to a more sustainable future for Levanger.

Our approach speculates about new ways of living together, which are not only more sustainable but encourage people to share and grow in parallel to their living environment.

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Jury point of view — The jury appreciates the imaginative landscape strategy for the urban space in Levanger. The proposal suggests ways to engage and activate the local community. It focuses on the park which is clearly established, introducing the idea of a plant nursery which is seen as an interesting idea for the urban space. The jury considers the suggestions for activating the park in different ways positive, as well as creating layers of vegetation to be planted and for learning from.The focus on enhancing the relationship between culture and biodiversities and the focus on using elements from the native flora and the blue green grid are interesting.

Levanger (NO) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

JONIAN SILAJ (GR/AL) ARCHITECT, URBANIST EIRINI XANTHOPOULOU (GR) ARCHITECT

IRAKLIS ROMANOPOULOS (GR) IRENE PIGHI (IT) ALESSANDRA BONACCIO (IT) ARCHITECTS

IRIX + STUDIO JUAJ ROTTERDAM (NL) STUDIO@JUAJ.NL / WWW.JUAJ.NL INFO@IRIX.CO / WWW.IRIX.CO

Building Up on Values

Team point of view — The city of Levanger is looking for elements to develop into a resilient city while our research showed that those elements are already there. We need to dig into its history and the strengths of everyday relations, starting with its citizens. Permanent residents or students, office workers or people that like to get their hands dirty, people that perform or people that produce can all contribute significantly to the intensification and enrichment of their close environment firstly and eventually of the city and its natural habitat. The theme of metabolic and inclusive vitalities cultivates values and qualities and lets them grow as modern ways of living and sharing spaces create the perfect ground to activate what is sleeping and is waiting to wake up in small cities, such as Levanger. An approach as a process that requires a more complex system of development for one-of-a-kind vision.

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Levanger (NO) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

LUCIA ANDERICA RECIO (ES) JORGE LOPEZ SACRISTAN (ES) JAVIER ORTIZ TEMPRADO (ES) ARCHITECTS

STUDIO.ALT - MADRID (ES) / ZURICH (CH) ARCHITECTURE.SALT@GMAIL.COM WWW.STUDIOALT.EU

Kultur-hub-set!

Team point of view — The real asset of any society in today’s globalised world lies in its cultural heritage and identity. The old town of Levanger has in its own urban and architectural constraints, its greatest value. Our project builds upon these ideals to transform the old town into a future-proof, vibrant and dynamic town. The project understands city dynamics as a whole and identifies the pieces of the puzzle that can have a real impact. This way, a new organisational scheme is laid out, understanding the unique condition of Levanger as a town between two bodies of water, encouraging the relationship towards and along them, limiting the traffic, prioritising pedestrian and bicycles over cars, creating a system of green corridors and focusing development on culture organised around the Park Axis.

Levanger (NO) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

FRANCESCO CORONA (IT) ARCHITECT BERNARDO GRILLI DI CORTONA (IT) ARCHITECT, URBANIST

CONTRÓRA 67 QUAI DE VALMY, 75010 PARIS (FR) +33 659995374 ATELIERCONTRORA@GMAIL.COM

LS* Levanger — Linking Squares Team point of view — Levanger is a city suspended between the Trondheimsfjorden and the countryside. Urban countryside is a battleground for demographic, economic, ecological and political challenges. For several years, there has been a reversal of the trend with respect to the post-war flow that brought people from the countryside to the cities. In this context, Levanger can become a new pole of attraction at the regional level. The fulcrum of the project is the axis that starts from Levangersundet and reaches the river. The idea is to create a unique and homogeneous sequence of squares never crossed by a driveway.

The organic succession of intimate places with different vocations creates a unique system capable of revitalizing the city and making it once again the cultural and commercial centre it once was.

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Levanger (NO) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

GUSTAVO FIGUEIRA SERRANO (ES) DIEGO DÍAZ MOSQUEIRA (ES) ÁLVARO ITARTE PÉREZ (ES) ARCHITECTS

JAVIER POMBAR GUILLÁN (ES) ARCHITECTURAL VISUALIZATION

VI17, A CORUÑA (ES) +34 881309548 INFO@VI17.GAL WWW.VI17.GAL

Reveal/Relink/Rebuild Team point of view — Revealing what was already there is the core concept for the urban revitalisation of the city of Levanger.

Revealing the existing nature, heritage, entrepreneurialism and social values; and make them work together for a sustainable common future in 3 scales. First, a Regional-Scale, connecting Levanger with its natural surroundings. Second, an Urban-Scale, improving mobility and public through new walkable and bikeable spaces. Third, an Architectural-Scale, creating a new building for the promotion of culture, society and innovation. Based on an equalitarian, collaborative and productive use of the urban space; and the protection and promotion of land and water biodiversity, the future of Levanger will attract the creation of new businesses, inclusiveness for all and harmony with nature.

Linz (AT) SCALE — L / XS URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL / PROTOTYPES LOCATION — LINZ POPULATION — 203,000 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 19.2 HA / PROJECT SITE — 4 PROTOTYPES SITE PROPOSED BY — EBS ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — EBS, CITY OF LINZ, OEBB OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — EBS AND OEBB

MANUEL GATTERMAYR — Project manager at EBS

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

The most important question was how to modernise the quarter carefully without removing the qualities such as the green areas or the quiet neighbourhood. We asked them how they will modernise the existing buildings, make them barrier-free, increase the number of private and common gardens and improve the qualities of open spaces. We also asked them how they will increase the floor space in total and for locations for new buildings.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

Each part of the city plays an important role in the connection to other districts on various levels, such as logistics, social aspects, the ecology, etc. I believe successful developments are only possible if those connections are understood. Froschberg has many critical functions that are important for Linz and its citizens: It is a green oasis, it is a home for many residents, it has a very central location, and it is a well-known part of Linz’s history. And it has a tremendous potential for development. This potential should be used — for current as well as future residents. Inclusivity is a very interesting characteristic in regard to Froschberg, as it is often described as a village inside the city whose residents know each other very well. On the one hand, this inclusivity of the neighbourhood is a strength of the quarter; on the other hand, it reveals the question of how to open this community to new residents.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

We do not expect a direct translation of the proposals from the competitors. As regards implementation, it is very important that all the stakeholders are involved. In our case, this means our tenants, the City of Linz and the EBS. In this spirit, we are interested in involving Europan in a strategic process for the development of Froschberg which will lead to a specific implementation approach.

Linz (AT) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

MICHALIS NTOURAKOS (GR) ARCHITECT

MICHALIS NTOURAKOS RESILIENT.INTUITIVE.ARCHITECTURE, ROTTERDAM (NL) +31 619777950 MNT.ARCH@GMAIL.COM / WWW.NTOURAKOS.COM

Bio-based Idiolect Team point of view — Bio-based Idiolect ambitiously tackles all the challenges in this special location and suggests a moderate densification where living, working & sharing overlap in a variety of offered units. With collaboration, flexibility and inclusivity as key qualities, the private, public and in-between spaces are consciously re-evaluated and designed to enhance spatial experience with a full spectrum of social ambiances. By enriching the layouts, four replicable prototypes of a distinct and inviting architectural language gracefully, bridge the old with the new and are supported further by a permeable slow mobility network in the accessible extensive green. Bio-based materials and a comprehensive sustainability & circularity strategy strengthen a vibrant revitalized neighbourhood for decades to come.

Jury point of view — The jury particularly appreciates the proposed approach for Types A & C, which formulates the idea of an additional layer positioned at a certain distance from the existing building and hardly changing it. Typologically, the project creates a kind of “micro-courtyard” between the existing and the new building, with the more private spaces to be housed in the existing part. The more public uses, such as living room and kitchen, are placed in the new layer with large openings facing the greenery.

The proposal considers a step-by-step implementation which is well imaginable and is easily applicable.

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Stimulating Interfaces

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These sites are at a crossing-point of different areas, making them important mediators, but also in between places that can stimulate the quality of the neighbouring areas.

Aulnat (FR)

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Graz (AT)

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Quimper (FR)

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Roquetas de Mar (ES)

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Selb (DE)

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Aulnat (FR) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — AULNAT — PUY-DE-DÔME (63) POPULATION — 4,112 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 200 HA / PROJECT SITE — 1: 0,5HA, 2: 5HA, 3: 50HA SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF AULNAT, CLERMONT AUVERGNE METROPOLIS ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — CITY OF AULNAT, CLERMONT AUVERGNE METROPOLIS, URBAN PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT AGENCY OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — CITY OF AULNAT (SITE 1+2), CLERMONT AUVERGNE METROPOLIS (SITE 3)

Site 1: Les Chapelles

SANDRINE MASQUELET — Director of Urban Planning,

Clermont Auvergne Metropolis

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Site 2: Train station

Site 3: Bourdon refinery

1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

Chapelles site: what new way of living in Aulnat, what type of innovative housing to provide?

Train station site: how to create a multi-activity infrastructure at the entrance of the city and the Metropolis, in connection with the arrival of the BHNS, redesigning the facade of the airport and of Aulnat?

Bourdon refinery site: what will the future be for this site which refers to a larger scale, both landscape and territorial, by the size of its right-of-way but also by the presence of the large lagoons edging the highway, a real landscape infrastructure linked to the management of water and the irrigation of crops on the plain?

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The city of Aulnat has inherited the different phases of development that have contributed to its expansion. If each of these phases represented an opportunity for development, the city of Aulnat must now begin a new dynamic of regeneration.

The city must find new levers to recover its intrinsic qualities in its constrained fabric, its proximity to the centre of the metropolis in interfacing with the great landscape. By succeeding in finding new links with its great neighbours, which are the great landscape, agriculture and its irrigation system, the airport and the centre of the metropolis, it is a question of bringing out the beginnings of a sustainable transformation.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

An urban study such as a guide plan will be launched in spring 2022 with the winners of Europan France, the local authorities, the urban planning agency, the DDT63, and the SEM Assemblia.

Aulnat (FR) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

ALFONSO BERTRAN (ES), SPATIAL PLANNER MARIA DOMÍNGUEZ (ES), XAVIER ISART (ES) BIEL SUSANNA (ES), ARCHITECTS BEATRIZ SALADICH (ES), ARCHITECT, URBANIST

VALENTINA PILIEGO (IT), LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT PABLO TOUBES (ES/US), MARC CASTAÑO (ES) ARCHITECTS

C/SARDENYA, 229 PLANTA 4 08013 BARCELONA (ES)

Aulnat centripète Team point of view — The project explores a new vision for the town of Aulnat, generating new interfaces between the metropolitan heart of Clermont-Ferrand and the agricultural extension of the Limagne plain.

Aulnat centripète proposes a resilient urban model for the town, based on a concentric system that enhances the singularities of its context. This model consists of four local strategies of sustainable development that aim to improve its climate comfort and life quality in the coming thirty years, including mobility, water management and different forms of local production.

The new vision for Aulnat is conceived as a long-term process that begins with the implementation of a mobility loop and two interface elements that link the three project sites with the city centre and the surrounding landscape.

Jury point of view — The project is rooted in a circular economy model, consisting of food and farming production based on the “Aulnat agriculture belt” combined with a system of urban horticulture and sales outlets around the town centre. The jury noted the clarity of the ideas and the quality of the graphic expression.

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Aulnat (FR) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

TANGUY GUYOT (FR), FABIEN LAMY (FR) ARCHITECTS, URBANISTS MAXIME NEUVILLE (FR), VIOLETTE SOLEILHAC (FR) ARCHITECTS

NOU(E)S 20 CHEMIN DU MARRONNIER, 46320 LIVERNON (FR) +33 632173942 NOUES.COLLECTIF@GMAIL.COM

Vi(e)abiliser Team point of view — How can we create the conditions for a living city? It seems obvious to our team to succeed in acting despite the uncertain world we know. Our project must be able to adapt to unforeseeable future scenarios, by working on the implementation of possibilities rather than imposing fixed systems that are too exposed to hazards. More than a project, we propose a process to implement the milestones of a living, open and adaptable city. A humble intervention that echoes the current financial stakes and can face the non-binary futures that await us in a serene manner. A re-foundation of the city on the natural elements that saw its birth: the Artière flowing in its heart and the Limagne plain preserved as a horizon.

Jury point of view — This original proposal expresses a strong and precise position on the method of building the city on the city.

The landscape component, very concrete in its resolution, plays a critical role, and explores both human and nonhuman habitats.

The jury identified several levels of interest: the response to the climate crisis, the land question and the role of private actors.

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Aulnat (FR) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

CLÉMENT BERTIN (FR), SARA IMPERA (IT) MARTIN KERMEL (FR), ARCHITECTS GIULIA PIGNOCCHI (IT), JULIEN TRUGLAS (FR) LANDSCAPERS

CARACALLA ARCHITECTES, PARIS (FR) CLEMENTBERTIN@CARACALLAARCHITECTES.COM WWW.CARACALLA-ARCHITECTES.COM LE MA PAYSAGE, PARIS/LILLE (FR) ATELIER@MAPAYSAGE.COM / WWW.MAPAYSAGE.COM

Cardo Team point of view — The town of Aulnat is characterised by its central position in the history of the territorial, technical and urban development of the Limagne plain. It is an urban enclave in a landscape divided between rurality and large infrastructures, which is losing inhabitants to denser urban areas or greener peri-urban areas. The central issue then becomes the search for a territorial reconciliation, airport-city-nature, through the revival of new forms of interactive attractiveness of the different environments.

In the perspective of a reconversion of the aeronautical industry towards low-carbon and silent “green aviation”, a global rebalancing between the different forms of productivities of the territory is therefore at the basis of the process of revitalization of Aulnat.

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Graz (AT) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — GRAZ POPULATION — 291,072 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 16 HA / PROJECT SITE — 7,500 SQM SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF GRAZ ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — CITY OF GRAZ, CITY PARK GRAZ OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — CITY OF GRAZ, CITY PARK GRAZ

MARTIN POPPMEIER — Owner of the project site

WILFRIED KRAMMER — Project manager at the Executive Office for Urban Planning, Development and Construction

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1/ What are the main questions posed to the competitors concerning the transformation of the site?

Our shopping centre is fifty years old, a grown structure that has organically evolved and needs to continue to do so to successfully persevere through current, challenging market trends. We face general changes in shopping habits and on a more local level we see changes in our immediate neighbourhood, which is growing strongly. Once the ongoing construction and development projects that have progressed to final planning stages will finish, nearly one thousand new apartments will be completed within the next few years. Our goal is to become an integral part of this expanding neighbourhood. Moreover, we want to become a vital player supporting visionary programmatic ideas and connecting with them.

The location of the E16 site is really the key to help accomplish that. We are asking for ideas that can attract a mixed range of people from different backgrounds and professions and function as the “glue” that will bring it all together.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The City of Graz is interested in seeing wider-scaled concepts for public space that tackle connectivity and highlight existing values, thus establishing a framework for the entire area. It is particularly about connecting nearby green areas, emphasising the presence of the on-site Mühlgang (mill stream), bringing the old and new together and creating places with a quality of stay for everyone.

Plans for a tramline crossing the site will additionally enhance the human scale in the currently car-dominated area by accentuating the presence of natural components, improving easy accessibility, and focussing on landscape architecture. Especially with a view towards networking the diverse contents of the adjoining urban spaces, we are ambitiously striving towards a metabolic and inclusive city quarter.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

From the outset, our aim was to trigger new ideas from a young, international architectural community for a challenging design task, hoping that we may even find a solution we can realise in our greater development plans. These encompass a much larger space and have farther-reaching implications. At this point, we cannot reasonably determine the further steps. However, we are interested in keeping the awarded ideas as valuable input in the overall process.

The first meetings with the winning teams are already planned.

Graz (AT) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

RAQUEL RUIZ GARCÍA (ES) MÓNICA LAMELA BLÁZQUEZ (ES) VIOLETA ORDÓÑEZ MANJÓN (ES) ARCHITECTS

MADRID (ES) - LOS ANGELES (US) WATEREVER.ARCH@GMAIL.COM @FREEMUEHLGANG @RAQUELRUIZ.ARCH @MONICALAMELA

Free Mühlgang Team point of view — Free Mühlgang unearths the traces of the past to reveal through a process of erosion the stories, events, and people(s) that have been forgotten, excluded, and silenced.

Through the materialisation of new programs and exchanges, we will honour them and connect them to the present. From the territorial perspective, we propose to liberate the Mühlgang recovering it for the city and its citizens, whilst reasserting the significance of this unique urban element through an inclusive public greenblue corridor.

The proposal — a wetland landscape “Waterever” and an elevated building “Hinge”—becomes a statement for an inclusive architecture, which involves and integrates a wide range of actants that will inhabit, discover, transform and enhance a new vision for Gries and the City.

Jury point of view — The jury highlights the careful analysis and the new perspective on metabolism in the city. The way the proj­ ect traces the layers of history and relates them to the site is interesting, studying the potential meaning of the canal in relation to its social and ecological values. For the site’s urban ground, the team proposes a heterotopic public space whose atmosphere, topography and form are defined by its dynamic relation to water / flooding. To transform the canal into an intense physical dialogue with water is seen as a contemporary approach to new forms of public space.

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Graz (AT) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

PEDRO PITARCH ALONSO (ES) ARCHITECT

PEDRO PITARCH ARCHITECTURES & URBANISMS PALMA 59, BAJO B, 28015 MADRID (ES) MAIL@PEDROPITARCH.COM WWW.PEDROPITARCH.COM / @PEDROPITARCH

Post-Shopping Team point of view — What if we analyse the urban ethos of Graz?

What if we use the urban breeding ground of the city itself as a prototype for the site, as a recipe that orders the urban ingredients of a Prosumer-Oriented Shopping Mall?

The project is intended to be developed in time, constructing a series of infrastructural corridors that enable to inject ProsumerOriented activities into CityPark.

These Architectural Spines, these infrastructures, do not just allow the connection between both sides of the CityPark, but also introduce and articulate a series of complementary activities, hosted within architectural pieces, that hybridise a Cosumer Oriented ethos of the Shopping mall with many other type of non-commercial programs.

This strategy allows the CityPark to become a public active space for citizens, where production and consumption overlap.

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Jury point of view — A contradictory discussion evolved: Is the proposal feasible in an era of climate crises? Nevertheless, members of the jury noted qualities, notably concerning its appearance to the Griesgasse, the proposal creates the most convincing urban image amongst all the projects. It is appreciated as interesting for its scale and design. The approach of linking the suburb to the “world of the shopping centre”, its new development and its beyond, is recognised as a value to be addressed in the future development strategy.

Graz (AT) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

RENÉ DAPPERGER (DE) ARCHITECT

DANNECKERSTRASSE 36 70182 STUTTGART (DE) RENE.M.DAPPERGER@GMAIL.COM SZENARIOBLOG.COM

Urban Solutions Superstructure Team point of view — Urban Problems require Urban Solutions.

Innovations are desperately needed to keep up with ecological and economical challenges. We have spun a net of superstructures over Graz who will provide exactly that. A decentralised trading net of unique superstructures, who provide the urban needs with nourishment, material and energy. These three parameters are included in every superstructure and traded among these to stop the constant import and failed metabolism of global trading.

Our SUPERSTRUCTURE GRAZ SÜD 1 has the local parameters of PLASTICGOLD (Urban mining and Recycling) for the production of 3D printed Innovations. It covers AQUAPONICS as the nourishment with the combination of living and gardening in a close relationship to each other. And it is provided with energy by Methanol as a storage medium. An ecologically and economically effective SUPERLIFESTYLE is born.

Jury point of view — The jury appreciates the proposed system.

The question of how to integrate infrastructure in the city and how to make the process of metabolism visible is clearly addressed here. Two autonomous structures defined by a geometry of bigness are already in the neighbourhood: the shopping centre and the parking garage. Thus, the area could be exactly the right place for integrating such a project — a next generation of fair technology; the area of a shopping centre, might become a new kind of infrastructure device. The project might even need this scale to work and become a useful organism.

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Quimper (FR) SCALE — L/S URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL / ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — QUIMPER — FINISTÈRE (29) POPULATION — 63,508 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 40 HA / PROJECT SITE — 8 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF QUIMPER ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — CITY OF QUIMPER OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — ACQUISITION BY THE CITY OF QUIMPER

DAVID LESVENAN — Deputy Mayor in charge of urban planning and roads, city of Quimper

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

How to connect city and nature, history and future, and allow all the living to live together? The objective is to create new synergies between the site of Rozmaria and Locmaria while participating on a large scale in the transformation of the entrance to the city and the networking of the large landscape and urban parts of the agglomeration. The programmatic orientations are left open.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The site is the place of convergence of two structuring dynamics: nature and urban development. Because of its position, between the city and the great landscape, it is the ideal support for a reflection on the place of nature in the city.

The reflection brings together 3 ecosystems of different types: that of a natural ecosystem on a territorial scale which revolves around the estuary, the Odet and Mount Frugy; an urban ecosystem of a city in movement; an ecosystem of infrastructure, the departmental road, which is part of a logic of mobility and service.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

The follow-ups of the competition may be plural as much on the potential of transformation of the Roz Maria site as on its mutation process in connection with the vitalities that may contribute to it. A reflection on several scales of time and space will be carried out, questioning the cycles of life, of the seasons, of the city through micro-interventions on the scale of the architecture or of the Rozmaria block which can feed the dynamics of the large territory. A progressive development is considered, with an approach involving the various Europan teams.

Quimper (FR) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ANNE BRUNET (FR) HÉLÈNE LE CORRE (FR) ARCHITECTS

11 RUE LAMBERT, 75018 PARIS (FR) +33 624788124 ANNE.BRUNET35@GMAIL.COM

La place Roz Team point of view — A living city is a city which is in balance and whose metabolism is good because all its energies are circulating. Thinking of the living city means activating all its urban genetic components (natural heritage, built heritage, cultural heritage) to protect, strengthen and connect them to form a whole. The place Roz project is envisaged as a generator of contact between living materials in order to activate urban connections.

Working on the recovery of the Locmaria and Rozmaria districts means being attentive to more than 2000 years of history. Located at the interface of a natural landscape contrasted by Mount Frugy and the river Odet, this historic city entrance has never stopped evolving over time. First as a religious heart, then as a craftsman’s centre which has been able to radiate internationally, it is now experienced as a simple road access which contributes to the erasure of Quimper’s historic reception area.

Jury point of view — The project differs from the others in its detailed character, the handling of the slope and the relationship of the river to Mont Frugy. The handling of the urban links and the reorganisation of the roads seem appropriate, but the architectural proposals demand further detail.The jury emphasised the project’s interesting ideas on the relationship to the water and detailed work on the artistic and event programmes.

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Quimper (FR) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

CLAIRE ROY (FR), ARCHITECT ADÉLIE COLLARD (FR), ARCHITECT-ENGINEER ELISABETH BOSCHER (FR), ARCHITECT-URBANIST

RERUM ARCHITECTES, PARIS (FR) +33 770183743 EUROPAN16@RERUM-ARCHITECTES.FR WWW.RERUM-ARCHITECTES.FR

Dour, Koad, Kêr Team point of view — Quimper is marked by the distortion of anthropic and natural patterns. The project is approached with three-time scales: the 24-hour day, the year and the seasons, the tidal cycle.This temporal entry point allows the project to be articulated in three phases, from the political time of setting up the actions to the long-time of resilience. The first phase of slowing down aims to open-up the site by changing the place of the car.

The district, now calmed, can then accommodate a more permanent programme taking advantage of the topography and existing resources. Finally, a metabolic city integrating the movement of water and life is emerging. The search for continuity between the river and maritime, wooded, architectural and social frameworks foreshadows an inclusive and resilient urbanism.

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Quimper (FR) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

GEMMA MILÀ (ES), CORENTIN BERGER (FR) ARCHITECTS, DESIGNERS RODRIGO APOLAYA CANALES (PE) JIHANA NASSIF (BR), IRATI LASA AMO (ES) ARCHITECTS

CLARA ESPUNY (ES) ARCHITECT STUDENT

ATELIER BERGER MILÀ, PARIS (FR) +33 640293030 TERREGLAZ@GMAIL.COM WWW.ATELIERBERGERMILA.COM

Terre Glaz Team point of view — Terre glaz is based on the elements of manifestation of the living city: Odet river and its neighbour Frugy are the protagonists of the Rive-Parc, a linear urban park that reconfigures the south bank of the city of Quimper, by highlighting the qualities of the already existing.

A new footbridge over the water reinforces the connection re-established by the Rive-Parc between Locmaria and Quimper, offering several experiences and a privileged relationship with the landscape and the Odet.

The traditional local practice of ceramics is updated by the construction of an artisanal kiln in Rozmaria’s garden. As a shared activity, it will help generate awareness and sense of community, each firing will become a creative and festive event for the city.

Roquetas de Mar (ES) SCALE — L/S URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL / ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — LA MOLINA DISTRICT (ROQUETAS DE MAR) ALMERIA POPULATION — 100,000 INHAB., 1/3 OF THE AGRICULTURAL CITY STRATEGIC SITE — 60,000 SQM / PROJECT SITE — 12,000 SQM SITE PROPOSED BY — ROQUETAS MUNICIPALITY ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — ROQUETAS MUNICIPALITY OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — PUBLIC

ALFONSO RUBÍ CASSINELLO — Architect

AGUSTÍN MARTÍNEZ APARICIO — City Architect

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

The territory is characterized by the strong pressure exercised between urban and agricultural uses. From North to South, along the Western borderline of the city the greenhouses constitute a barrier, extending themselves to form what is known as the Plastic Sea, recognised as the only manmade structure in the world identifiable from the outer space (with the Great China Wall). With the Mediterranean Sea to the East, Roquetas is therefore placed between two seas as the motto selected for the competition suggests. This territorial structure determines environmental conditions: first visual, shaping a peculiar landscape, but furthermore other aspects derived from the sustainable character of the greenhouses, that act as huge sinks of CO2, and provide reduction of the temperature up to 2ºC by reflecting the sunrays off them, slowing thus global warming. On the other hand, the social rates are also remarkable: the growth of population maintains a high level of around 4% a year since the 70´s, with a progressive increase of immigrants, so that there are people from more than 100 nationalities (about 200 different languages) living together.The public policies have achieved successful and amazing results, as most of the foreign population are rooted fairly in the town, confessing their disposition to stay and live here forever. They coexist smoothly with crime rates lower than regional and national averages, denying the theoretical vulnerability of such a complex society.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

According to those relevant facts, it is evident that Roquetas is a “living town” highly concerned on both matters: urban metabolism and social inclusivity. The site is placed adjacent to the borderline between urban and agricultural land, and the program foresaw to get entries that provide sustainable tools in urban tissue, spreading, dialoguing and reflecting the agricultural sustainability, as well as proposals to increase social integration in so complex structure.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

Alternative locations are being sought in which the ideas of the winning prize proposal could be implemented, solving the problems raised by some landowners. At the same time, we remain in contact with the winning team to look for a proposal in accordance with local legislation without losing the essence of the proposal.

Roquetas de Mar (ES) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

CARLOS SORIA SÁNCHEZ (ES) LETICIA MARTÍNEZ VELASCO (ES) ANA ROSA SORIA SÁNCHEZ (ES) ARCHITECTS

AVDA. DOCTOR FEDERICO RUBIO Y GALÍ 112 28040 MADRID (ES) +34 636802615 PLASTICACOSTA@GMAIL.COM

Costa Plástica Team point of view — Costa Plástica is a narrative line that defines the transformation of some action points and strategies along the entire boundary between the greenhouse territory and the urban area, which aim to favour exchange and coexistence between two worlds in conflict.

The project proposes two types of displacement: it seizes the greenhouse object, changing or altering its intended use and a second shift is proposed based on the main elements that define the coastline: the harbour, the promenade and the beach.

The proposal on the project area develops a big theoretical approach by playing with alternative urban parameters, but at the same time it is concrete and consistent on the look-out for a new way of relationship between the city and the greenhouse object.

Jury point of view — The proposal literally interprets the expression “sea of plastic” to respond to the definition and qualification of the meeting area between the urban fabric and the territory of plastic. The project names this friction zone as “the plastic coastline” claiming this edge as a new functional connection interface.

This new coast, closer to an infrastructure due to its scope and inter-territorial relationship capacity, is enriched with the installation of different programmatic elements, to provide greater equity of city services between the suburbs and the tourist districts. The operational domain is realized through the Mat-building concept to promote more inclusive urban regeneration and to respond to the disordered perception of both urban and plastic territory.

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Dwellings

Patios

Greenhouses

Street

Roquetas de Mar (ES) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

ROMAIN LUCAS (FR) BELÉN RAMOS JIMÉNEZ (ES) ARCHITECTS

CARLOS RAMOS JIMÉNEZ (ES) CARMEN MARÍA BLASCO CASTRO (ES) SOCIOLOGISTS

BARCELONA (ES) +34 674513943 LUCAS.ROMAINMARCEL@GMAIL.COM

Second Life Team point of view — From the 50s, the fever of the greenhouses brought a rapid population increase and an impor tant expansion of the agricultural areas. Trapped between sea and mountains, Roquetas de Mar cannot expand beyond its geographical limits, which causes a competition between urban and ­agricultural land. The colonial heritage, that permitted the territory development, had been mistreated: many colonial houses are abandoned, the new buildings are no longer based on local resources and, since the economic crisis of 2008, many constructions had been left unfinished. Also, the wastes from greenhouses are flooding the empty spaces of the city, occupying spaces and contaminating the souls. The project restores life to those ignored places. The different actions link heritage, architecture and climate change, putting in value environmental, social and economy using constructive systems that had been lost.

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Jury point of view — The project arises as a response to the unique needs of a coastal city that is torn between being a tourist or agricultural city. As a result, it is a reflective bet on the genuine and specific needs of this coastal city, where the price of agricultural land devoted to intensive low priced farming competes in price with suitable land for development. With the goal of “reusing waste,” the proposal investigates both urban and agricultural fabric.

Their key strategy for resilient development is to reconsider urban planning through micro-insertions. It works to recover patrimonial property as a source of identity, as well as to recycling half-built buildings inherited from the last real estate bubble.

Actual state of the buildings

Empty buildings of the colonial heritage

Unfinished empty buildings

Roquetas de Mar (ES) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

JAVIER IRIGARAY (ES), ALVARO DE PASCUAL (ES) CARLOS LÓPEZ (ES), AUDREY DUBIN (FR), ARCHITECTS DEYO MAEZTU (ES), ENGINEER MARA EQUISOAIN (ES), ENVIRONMENTALIST

JAVIER IRIGARAY, PAMPLONA (ES) +34 603831148 JIRIGARAYB@GMAIL.COM

Open Horizons Team point of view — Horizon is the line where two realities converge: the sky and the earth, where the Iberian Peninsula touches the sea, where the city meets the countryside, where a culture meet others. In geology, horizons are the strata of the soil.

Soil that supports, nourishes and quenches the thirst of the inhabitants —humans, plants and animals— of the Campo de Dalías and to which their future is inextricably bonded. Horizon also means new possibilities and perspectives: on how the inhabitants of Roquetas interact with each other, with the agricultural land, the dynamics of the aquifer, the richness of the geology, the local flora and fauna…

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Selb (DE) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — SELB, BAVARIA POPULATION — 15,000 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 7.4 HA / PROJECT SITE — 5.7 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF SELB ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — CITY OF SELB OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — CITY OF SELB, PRIVATE OWNERS

HELMUT RESCH —

Head of the Municipal Construction Office, city of Selb 1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

How the existing buildings, many of which are vacant, can be repurposed through innovative and sustainable mixed-use housing concepts or how the building structures can be reorganized? In the process, open space typologies should also be developed. Furthermore, innovative ideas and processes should be demonstrated with regard to dynamics of circular economy and integration.

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2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The site is linked in many ways to the sub-themes circular economy and inclusivity. Corresponding proposals are also expected as part of the implementation.

Embedded in a rural context, Selb like many other cities has been confronted with structural and demographic challenges. The project area is currently affected by vacancy and underuse, with vacant buildings that are envisioned to implement new uses. Therefore, the key aim lies in the design of structures that are both innovative and sustainable, take account of accessibility, and have an intergenerational approach. Innovation is thereby understood as the opportunity for inclusive typologies of spaces with flexible uses that respect the small-town, non-metropolitan character of Selb.

The theme of inclusivity is pursued with the creation of spaces for exchange and togetherness. This can be represented through corresponding community facilities, co-working proposals, small businesses with local references and social offers. Another integral part of the site is the relationship to natural resources. The green spaces are aimed to be protected, but as well used in the form of small garden centres in courtyards with businesses premises on the street.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

A series of workshops is already planned for the spring of 2022, in which a subarea of the processing area is to be concretely planned.

This will take place on the basis of the award-winning design.

Selb (DE) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ÍÑIGO CORNAGO BONAL (ES) CLAUDIA SANCHEZ (ES) ARCHITECTS, URBANISTS

URBAN TOOLKIT, MADRID (ES) / LONDON (UK) +34 672191109 / +44 7851030250 URBANTOOLKIT@GMAIL.COM WWW.URBANTOOLKIT.ES

Selb Step by Step Team point of view — Selb Step by Step is a guide to take action in the built environment that proposes a vision for the short- and long-term future of Selb. In the context of the Anthropocene and the climate emergency, our proposal turns to ecological urbanism.

It sets out three directions for Selb to become a social-inclusive and climate-resilient town by 2050: Rewilding, Diversifying, and Decarbonising. To achieve them, it proposes and describes a list of tangible steps towards those objectives in the next decade. These steps are discrete spatial interventions with different scales and scopes that can be implemented progressively, both independently or in combination. Their impact can be measured and assessed through indicators, informing the following steps to achieve the targets best.

Jury point of view — The jury appreciates the detailed examination of the urban context and its development of a cross-scale strategy for the site’s broader environment based on that context.

It convincingly demonstrates that the wide range of proposed measures could improve the porosity, accessibility, and appropriateness of the downtown area while enhancing environmental sustainability. The project makes the site a strategic location for establishing inclusive urban development and provides a convincing response to the inner-city development of small towns in Germany that are undergoing structural change.

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These sites present a potential to develop a landscape which strongly animates new developments, giving them qualities in the sense of creating a living milieu, integrating rich biodiversity in the realm of public spaces.

Grenoble (FR)

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Grenoble (FR) SCALE — XL/S TERRITORIAL / ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — GRENOBLE - ISÈRE (38) POPULATION — CITY 158,454 INHAB.; GRENOBLE-ALPES METROPOLIS 443,123 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 432 HA / PROJECT SITE — 25 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF GRENOBLE ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — CITY OF GRENOBLE, CITY OF LA TRONCHE, CITY OF SAINT-MARTIN-LE-VINOUX, GRENOBLE-ALPES METROPOLIS, DEPARTMENTAL COUNCIL OF ISÈRE, CROUS, REGION AUVERGNE ­ RHÔNE-ALPES, CHARTREUSE REGIONAL NATURE PARK AND URBAN AGENCY OF THE GRENOBLOISE REGION OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — CITY OF GRENOBLE AND THE FRENCH STATE

JULIE GAUTHIER — Project Director of The Bastille,

City of Grenoble 1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

Among the main questions asked for this site, that of the future identity of the Bastille site in general and of its intermediary stratum of Rabot in particular is central. The projects had to find original ways of reconciling, articulating or taking part in the dualities that characterise this site (protected area/populated area, sanctuary area/experimental area, etc.) and particularly urban area/ mountain area. Through these questions, the Bastille presents itself as a unique place to experience our relationship with the living, but also to observe and study the global changes in our society.

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2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

Because of its geographical position, at the gateway to the Chartreuse Regional Nature Park, and because of its richness in terms of fauna (more than 200 species recorded), flora (more than 500 plant species recorded) and heritage, the Bastille is an incredible place to live and can be considered as a lookout for current climatic and environmental issues. Through perception through sensitivity, understanding through measurement, action through experimentation, questioning through creativity and sharing through discussion, the Bastille site invites us to think together about the architectural, urban and territorial project and the design of a new society.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

The three teams selected offer different and complementary views of the site. This diversity of vision brings creative ideas for the intermediate terrace of the Bastille. Also, we would like to get the three teams to work together to define a short-term programme (which initial actions should be transitory) and a long-term programme (what urban narrative should be developed for this site).

Now it is a question of entering a feasibility phase to transform the visionary ideas proposed into concrete projects with their economic model, and with the bearers of these projects. Because this site already brings together many actors, particularly institutional ones, and represents an emblematic site for the inhabitants, the process of reflection and action to be set in motion is essential for the success of the project. We also expect the teams selected for Europan to be creative in the way they carry out the project.

Grenoble (FR) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ALICE RIEGERT (FR), MARGUERITE CHARLES (FR) FLORIANT BONNY (FR), MAXIME BARDOU (FR) GASPARD BÉGUÉ (FR), LANDSCAPERS CYNTHIA BONNEFILLE (FR), ARCHITECT

15 RUE CLAUDIUS LINOSSIER 69004 LYON (FR) +33 673989723 LABO.RABO.GRENOBLE@GMAIL.COM

LABO RABO Team point of view — Grenoble is a region fully affected by climate change, with increasingly frequent heat waves and a growing scarcity of water resources.The Rabot, a key figure in the construction of the city since its inception, has an important role to play in facing the climate challenge collectively. Driven by a scientific and practical approach, the transformation of the city-mountain into a laboratory influences the everyday landscape of the city-plain with concrete solutions for the quality of urban life.The laboratory takes care of both the existing and traces of the past. Thus, vacant buildings, hardened soils, inert waste or wooded wastelands become inexhaustible resources to change our ways of conceiving the city.

The metabolism

Jury point of view — The jury praised the programmatic strength of the project, which quite clearly reflects the priorities of the site and of the city. The idea of a laboratory as a tool for the observation of the living world and climate change, of collaboration and space management, echoes Grenoble’s scientific culture. The proj­ ect was judged to be well-rounded, although modest in architectural terms. The team cleverly demonstrates the tension between the mountains and the city centre. The staging of the topology and the views accords well with the tradition of Alpine geography.

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Grenoble (FR) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

TOM BARBIER (FR) JEAN-BENOÎT BOCCAREN (FR) PAUL RIFFAULT (FR) ARCHITECTS

11 VILLA DU DOCTEUR LOUIS GEORGES SERRE 94300 VINCENNES (FR) +33 616537687 EQUIPE@REFUGEURBAIN.FR / WWW.REFUGEURBAIN.FR

The Urban Refuge Team point of view — Grenoble, located between city and mountain, is a privileged place where to develop symbiotic uses between nature and city. To become an urban refuge, the Rabot must be crossed to reconnect with the city and its geography.

Like a round road, the walls become the new links that connect the valley to the Bastille. Acting as a protection, they turn the Rabot into a nature sanctuary on the mountain.Thanks to the side roads, the Rabot becomes central and is at the crossroads.

Refuge of passage or stopover, refuge of events, the Rabot becomes the framework in which everyone can organize, partic­ ipate, or simply enjoy cultural events, artistic installations, awareness or scientific discovery.

Jury point of view — By employing lightweight architectural systems, the project helps to highlight the legacy of walls and buttresses in a new and practical way. By working on the idea of walking and contemplation, it offers “an experience that is both frugal and spectacular” in the surveying of an exceptional site. The jury emphasised the clarity and strength of the team’s idea: to give bodies the possibility of walking along and on the walls.

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Grenoble (FR) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

LUC DOIN (FR) ARCHITECT MARIE LUDMANN (FR) ARCHITECT-ENGINEER

HÉLÈNE COUSSEDIÈRE (FR) ARCHITECT INÈS HUBERT (FR) LANDSCAPER

ATELIER BRUMAIRE, LYON (FR) +33 624451963 HELLO@ATELIERBRUMAIRE.COM WWW.ATELIERBRUMAIRE.COM

Arc des Vivants Team point of view — On the edge between the plain and the mountains, the Arc des Vivants redesigns the intermediate layer of the Bastille. This strategic relay for fauna and flora is reinforced by an alternative management scheme for water, absorbing natural hazards and irrigating cultivated areas. The project opens-up the Micropole, resulting from the mutation of the Rabot’s vacant buildings, and becomes a laboratory and observatory for culture and nature. Its transformation is punctuated by ar ts and ­science residences, events, or the hosting of activities without pre-­ determination, allowing a measured and progressive evolution.

In the long-term, the elements identified at the Bastille are found in the Grenoble area as possible resonances, transforming the old, fortified belt into a network of climate watch points.

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Pont-Aven (FR) SCALE — L/S URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL / ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — PONT-AVEN – FINISTÈRE (29) POPULATION — 2801 INHAB. PROJECT SITE — 3 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF PONT-AVEN, CONCARNEAU CORNOUAILLE AGGLOMERATION ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — CITY OF PONT-AVEN, CONCARNEAU CORNOUAILLE AGGLOMERATION, ETABLISSEMENT PUBLIC FONCIER DE BRETAGNE OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — PRIVATE OWNER

CHRISTIAN DAUTEL — Mayor of Pont-Aven

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

When the competition was launched, the following questions were asked to the teams: — Why did you choose the Belle Angèle site?

— In what way does this site raise the question of the triple injunction assigned to contemporary urban development: ecology / economy (resources and value creation) / way of living?

— How can the scale and impact of such a project on the immediate and distant territory be assessed?

— How can we consider a new welcoming landscape for this site, what urban form and what project dynamics should be implemented?

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The aim of revitalising the industrial wasteland is to influence the town of Pont-Aven in terms of its local economic development and its urban development through its river. This process is based on the concept of social, environmental and symbolic inclusion.The concept of metabolism refers to the transformation expected to redefine the scales of the city and the physical links to the territory.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

At the end of the competition, the municipality brought together the two winning teams and the runner-up team selected by the jury during a study and debate session organised at the Pont-Aven Museum.The main institutions that support the town of Pont-Aven in this project were invited to participate as well as the representatives of the associations.

It was agreed to pursue a collective approach with the three award-winning teams by entrusting them with a mission based on their proposals, by setting programmatic, urban, landscape and environmental objectives in collaboration with the site’s stakeholders and inhabitants.

This initial work should lead to the proposal of spaces available for operations to restore the landscape, build housing, productive activities and the development of public spaces (re-natured).

Each team may also be called upon to conduct a specific operation.

Pont-Aven (FR) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

VICTOIRE COIZY (FR), ARCHITECTE, URBANIST LÉA MELLET (FR), URBANIST CHLOÉ MONCHALIN (FR), ARCHITECT WILLIAM ROTH (FR), LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

JULIETTE GONNIN (FR) ARCHITECT

CHLOÉ MONCHALIN 73 RUE DES VIGNOLES, 75020 PARIS (FR) +33 628275625 CHLOE.MONCHALIN@HOTMAIL.FR

Beatmatching Team point of view — As an entry point to Pont-Aven, “Belle Angèle” is an industrial wasteland located between rurality, urbanity and river: a convergence point of living temporalities. Grounded on their mutual synchronisations, our project supports a new way of inhabiting its territory, balancing humans’ rhythms and natural cycles. Tools for this mutation include revitalization and re-­ employment. The resources needed for this renewal come from its surroundings and Aven’s territory. Different types of uses on the same territory will allow this new neighbourhood to work in synergy. Time and spaces match to offer Pont-Aven a global approach and a continuous evolution. Beatmatching composes the backbone of its reversibility in time, aiming to orchestrate times, rhythms and cycles into a new Pont-Aven’s lifestyle.

Jury point of view — The jury stressed the originality and relevance of the territorial approach and theoretical stance taken by the team on life rhythms and life cycles, in resonance with the theme of Living Cities. The project, which includes seasonal housing, is based on inventive space-time programming and deals very well with the question of uses and the coexistence of activities by revealing a potential for varied kinds of occupancies. The project appears complete and very coherent at all scales.

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Pont-Aven (FR) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

CLÉMENCE ESTRADA (FR) PATXI GARDERA (FR) NICOLAS MATRANGA (FR) ROMÉO SANSÉAU (FR) ARCHITECTS, URBANISTS

SIMON WEPPE AGRONOMY-LANDSCAPE ENGINEER

FORMALOCAL + CLÉMENCE ESTRADA 31 BIS RUE FESSART, 75019 PARIS (FR) +33 953515172 / +33 668721565 ATELIER@FORMALOCAL.COM WWW.FORMALOCAL.COM

Magnétisme Salin Team point of view — 1 ria, 1 lighthouse, 3 landmarks, 8 coves, 5 ports, 9 bridges, 14 mills, 3 species of migratory fish, 15 farms and 7 sleeping wash houses.

The industrial wasteland of the Belle Angèle is an opportunity to initiate a pioneering transformation by revitalizing all the local resources already present: ecosystem, built heritage, urban values, local initiatives, and historical effervescence.

The town of Pont-Aven has decided to engage in a process of environmental, cultural and engineering innovation fed by its territory. The project proposes to transform the Belle Angèle wasteland into a reinvented hamlet, in osmosis with the Aven and its landscape. It reinterprets this local tradition of the hamlet by a new urban and social organization gathering houses around four founding places: a central square, a “School of Currents”, a plant nursery and a material recycling hall.

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Jury point of view —This proposal stood out in particular for the strength of the territorial argument and the inclusion of the four types of milieus found by the team at territorial scale (productive, aquatic, vegetal, inhabited) to identify project locations between the river and the sea. The project possesses a poetic dimension anchored in the history and memory of Pont-Aven, with a clever reinterpretation of the imaginative associations evoked by windmills. The programming is open to experiment and appears rich and credible. The project demonstrates great coherence.

The school, the greenhouse and the climate

Material recycling hall

Machine-Mills

The central halls, the heart of the hamlet

The alley and its farmhouses

Land, inhabitants, local economy

Pont-Aven (FR) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

ROMAN JOLIY (FR) ALICE CECCHINI (IT) ARCHITECTS

MATHIEU NOUHEN (FR) ARCHITECT

ATELIER POEM, SANT ANGELO IN VADO (IT) +33 689333644 CONTACT@ATELIER-POEM.COM WWW.ATELIER-POEM.COM

Invisibility of the Visible Team point of view — The project consists of a strategy of urban and architectural regeneration that, starting from the operational perimeter of the former industrial site “Belle Angèle”, develops a path of sustainability in support of the city of Pont-Aven and extending to the whole territory.

The idea is to consider the project area as an “agent” that can facilitate the triggering of urban processes of circularity and not merely as a “context” to be retrained. The system, based on the theme Living Cities, offers concrete opportunities to improve the efficiency of natural resources and reduce environmental impacts.

The definition of matter and energy flows allows a flexible and functional use of “des milieux”.

Jury point of view — The jury stressed the high architectural quality of this project. Complementary to more territorial and strategic approaches, this proposal has the virtue of revealing the sensory qualities of the site through the materiality of the architecture.

The response to the session theme is expressed in particular in the relationship between architecture and natural elements (water, air, plant life, soil…).

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Schwäbisch Gmünd (DE) SCALE — XL/L TERRITORIAL / URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — CITY OF SCHWÄBISCH GMÜND, BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG POPULATION — 61,000 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 138 HA / PROJECT SITE — 27 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF SCHWÄBISCH GMÜND ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — CITY OF SCHWÄBISCH GMÜND OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — CITY OF SCHWÄBISCH GMÜND, PRIVATE OWNERS, INVESTORS

ANNE-MARIE MOSSES — Department of Urban Renewal

and Historic Preservation of the Office of Urban Development 1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

The main task was to design a new, inviting entrance to the city from the west, a new urban “gateway” into the city. An area that has been so far characterized by fallow land and heterogeneous and underused commercial areas is to be transformed into a lively, sustainable neighbourhood, while developing a long-term perspective, with regard to mobility change and taking social, cultural, ecological and economic concerns into account.

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2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

Today, the area is dominated by the automotive industry. A transformation of uses is therefore necessary, taking into account longterm stable economic, social and environmental aspects. The goal is a lively, organic urban space that can react more resiliently to economic and social changes in the long-term.

Residents and entrepreneurs identify strongly with the neighbourhood. There are great fears of changes, planning related as well as social and economic ones. It is therefore crucial to manage the transformation process both carefully and actively, with the involvement of residents, and to create well-usable, lively public urban spaces that promote communication.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

The preparator y examinations required to define an official urban redevelopment area and the acquisition of funding have already begun. This planning instrument offers the chance of an active involvement of the citizens, a more active control of the property-relevant processes and enables funding as well as a rapid implementation.

As a next step, we intend to continue the process in cooperation with the awarded teams in the form of workshops involving the relevant actors and stakeholders with the aim of developing a framework plan that can be implemented gradually. The winning team will presumably receive a moderating and planning task for this purpose while fur ther developing the ideas formulated in the competition.

Schwäbisch Gmünd (DE) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

TOM MACHT (DE), FALK JÄHNIG (DE) SIMONA ROŠER (SI), ARCHITECTS KRISS EDOUARD GABRIEL (BE) LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

HONG TRANG MAI (DE) PROJECT MANAGER

TOM MACHT, DRESDEN (DE) +49 15152264497 TOM.MACHT@GMX.NET

Viriditas ante portas Team point of view — A new gate for Schwäbisch Gmünd A green wall of trees breached by a widely visible tower symbolically marks the new western entrance to Schwäbisch Gmünd and serves, together with the following square and the green space in front of it, as the middle of a new, lively, mixed quarter that builds upon the site’s potentials. The connection of existing green spaces and the qualification of the river Rems and Mühlbach stream create vast spaces for recreation, events and urban agriculture. Using the building’s rooftops for green houses, gardening and energy production and combining them with manufactories, the neighbourhood becomes a productive element of the local economy and, by providing new locations along the river, also becomes part of the town’s cultural landscape.

Jury point of view — The jury appreciates the concept of the Green Belt in several respects. It links the area to the open space and the superordinate path connections, structures the area into different zones and at the same time represents the transition to the city.The handling of the existing buildings, the small-scale development and the variety of building typologies allow for a flexible and practicable realization in building phases.

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Schwäbisch Gmünd (DE) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

MARCEL TROEGER (DE) LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT, URBANIST MICHAEL FAY (DE) ARCHITECT, URBANIST

STUDIO ERDE & FAY ARCHITECTURE, BERLIN (DE) +49 17620792563 MARCELTROEGER@GMAIL.COM MARCELTROEGER.COM

Gmünder Talfinger & the Rems Valley Metropolis Team point of view — Can we read Schwäbisch Gmünd as part of a unique horizontal landscape metropolis? The authors develop a project, which thinks from the valley: how can the western city entrance be transformed into a resilient (landscape) network, which is interwoven with the valley, its history, geology, infrastructures and landscapes? The proposed Gmünder Talfinger thus communicate actively with the region and create strong architectural and landscape hybrids, which demonstrate a new kind of rural urbanity and the celebration of metabolic interactions with the valley metropolis. The Rems Allmende and the Lorcher Höfe as circular & self-sufficient typologies revive the city entrance of SG and reconnect back into the valley by their hybrid infrastructures and the loaded and interwoven landscape lines.

Jury point of view — The design works with buildings and structures in different grains and dimensions. This allows a variety of different uses and a sensitive treatment of the existing buildings.

The hanging gardens are appreciated as a contribution to the three-dimensional design of the open spaces as well as integration of ecological aspects. In addition, other ecological aspects, such as rainwater management or the opening of the spoliated millstream are pointed out.

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Schwäbisch Gmünd (DE) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

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RISE Team point of view — RISE: Resilient, Innovative, Social and Energetical. The design develops Schwäbisch Gmünd‘s western entrance into a neighbourhood that meets the challenges of climate change and illustrates how people can live and work in the future.

Four sub-districts are being created in phases: the centre of the quar ter with Einhornplatz, the handcraft yard, the innovation centre and the courtyard. RISE purposely mixes residential, service & commercial, retail, culture & education to create an urban diversity. The topics are implemented in the building structure and the open space in a character-forming and identity-creating way.

Through the conceptual integration of an innovative Integrated Water and Resource Management, RISE takes on a leading role in sustainable and climate-friendly urban development.

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Care Care is about recognizing the vulnerability of our living milieu. It is about finding new design ways to pay attention to marginalized, hurt, or ignored areas and help to repair them.

Caring for…?

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Feeling Overwhelmed “Imagine a beach —you within it, or better watching from above— the burning sun, sunscreen and bright bathing suits… Then a chorus of songs: everyday songs, songs of worry and of boredom, songs of almost nothing. And below them: the slow creaking of an exhausted Earth, a gasp”1.

In 2019, the Lithuanian contribution to the Venice Biennale of Art, the Sun & Sea opera performance, took place on an artificial beach in Marina Militare2 (fig.1). An allegorical gesture to make visible the inability of humanity to react to the devastating impact of climate change on an “exhausted Earth”. Feeling overwhelmed is a frequent reaction of contemporary human society when faced with the catastrophic consequences of the Anthropocene. Sun & Sea­ shows us the agency of visual and performative arts in anchoring an abstract ecumenical threat to a specific action. It offers us alternative ways to make our incapacitated behaviours visible while Earth is being “exhausted”.

Feeling overwhelmed is a threat for the collective human institutions, whose means of responding may seem too little, and ineffective. The small and medium-size European cities that participate in Europan are not an exception. Their means may be inadequate to act solely, vis-à-vis territorial transformations caused by natural phenomena. Continuing business as usual may become their “artificial beach” where “below them: the slow cracking of an exhausted Earth, a gasp”.

The introduction of the concept of Care as one of the sub-themes

1 — Sun & Sea opera, the Golden Lion award winning Lithuanian contribution to the Venice Biennale of Art, 2019 ©Socrates Stratis

of the Europan 16th session on Living Cities has encouraged the Europan network to bring on the frontline such risk of feeling overwhelmed when confronted with territorial transformations.

One of the challenges of Europan’s 16th session is to offer means to overcome the risky deadlock of continuing-­business-as-usual by its faithful partners, those of the local authorities and the young urban practitioners.

About Care Care is about maintaining, repairing, fixing an interweaved, complex life-sustaining web that “includes our bodies, ourselves, our environment”3. Care asks for a paradigm shift. It is about moving away from growth, progress and novelty as the starting points of putting in relation to society and technology. It involves extra attention to breakdown, erosion and decay by rethinking repair, without romanticizing it4. Critical care, further on, involves exposing the “care-washing” approaches of the neoliberal sociotechnical paradigm that exploits all genres of self-care and builds its expansion on the caregiving precarious working forces. Critical care involves the understanding of the complex power relations behind the urban and ecological maintenance5 that the Europan 16 Living Cities theme asks for.

Yet before implementing a paradigm shift from growth to repair, we first need to enact a big enough public stage that fosters democratic practices for such change6. What a more pertinent platform than that of Europan to address such a challenge!

Caring for Natural Elements and Landscapes What does the Europan 16 theme —Living Cities— invite us to care for in regards to “geographic territorial entities”7? I argue that by reinforcing the modality of “territoriality”, the Europan 16 project may entangle the physical values of the dominating architectural project for the city, with those of urban and landscape approaches. By taking a “territorial turn”8, the Europan 16 project may navigate across scales of maintenance9. In other words, it will support collective social practices that evolve around the maintenance, repair and care of our life support environment.

The study of the sites’ briefs and the winning projects in respect to the cities of Carouge, Switzerland, Hjertelia, Norway, Karlskoga, Sweden, Niort, France, (part of the sub-theme Care: re-valorising natural elements and landscapes) helps us to establish an initial understanding of the above-mentioned challenges vis-à-vis the territorial turn of the Europan project. The four sites’ briefs come from different urban cultures and material urban practices.Yet, they have similar concerns to repairing a broken planet.

At first glance, we see that two of the sites’ briefs are about urban repair where the other two are about urban growth. Is that so?

2 — Karlskoga (SE), winner — Embrace Karlskoga > See more P.187

In Carouge, the Fontenette riparian area is invited to take a protagonist role in the contemporary everydayness where in Niort the project’s site coincides with the city’s agglomeration urgent need for strategic planning to confront climate change consequences on natural phenomena such as flooding as well as prolonged arid periods. On the other hand, a new neighbourhood in Karlskoga is to be located by a train-station-to-be of a new line connecting Oslo with Stockholm. A prototype neighbourhood for living and farming is to be located at Hjertelia’s periphery while waiting for the new train arrival from Oslo to Honefoss.Through the two Scandinavian sites we understand that rather often, regional planning policies that promote public rail mobility for carbon footprint reduction manifest themselves in projects of growth. In this case, it is about the new rail lines putting Karslkoga and Hjertelia on a regional map of public rail transport.

The E16 theme has invited the project actors to formulate proposals that mediate between metabolic and inclusive vitalities. I argue that caring for “geographic territorial entities” involves a two-faceted mediation. The first genre of mediation involves the support for new publics, whereas the second one is about translating the transformative power of the geographic entities of nature into the project’s modalities.

into the new publics. The metabolic processes of the territorial geographic entities, present in the projects’ sites, are part of the agents that constitute the new publics. More precisely, “vectors of resilience and carriers of regeneration dynamics”, according to the authors of the Mutual Valley project in Niort, are equal partners to the new publics.They come from territorial geographic entities and their ecological functionalities such as the river Arve in Carouge, the lake Möckeln in Karlskoga, the urban forest Fontennette in Carouge and in Niort, the “Sèvre river tributaries upstream and the wet marsh of the Marais poitevin downstream”10.

Caring for territorial geographic entities involves a process of turning them into legal entities that are equally represented in any discussion regarding their future. Such legal entities may encourage alliances, synergies across governance scales.

They will help the local authorities to overcome the risks of being overwhelmed, of remaining stuck on their “artificial beach”.

The Embrace Karlskoga project invests in the qualities of the lake Möckeln. By proposing a soft mobility recreational loop along its public shore and by restoring the adjacent creeks, the team turns their project into a mediator that promotes the lake as a legal entity, the “green outdoor hub”.

A hopefully equal partner in the overall regional public transport network project. Further on, the team offers means of repairing a monofunctional big box urbanism area, thanks to the insightful proximity of ground uses and new residential blocks, hooked on the train station, the lake Möckeln and the rest of the city (fig.2).

Support collective social practices that evolve around the maintenance, repair and care of our life support environment

Supporting New Publics The winning projects offer spatial, programmatic and actorial means to encourage the entanglement of humans and non-humans

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3 — Hjertelia (NO), winner — Building the Ecotone > See more P.181

4 — Carouge (CH), runner-up — Cultivating Synergies > See more P.178

5 — Carouge (CH), winner — Gold Line > See more P.177

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The Building the Ecotone project in Hjer telia envisions a quite engaging profile of the future inhabitants, hoping to shift away from the consumer-client profile. To do so, the project involves programs of co-production, living and working, including organic farming. The residential building typology starts with the construction of the service towers of the future residential buildings to support the agriculture collective. In this case, the agriculture fields and activities get an equal role in the production of a residential neighbourhood (fig.3).

Translating the Transformative Power of Territorial Geographic Entities The second genre of mediation involves the capacity of the Europan 16 project to identify, to listen to, and finally to translate the transformative powers of territorial geographic entities. Suffice to say that the constitution of the new publics depends on such capacity. Many of the winning projects enter into a process of translation of the existing metabolic processes of territorial geographic entities thanks to the use of geographic, topographic, landscape architecture among others, means of inquiry.Yet, rather often, such capacity-building depends on the designation of the project’s study area by the brief, as well as by the territorial delimitation of the local authorities. Is Carouge’s Riparian Forest the sole legitimate non-human actor of the new publics, as it is put forward by the Gold Line project, or are the cliffs and agricultural land legitimate too, according to the Cultivating Synergies project? What about the greater Genevan urban ecosystem, the project’s authors of

the Regenerating Carouge Grounds ask? Design intentions that go beyond binaries such as city and countryside, that break dichotomies of woods and agriculture fields and that understand the potentialities of in-between conditions, are common in all the projects mentioned above. The Cultivating Synergies proj­ect translates such intentions into strategies involving an urban spine, a green net and the flow space of the river Arve (fig.4). The Riparian Forest is the in-between condition according to the Gold Line (fig.5), a common ground strategy to assemble the isolated par ts of Fontennette, to engender new ecologies between humans and non-humans for the constitution of the new publics. According to the Regenerating Carouge Grounds project (fig.6), grasslands and wetlands inform the micro-topographies and transform the soil of the project site, thus suggesting new relationships between social and ecological urban landscapes.

Broadening the spectr um of modalities by listening, appreciating and translating territorial geographic entities opens up the project to the complexity of the territorial situated knowledge. the project Niort, Port Terrestre uses such modalities to radically inverse land-use planning practices. It reshuffles the game rules from “anthropocentrism to biocentrism” by putting geography in the centre of the territory, giving priority to landscapes and users (fig.7).The design modalities become alive.

They get their power thanks to the existing dynamics. According to the authors of the Mutual Valleys project in Niort “…a switch is then necessary to consider these changes in all their complexities leaning on local geographical and factorial specificities as the means of a spontaneous resilience”11 (fig.8). In other words, to establish

Caring for territorial geographic entities endeavours a switch from an anthropocentric to a biocentric approach

capacity-­building in anticipating and interacting with the unforeseeable conditions caused by natural phenomena. The Mutual Valleys proj­ect deploys a regenerating landscape framework to engender new relations between the hydrological, urban and landscape aspects of the Niort agglomeration. The project’s strategies are translated into precise actions that are precious for the project’s actors to make the “switch” possible.

Caring for Territorial Geographic Entities Caring asks for a shift from a growth model to one of repair. Caring for territorial geographic entities endeavours a switch from an anthropocentric to a biocentric approach. Instigating new publics where the territorial geographic entities have an equal role with humans is one of the two mediating capacities that the territorial project may have. Translating their transformative power into the project’s modalities is the second. Yet, both challenge the urban modus operandi of the local authorities, as well as the disciplinary modalities of professions such as architecture and planning.

At the same time, a territorial geographic repair approach offers the urban actors ways to overcome the risk of being overwhelmed by the challenges vis-à-vis the “exhausted Earth”. It encourages the urban actors trapped in nested scales to collaborate for such cause. We can see that the winning projects serve as mediators for the acculturation of the urban actors towards the new paradigm of repair. For example, the project Niort, Port Terrestre offers a glossary that is both analytic and design-oriented. It brings together issues of democratic urban practices, as well as modalities of turning territorial geographic entities into legal ones. The Cultivating Synergies project in Carouge provides the inhabitants with a toolbox to “boost the collective intelligence”, a process of acculturation of a participatory method based on landscape challenges. All winning projects discussed in this article are open-ended. Some provide physical spaces where public debates may take place during the process of implementation. They are equipped with roadmaps for gradual transformation. They offer ways to experiment and to implement prototypes from the new paradigm of a territorial geographic repair approach.They all contribute to the construction of the collective intelligence of the Europan network about politics of repair that may give confidence to the European cities.

The Europan platform may be an antidote to any kind of “artificial beach” and inactiveness. Yet the collective endeavour to

imagining Europan’s contribution to a territorial repair model paradigm would first need to confront “care-washing” intentions that come with the status-quo of the growth model manifested in neoliberal urban developments across Europe. Secondly, it should allow for relations of solidarity to take place among the Europan cities network. Besides, “caretaking for one place may need action in another place. It becomes the responsibility for all, a kind of indigenous sacred approach” 12 (fig.9).

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Excerpt from the Sun & Sea opera score, written by Lucia Pietroiusti Curated by Lucia Pietroiusti, artists: Rugile Barzdz iukaite, Vaiva Grainyte, Lina Lapelyte 3. Joan Tronto, Caring Architecture, in Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny, Architekturzentrum Wien, editors (2019) Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet, MIT Press, p. 29.

4. Steven Jackson (2014) Rethinking Repair cited by Shannon Mattern, (2021), A City is not a computer: other urban intelligences, pp. 106, 107 5. Mattern 2021, p.112 6. Mattern 2021, p.109 7. From the competition documents of the Mutual Valleys project, Niort.

8. According to Aglaée Degros and a recent conference with the title Territorial Turn at the Institute of Urbanism, TU Graz, https://hda-graz.at/programm/territorial-turn-en 9. Mattern 2021, p.111 10. From the competition documents of the Mutual Valleys project, Niort 11. From the competition documents of the Mutual Valleys project 12. A free transcription of a comment by Anders Johansson, president of Europan Sverige, during the closing round table about Care, at the Forum of Cities and Juries in San Sebastian, November 2021

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9 — The closing round table discussion about Care at the E16 Cities and Juries Forum, San Sebastián, November 2021, ©Socrates Stratis

6 — Carouge (CH), runner-up — Regenerating Carouge Grounds > See more P.179

7 — Niort (FR), winner — Niort, Port Terrestre > See more P.191

8 — Niort (FR), winner — Mutual Valleys > See more P.192

Back to Life!

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“Traditionally, the modern attitude towards the existing has been defined by a ʻtabula rasa’ approach, that is, the erasure of past traces as the only way to bring about the new”1. Having overcome this viewpoint, which for so long has marked the architecture and urban design of our cities, contemporary approaches increasingly avoid an empty and artificially produced starting point. A close look at the city, based on inclusivity and care, seeks to correct the damage previously done to our milieu.

More attentive to the context in which it is located, conscious of understanding and enhancing not only the building stock itself but also the relationships between the inhabitants it shelters and the uses it favours, this sub-theme Dealing with New Uses invites participants to work on a series of sites with available building stock at the end of their first or second life cycles. A careful and affective

approach is promoted to improve our buildings, cities or territories “performances”, avoiding the usual solutions whose main forces are the economically driven. Is it possible to generate strategic uses that enhance new life cycles from a metabolic and inclusive point of view? That might break the circle of building-demolishing-building and provide “future-proof ” designs.

The sites proposed by Europan 16 for this sub-theme offer a great richness and variety of workspaces. There are locations with very delimited work opportunities such as Brussels-Capital-Region (BE) and Landshut (DE); more complex sites with multiple constructions or urban elements involved, but configured around a unique main focus, such as Istres (FR) and San Donà Venezia (IT); and finally, sites with a multiplicity of opportunity spaces that require a major strategy of urban repair, such as Limoges (FR).

Beyond the morphology, multiplicity and nature of the problems raised by the sites, the study of the winning projects and those highlighted by the jury shows a series of viewpoints that, although with transversal elements to all of them, can be organized around three attitudes towards pre-existences.

1 — Landshut (DE), winner — Archive of European Culture > See more P.205

2 — Brussels (BE), winner — Architecture Centre for Regenerative Materials > See more P.197

3 — Istres (FR), preselected — Ruche populaire

Inside: New Uses Are Driven by Internal Conditions The winning projects in Brussels-Capital-Region and Landshut demonstrate great capacities to detect and highlight the site force while clarifying its position within contemporary transitions.

Moreover, this task might become especially complex when we introduce the variable of “heritage building”. This is the case of the winning project Archive of European Culture in Landshut around the former prison: a building located near Landshut’s historic town centre and completely empty for several years that, with minimal architectural operations focused on the circulation of users, renews its original “safekeeping” concept to help keep the tangible world from the digital universe in which our culture is recorded.

As the project authors describe: “Once built to protect those outside from those contained within, [the building] will now protect what is kept inside from possible threats outside” (fig.1).

Meanwhile, the winning project entitled Architecture Centre for Regenerative Materials in Brussels-Capital-Region answers the question of how to find a new program that makes the best of the pre-existing. While other projects on this site introduce strong interventions and demolition works in order to bring light to the interior floors, the Architecture Centre for Regenerative Materials accepts its given reality and proposes to transform the extensive basement archive of the current CIVA (which will move out in 2024, leaving the building vacant) into a mycelium production-­ laboratory space. A natural-based construction material that will

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be the object of research and development in the public spaces of the building. A very interesting approach is to take advantage of this mycelium production to recondition the building hosting the production; besides, according to the authors, this could be replicated on a larger scale (fig.2).The runner-up project, Grow 4 Brussels, also highlights the same recognition of the existing, introducing interventions on the building that are as minimal as possible, while starting production in the vast underground space using hydroponic farms.

The first two proposals establish a very different relationship with their context: while Archive for European Culture collects information to protect on the inside, the Architecture Centre for Regenerative Materials produces thanks to the inside in order to influence the outside world by contributing to the process of “substitute industrial materials by, as much as possible, natural materials” in the building industry according to the project authors.

These two strategies contrast in a complementar y way with the self-sufficient ambition of the preselected project entitled Ruche populaire in Istres, which wonders whether the pre-existing can be mined for its own resources. A quest to give a new life to spaces, using the pre-existing as the main building material. A transformation of the waste of the past into resources for the future.

Favouring a slow-path transformation, enabling the very users of the space to execute it enhances the sense of belonging to the community that will inhabit it, and therefore, improves its protection and resilience in the future (fig.3).

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4 — Landshut (DE), special mention — Medieval Experimentarium > See more P.206

the 1970s under ideas of sharing, collective reflection and embracing multi-disciplinary collaboration2, the Centre nowadays faces an opposing reality when the secondary school is about to leave the facilities. Some other strong equipment is coming, but the city still needs a new use for the former school. This operation should also revalorize the common spaces: a modular structure recognizes the existing archetype of the pre-existing and works with two main strategies. First, it connects the different equipment of the ECC together, but also to their environment by favouring openness to the lagoon of the Étang de Berre and the sea. Secondly, this “interface” attitude decreases its operational scale through a diversity of acupuncture strategies that improve not only the immediate surroundings of the facilities, but also their interconnections (fig.5).

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5 — Istres (FR), runner-up — Devising the Milieu > See more P.201

Interface: New Uses Are Supported by a New Interface for the Pre-Existing The projects entitled Medieval Experimentarium —special ­mention— and Devising the Milieu —runner-up—, from Landshut and Istres respectively, allow us to exemplify another type of attitude: understanding what happens if efforts are focused on operating on the boundaries of their new uses and their most direct surroundings, rather than simply in their inner spaces. These projects explore devices that articulate new uses in the pre-­existing while manifesting it to the outside, almost as a claim and an invitation to take part in the building’s new life.

The new light structure designed as a “grand hall” according to the team of Medieval Experimentarium works mainly as a social cloister. In addition, its public vertical circulation enhances the position of the space in the city landscape and articulates the new uses proposed in the interior with little modification of the inherited architecture. An operation whose reversibility adds value in the face of other possible future uses of the building (fig.4).

In Istres, the interface becomes more complex and larger with the runner-up project Devising the Milieu. In this city, we find the Educational & Cultural Centre (ECC) “Les Heures Claires”. Built in

Exterior: New Uses Are Driven by Outer Conditions When the number of sites open for intervention in one city are multiple, the ways of operating need become more complex, but still categorical at the same time, within an empathetic strategy properly articulated in a medium-term timeframe.

In the city of Limoges, the special mention project Vivifica facilitates the reading of this multiplicity of necessary operations over a very unique context where disappearing industrial activities coexist, still with many traces remaining, close to both a dense city centre by the North side and the city’s countryside and the Vienne River by the South. Despite a degrading milieu, there is a rich building ecosystem to be revealed (fig.6). Demolition is used as selectively as possible, trying to favour the conversion of outdated infrastructures into architecture, while caring with attention and recognition all the actors involved.

A new life cycle must be set in motion here and Vivifica, as explained by the authors, proposes two attitudes to resolve a constellation of problematics: frugality and humility. Timing is also controlled properly through operations like connecting, renaturing, reanimating and reopening: “the proposal also suggests a credible phasing over some 15 years”3. Tackling the problem of losing inhabitants, the project introduces housing typologies that favour an active neighbourhood life, criticizing the ones that privatize spaces. It also tackles the problem of the decreasing presence of nature in the public domain.

Meanwhile, in San Donà Venezia, action is taken by the opportunity left at the “ATVO building’ bus station by changing its location to a new hub under construction. Instead of operating in a broad environment with micro-interventions that are very measured in time as exemplified by Vivifica in Limoges, the winning project in San Donà Agroecological Condenser proposes a well-developed

environmental analysis and promotes an urban agroecological approach as the driving force4: it allows the city to build an urban structure consistent with the new strategic objectives aimed at limiting the impact of cities on climate change. The pre-existing ATVO building is the starting point of the whole renovation process within a “productive” terraced greenhouse. (fig.7 & 7bis) Will renaturalization be a stronger driving force to boost these new uses that are so much in demand in San Donà?

Transformative Culture Thanks to the work of architects, landscape architects and urban planners, among others, we are witnessing a variety of metabolic and integrative attitudes to bring buildings and territories back to life with their users. There seems to be a growing collective awareness that approaches the process of revival with a certain optimism, that cares for the memory of the place and respects the identity of the buildings without rejecting contemporaneity.

Unfortunately, some of these attitudes may be with us due to a matter of necessity, as they rely exclusively on a low-level structure of resources. However, time will bring wisdom and these processes can be internalized in the different actors involved, whether they are public owners, private developers or simple users; allowing offering built environments in which to intensify naturalization processes for a post-car world scenario or simply experimenting within temporary uses, without wasting resources.

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Colmenares, S. (2019). From “tabula rasa” towards “terrain vague”.

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7 — San Donà Venezia (IT), winner — Agroecological Condenser > See more P.213

7bis — San Donà Venezia (IT), winner — Agroecological Condenser > See more P.213

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The theme of Living Cities gives a new creative impetus, shifts the issues and makes the traditional or inherited automatisms of the making of the city obsolete: it is no longer possible to continue “business as usual”. This new prism implies a repositioning, an essential readjustment of the issues, of the theoretical and action frameworks of the making of the city in order for us to align as much as possible with the climatic challenges of our century. The specificity of Caring, to quote Chris Younès, leads “to the idea of the revival of reflection, thought and imagination around what makes our human settlements”.This is an urgent, yet exciting, challenge of re-invention, from which the E16 rewarded teams have developed bold proposals. The projects presented hereafter make visible —in a concrete way— not only the problematic issues embodied in varied urban and territorial situations, but also new creative ways of dealing with them: a transformative laboratory

2 — Auneuil (FR), special mention — Inter-Tenement > See more P.225

1 — Aalst (BE), preselected — Ever-Changing-Aalst

for shifting our ways of thinking and acting today, initiating the ecological, political, economic and social shifts that are necessary for a changeover towards the post-Anthropocene.

This politicised attention based on Caring therefore calls for a rethinking of all our situations: whether they are around declining industrial districts in very urban contexts, as in Aalst (BE) or Ettlingen (DE); around former colonies or isolated industrial factories in more or less urbanised territories, as in EsperragueraColonia Sedó (ES) or Auneuil (FR); or in the heart of remote and vulnerable rural areas, as in Beizama (ES). Obviously, the diversity of these situations calls for a diversity of responses to prepare and equip the reflection on Caring in a way that is theoretical and conceptual, but also directed to processes, strategies and operations.

In order to participate in the creation of this new common culture, we propose to analyse several projects in terms of three shifts that have emerged in this first edition of the Living Cities, outlining three project attitudes to the situations.

Caring for the Existing in All its Forms, Encouraging the Potentials Starting Today Stagnation is no longer an option. We can no longer wait for economic forces and top-down decision-making powers to act and reclaim our environments. Every “already-there” carries an immediate potential that we can rapidly reveal and activate through inventive strategies. The teams are here trying to develop “soft power toolkits” and advocate bottom-up actions to initiate here and now with little or no resources. The performativity of the action allows the unpredictable to occur during the design process to better welcome the potentials that emerge, transforming uncertainty into strength. These projects are much more flexible: they are less specific in their forms than in their processes and their “field” methodology; their exploring new ways of doing things together counts more than the operational control of the objectives. This is the idea behind the serendipity approach (Corboz), in which each accident along the way, each resistance or constraint “weighing” on the actual design are considered positively as “events that generate possibilities”. These are particularly inclusive, resilient and living approaches, that needs further encouragement.

The project Ever-Changing-Aalst in Aalst aims to create the conditions for the emergence of new potentials from ever ything that pre-­exists on the industrial site in terms of spaces, volumes and materials. Besides activating light devices acting as activators of ephemeral uses, it also participates in the creation of new social rituals and generates first progressive activities of reuse and recycling of the existing (fig.1). The team seeks to awaken with few means a collective awareness of the pre-existing potentials of the environment as a first act of re-appropriation. This resilient and agile progressive approach ensures that the unpredictable is given a place in the long-term as a power of collective invention thanks to the development of the site at multiple speeds and with multiple characteristics: mutation keeps on and a balance arises between the so-called “permanent” transformations and the spaces that extend “changing” functions for an indefinite period.

In another vein, the project Inter-Tenement in Auneuil proposes an acupunctural strategy to densify the existing plots (fig.2) drawing up a very precise taxonomy of the existing built forms from which potential adaptation forms can emerge. This strategic proposal is in line with the goal of “zero net artificialisation” and is anchored in

3 — Beizama (ES), special mention — Being Beizama > See more P.229

a strong desire to repair the existing fabric in order to counteract the issues of urban sprawl. The in-depth analysis of the existing area and its potential for development is therefore armed with an inventive toolbox that allows the territory to be strengthened gradually —but starting today— through micro-­interventions on a local scale. The strength of the project lies of course in its inventiveness, in its complementarity with other territorial approaches, but also in the possibility to be implemented in the short-term.

The power of the strategy also lies in the fact that it can be used in more than one situation, on other territories. What is perhaps missing, however, is a collective lever to convince and engage the community in the acupunctural process: the operational individuality must be accompanied by a new collective narrative to operate on an intermunicipal scale.

This is precisely the idea of the project Being Beizama in Beizama (fig.3). The project team indeed set out to identify not only the local inhabitants, but also the new populations that might be likely to come and settle in these rural mountainous areas after the health crisis. The urban exodus will deteriorate the rural ecosystems, which are not adapted to the arrival of new populations.

The creation of a new inclusive collective narrative and of action tools to embody it here and now must accompany these changes in order to help communities to collectively reinvent themselves from what already exists: care should be taken to invent new ways of living together in terms of housing, of cooperative exchanges and circular economies, and of relationships to the territory and its resources, for a gradual shit of the environment that takes care of all the people who (will) live there, but also of all the resources that compose it. The narrative and the collective imagination then become “a staging ground for action” (Appaduraï).

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Inverting the Focus and the Order of Priorities, (Re-)Ecologizing in Priority and Thoroughly Building is no longer a matter of course. Priority care must be taken to regenerate the landscapes and ecosystems damaged by human activity. It is a question of analysing and then repairing what was once potential in terms of ecologies (soils, flows, ecosystems, synergistic relationships of the living, etc.) to use as living and structuring matrices for the project. This thorough (re-)ecologizing of the environments constitutes, for the following projects, the first act of transformation, or rather, of repair. The idea of development, which is inherent in all urban and territorial projects, is implemented in a second phase, based on this first act, which defines its measure (Gaudin). The focus is now on the natural elements and infrastructures, the open spaces, and the exchanges and flows (human and non-human) which are orchestrated there. The point here is first about valuing the common good, including in particular the powers of nature, and the federating human activities over the individual capitalist interest.

The project Deconfining the Colony in Esparreguera-Colonia Sedó first seeks to repair the wounds caused by the creation of the colony on its environment, in particular by the fracture that it created between the mountain and the river. The first action is not to build, but rather to demolish the old walls of the colony in order to re-create fertile exchanges of flows and species across the site and, through this, allow its regeneration (fig.4). The care given to the renaturation of the soil and open spaces in and around the former colony is then progressively accompanied by the rehabilitation of the existing buildings; new constructions appear in a third time to consolidate the buildings, densifying the site at strategic points for its development, while taking care not to alter the regenerated natural ecosystems. Biodiversity is therefore considered to be the main legacy to restore.

Further in this inversion of priorities, the project A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall in Aalst takes to heart the revaluation of the Dender River, placing it at the origin and at the centre of an urban re-structuring project that goes far beyond the scale of the study site.

In the words of the team, the River becomes “an architectural

artefact, a medium for the coordination of many sites, of many programs and events”. For them, “conceiving the river as an architectural element, allows to understand that Urbanism and Nature will now be built as simultaneous elements of the same ecological development strategy”. It thus becomes the living artery that impulses progressive transformations on both sides of the banks (fig.5). The team deploys a large-scale soil renaturation plan inside and over the entire site, together with a strategy of smart irrigation networks: a new motherboard that allows micro-ecosystems to emerge, generating original atmo­ spheres and programmes. A thorough redesign of the site’s soil and open spaces, providing innovation in urban ecologies and varied uses.

The project École des arts de la terre in Auneuil takes this idea of thorough ecologizing even further. Seeking to reconnect with the site’s and the region’s productive memory, the team is indeed betting on the reactivation of training linked to the sector of biosourced materials —earth. The entire rural revival project is based on the geology of the area and the natural materials present in the soil (clays, sands, gaizes): the team proposes to create a School of Earthen Arts (fig.6) that will update know-how, generate virtuous channels of materials and circular economies, and make it possible to revive the economy and to gradually rehabilitate the damaged buildings of the former Boulenger factory, the nerve centre of the project. In other words: how to generate a new virtuous territorial metabolism that is economically viable and socially inclusive, and based on what makes up the intrinsic strength of the environment?

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Caring for the Inter-Relations, an Ecology of Interactions Acting in isolation is no longer conceivable.The first transformation act here lies in creating reconnections. It is a question of reconnecting, of making fragmented entities and objects, isolated systems or independent flows fit together in order to (re-)form complex synergistic ecosystems. These projects indeed consider environments far beyond the proposed study site, while encompassing it, aiming at a so-called territorial ecology. This multi-scalar approach seeks to repair pre-existing weak or broken links, to create new

4 — Esparreguera-Colonia Sedó (ES), winner — Deconfining the Colony > See more P.233

5 — Aalst (BE), winner — A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall > See more P.219

7 — Esparreguera-Colonia Sedó (ES), runner-up — The Ways of Sedó > See more P.234

6 — Auneuil (FR), winner — École des arts de la terre > See more P.223

and performative links. Its genius lies in the care given to the powers of interaction that it creates or restores. Strengthening these links and focusing on the invisible threads that generate our territories means bringing environments out of their vulnerabilities and arming them to cope with future hazards.

This attitude is particularly visible in the project The Ways of Sedó in Esparreguera-Colonia Sedó.The project indeed makes a thorough, complex analysis of the territory and develops a proposal that includes all the agents operating there (fig.7). The team considers the old settlement as a support that disrupts the connection between the two neighbouring towns of Olesa and Esparreguera.

It therefore wants to transform the colony into a new hybrid ecosystem, catalysing a wide variety of programmes, whose aim would be to recreate the connections between these different fragmented contexts: a new dynamic and thriving environment, crossed by various interconnected playful and productive itiner­ aries and cycles. A landscape of performative interactions with multiple reconnections: a place of territorial convergences.

The idea of convergence also lies at the hear t of the project Multilayer City in Ettlingen. Here, the team deploys a network of three interconnected thematic cycles to regenerate the former ELBA industrial site, creating a productive ecosystem that is connected internally and linked externally to the territory. The virtuous cycles converge synergistically in several interactive joints at the heart of the site as places of pulsation, hotbeds of inclusive and metabolic vitality, cradles of social exchange, of flows of materials, of production and redistribution, and of productive ecologies (fig.8). In short, the project seeks to establish a new urban community that is resilient and adapted to future changes, with 50% of the surface area dedicated to open spaces, and therefore to interactions.

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8 — Ettlingen (DE), winner — Multilayer City > See more P.240

9 — Beizama (ES), runner-up — Rhizoma > See more P.228

the project Rhizoma in Beizama. Here, the ground floors of the new housing (fig. 9), extending into the public community space of Beizama, form the new interactive platforms between the inhabitants and the territory: they become meeting places for new networks of circular economies and social-economic exchanges, places of multiple contacts between the various agents that inhabit and create the territory. A new way of considering the relationship between man and his environment, expressed in an urban-­architectural form that participates in the creation of a new model that can be adapted to other rural situations in the Basque Country, and even in other regions.

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These sites are located at the edge of parks and forests or situated within agricultural or planted areas. The projects’ actors have to embrace mechanisms of care for natural and manmade landscapes. The sites may be transformed into interfaces with porous edges to support the habitats of the landscapes.

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Niort (FR)

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Carouge (CH) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — CAROUGE, GENEVA POPULATION — 23,000 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 200 HA / PROJECT SITE — 2.7 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — STATE OF GENEVA / CITY OF CAROUGE ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — STATE OF GENEVA / CITY OF CAROUGE OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — MIXED: PRIVATE & PUBLIC OWNERS

FARÈS DERROUICHE —

Urban planning officer at the State of Geneva PIERRE CHAPUIS —

Urban planning officer at the Municipality of Carouge

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

— How can nature contribute to creating a new identity?

— What intensities and centrality are needed for the Fontenette area?

— How to develop a global vision for the area while retaining traces of its history?

— Where and how to build new, high-quality housing?

— How to generate interactions between nature, the built ­environment, and the social components of the site?

— How can the population be involved in developing ideas?

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

Europan 16 is an oppor tunity to give meaning and identity to the Fontenette site, characterized by the juxtaposition of entities lacking any overall coherence. It is a “void” in terms of planning and does not fully take advantage of the presence of nature which plays a major role. The goal is to produce a living piece of neighbourhood that will contribute to the Ecological and Solidarity-Based Transition (TES) of Carouge, which is exactly fitting the themes of metabolism and inclusivity.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

Carouge Municipality and the State of Geneva were looking for complementarity solutions to exploit synergies between the selected projects, useful to a variety of actors within a variety of scales. The results arising out of the competition are fitting these expectations and are going to be incorporated into an open discussion around the revision of the municipal masterplan (PDCom, in application since 2009). Carouge Municipality and the State of Geneva will further meet with the shortlisted teams and organize a workshop & public debate in order to build a collective understanding of this site.

Carouge (CH) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

MARC DE TASSIGNY (CH), LEONHARD KANAPIN (CH) KIM PITTIER (CH), STEFANIA MALANGONE (CH), ARCHITECTS FÉLIX BRÜSSOW (DE), LANDSCAPE ENGINEER NICOLAS WAECHTER (FR), URBAN PLANNER ORIANE MARTIN (CH), GEOGRAPHER

COLLECTIF FONTENETTE COLLECTIF.FONTENETTE@GMAIL.COM

Gold Line Team point of view — Gold Line offers the opportunity to live and experience the Fontenette district and banks of the Arve in a new way. Giving greater space to the waters of the Arve and its riparian zone, this project requalifies and enhances the sector thanks to the surrounding nature, while reconnecting the different districts within. The sector will host new activities, leisure, relaxation, meeting and walking areas, as well as a new hub for artisanry and craftsmanship. Through these transformations, Fontenette will become a space linking humans to nature: a new ecosystem generating novel uses and encounters, allowing this sector of Carouge to live through its metabolic and inclusive vitality.

Jury point of view — The jury liked this proposal in which the authors subtly attribute precise identities to the different components of the place, open-up the various sectors through active travel modes, while at the same time enhancing the landscape quality of the site. Drawing on a careful observation of the site, the project’s authors identify and name several themed places. These names are used to assign a specific and precise development intention to the different places.

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Carouge (CH) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

STEVE HARDY (FR) LILI SZABO (FR) ARCHITECTS

DIMITRI SZABO (FR) AGRONOMIC ENGINEER

BERLIN (DE), LYON (FR), VERSAILLES (FR) +33 628332866 CULTIVATINGSYNERGIES@OUTLOOK.COM STEVEHARDY.ALWAYSDATA.NET LILISZABO.WIXSITE.COM/CONSTELLATING

Cultivating Synergies Team point of view — This quite late urbanized area of Carouge is a patchwork of water, loose constructions, forest, and sports facilities. It has at the same time a picturesque potential and some structural issues for the quality of its urban life and biodiversity.

The project proposes to reinforce the different axes and strengths of the area, giving them continuity and putting them in resonance to generate new spaces, qualities and opportunities. The reading and proposed actions are set on a wider and smaller scale to have a fine intervention level, but generating at the same time the coherence that the site lacks nowadays. This proposal is a first framework for an open discussion and conception process to cultivate new synergies in Carouge-Fontenette.

Jury point of view — The jury appreciated the in-depth analysis of the site, with its very attentive and “benevolent” focus.

The development of the place by means of localised and sensitive measures, and an economy of resources, respects the different identities and their constraints, highlights their strengths and points the way towards the coexistence of the place’s different uses and atmospheres.The project divides the site into three different layers and reinforce them, creating urban, social and environmental synergies between them.

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the suggestion box

the wishes time

the transformation time

the productive neighborhood

cultivating synergies

Carouge (CH) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

PHILIPP R.W. URECH (CH), ARCHITECT, LANDSCAPER ANTOINE VIALLE (FR), ARCHITECT, URBANIST YANNICK POYAT (FR), AGRONOMY-LANDSCAPE ENGINEER

WWW.TOPOSTUDIO.CH LINKEDIN.COM/IN/ANTOINEVIALLE-5575A8203/ WWW.PLANISOL.CH

Regenerating Carouge Grounds Team point of view — The open spaces in the Fontenette offers a unique opportunity to regenerate an area of river divagation, cool atmosphere and leisure, essential to the Greater Geneva.

The Fontenette neighbourhood is destined to become an inhabited landscape and ecological infrastructure. According to the potentialities of the site, 3 objectives are targeted for regenerating the Carouge Fontenette grounds: (In)filtering waters; Cooling the urban atmosphere; Towards carbon neutrality. The project aims at establishing a connecting ecological infrastructure according to three strategies generating the morphologies of the project : 1. ECOLOGICAL CORRIDORS, Demineralization, Soft Mobility and Metabolic Exchanges; 2. THREE SOILS, Circular Economy of Materials; 3. CONNECTING PUBLIC SPACES, the “Re-Invention” of Carouge.

Jury point of view — The project deliberately focuses on the issues of climate, water and soil, the latter being presented as a prime protagonist of local metabolic dynamism. One of the strengths of this project is its close analysis of the components that constitute the climatic aspects of the local milieu. Starting with the soil, the role of water is tackled from several perspectives (infiltration, contribution to the microclimate), but also from a more social angle (access to water). The project spotlights invisible and nevertheless essential elements such as air flows, water and heat balances, the nature of the ground surface.

1. Ecological corridors maintained roadways underground parking lots demineralized surfaces ecological corridors (water/air) soft mobility network

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2.Three soils demineralized surfaces community gardens urban farming green and domestic waste (organic matter) construction waste (mineral substract) composting and soil mixing progressive redistribution on the 3 terraces

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CITY OF HJERTELIA & EUROPAN NORWAY —

1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

We have asked the competitors to propose a new pilot neighbourhood that embraces sustainability in the broadest sense possible.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The site is strongly connected to the theme of metabolism and brings forward a range of issues related to construction in natural and agricultural land, suburban development that is a pressing concern in smaller towns all over the country. The winning proposal is very exciting in this regard, as the land use strategy favours dense strips of buildings in a productive landscape that can be developed over time. It proposes a strategy that negates the issue of waiting for the new railway line, as well as good methods for developing community around new sustainable practises.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

The first stage will be to have them make a more comprehensive feasibility study of the project. This will probably also have to include bringing on board other local consultants.The second stage could be for the winning team to design a prototype building of the revised concept.

Hjertelia (NO) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ANTOINE LE METAYER (FR) AXEL MAK (FR) WARREN LOUIS-MARIE (FR) ARCHITECTS

SAMMEN ARCHITECTURE, PARIS (FR) CONTACT@SAMMEN.FR WWW.SAMMEN.FR @SAMMEN_ARCHITECTURE

Building the Ecotone Team point of view — In Hjertelia, we want to develop a new form of neighbourhood where agriculture, manufacturing processes and cooperative housing come together as an alternative to low-density suburban housing.

Hjertelia is a perfect example of an ecotone, a transition area between two ecosystems. Located between city and countryside, it is a sharp boundary line where synergies have to be created, where the city can expand without degrading soils and agriculture can meet biodiversity.

The long delay before the arrival of the new train line gives the possibility of a staged development of the site. First, we will focus on the development of an agricultural community. Then, we will attract people through prototyping and education. Finally, sustainable and flexible housings will be implemented in a metabolic way.

Jury point of view — The project proposes a strong linear organisation on the sloping site for living and food production to coexist. Closely spaced built forms alternate with open fields of productive landscape.This landscape strategy does not depend on any aesthetic but is robust and open enough to embrace uncertainty and facilitate a variety of authors and stakeholders as well as time and change.

There is a clear ambition for innovative building techniques, piloting and sustainable practices by forming relationships with local farmers, academic researchers, the industry and members of the public.

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The central plaza

House for all

Bike loop

Piazza

Crops

Market hall

Workshop

Collaboration

Old barns

House for all

Metabolic housing

Flexible space

Forest house

Export

Hjertelia (NO) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

TIN PHAN (NO), ARCHITECT, URBANIST SCOTT DOIG (GB), PHOEBE CHU (HK) ARCHITECTS

JESPER ANDREAS CHRISTIANSEN (NO) ARCHITECT

AIR STUDIO / HAPTIC ARCHITECTS, OSLO (NO) TIN@AIRSTUDIO.NO / WWW.AIRSTUDIO.NO SCOTTDOIG@HAPTICARCHITECTS.COM / WWW.HAPTICARCHITECTS.COM

Growing a Community Team point of view — The site of Hjer telia is situated on a sloping hill, surrounded by nature. Hjer telia’s surroundings are the only development sites that overlaps with existing farmlands in Hønefoss.

This pilot neighbourhood aims to preserve the Norwegian dream of owning a house in the countryside, yet maintain the necessary density and societal qualities that are required of exurban property development. The proposal is to not only keep the farmlands, but also reinterpret it as an integral part of the neighbourhood.

The trajectory for Hønefoss is still uncer tain, as our research shows multiple aspects that will inevitably change the status quo for how to live and what to do in Hønefoss.

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Jury point of view — The proposal has a clear and strong concept and is an interesting answer to the main question in the competition —to develop a new pilot neighbourhood on urban farming and social forms of living. The concept is exploring new ways of integrated living and shared space for agriculture. The housing units are placed along the perimeter of the site, and the detached houses create a shielded common productive area in the middle of the site for growing. The proposal also aims to keep a “green corridor”. By placing the buildings on the outer edge and in the steeper angle of the terrain, the best land is saved for agriculture.

The structure also improves the climatic conditions for farming, and underline that the main purpose of living in Hjertelia community is the common farming.

Hjertelia (NO) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

GIONA CARLOTTO (IT) GABRIELE CATANZANO (IT) ARCHITECTS

GIACOMO PREMOLI (IT) LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT BLENDI VISHKURTI (IT) ARCHITECT

ARZIGNANO, VICENZA (IT) +39 3930983534 GIONA.CARLOTTO@GMAIL.COM

Back to Nature Team point of view — Back to Nature is a project that proposes to develop a sustainable way of living together.

It is a 16,000 sqm mixed-use housing neighbourhood gently set in the landscape of Hjertelia.

The project has the aim of reading the landscape where it stands, finding and designing its characteristics and peculiarity.

It is a simple shape that reminds on ancient traditional settlement all around the world, a circle that surround a hortus where to live and work together, a circle that follow the inclination of the ground becoming a form designed with nature.

The height of the building, as well as the wood structural facade, is simply obtained in analogy with the tall trees that surround the area, as birch and pines so that it will not emerge from vegetation, but instead will be an essential part of it.

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Hjertelia (NO) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

BENEDIKT HARTL (DE) ARCHITECT

THOMAS HASENEDER (DE) URBANIST

OPPOSITE OFFICE, MUNICH (DE) +49 17656592902 INFO@OPPOSITEOFFICE.COM WWW.OPPOSITEOFFICE.COM

født i skogen Team point of view — I am born in a forest! As a rule, forests are cut down when new areas are designated for housing, which leads to urban sprawl and environmental degradation: the habitat of animals is restricted, biotopes are destroyed and forests, that are important for the climate, are lost. Typically, building means: man against animal! We want to change that and propose a rethink of the relationship between humans and animals. Our project concerns solidarity with animals in human spaces and proposes a new way of cohabitation: animals and plants get the ground floor space and humans move up one level. So we designed a new typology which combine the dream of living in the nature with sustainability.

Come on and let’s go into the forest and collect mushrooms!

Hjertelia (NO) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ÁLVARO LÓPEZ LORENTE-SOROLLA (ES) FRANCISCO BALADO FERNÁNDEZ (ES) BEATRIZ ALONSO ROMERO (ES) ARCHITECTS

CALLE PECHUÁN 14, ESCALERA DERECHA 2ºA, 28002 MADRID (ES) +33 628582403 MIDDLEARTHE16@GMAIL.COM

Middle Earth Team point of view — The project is located on a scale between urban and rural housing. This is reflected in the occupation of the land, the density of the buildings and their typologies. It will serve as a filter between urban and rural life.

Therefore, the proposal has an infrastructure system divided into 3 networks: road, path and trail. The objective of this system is to guarantee pedestrian and bicycle use, causing a decrease in car use.

The fundamental operation is organized from a cluster made up of the block with the dwellings and the auxiliary buildings. Each block can have up to three auxiliary buildings, which serve the productive fields and public spaces around the cluster.

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Hjertelia (NO) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

MARZIAH ZAD (US), MATEUS SARTORI (IT) ARCHITECTS HONORATA GRZESIKOWSKA (PL) URBANIST

MARZIAH ZAD, BARCELONA (ES) ZAD@ASHRAFIZAD.COM MARZIAH@OUTLOOK.COM WWW.ASHRAFIZAD.COM

Self Nurturing City Team point of view — We believe that nurturing development rooted in principles of care for the environment and each other, sharing of available resources and amenities, and self-sustaining life through closed consumption loops will prove central in the years ahead. The Self-Nurturing City proposal will rely on renewable energy, and renewable and recycled construction materials with a low energy footprint. The design offers closed consumption loops to promote resilient, local production and a circular economy that is considerate of the impact of industrial grade agriculture and non-native crop production. In designing for a time of uncertainty, we also find the fundamental laws of a liveable future: Care, Share, and Self Sustain.

Karlskoga (SE) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — SOUTH OF KARLSKOGA POPULATION — 27,500 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 86 HA / PROJECT SITE — 49 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — MUNICIPALITY OF KARLSKOGA ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — MUNICIPALITY OF KARLSKOGA OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — MUNICIPALITY OF KARLSKOGA

BOSSE BJÖRK — Head of Strategic Urban Planning

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

To develop proposals for a new station area for future generations that people will be proud of.The area should be built with regards to all aspects of sustainability — economic, social, technical, and environmental. The area should be built dense enough to host different functions and activities such as apartment buildings, offices, workplaces, schools, stores, service, and parks. This mix will lead to more interaction between people and businesses development.

The new area should be connected to the existing city and be accessible and safe for all.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

Karlskoga is a small town with large natural green areas, rivers, and lakes. The town has historically been planned according to the concept “city in park” and the development of the competition site will follow the same mentality to let the natural structures be interwoven with the new built structures. In the future the area will be an inclusive hub for public transport that will connect people and be welcoming for all. The inclusive aspect will be relevant during the entire development process, even before the new railroad and station is implemented.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

The next step is to develop a strategic program for the development of the future station area and its surroundings. The winning proposal, possibly in combination with the runner-up, is proposed to make up a visionary and strategic part of this program as a tool to visualize the future development. The structure and scope for this will be discussed in dialogue with the winning teams.

Karlskoga (SE) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

CHRISTIAAN SMITS (NL) CORNÉ STROOTMAN (NL) LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS

CHRISTIAAN.F.B.SMITS@GMAIL.COM CORNESTROOTMAN@GMAIL.COM WWW.CORNESTROOTMAN.COM

Embrace Karlskoga Team point of view — On the edge of lake Möckeln, between forests and meadows, a sustainable and inclusive district is taking shape that embraces the qualities of Karlskoga.

Sustainable: the district embraces all landscape characteristics and existing buildings on the site, giving new functions to the big box stores and increasing the biodiversity of the streams, forests, and meadows.

Inclusive: the district introduces a variety of urban typologies that enable different ways of life. Each typology embraces the natural values found around the site, outdoor activities, farming, and biodiversity become the foundation for a shared way of living.

The district provides amenities, jobs, and houses, and because of the new Nobel railway to Oslo and Stockholm, it entices urban dwellers that are looking to get away from the bustle of the city, into the quiet forests on the edge of a beautiful lake.

Jury point of view — The proposal consistently focuses on utilizing the resources available in the city and on the site in full accordance with the theme Living Cities with the two main aspects Metabolism and Inclusivity.The jury appreciates the proposal’s basic starting point beginning from the qualities of the landscape, which is a way of finding unique site-specific solutions.The proposal carefully analyses the landscape from the regional level down to the natural conditions with forest land, arable land, beach, lake and ravines. It describes a suitable scale for the settlement for a smaller city that will grow and connects the future train station with the rest of the city.

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Karlskoga (SE) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

VILMAR VUORISTO (FI) ARCHITECT

ARCHITECTURE & DESIGN VILMAR VUORISTO RUMARVÄGEN 273, 21710 KORPO (FI) +358 40 9136244 VILMAR@ADVV.FI / WWW.ADVV.FI

At the Edge of Town Team point of view — At the Edge of Town proposes to create a new welcoming and diverse district in connection to the coming new infrastructure. A vibrant square at the core connects the new transportation hub at the district centre to a wide variety of functions and values, new and existing. While analysing where to create porous connections to unite and where to use barriers to intensify desirable values already within or mitigate the effects of less desirable features.The proposal sets the groundwork for a new inclusive part of town that is not only adaptable to trends, but encouraging residents to come together and create new ones.

Jury point of view — The proposal develops a dense new district based on the new station. It clearly describes the potential that exists in the new station location on the slope down to Möckeln and how, as a train passenger, you meet the city from the east across the lake with a park by the water. The city structure is consistently built up of semi-open blocks that are laid next to each other. It creates a clarity with access from the street and protected yards in a classic way. In these blocks, house bodies with different heights are then placed, which makes the plan flexible and possible to adapt to the wishes of the municipality.

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Karlskoga (SE) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

IAGO NÓVOA PÉREZ (ES), ARCHITECT, DESIGNER ANDRÉS NÓVOA PÉREZ (ES), ARCHITECT ZARAIDA MARTÍNEZ SANMARTÍN (ES), ARCHITECT, BIM MANAGER GABRIEL ALARCÓN SABARÍS (ES), LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

LENDO + 988DESIGN, PORTONOVO (ES) GABRIEL.SABARIS@GMAIL.COM WWW.LENDOARQUITECTURA.COM / WWW.988.GAL

K_BTW Team point of view — Natural elements make up and lead the field of study and action, highlighting the presence of the lake and the tree masses, as main interconnected and essential assets. The railway connection project opens up an opportunity to revitalise the area. A continuous and fluid spatiality is projected, as an exaltation of an aesthetic landscape experience originated during that pedestrian route, also adapted to any type of user where the wooden pillars will “merge” with the trunks.

Intermodality, mixture of uses and the formalisation of an aerial “promenade architecturale” are decisions that seek to generate different attractive opportunity spaces and establishing a friendly and gradual connection with the existing elements. The released soil will be a productive and playful space for recreation.

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Niort (FR) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — NIORT, DEUX-SÈVRES (79) POPULATION — 59,000 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 39 SQKM / PROJECT SITE — 100 TO 500 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — NIORT AGGLOMERATION, CITY OF NIORT ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — MARAIS POITEVIN REGIONAL NATURE PARK OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — PRIVATE / PUBLIC

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1- Avenue de Nantes

2- Route de Paris

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3- Route de Niort / Route d’Aiffres

4- Avenue de la Rochelle

1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

The urban functions (road infrastructures, economic areas and housing) inherent in the territorial dynamics have “colonised” the transitional spaces between centralities and rural areas as well as between centralities within the heart of the Agglomeration.

This urbanisation, developed without any real guide plan, has trivialised or even disqualified these links without taking into consideration the challenges of biodiversity and the quality of the living environment.

The main question is to explore a large landscape project orga­ nising the transition between the urban and the rural, between the dense city and the open spaces and addressing the issues of ecology, landscape, mobility, access to services and habitability.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The link of the site with the sub-topics metabolism and inclusive vitality is reflected in the territorial ambition to rethink and strengthen urban functions, for the benefit of living together, in an approach guided by sobriety, intensity, sustainability and reversibility of land use.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

Expectations focus on suppor t for thinking and designing the urbanism of the future and repairing the existing, both in its purpose and in its design.

The new, plural and contrasting looks at these transitional spaces will encourage the expression and formalisation of future development principles which will be reflected in the plans (PLUiD…) and on a few demonstrator or prototype sites (urban sequences or sections).

Niort (FR) — Winner

AUTHOR(S) LÉONARD CATTONI (FR), LANDSCAPER, URBANIST EMMANUELLE BLONDEAU (FR), ARCHITECT, URBANIST CHARLINE ROLLET (FR), ARCHITECT, DESIGN SPACE MANON BONICEL (FR), ARCHITECT

CONTACT RÉSEAU(X) PAYSAGE & URBANISME 53 RUE MARCEAU, 93100 MONTREUIL (FR) +33 623887326 / CATTONI@AGENCERESEAUX.FR WWW.AGENCERESEAUX.FR

Niort, Port Terrestre Team point of view — Bordering a fluctuating marshland, Niort is a land port overlooking the wetlands and leaning back against its agricultural hinterland. It’s a harbour whose lighthouses would be its water towers, embodying a city shaped by the water.

At the hear t of an intricate geographical and landscape systems, we’re developing a transverse approach of habitability and natural habitats. We are aiming towards a new policy framework: the PLNUi (intercommunal Natural Development and Urbanization Plan), in which Nature is raised at the same level as the need for urban development.

Nior t is emphasizing its position as a living city where nature and infrastructure, instead of being an opposition, will not just be a forced marriage but a new ecosystem offering desirable and unique interfaces.

Jury point of view — The team asks fundamental questions with the long-term simulation of rising sea levels and the emergence of a “hinter-coastline”. Conceptually and in its graphic expression, this is a very strong proposal: the team constructs a narrative around the adaptation of the territory to the climate emergency. In addition to this appeal, the project provides very clever responses at all scales, and its sampling choices have a certain force.The project situations identified seem relevant, with architectural and landscape proposals closely embedded in their context.The jury appreciated the distinctiveness of the proposal and its proposal to give nature a status in urban planning documents (PLNUi).

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Niort (FR) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

TOUMI OMRANE (FR), MÉLISSANDRE PHAN (FR) LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS FRANÇOIS PERRAUD (FR), ARCHITECT

ATELIER -KOSMES, SAINT-MAUR-DES-FOSSÉS (FR) +33 988034114 CONTACT@ATELIERKOSMES.COM WWW.ATELIERKOSMES.COM

Mutual Valleys Team point of view — If Niort was initially established by taking advantage of the geographical opportunities and resources of the Poitevin territory, it has gradually turned away from it under the influence of its economic development. Its urban morphology is becoming homogenised and is developing in a systemic way along radial service roads. It disregards the permeabilities necessary for the territory to cope with future climate hazards.

Mutual Valleys proposes to make the Niortaise valleys the framework of a spontaneous resilience, supporting the regeneration of the ecological, hydrological, pedological and urban functions of the territory.The project proposes to reconsider the valleys of the Niortaise agglomeration as alternative structuring axes of development for a living city.

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Jury point of view — The team highlights the pre-eminence of hydrography and geology in the territorial project. The jury was very receptive to the team’s arguments about the effects of climate change and the need to adapt to it. The project provides a clear and relevant response at geographical and territorial scale, putting forward strong proposals reflecting the nature of the landscape and ecological structure of the valleys. The demonstration is convincing and the idea of “pooling” these spaces possesses potential for territorial innovation that is in sync with the priorities of ecological adaptation.

Niort (FR) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

BAPTISTE WULLSCHLEGER (FR) ARCHITECT LALY PAGLIERO (FR) LANDSCAPER

LIEU DIT LE BOURG 61400 COMBLOT (FR) +33 684995392 CONTACT@LOA.ARCHI

Des jumelles, du fil et un panier : danser au bord de Niort

Team point of view — Niort’s specificity is reflected in its geography. Its edges are an access to an open horizon, a cultivated soil, a relationship with the wild, which constitute the framework of this project. To claim its belonging to the marsh, Niort must look outside and place its development in a natural region rather than set up as an infinite urban region.This work develops living alternatives for the 4 sites. It is based on three ideas: Revealing their geography, repairing their scars and arranging, enriching their web of lives.

Our method develops a vocabulary inspired from philosophy and political ecologies. As space designers, we try to play the role of facilitator, to blend these researches into the fabric of space. 4 words, 4 temporalities, to track, to weave, to collect and to dance constitute media for studies, surveys and supports, to seize the millennium path to overthrow the city from its edges.

Jury point of view — The project is very clearly expressed and argued in its treatment of margins and boundaries. The jury noted the references to theoretical sources in this proposal, which is marked by a certain poetic character and well aligned with the theme of Living Cities. The spatial proposals seem accurate and meticulous, based on four exemplary project situations which the team illustrates with a process and phasing proposal. The jury appreciated the positive discourse around the presence of the human dimension, conveying a “more joyful approach” to the adaptation of the territory and abandoned urban spaces on the edges of the city.

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Theme 3—B 194

Dealing with New Uses

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These sites have available building stock at the end of their first or second life cycles. The sites lack strategic uses that could support the transition of the building to another life cycle. It is crucial to take care of relations between the uses, the inhabitants, and the building stock itself.

Brussels Capital Region (BE)

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Istres (FR)

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Landshut (DE)

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Limoges (FR)

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San Donà Venezia (IT)

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Brussels (BE) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — IXELLES, BRUSSELS CAPITAL REGION POPULATION — 1.2 MILLION INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 2.5 HA / PROJECT SITE — 0.2 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — SOCIÉTÉ D’AMÉNAGEMENT URBAIN (SAU) OF BRUSSELS CAPITAL REGION ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — VIVAQUA, COMMUNE OF IXELLES, URBAN. BRUSSELS, COMMISSION ROYALE DES MONUMENTS ET SITES OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — SAU

JAN VERHEYEN — SAU Brussels

1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

What is to be done with the CIVA once the collections, archives and museum function have moved to a new location along the Canal? What public programmes are appropriate to locate there, especially given the significant presence of basement levels? Is it appropriate to locate housing here? Of what type and in what form? How can the site function in greater synergy with its surroundings, in particular a large open space with a large drinking water reservoir in its basement?

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2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The site is located in a dense urban context. The CIVA is currently composed of two parts: a former power plant that has been reused and a building designed in the early 2000s to house an archive centre, collections, an auditorium and exhibition rooms.

With the planned relocation of the CIVA’s activities to a new location along the Canal, the question of the future of this infrastructure arises, particularly regarding its very central position in the city, as well as the specific configuration of its spaces. The project’s intention is to find a new vocation for this complex based on its own architectural qualities. The aim is to preserve the building, while injecting new programmes, including through a process of temporary occupancy that will allow certain hypotheses to be tested. The future of this site is intended to be open in a perspective of inclusiveness and hospitality. It is also envisaged the installation of specific housing in line with the main programme that will be proposed by the teams. The reflection on the future of the site is extended to the inaccessible roof of a drinking water tank located at the back of the site.This constraint of inaccessibility is to be considered as an asset for programmes to be identified, allowing the site to be part of the Brussels urban eco-system.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

A meeting between the SAU, Europan Belgium and the three prize-winning teams is planned for the first quarter of 2022. The three teams will be asked to present their vision. They also be asked to develop a working method and the way in which they intend to develop the collaboration with the project owner. After this first meeting, the opportunity for a second exchange during which the three teams can present the evolution of their vision/ method will be considered. Subsequently, an in-depth programming and feasibility study will be requested from the team with which the project owner feels most able to extend the collaboration.

Brussels (BE) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

CORENTIN DALON (FR) FLORIAN MAHIEU (BE) CHARLES PAILLEZ (FR) ARCHITECTS

BENTO, BRUXELLES (BE) +32 475536161 ARCHITECTURE.BENTO@GMAIL.COM WWW.B-ENTO.COM / @BENTO.ARCHITECTURE

Architecture Centre for Regenerative Materials Team point of view — The Architecture Centre for Regenerative Materials is thought as an ecosystem, a place to experiment, sensibilise and produce around the regenerative materials.

Firstly, the “Micro-Factory” is a producing place where insulated growing mycelium-based panels are produced on its basements.

Growing panels drive us on a post-carbonated direction for construction, facing both the reduction on the use of raw materials and the thermal renovation issue, while transforming empty floors in producing places.

Secondly, the “Macro-Factory”, is thought as a big experimenting room, where could be built scaled-one prototypes with living materials. The two “Factories” are linked by the “Forum”, the reception place, for the daily or the weekly public, thanks to its dormitories and facilities.

Jury point of view — The jury appreciates the general quality of the project, in particular the proposed programming.The question of sustainable materials and the energy renovation of buildings is a real challenge for existing buildings. The production of insulation panels within the building is a very interesting way of using basements. The division of the building into three parts is interesting and demonstrates the capacity of the existing complex to adapt to new programs. The programs developed inside of the building are complementary to each other and work in an eco-systemic way.

The project also integrates a reflection on the reuse of construction materials, in an interesting ecosystemic dimension.

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Brussels (BE) — Runner up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

FILIP MOMIKJ (MK), ARCHITECT MOHAMMAD HAMMASH (BE), ARCHITECT, URBANIST GEORGIOS TSOUKALAS (GR), URBAN PLANNER, LANDSCAPER

DE STRIP ARCHITECTS, BRUSSELS (BE) +32 489316044 INFO@DESTRIP.BE / WWW.DESTRIP.BE

Grow 4 Brussels Team point of view — Grow 4 Brussels 2030 embodies the way forward in, literally, the current climate.The historical CIVA building will be transformed into a multifunctional hotspot where farm and community are the key terms of this ambitious project.

The ingredients of the in-situ market and restaurant are locally sourced. With local actually being on site itself. Hydroponically grown vegetables, freshly farmed fish or even honey, straight from the site’s beehives, will lure in the local community, but also people from different areas.

The rejuvenation of the Civa building creates, in these times especially, a much needed sense of community a zero-waste food production, and consumption areas.

When a rich history, creates a green future.

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Jury point of view — The jury appreciates the project, the proposed programming and the links that are created between the different components of the project. It is intended to be comprehensive, integrating all the physical components of the environment: the building, the reservoir garden and the adjacent streets.

It envisages interventions that are complementary to each other.

Very precise inventories of the fauna and flora are carried out.

The project star ts with the idea of completing them. The jury appreciates the overall approach, as well as the fact that the public character of the building is maintained.

Brussels (BE) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

MANUEL LEON FANJUL (BE) LÉONE DRAPEAUD (FR) JOHNNY LEYA (BE) ARCHITECTS

TRAUMNOVELLE, SAINT-GILLES (BE) +32 478188805 INFO@TRAUMNOVELLE.EU WWW.TRAUMNOVELLE.EU

Jardin de repos Team point of view — Despite the aged population increasing steadily over the past century, no major cultural shifts have been operated to better include senior citizens. The care of the elderly is often an ethical scandal. Overpriced and over-medicalised care homes completely disregard the personal development of their residents —not to mention their dignity. Without idealising the narrative of respect due to elders, senior citizens have a right to meaningful care infrastructure. The CIVA building is repurposed into a neighbourhood day care service where older people can learn, socialise, exercise and have fun, as well as find essential services and amenities. The space is adapted to lowered mobility and impaired cognition. Can architecture accompany senior citizens in finding peace, meaning, joy, love?

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Istres (FR) SCALE — L/S URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL / ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — ISTRES - BOUCHES-DU-RHÔNE (13) POPULATION — 43,133 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 20 HA / PROJECT SITE — 12 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF ISTRES ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — CITY OF ISTRES, AIX-MARSEILLE — PROVENCE METROPOLIS OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — CITY OF ISTRES

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Nicolas Davini — Director General of Services, City of Istres 1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

The main question is specifically the theme of the session.

The theme is Living Cities. The site is directly concerned. How can the utopia that was the founding notion of the place be extended in time by transforming the places, by adapting them to current issues such as energy, biodiversity and climate?

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The CEC site is naturally linked to the theme of metabolism by its design. Its modularity allows for transformations that can be adapted over time and allows for transmission between generations. Inclusivity is one of the founding principles of the site, which is based on the fact that the interactions between sport, education and culture constitute the foundations of a more just and open society.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

We don’t have a defined approach yet. The most important point now is to understand the projects through explanations directly from the winning candidates. Indeed, the projects are very different, but above all they have emerged as a result of each candidate’s own reflection, which it would be good to completely clarify in order to fully understand the meaning of each project.

Istres (FR) — Runner up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ERICA ZANELLA (IT) NICOLÒ SCIOLTI (IT) STEFANO ZUPPELLI (IT), ARCHITECTS

+39 3314378013 / ERICAZANELLA@OUTLOOK.IT +39 3285826358 / NICOLOSCIOLTI@GMAIL.COM +39 3490784810 / STEFANOZUPPELLI@GMAIL.COM

Devising the Milieu Team point of view — The design is perceived as an organic ensemble in his floor plan settings together with the existing buildings and with the multiple modules bond together. It loses in the eyes of the user, the conception of a singular element, becoming not only a group of objects, but a path, a covered pavilion, an extension of a performance space, and finally the support of the new suspended bridging connections. It activates functions extendi­ng and creating environments, transforming the inner circulation in a proper place to live and to stay: the milieu. In this sense it acts as a performative object able to create and extend the existing, dividing and altering the space, enhancing new connections and programs.

Jury point of view — The team adds to the CEC’s architectural structure a new timber-framed modular structure designed to facilitate connections between the different parts of the CEC and its future users. This essentially architectural proposal cleverly matches the proliferating process of the original Atelier de Montrouge project.

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Istres (FR) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

TIAN LI (FR), ARCHITECT SHAN JIANG (CN), LANDSCAPER, URBANIST YINAN DU (CN), LANDSCAPER

TIAN LI, PARIS (FR) +33 695154321 FACE.TIAN@GMAIL.COM

Eco(Re)START Team point of view — Istres is like Calvino’s Venice. She has countless faces, with each one telling a different story.

She is a historic city. The urban texture expanded by the fortress like city centre divides the urban space, making the public space and green space fragmented. Thus, they are unable to be integrated into a site that attracts citizens.

She is a modern city. The rapid development of modern industry in the process of urban development has brought pollution and destruction to Lake Berre. The architectural form established to adapt to the surge in population is relatively simple, and public space cannot meet the requirements of a high-density population.

She is a city of the future. In the era of urban expansion of Marseille, it is necessary to use clearer sustainable urban planning strategies to form a charm different from other places, to increase the city’s attractiveness, develop tourism, and drive the city’s economy.

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Jury point of view — By proposing a place for the use of algae present in étang de Berre, the project recreates a strong relationship between the CEC and its environment. This alga, which only grows in clean water, has a symbolic value for the area, sign of a renewal of attention to the quality of the aquatic environment.

The jury was interested in this proposal, which links to several CEC objectives: economic, ecological and educational. It also emphasised the quality of the analysis at several spatial and temporal scales, though with a few reservations about the graphic handling.

Istres (FR) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

NICHOLAS DIDDI (IT) ARCHITECT

NICOLAS WIELGOSIK (FR), ARCHITECT LEONARDO LUNARDELLI (IT), ARCHITECTURE STUDENT FLORIAN TASSY (FR), INTERIOR ARCHITECT CHARLES TASSY (FR), PSYCHIATRIST

ATELIER NICHOLAS DIDDI, PARIS (FR) +33 624352214 ATELIER@NICHOLASDIDDI.COM WWW.NICHOLASDIDDI.COM

From Collage-systems to Ecosystem Team point of view — Our proposal provides an approach that is the antithesis of urban planning. Updating the idea behind the research carried out by the atelier de Montrouge, which compared the CEC to a real “city germ allowing for evolution over time, transformation, disappearance, and the birth of new functions”, we will activate interactions between existing programmes by setting up shared facilities. Lightweight installations, called “germs”, aiming at modifying the perception of the already existing, bring out the hidden potentialities of residual spaces. These interventions will produce a reaction in the use of the site: they will be able to grow, transform, create landmarks, meeting places, following an open plan, without presuppositions, able to take into account all unexpected evolutions.

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Landshut (DE) SCALE — L/S URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL / ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — CITY OF LANDSHUT, BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG POPULATION — 72,700 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 16 HA / PROJECT SITE — 1 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF LANDSHUT ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — CITY OF LANDSHUT, FREE STATE OF BAVARIA OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — CITY OF LANDSHUT, FREE STATE OF BAVARIA

VERENA WOCHESLANDER — Department of Construction

and Environment, city of Landshut

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

The idea was to implement an attractive and innovative use for a complex, historic building structure. In doing so, the site was to be revitalized for a long period of time. A new concept for the former prison could also be part of an urban development process that links new ideas with historical conditions and thus redefines the city’s entrance situation. However, there were no detailed specifications for the competition participants.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The prison building is located at the gates to the historic city centre, and in the immediate environment of the green park area near the Isar promenade. A revitalization of the site for the general public is therefore quite conceivable.

In addition, the old prison is a listed building. Regardless of the actual design idea, the preservation alone, and a careful handling of the old building substance, represent a sustainable process in relation to the topic of circular economy.

As the goal is to create a sustainable, mixed and socially integrative urban space with the old prison building as an integral part of it, a versatile use is desired. After 2008, when the prisoners moved into a new prison facility, the use of the building was limited to temporary use as a venue for film shoots and wedding ceremonies and has since been vacant for several years. Therefore, the shift from a monofunctional, limited (non-)use of the prison to a multi-use structure enables the unfolding of dynamics of integration for the city of Landshut. The competition is thus characterized by the openness for future usages, when in congruence with the listed building structure.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

Future procedures are currently being coordinated with the government of Lower Bavaria, as the old prison is owned by them.

Further cooperation with the award winner is definitely desirable.

Landshut (DE) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

JORIK BAIS (DE / NL) ALEXANDRA HEIJINK (NL) ARCHITECTS

AUD-A ARCHITECTS, BERLIN (DE) +49 17675098522 INFO@AUD-A.COM / WWW.AUD-A.COM

Archive of European Culture Team point of view — Early 2021 the European Union funded an initiative to digitise our European cultural heritage. This project aims to be its physical archive. Situated near the future geographical centre of the EU and in the digital epicentre of Bavaria, Landshut is the perfect location. In an effort to revitalise an old prison without altering its internal structure, cells are rethought as server rooms for data storage — cultural heritage has never been kept safer. A canopy interiorises the courtyard of the prison into a public ground floor with various amenities, connecting to the nearby park which will be used to preserve the cultural manifestations that can’t be digitised - traditions, craftsmanship & cuisine.

Landshut is set to become the epicentre of European culture, displaying what define(d/s) the EU. Jury point of view — The jury recognizes the proposed use in the listed former building of the correctional facility as appropriate and promising for the preservation and revitalization of the building complex.The proposals for an access and connection possibility to the Isar, as well as the proposals of the arena in the green areas and the otherwise welcome abandoned parking lot use need further developments. The jury considers the presented idea of the use as Archive of European Culture and the resulting opportunities for the building and the green areas worthy of a first prize.

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Landshut (DE) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ANĐELA KARABAŠEVIĆ (RS) ANA PETROVIĆ (RS) ALEKSA BEKIĆ (RS) MARIJA MATIJEVIĆ (RS), ARCHITECTS VLADISLAV SUDŽUM (RS), MECHANICAL ENGINEER

AKVS ARCHITECTURE, BELGRADE (RS) +381 640139615 AKVS.ARCH@GMAIL.COM / WWW.AK-VS.COM

Medieval Experimentarium Team point of view — Medieval Experimentarium infuses life into the historical milieu of the old prison. Light steel structure, a skeletal double of the two prison wings, is inserted into its courtyard to act as a support system —together the two become a cultural catalyst for the town and its emerging creative scene. This new Vertical Promenade allows for multiple access points into the old building, opening it entirely to the public. The project speculates about future co-habitation models, where people would live, learn, work, play and grow together in one circular self-sustained system. Creators, temporary tenants, and daily visitors are all part of a vibrant co-existence within newly formed hybrid ecosystems of the Experimentarium, born of symbiotic synergies between old and new, nature and culture.

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Limoges (FR) SCALE — L/S URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL / ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — LIMOGES, VIENNE (87) POPULATION — 133,000 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 97 HA / PROJECT SITE — 48 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF LIMOGES ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — CITY OF LIMOGES OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — CITY OF LIMOGES, PRIVATE OWNERS

JULIE PASQUET — In charge of urban development studies,

Urban Development Department, City of Limoges 1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

Based on the rich urban fabric that forms the proposed site, it was expected a new history for the city-valley area, a first stone for an eco-city between the Vienne and the city centre. For this in-­between area, which is occupied by numerous wastelands, a phased development plan is necessary to guide public action and support private project developers.

The project’s proposals had to question the place of soft transport modes, and in particular pedestrians, while dealing with the question of the site’s topography and its inclusion in the wider urban core. In the wider context of the city project, the aim is to expand the city centre and to reconnect with the banks of the Vienne and the urban edges of the left bank. Finally, a proposal for the evolution of the site was expected, based on a frugal urbanism as a standby solution and to prepare the transition.

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2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

On the metabolism aspect; the site has many features that show its construction, from the Roman era, on the Saint Martial Bridge, to the old craft storehouses.The DNA of the site itself is as polymorphous as its rich urban form, sometimes assigned to defined uses, sometimes reappropriated by convenience of use or by nature that seeps into the fallow buildings or the gardens in the heart of the blocks. The site is irrigated by strong or confidential links, ancestral or modern, whose capillarity only asks to be revealed.

Inclusivity is a notion intrinsic to the characteristics of the site.

From a human point of view, it is a space where housing, administrations, services and the immediate proximity of the banks of the Vienne river attract many walkers. The project consists as much in the development of the attractiveness as in the keeping of the present populations to perpetuate their presence and the identity of the district. Through a global study, the whole building participates in the first stone of an eco-city efficient in energy consumption and accessible to the greatest number.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

A specific presentation by each team has been scheduled so that they can deepen their site approach and detail their proposals.

In consideration of the extent of the site and the numerous urban, landscape and economic issues it represents, a phasing and a realistic implementation process will be necessary, once the definitive guidelines have been decided. Beyond the promotion of innovations, the expectations of the community are based on a real operationality of the proposals from a technical and financial point of view.

Limoges (FR) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

YVES MICAULT (FR), TOM OLLIER (FR), ARCHITECTS TONI DELAUNAY (FR), MAÏLYS CHARMONT (FR) LÉO REDON (FR), ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS

ITERA | INTROSPECTION DES TERRITOIRES ANTHROPIQUES YMICAULT@GMAIL.COM

Les petits ventres-villes Team point of view — We see that a link has been broken between the city centre and the Jacobins / Sœurs de la Rivière district : the system of public spaces offering a characteristic pedestrian fluidity seems to disappear after the Jacobins square, the first and last public space of the Europan site. Starting from observation that emptiness constitutes the urban space’s innervating material, the project will be initiated from a series of subtractive gestures in an intricate urban fabric where the pedestrian struggles to find socialization’s spaces. By bringing “le bien commun du Parc des Bords de Vienne” to the city-centre and the public space down to the riverbanks, social and natural ecosystems tied along small urban centralities, as an initiating process of Limoges bioregion.

Jury point of view — The team provides a close analysis of each situation constructed to reorganise open space and create common ground. The proposal accentuates links with the river.

The sectional drawings support this intention by tackling the question of the slope. The project shows precision of analysis and proposal in topographical and landscape terms.

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Limoges — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

NATHANAËL PINARD (FR) FÉLIX ROUDIER-CANLER (FR) VICTOR DUSSAP (FR) MARC VIAUD (FR), ARCHITECTS

COLLECTIF CARRÉ NOIR, PANTIN (FR) +33 648540551 CONTACT@COLLECTIFCARRENOIR.COM

The Cure: Anatomy and Regeneration of a Critical Metabolism Team point of view — A three-headed living organism, Limoges metropolitan area is affected by a disconnection of its main components. Yet, the project site’s rightful place into the city organism is to be an urban synapse acting as a connection between the city centre and the territory.

We propose two scales of intervention. The first intervention answers the challenges at the neighbourhood scale for the convalescence of the global urban organism. It restores the consistency of landscapes thanks to reusage activities, giving the place back to the inhabitants. Our proposal is to preserve the most of what is built while creating a local and unique biotope.

The second intervention challenges metropolitan stakes. The healing of the metropolitan nervous system requires a program-based reactivation of the defective synapse. The brownfield sites are a valuable land opportunity to implement commons new programs.

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Jury point of view — With a certain radicalism and very clever graphic representation, the team places intensity of uses at the heart of the project, clearly addressing the issue of flows and the project’s effect in irrigating public space. The river assumes its role at the centre of the concept and at the heart of the project. The project is marked by considerable refinement of analysis and representation and builds a robust narrative.

Limoges (FR) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ALEXANDRE TEOLI (FR), ANNOUK SOULA (FR) ARCHITECTS URBANISTS ALIÉNOR DRAPIER (FR), LAURA ROUDEIX (FR) ARCHITECTS

ANNOUK SOULA +33 783822242 EUROPAN.LAAA@GMAIL.COM

Vivifica Team point of view — Faced with the uncertain future of cities, we have adopted a certain humility in the planned renewal possibilities of the Saint-Martial district which is now weakened.The Living City invites us to imagine flexible processes capable of adapting to changes in the city. Our approach is broken down by small touches, forging links in the neighbourhood and with its surroundings. The choice of four pilot sites, linked by the historic axis of rue du Pont Saint-Martial, was based on a strategy of (re) opening the site. These projects are designed in three stages, with an ascending hierarchy in the means implemented. This breakdown will make it possible to adapt both to the site’s opportunities but also to the financial, social and human resources that can be mobilised.

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San Donà Venezia (IT) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — ATVO BUS STATION, SAN DONÀ-VENEZIA POPULATION — 42,000 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 80 HA / PROJECT SITE — 1,000 SQM SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF SAN DONÀ, ATVO ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — CITY OF SAN DONÀ, ATVO OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — ATVO, PUBLIC PROPERTY

ANDREA CERESER — Mayor, City of San Donà di Piave –

Venezia, & FABIO TURCHETTO — Chairman of ATVO (Eastern Veneto Transport Company)

1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

The transfer, to the new intermodal hub, of the current (and historic) ATVO bus station, which is currently located in the city centre, asks us to think about new functions, to create new complementary activities with respect to the existing activities in the centre today. The new intermodal hub is located about 1 km from the current site: an axis, reaching the river park, of which the ATVO bus station is the centre. Urban regeneration must be combined with human regeneration.The theme proposed to the designers is to intervene on the building and on the strategic area to identify a place capable of combining good services, cultural offer, economic growth, quality of life. Europan fits into the vision, which we are trying to achieve in these years of public administration.

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2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The ATVO area, where the bus station is today, is a very important hub for the city. When its function as a trading hub will cease, it will be necessary to return this place to the city and ensure that the city benefits from it and becomes a driving force for growth.

Europan’s theme is perfectly in line with the goal of generating new metabolisms and attracting the different cultures that have enriched the population of San Donà over the years. The ATVO space raises the question of how to create a container capable of being a magnet for the city right within the urban business district.

It could represent a sort of missing link to the dynamics already existing in the city centre. The results were consistent with our idea of a Living City.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

For the current urban transformations, it is very important to foresee and better orient the idea of the future “City to live”. One of the interesting features of Europan’s competitions is the possibility that the results of the competition represent strategies which, if shared with citizens and with all the actors of the regeneration process, allow to go beyond ideas and to realize projects by inserting them into a plan in the medium to long-term. An important tool to do this is the meeting of the City with the awarded teams through a workshop that allows to know the potential of the projects and to develop a strategy that combines the architectural, landscape, environmental, social and economic aspects and quality of life, lays the foundations for an effective and resilient regeneration process.

San Donà Venezia (IT) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

MAI HUNG TRUNG (VN) ARCHITECT

MAGDALENA SMOTER (PL) ARCHITECTURE STUDENT

MAI HUNG TRUNG / ATELIER M32, PARIS (FR) +33 633094750 MHT@ATELIERM32.COM / WWW.ATELIERM32.COM

Agroecological Condenser Team point of view — The cities have always been the spiritual reflection of time. In ancient times, the city’s centre was configured to carry political, cultural ideologies and foundational democracy which are fundamental aspects defining the society. In modern times, our culture, civilisation, and built environment are facing another challenge on a global scale which is climate change and the degradation of nature. Hence, beyond creating solely a space for commercial, communal activities, restoring the urban ecology system in the city’s centre is a defining feature that promotes nature-centric urbanisation, and harmonious cohabitation between humans, nature, and other species. The relocation of the bus station presents an opportunity to reclaim the city’s centre as a living and dynamic system that favours and stimulates socio-cultural networks of all kinds under the form of the agroecological condenser.

Jury point of view — The project allows the city to build an urban structure consistent with the new strategic objectives aimed at limiting the impact of cities on climate change. The urban agro-ecological approach of which the bus station is the starting point for the entire renovation process is very convincing.The project, through a remarkable analysis of the spaces available within the strategic area, and compatible crops, proposes the agricultural park, as an agro-eco-system and social condenser. It is one of the projects that attempts to lighten the building and proposes a “productive” terrace, also seeking to concretize the concept of the common good, nature and livelihoods and offers relevance to spaces and social uses.

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San Donà Venezia (IT) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ANDREI MUSETESCU (RO) COSMIN DUMITRU (RO) LOREDANA NISTOR (RO) OANA MURESAN (RO) ARCHITECTS

ANDREI MUSETESCU MAXIMILIANSTR. 27, 10317 BERLIN (DE) +49 17664049546 ANDREIDANMUSETESCU@GMAIL.COM

NODO Team point of view — We are delighted to present the city of San Donà with this elegant, multi-functional space. NODO takes the very best elements of a vibrant, thriving city and knots them together with areas of natural beauty, emphasising the importance of balance and marrying economic prosperity with overall well-­ being. The whole strategic site interventions will focus on punctually uplifting the areas in need of transformation, from a functional and economic point of view, to fully integrate local flora and fauna within the urban space through context-tailored proposals.

Jury point of view — The project proposes interventions in the strategic site with a series of interesting solutions, among which the reduction of vehicular traffic and the increase of the pedestrian and cycle flow and of green areas in the central areas, also reducing the parking on the street thanks to the use of brownfield sites in order to create an interesting pedestrian system in the Commerce District. For the building, ATVO invents a new urban space, organizing it with a large flexible and multifunctional square, linked to the theme of the market as a catalyst for other activities, created through a green canopy that acts as a margin.

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San Donà Venezia (IT) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

FEDERICO LORENZON (IT) MATILDE TAVANTI (IT) ARCHITECTS

LONDON (UK) +44 7856938608 FEDERICO.LORENZON@OUTLOOK.COM TAVANTIMATILDE@GMAIL.COM

Living Between the Lines Team point of view — The transferring of the current ATVO space into a new transport hub represents a unique opportunity for San Donà. Living Between the Lines is a vision of how the site can be transformed in the near future. A new dynamic square expands towards the city and creates three unique spaces to be used all year round by people with different ages, cultures and needs. An urban mobility hub, an event square and a covered market work together providing new services to a growing city.

The square, along with the refurbished building, becomes a new commercial centrality, revitalizing the existing urban axes and linking the new Intermodal Hub to the city centre with a sustainable approach to new urban living.

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These sites are heritage-related, regarding previous forms of production or related to rurality. Part of the challenge is about taking care of such areas with little means of economy by revalorizing the existing as an asset to living and working in the countryside.

Aalst (BE)

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Auneuil (FR)

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Beizama (ES)

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Esparreguera-Colonia Sedó (ES)

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Ettlingen (DE)

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Aalst (BE) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — AALST, FLEMISH REGION POPULATION — 87,000 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 70 HA / PROJECT SITE — 7.5 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF AALST ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — STAD AALST AND ITS DEVELOPMENT COMPANY, NV MATIM, TRAGEL SPORT… OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — CITY OF AALST AND 2 PRIVATE ORGANIZATIONS

LIESELOT COLE — AGSA Aalst

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

The Tragel Zuid site is a former industrial site, within the strategic project of “de Kaaien” of Aalst, close to the main train station, along the Dender River and a ring road viaduct. The city aims to refrain this site from generic development. How innovative living-work typologies can be combined with the necessary respect for the industrial past and its valuable heritage? Due to its unique infrastructural location, the site delivers a promising set-up for new activities within the recycling, manufacturing and creative economy. How to imagine here a circular hot spot, a dispatch centre for parcel delivery services, social economy companies such as a recycling centre or a bicycle courier? How can people also live here? How could the landmarked buildings be repurposed? How can the banks of the Dender River be a place to stay and a valuable ecological link, leaving room for the necessary distribution and local flows? How can a higher building density rhyme with more open-spaces and a more robust blue-green network? The masterplan must enable a phased development: an adaptive program mixture, with space for urban experiment, temporary interpretations and local initiatives.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

The masterplan aims to coordinate the future daily urban systems of its users (cyclists, walkers, residents, recreationists, fauna and flora), induced by the proposed mixed functions in a mainly car-free setting. How can new streets be combined with green missing links, overall biodiversity, and a robust green system on the quay? How can climate be considered when designing a qualitative future-proof environment? Health-protecting (air quality, noise pollution, heat) and health-promoting measures (exercise, mental well-being, cooling areas) should structure the design. The design should also allow the accessibility for young, old, people with dis­ abilities, cyclists, pedestrians. Participation and co-creation are crucial for building sufficient societal support. An integrated strategy should enhance the creation of a network of actors and stakeholders, transcending the boundaries of private and public.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

The prize-winning teams will be invited to present their design to the site representatives and to further develop their projects and approaches. Both teams will support the joint partnership of the City of Aalst and the private developers of the Tragel site to elaborate the spatial vision for the site. They should be integrated into the current local and regional study processes (Robust Open Space Structure, Interweaving II and Quick Scan).

Aalst (BE) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

PEDRO PITARCH ALONSO (ES) ARCHITECT

PEDRO PITARCH ARCHITECTURES & URBANISMS PALMA 59, BAJO B, 28015 MADRID (ES) MAIL@PEDROPITARCH.COM WWW.PEDROPITARCH.COM / @PEDROPITARCH

A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall Team point of view — Instead of defining a rigid formal master plan for the whole site, the project embraces time as an architectural tool. The project for Tragel Zuid is the first step of a wider strategical activation that involves the entire De Kaaien area and the riverbanks of the Dender.

Tragel Zuid will act as an Urban Prototype, serving as a testing ground from where to define an urban model where the dichotomies between work vs. life, and nature vs. urbanity are no longer so rigid, but blurred into intermediate states where leisure and labor overlap in time within the same spaces, contexts and atmospheres.

Informal architectural devices will activate the site, supported by protocols of appropriation of the existing architectures and followed by the inser tion of ecologies in the form of vegetation, energies and soft industries. They will operate as testers for future architectures.

Jury point of view — The project shows a solid intellectual background proposing 3 types of ecologies and puts nature as driver for design. It can provide something uniquely different that Aalts would need. The jury appreciates the liberation of the ground for activity and the clear statement about the infrastructural character of the existing road.This is a proposal from zoning to hybridization and with a creative waterfront development.

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Aalst (BE) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

MARIUS GAMAN (RO) ROMINA POPESCU (RO) ANA-MARIA BRANEA (RO) ARCHITECTS

:STUDIO, TIMIȘOARA (RO) +40 732154918 GAMAN.S.MARIUS@GMAIL.COM WWW.DOUA-PUNCTE-STUDIO.COM

Living Heritage Team point of view — How can a productive city embrace adaptability and sustainability to achieve social, economic and ecological resilience? What happens when you put the green and the blue first, and existing buildings second? Are cities for people, for profit, or for all living within?

The project’s main idea is the weaving together of different strands of production, land uses, habitats —for people and animals in an ever-adapting tapestry centring the river Dender.

Two urban toolkits are proposed, rejecting the classical urban planning approach to empower private owners to collaborate and adapt to an ever-changing physical and economic context. Each toolkit, the Tabula plena for urban conservation, or Living quays for the riverfront redesign, have 12 alternatives to be chosen from based on the area of implant.

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Jury point of view — This project proposes an interesting process with phases strategy and temporary uses. It proposes coproduction strategies with a strong consciousness of how to work in the future with the different stakeholder. It is a catalogue of proposals that proves that the team can work at the scale of the area in combination with an inclusive strategy.

The project has a holistic approach, and the care is an important aspect for the future: No tabula rasa; Different possible future; Diversity; Mobility; Climate.

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Auneuil (FR) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — AUNEUIL, OISE (60) POPULATION — 2.864 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 250 HA / PROJECT SITE — 12.7 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF AUNEUIL, BEAUVAISIS AGGLOMERATION, DDT 60 AS PART OF THE PROGRAMME “PETITE VILLE DE DEMAIN” ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — CITY OF AUNEUIL, BEAUVAISIS AGGLOMERATION, DDT 60, UDAP OISE, EPF LOCAL OF OISE OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — CITY OF AUNEUIL, PRIVATE OWNERS

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JAN DUDA — Deputy Mayor, responsible for education,

school catering, cultural heritage presentation, city of Auneuil 1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

The competitors had to respond to a triple challenge. How to highlight the rich industrial heritage of our town? How will the rehabilitation of the site allow to revitalize the communal life?

Finally, how will the project presented promote the reception and integration of new inhabitants?

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

Our site, which used to be the industrial heart of our town, is destined to become its lung by breathing new vitality into it From this point of view, we expected a dynamic project that would allow the regeneration of these places. To make sense, the proposals had to perfectly integrate the existing buildings in and outside the site. But also the nature and the biodiversity which are part of the identity of our town.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

We are looking forward to meeting the different winning teams.

It is at the end of these discussions, which will undoubtedly be fruitful, that we imagine building a planning process for our territory together. Obviously, after this phase of discussion, it will be a matter of developing and amending the various proposals of the teams.

Auneuil (FR) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ALICE BARTHÉLÉMY (FR), DIANE DUSSER (FR), ARCHITECTS RAFAEL COMBY (FR), ARCHITECT, URBANIST LAURA DESMARIS (FR), URBANIST, CONSULTATION ENGINEER OLIVIER CHENEVIER (FR), KARIM LAHIANI (FR), LANDSCAPERS

COLLECTIF CALAME 14, RUE BELGRAND, 75020 PARIS (FR) +33 630780692 PROJET.CALAME@GMAIL.COM

École des arts de la terre Team point of view — A place for training and exchange based around the living surroundings, the School of Clay Arts allows for the creation and progressive consolidation of new environments through the intensification of the territory’s pre-existing dynamics.

Open to the city and its inhabitants, this place of learning situated in the former Boulenger factory cultivates new urban centralities, vectors of dynamism and regeneration.

Focusing on history, and the current potential of the site of the Pays de Bray, the school’s purpose is to facilitate the transmission, the diffusion, and the development of a new savoir-faire around geo-sourced materials. The project, for which the soil becomes a unifying element, encourages new ways to imagine how a city is formed in accordance with the organic dynamics of the site.

Jury point of view — The project seeks to re-establish links with the productive past of the site and the region, by proposing a revival of education associated with the bio sourced materials sectors. It is an ambitious choice, but makes sense in this territory and seems very relevant to the site and to the theme of the session.

The strength of the project lies in its architectural proposal and its embeddedness in the area. The idea of a school is a source of new attractiveness while at the same time involving local people.

The jury emphasised the project’s potential for programmatic, architectural and technical innovation.

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Auneuil (FR) — Runner-up

Continuum

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ISABELLE MARCHAL (FR) OCTAVIO PINEIRO ARAMBURU (AR) LOÏC PONS (FR), GAUTIER REY (FR) SACHA VILLEMIN (FR), ARCHITECTS

GAUTIER REY 17 RUE AUGUSTE ORTS, 1000 BRUXELLES (BE) +32 489154591 REYGAUTIER.A@GMAIL.COM

Team point of view — Continuum questions the capacity of transformation of a diffuse territory and the conditions of production and habitat in rural areas.

Continuum claims the establishment of a continuous narrative through the understanding of pre-existing built and landscape structures.

Continuum considers architecture as an elementary language that speaks to the paradigms of its time and whose principles of contemporary comfort, flexibility and sustainability establish essential conditions for Living.

Continuum seeks to establish a structuring framework that generates synergies, relationships and new potentialities.

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Jury point of view — Well adapted to the territory, the project seems complete in several programmatic aspects and meets the requirements of the Municipality with regard to housing. It makes detailed proposals at the architectural scale, for refurbishment and construction, and provides close and precise definition of the public spaces. It successfully reintroduces the industrial heritage into the day-to-day life of the town and stands out in this session of Europan as a proposal for the creation of living neighbourhood. In addition to the formal and graphic qualities of the project, the jury emphasised its detailed work on the use and management of land.

Grouped dwellings_ Promote flexible housing

Grouped housing _Re-affirm the environment

Usine Boulenger_ Productive interface, a new belonging

Auneuil (FR) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

CLÉMENT BESNAULT (FR) CHLOÉ COFFRE (FR) ARCHITECTS

ATELIER BESNAULT ET COFFRE, GENTILLY (FR) +33 146205112 CONTACT@ABC-ARCHITECTES.EU WWW.ATELIERBESNAULTETCOFFRE.FR

Inter-Tenement Team point of view — This reflexion involves the analysis of the existing parcel division in order to identify its weak points and make them its strong points. Any territory is divided into spaces belonging to different owners. These spaces are materialized by limits which are physical or administrative. It reflects the past evolutions of the territory but also makes it possible to project oneself in the future development of the city. Our methodology consists in identifying the uses of each of these plots. The resulting mosaic reveals the division of the territory by typology. It highlights the tensions between spaces (open and built) and possible developments. In order to offer sustainable alternative development, our reflexion must overcome these limits and establish new ones.

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Beizama (ES) SCALE — S ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — BEIZAMA (GIPUZKOA) POPULATION — 143 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 2.4 HA / PROJECT SITE — 0.5 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — TERRITORIAL PLANNING, HOUSING AND TRANSPORTS DEPARTMENT. BASQUE GOVERNMENT ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — BEIZAMA CITY COUNCIL + TERRITORIAL PLANNING, HOUSING AND TRANSPORTS DEPARTMENT OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — PUBLIC (BASQUE GOVERNMENT ASSIGNED BY THE BEIZAMA CITY COUNCIL)

PABLO GARCÍA ASTRAIN — Director of Housing, Land and Architecture of the Basque Government and Enrique Guinea de Andrés, Architect of the Basque Government

1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

Beizama is one of many inland municipalities in the Basque Country that usually get left out of housing initiatives and, in this particular case, almost destined to be abandoned due to mass departure by its young people. The aim was to focus on the issue of reactivating the life of small towns. The site called for research into small-scale forms of inhabiting, adapted to today’s needs, raising the value of a rural environment that has a well-established social and environmental base, revalued by COVID-19.The aim was also, to further explore the potential of houses as productive spaces, with new housing models in response to the demands made by small-scale locations.

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2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

Beizama is in an eminently rural environment heavily influenced by its orography, and with an urban structure that has changed little in recent centuries. It is a municipality with a large surface area but a quite sparse population, part of which is employed in agriculture and livestock farming while the rest of the residents only sleep in the town and leave to work outside. This is thus a living territory yet with rural identity, inherited from its pre-industrial structure. The issue to be tackled focuses on inclusivity with the urgent need to maintain the local population and reverse the ageing trend caused by population abandonment. The current houses in the municipality, mostly of them traditional and linked to the exploitation of the rural environment, cannot meet the kind of demands by young people who want to live and, if possible, work in their place of origin.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

As this is a small-scale project which, moreover, does not require changes to the urban planning guidelines, the process is direct and is about the development of an architectural project and its construction.This process will start just after the competition by contracting the winning team to draft the overall design of the project and will end with the direction of works, also part of the commission, lasting about 5 years.The awarded idea, that shows great respect with the environment, gives a solid base for the development of the project.

Although some changes are expected to be done, they will not affect the idea, neither its image. We expect it to be an action that really achieves to reactivate Beizama´s life and economy.

Beizama (ES) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

JUAN CARLOS MARTIN FLORIT (ES), CLARA ALSEDÀ RODRÍGUEZ (ES) ANDRÉ DEL RÍO ARES (ES), POL MENSA BIOSCA (ES) JORDI OLIVELLA CIRICI (ES), CYNTHIA ROSALIA RABANAL LLAUDY (ES) ARCHITECTS

+34 639552762 OE.PROIEKT@GMAIL.COM

Ongi Etorri Team point of view — Beizama welcomes 12 new homes as an opportunity to bring back the services lost with depopulation, in turn attracting even more inhabitants and thus starting a new cycle of growth and development. The project turns the steep slope of the plot into a virtue, drawing a path that saves the height difference and connects it with the existing social poles of the village. This path is established as a public street and surrounded by workshop spaces that, in their positioning, configure new balconies and public squares. Above these squares and closely related to them, the same cells group together to form dwellings capable of adapting to multiple lifestyles. Due to their direct access to the surrounding landscape and multiple façade orientations, each dwelling becomes a house.

Jury point of view — The project is based on an analysis of the typology of the caserío, from which it extracts a series of elements that will later be incorporated into the proposal. It approaches the intervention on the plot by means of four pieces placed on the ground organizing new accesses and paths that allow to go around the new settlement, as well as communicating it with the centre of Beizama. The use of the ground floors, with covered spaces that can sometimes be opened and sometimes closed, allows an approach to this new interpretation of the typology of the caserío as a productive space capable of being incorporated into the urban fabric.

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Beizama (ES) — Runner-up

Rhizoma

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

VICTORIA COLLAR OCAMPO (ES) JON GARBIZU ETXAIDE (ES) GONZALO PEÑA SANCHO (ES) ARCHITECTS

GARBIZU COLLAR ARCHITECTURE, BASEL (CH) MAIL@GARBIZUCOLLAR.COM / WWW.GARBIZUCOLLAR.COM KRI STUDIO, MADRID (ES) KRI.ARQUITECTURA@GMAIL.COM / WWW.KRI.ARCHI

Team point of view — Rhizoma proposes a new model that can be adapted to other rural situations through 3 strategies: 1. A housing typology, referred to the concept of the “Baserri” as a productive, social and historical entity in the Basque Country.

2. The re-naturalisation of Beizama through micro-actions in order to create a symbiotic environment for its residents, fauna and flora.

3. A metabolic system capable of mutating according to the programmatic, social and economic needs of its environment and its dwellers.

As a consequence, Rhizoma will serve to generate a new bond with nature and its effect, through a democratic and flexible infrastructure that multiplies the possibilities of organizing living and productive spaces, depending on the needs of the users and their new family models.

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Jury point of view — An intelligent project, with a very elaborate narrative, which interprets the typology of the caserío from a functional point of view, avoiding the use of it as a formal model.

It proposes a single linear block of two floors, for the 12 dwellings, with a ground floor open to the road, which is proposed to be for pedestrian use. The main challenge of the project lies in the use of the ground floor as an infrastructure, placing a productive space of open approach, which can be easily incorporated into the system of public uses of Beizama.

Beizama (ES) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

OSCAR CRUZ GARCÍA (ES) ARCHITECT, BUILDING ENGINEER

MARÍA CAMPOS MORENO (ES) ARCHITECTURE STUDENT

CRUZ + CAMPOS, MADRID (ES) +34 680545762 OSCARCRUZGARCIA@OUTLOOK.COM @CRUZ_CAMPOS.ATELIER

Basoko Herria Team point of view — BASOKO HERRIA reflects on the recovery of rootedness as an awareness of a territory in symbiosis with nature. Through the evocation of a recognisable formal model, a memory is generated, full of images, smells and details that connect us with nostalgia. How can we implant the rhythm of today and the versatility of socio-productive housing in a model that has endured over time? The strategy for inhabiting the hillside explores its possibilities of adaptation and accessibility by responding to the logical structure of the traditional houses transformed through a process of dispersion, repetition and superimposition of layers structured through the open spaces. The standardised design through the use of natural resources enables economic viability based on self-­sufficiency and low environmental impact. A project that links emotional interests to the preservation of the natural environment.

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Beizama (ES) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

MATTEO BASSO (IT) DAVID TANTIMONACO (IT) ARCHITECTS ALEXANDRA COUTSOUCOS (IT) SERVICE DESIGNER

MATTEO BASSO AELBRECHTSKADE 120B 3023JE ROTTERDAM (NL) +31 621910029 MATTEOTEOBASSO@GMAIL.COM

Being Beizama Team point of view — We propose a replicable strategy consisting of a combination of architecture and service design, creating “enabling” spaces informed by qualitative research on the territory and with target users. The research identified a set of values that life in Beizama could offer to its inhabitants. Our design complements Beizama’s situation through a small architectural intervention consisting of four three-story buildings, based on a shared ground floor.The public programs of workshop, library, co-working spaces, and communal kitchen activate the town through its inhabitants.This process of activation is enabled by service interventions that connect and integrate inhabitants and territory.

Beizama (ES) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

JUAN MATEOS CORONA (ES) ARCHITECT

MADRID (ES) +34 640274312 JUANMATEOSCORONA@GMAIL.COM

KURBI Team point of view — The project is proposed as the contemporary continuation of the traditional Basque farmhouse, whose codes of the past and community values that emerged a solid rural identity are revalidated by the incursion of technology at all levels of our life, which have diluted productive spaces in the domesticity of the home and enhanced citizen collaboration networks.

Not only constructive honesty and respectful reading of the natural environment of the traditional farmhouse serve as references, but also the participatory self-management of community spaces and neighbourhood ties that in general around the new productive activities of the domestic space.

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Beizama (ES) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

MARIA DIMITROUDI (GR) JOÃO SALSA (PT) SOFIA STAVROU (GR) ARCHITECTS

BIEL SANCHEZ (ES) VISUAL RENDERS

+34 675678258 UP.THE.HILL.EU16@GMAIL.COM

Up the Hill

Team point of view — Up the Hill is a social housing proj­ect that seeks to actualize an innovative residential model that combines multiple working-living scenarios with a direct relation to the rural context of Beizama.To maintain the scale of the local built environment, three separate volumes 13m x 15m are introduced, placed partly inside a steep hill and interconnected by exterior paths. The slope around the buildings remains mainly untouched, so that the volumes appear as if emerging from the landscape, resulting in an organic relationship between the built and the unbuilt.The housing typologies follow the idea of adaptable and flexible spaces, where the various needs of inhabitants are reflected and a hybrid indoor/ outdoor working space is introduced.

EsparregueraColonia Sedó (ES) SCALE — XL/L TERRITORIAL / URBAN LOCATION — COLONIA SEDÓ, ESPARREGUERA MUNICIPALITY POPULATION — 22,551 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 427.46 HA / PROJECT SITE — 19.33 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — INCASÒL ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — INCASÒL + CITY COUNCIL OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — 44% PUBLIC / 56% PRIVATE

PERE PICORELLI — Coordinator of Regeneration plan for neighbourhood. INCASÒL

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1/ What are the main questions asked of the competitors for the transformation of the site?

Competitors were invited to submit a strategic reflection on Colonia Sedó and propose lines of action, considering: the revitalisation of the industrial fabric as opposed to its obsolescence; mix city as opposed to specialisation of uses and typologies; and inclusivity and integration as opposed to urban and social segregation.

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

In the 19th century, Catalonia’s industrial colonies like Colonia Sedó were a new social and business model in which factories —especially the textile industry— coexisted alongside housing for their workforce. In the 1980s, the Colonia’s original productive activity was shut down, triggering its residential decline. Today, the Colonia is an obsolete specialised urban model that has become degraded and segregated, both internally and externally. However, the Llobregat riverside location and the historical value of the complex provide a unique environmental and heritage opportunity to move towards an inclusive, sustainable urban model.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

Firstly, the winning team will be invited to draft a strategic proposal for the renovation of the existing residential section, as well as a project for the conversion of the former inn into six dwellings which will be used for re-housing during the renovation stage and subsequently as social dwellings.

Secondly, given that the Esparreguera City Council is drafting a new Masterplan for the municipality, along with the town’s Urban Agenda, the winners are expected to organise a series of thematic workshops on the Colonia which will investigate the ideas that emerged in Europan 16 in more depth with a view to their use in both the Urban Agenda document and future town planning.

EsparregueraColonia Sedó (ES) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

IAGO PINEDA (ES) ANDREA LAS HAYAS (ES) ARCHITECTS

TOMÁS CÁCERES (AR) RAQUEL MIRÓN (ES) ARCHITECTS

LÄNK ARQUITECTES, BARCELONA (ES) +34 659327538 LANK@LANKARQUITECTES.COM WWW.LANKARQUITECTES.COM

Deconfining the Colony Team point of view — Colonia Sedó was not conceived to fit into the ecosystem and preserve it. In fact, the colony generated a “wound” in the landscape that is still present today.

The starting point of our proposal is the will of sewing the existing landscape discontinuity between the mountain and the river through the colony in order to achieve the maximum ecological continuity and to reconnect the colony with its surroundings.

We believe that heritage preservation must go beyond preserving the physiognomy of the colony, we understand biodiversity and natural resources as a kind of heritage that must also be restored and preserved.

Moreover, we strongly believe that the colony will become a place to live and work in the time to come as soon as nature takes a main role in it.

Jury point of view — The proposal reacts to the transversal topography discontinuity as it understands Colonia Sedó as a wound that creates a discontinuity between the mountain and the river. Sewing this wound becomes the main aim to achieve the maximum ecological continuity. There is a firm believe that nature must regain a main role in the colony for it to become a place to live and work in the times to come. An understanding of biodiversity as heritage together with a recognized great potential of interaction of industry and housing are the guidelines of a sensitive project that deals in depth with the pre-existing to revitalize the colony’s built environment with a richness of different means.

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EsparregueraColonia Sedó (ES) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

CARLOS ZARCO SANZ (ES) ZUHAL KOL (TR) ARCHITECTS, URBANISTS

ZEYNEP KÜHEYLAN (TR) OZAN ŞEN (TR), ARCHITECTS BERNA YAYLALI (TR) LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT

OPENACT ARCHITECTURE MADRID (ES) / ISTANBUL (TR) INFO@OPENACT.EU / WWW.OPENACT.EU @OPENACT.STUDIO

The ways of Sedó Team point of view — With its company-town origins and historic role in the region’s textile industry; Sedó has the immense potential to emerge as a vigorous gravitational point —a campus of socio-cultural, socio-ecological and socio-economic encounters, and an experimental pilot project for the future projections of Llobregat’s colonies. Offering a strategic scheme to foster and promote the Colony by placing it at the central node where the routes flow through both in physical and digital form, the project proposes a contemporary template for a co-evolving system of mutual interconnections, altering the current mono-functional operational structure, combining diverse macro/micro-economies and restoring its natural ecosystem to create a future-proof, resilient framework.

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Jury point of view — The project addresses the site complexity with a holistic approach addressing the social, cultural and energetic agenda. It looks at the Colony as a bracket that disrupts the connection with the two neighbouring towns of Olesa and Esparreguera. The colony becomes a hybrid system, a cluster of programs with the aim of weaving again the context as an interconnected system of routes that reinforce its socio-economic, socio-cultural and socio-ecological reality. Through a most comprehensive analysis of the area, the proposal creates a digital tool, a virtual infrastructure as a kind of curatorial device for a wide diversity of activities that would re-activate the area.

EsparregueraColonia Sedó (ES) — Runner-up

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ADRIÀ GUARDIET (ES) SANDRA TORRES (ES) ARCHITECTS

08014 ARQUITECTURA, BARCELONA (ES) +34 932693703 ESTUDI@ESTUDI08014.COM WWW.ESTUDI08014.COM

Re-colonizar Team point of view — Re-colonizar is an urban regeneration project for the Colonia Sedó that is based on four principles: energy, water and food self-sufficiency; reprogramming of some buildings with the aim of obtaining a more complex, intense and sustainable urban fabric; pedestrianisation, renaturation and improvement of the accessibility of the public space; enhancement of the architectural heritage.

The main goal of the project is to define the bases for the social and environmental regeneration of a vulnerable and depressed urban fabric, transforming it into a vibrant place of exchange, reconnecting it with the cycles and rhythms of the natural environment and betting on circular processes to minimise the ecological footprint and the consumption of non-renewable energy.

Jury point of view — The project is an urban regeneration project based in three concepts: self-sufficiency, re-programming, accessibility and enhancement of cultural and architectural heri­ tage. It acknowledges the ecological agenda by dealing with cyclical water that optimize the resources, energy and food production or by increasing the soil biotical index. The implementation of a sustainable transport system as well as a modal interchange node at the entrance of the complex, or the re-naturalization of the public areas aim to deal also against the heat island effect.

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EsparregueraColonia Sedó (ES) — Special mention

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

JAVIER ROCAMONDE (ES) ARCHITECT NATALIA ALVAREDO (ES) ARCHITECT, URBANIST

SERGIO FABIAN SANCHEZ (FR) MECHANICAL ENGINEER

TALLER BIVAQUE BARCELONA (ES) +34 646286273 TALLER@BIVAQUE.NET

Barrejant Colonia Sedó Team point of view — Merging systems, domains and functions to boost synergies. Among many other relevant aspects, Sedó Colony clearly shows the efforts made during industrialisation to specialise productive processes, which resulted in the segregation of functions, spaces, and users. However, if we analyse its territory in more depth, we will discover that this segregation is an exception in comparison with the long historical period in which the triad of dwelling, socialising, and producing were solidly merged in the everyday life of the local communities. Can Broquetas Masia and its flour mill were vestiges of a territorial model in which all life domains were spatially integrated.These examples can be a very useful reference at a time when the modern dichotomies of rural vs. urban, production vs. reproduction, public vs. private… need to be merged once again.

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Ettlingen (DE) SCALE — L URBAN + ARCHITECTURAL LOCATION — CITY OF ETTLINGEN, BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG POPULATION — 39,000 INHAB. STRATEGIC SITE — 64 HA / PROJECT SITE — 16.4 HA SITE PROPOSED BY — CITY OF ETTLINGEN ACTOR(S) INVOLVED — ALBTAL-VERKEHRSGESELLSCHAFT (AVG), CITY OF ETTLINGEN, DEUTSCHE BAHN AG OWNER(S) OF THE SITE — ALBTAL-VERKEHRSGESELLSCHAFT (AVG), CITY OF ETTLINGEN, DEUTSCHE BAHN AG

WASSILI MEYER-BUCK — Head of the Planning Office,

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1/ What are the main questions asked to the competitors for the transformation of the site?

— How can the former commercial brownfield site be transformed into a vibrant urban district?

— How can lively urban spaces succeed whose use is predominantly characterized by work?

— How can the use of the new depot be well integrated into the new urban structure?

— How can the new urban module also offer added value for the adjacent neighbourhood?

2/ How is the site linked to the two subtopics of “metabolism” and “inclusivity”?

Metabolism: The most important aspect is certainly the reuse of formerly commercially (under)utilized space.

The planning is intended to create space for about 2,000 jobs and 200 apartments, to provide green and open spaces, and to create opportunities for climate-neutral and climate-adapted neighbourhood development as well as for city-compatible mobility.

Inclusivity: The formerly enclosed commercial area is to be made accessible to the urban community again. The “loose ends” of the adjacent urban structures are to be brought together. The new planning should also represent added value for the adjacent neighbourhood and be identity-forming for the district (“from the edge to the centre”). Beyond that, new forms of “factory housing” in the sense of low-cost living are to be developed.

3/ Have you already defined a specific process for the territorial and/or urban and/or architectural development of the site after the Europan competition? Do you expect a proposal of process from the competitors linked to what they proposed in their prize-winning projects?

The city of Ettlingen and the proper ty owner of the ­Albtal-Verkehrsgesellschaft intend to conduct a workshop procedure with public participation with the four works/teams selected as the “shortlist”.The conception of this procedure is currently still being worked out.

Ettlingen (DE) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ISABEL GIEROK (DE), NINA PFEIFFER (DE) MARLEEN WENKOW (DE), ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS TODOR NIKOLAEV NACHEV (DE), ARCHITECT

ETTLINGENQUERBEET@GMAIL.COM

Ettlingen Querbeet Team point of view — Sustainability and climate protection are the key themes of our time, on which the concept for the new ELBA site is based.

A quarter will be developed, which brings together different people and aspects of the great topic of human and earth health and lives on synergies between them according to the motto “Querbeet”.

Overriding themes are living and working, but the heart of the district is the research campus, which deals with the production of food, energy, but also with the production and transmission of knowledge.

In addition to the university, biotechnology companies also benefit from the various facilities dedicated to research.

Jury point of view — The work Ettlingen Querbeet convinces with the staggering of the spaces into an arrival zone as an urban forum east of the train station, commercial in the north, a research park on the roof of the bus and train depot and residential in the southeast. The dimensioning of the building structures, the proportions of the resulting urban spaces and also the differentiated consideration of the outdoor spaces of the individual quarters depending on the use are assessed as generically clear and sustainable in the chosen scale.

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Ettlingen (DE) — Winner

AUTHOR(S)

CONTRIBUTOR(S)

CONTACT

SABINE TASTEL (DE), ARCHITECT, URBANIST FABIUS KERSTEIN (DE), TIM PERTL (DE), TOBIAS TRUTZENBERGER (DE) SABINE WITTMANN (DE), MILENA ZAMPICH (DE) URBAN PLANNING STUDENTS JANNIK MAUSE (DE), BJÖRN SIMON (DE), ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS

NELE LESEMANN (DE) URBAN PLANNING STUDENT

MULTILAYER STUDIO TIM@PTL1.DE +49 15257245461

Multilayer City Team point of view — Multilayer City consists of the three concept layers NEW WORK, MOBILITY and CIRCULAR SYSTEMS as well as BLUE and GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE. Space is created for new and future forms of work. Internal circulation systems ensure sustainable and local production of energy and food.

Adaptation to climatic trends makes the district resilient. Together, the project creates a vibrant district that will remain livable far into the future.

Jury point of view — The work Multilayer City creates with the arrangement of solitary courtyard houses of different size and density a permeable-spatial transition from the city centre in the northwest over the station forecourt to the neighbouring quarter in the southeast. The large blocks are rounded off into smaller quarters and public pocket parks are formed within them as well as city squares of different sizes between the quarters and a larger park centrally to the south.

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The Europan 16 Juries Discuss Evaluation Criteria On the occasion of the Forum of Cities and Juries in San Sebastián (ES) on November 5, 2021, members of the 9 Europan 16 national juries met to discuss the culture they can share on the projects submitted on the 40 sites proposed to the session on the theme: Living Cities. They exchanged on the criteria they can share on the two thematic axes of the session: the metabolic approach and the inclusive dimension of the projects.

This article relates their views and exchanges.

1 — METABOLISM AGLAÉE DEGROS, EUROPAN SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE MEMBER — For this Europan 16 competition the city is not con-

sidered as a machine, but as an organism with its own ecology made of human and non-human actors, an organism that is sensitive to climate (flood, avalanche, desertification…) and based on interconnections.

Considering the experts involved in the co-evaluation of proj­ ects with the 9 Europan national juries, which are identical in their organisation, yet different in culture and skills —What criteria, but also what speech, can they share in the way they study the projects?

CLARA LOUKKAL, LANDSCAPER, FRENCH JURY —

Three criteria can be shared to assess the relevance of new project themes and which also resonate with the general theme of Living Cities. Good metabolic projects integrate the interrelationships that are already existing on a site, that is, not only the buildings or the open public space, but also the interrelationships that are taking place within the site: between the various users but also between all the productions, the emissions, the energy consumption, etc.

Another criterion to identify metabolic projects is that they are designed as experimental processes, based on observation and on the setting up of pilot projects and prototypes.

Finally, these projects work on different scales of time and space simultaneously. They can have an impact in the very short-term, because they set up observation and experimentation processes and at the same time, they can plan these processes in the very long-term to reintegrate them into the city. It is about considering the infinitely small as well as the very large. There is a whole series of projects in this sixteenth session that are interested in non-human actors for example and which, at the same time, consider large territories and all the scales that exist between the two.

A good example of this approach is the LABO RABO project on the Grenoble site in the French Alps. It is located in a basin

between three mountain ranges and is regularly affected by very hot climatic events and pollution peaks. The project proposes to create a laboratory for the acclimatisation of new plants, which will be tested on the rocky spur and then gradually integrated into the city (fig.1). The project talks about cycles, recycling of materials, reuse of existing buildings… The project pays a very detailed attention to everything that exists on site and to the evolution the project could follow.

CARLES ENRICH, ARCHITECT, SPANISH JURY — The question of interscalarity is a very important criterion. For example, the Open Horizons project in Roquetas de Mar (ES) develops on three parallel scales, while keeping a transcalar vision. At the territorial level, it integrates a temporal dimension that anticipates processes

1 — Grenoble (FR), winner — LABO RABO > See more P.149

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2 — Roquetas de Mar (ES), special mention — Open Horizons > See more P.143

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3 — Schwäbisch Gmünd (DE), special mention — RISE > See more P.159

that could develop over 30, 40, 50 years. This includes the geological, time and territorial scales, but also a metabolic level with the idea of the water cycle (fig.2). The project then locates some project opportunity spaces in the interfaces between the city and the agricultural fields. Some spaces are left somewhat undefined, but at the same time the project raises questions about their potential connections with the development of the whole city.

These are project spaces on which a water management system is proposed to recover rainwater and therefore improve the relationship with the subsoil while at the same time guaranteeing an exchange interface between the city and the fields. The project identifies potentials areas where the interactions can take place.

The city boundaries are more porous with the fields, which makes it possible to propose the construction of more compact housing in order to avoid destroying boundaries and fragmenting the city within the territory. Proposing compact buildings makes it possible to maintain the areas as a space of opportunity and of geological and natural exchange.

THORSTEN ERL, ARCHITECT, GERMAN JURY — The young

generation has understood the ecological requirements of the city as a design element. In Schwäbisch Gmünd (DE) the project RISE (Resilient, Innovative, Social and Energetic) proposes the extension of a river floodplain as a design element (fig.3). The project also has a technical, programmatic focus by getting greywater and rainwater into the new development. A new water tower is designed with water reservoirs for greywater and rainwater, which supplies not only the entire district, but also the main open spaces at the city entrance, that acts as a gathering point for a railroad, a road, a river, and a mountain skyline. This transverse direction from the mountain to the river, this perforation of the urban configuration is central in the project to create areas of separation and collective gathering, but also in a social, inclusive dimension to design different housing typologies implemented by cooperatives. And in this project, as in many others, the absence of cars in a residential area is an important point in terms of inclusion, as the public space becomes more adaptable.

BENOÎT MORITZ, EUROPAN BELGIQUE SECRETARY,

BELGIAN JURY — Some of the projects in this session consider metabolism at different scales, starting from the building itself and its qualities of renovation, as well as of integration of construction waste flows and of potential production flows, therefore addressing the issue of the productive city.

It is the case in Brussels (BE) with the project Architecture Centre for Regenerative Materials, which proposes the conversion of an architectural centre on a linear street and with underground surfaces. The project starts from the underground surfaces where a centre called the Centre for Regenerative Materials is to be created;

4 — Brussels (BE), winner — Architecture Centre for Regenerative Materials > See more P.197

it would host a fungus production that, through a fermentation process, would allow building thermal insulation panels (fig.4). But the Centre would also process a second type of stream, and construction waste would be processed in order to produce the thermal insulation panels. The building itself would become a demonstration site to show the renovation process and train a vulnerable population in sustainable construction. Finally, it would be a place of information on the challenges of transforming existing buildings.

THORSTEN ERL — The hybrid use of a building is indeed a

criterion. Hybridty can mean combining technical elements, but also social dimensions that come together. In the water tower mentioned on the Schwäbisch Gmünd site, there is also the idea of a meeting place for citizens with a café on the rooftop and offices inside. It is important to make it clear to developers that the hybrid use of a building is important and that they then need committees, groups of people, of actors to manage different uses under one roof (fig.5). And this is when the juries have to pay attention to the post-competition processes and support the clients to implement these ideas of functional hybridity.

CLARA LOUKKAL — These projects bring out new themes

to which we are supposed to respond as architects, landscape architects and urban planners, but we cannot master them all and be a specialist in everything: recycling, biodiversity, architecture…

The projects are qualitative in the way they show how the interrelationships between the elements have an impact on the city and on our way of building today. In the Grenoble project, the way they transform certain ideas of the project into short-term pilot actions is a way of immediately bringing these questions to the scale of the project (fig.6).

BENOÎT MORITZ — How can an archive centre become a living

place? It is rather this ambition that the jury was interested in, that shows how different functions can form a system inside a building (fig.7) and also be interesting for the whole city, especially on the issue of construction waste management. The question of a jury’s choice in relation to a potential implementation consists of taking a rather strong position and saying that this public infrastructure must remain 100% public; a message to the client that will be there for the implementation.

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5 — Schwäbisch Gmünd (DE), special mention — RISE > See more P.159

6 — Grenoble (FR), winner — LABO RABO > See more P.149

7 — Brussels (BE), winner — Architecture Centre for Regenerative Materials > See more P.197

CARLES ENRICH — There are different levels of project imple-

mentation.There are projects with a more defined, more concrete scale, as is the case with the Brussels building, which allows for systematisation, for programming in case the building is implemented; it is much easier than the case of the Roquetas de Mar project, which proposes a strategy to open up a debate (fig.8). Because it is a project developed on a large time scale and the implementation is rather a planning project inviting multidisciplinary work with geologists, landscape architects, topographers, etc. And it is good that Europan allows these two visions to coexist: a territorial vision with a landscape scale and planning in time, and a more concrete vision with projects that are easier to implement in the short-term.

CLARA LOUKKAL — I think that a good metabolic project is not only a project that sets out all these questions of cycles and scales in a theoretical way —from the insect to the large territory.

What some teams are trying to show is, for example, how all these elements have an impact on the territories. Today, many proj­ects propose to reuse specific waste or to create methanisation plants; some energy projects for example allow for a more virtuous and cyclical energy for cer tain buildings. But the whole question is to show —and the good projects indeed do this— how these new infrastructures have an impact on the territory, how they are going to be built, where they are settled, whether they respect the topography, what it changes in the city…

These are both architectural and territorial projects which directly impact our way of doing things. And I think that a good project for Europan 16 is a project that manages to make the connection between these questions of cycles and their concrete impacts on our territories.

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BENOÎT MORITZ — Is there a new form of space connected to

an architecture form that considers some aspects of metabolism?

This is still but a question, but there is a different aesthetic quality that is appearing, which is much more connected to a form of aesthetic of the ecological transition with the idea of working on the materials recovery while actually making architecture. So, this also leads to new architectural expressions, to a new language.The jury preferred projects that make sense —and also have some aesthetic quality— compared to the idea of recovering a building and working on the flows or even producing new elements.

8 — Roquetas de Mar (ES), special mention — Open Horizons > See more P.143

2 — INCLUSIVITY TINA SAABY, URBANIST, SWEDISH JURY — The second

concept identified by Europan 16 is inclusivity. To talk about inclusivity, we need to design projects that work as an invitation, like the Vitality! project in Västerås (SE) that tackles the question of transformation of a former industrial area (fig.9). The project is clear in the way to communicate on the making process.The team explains what is going on not only to the jury but also to the people that will be involved later on: the way they work on uses, jobs, transversal activities while connecting with the theme of Living Cities. The project is also an invitation to work with the knowledge linked to a global network, a global knowledge that they give to the people that will be involved in the process. The project works on inclusivity in terms of communication, of activities, of transversality, of comprehension, and of sharing knowledge, with an open human scale and a very good design.

As jury members, how do we use the thematical foundation of the competition? For me, being a good Europan jury member is first to understand the client and the city, especially because they are not part of the jury, and try to listen and understand what the projects’ dreams are.Then of course try to share what is good architecture.

The thematical foundation is very important in this forum, because we have guidelines to study all the projects and a way to discuss them and see if there is a general tendency. And I think the theme is also important for young architects because it can be inspiring before starting the project.

BENNI EDER, ARCHITECT, AUSTRIAN JURY — Another cri-

terion for assessing the inclusivity of projects is the consideration of the site history. As in the Free Mühlgang project in Graz (AT) where the historical dimension is very important.

On the strategic site, occupied by a shopping mall, the urban river —the Mühlgang River— is reduced to its infrastructural dimension.

The project designers investigated the history of this green and blue infrastructure and argued that there are very inclusive traces and historical events, although they were lost. In a quite poetic and narrative way, they develop the project on the potential of water and green that can once again become inclusive elements. The project work on two scales articulating the reconversion of this large-scale green and blue infrastructure with the scale of a permeable building —a platform as a statement for inclusive architecture (fig.10). On top of this territorial and object scales, there is also the programmatic level, which relates to the context history, just like

9 — Västerås (SE), winner — Vitality! > See more P.43

10 — Graz (AT), runner-up — Free Mühlgang > See more P.133

in terms of inclusivity and accessibility, the residential district and the public space are cut off from the edge of the island, which is privatised.Their vision is to make the island more communal, more accessible and less privatised by proposing green interventions that highlight the different qualities of the island (fig.11).

SOCRATES STRATIS, EUROPAN SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

MEMBER — What kind of impacts do the proposals have on large territories (and not only on project sites)? What kind of multi-­planning effects can they have? How to understand that small strategic interventions do not only fall under the discipline of architecture anymore, but play a role at the territorial scale? Is it the entanglement of all these scales that we have to champion?

How to intervene with small changes that have an impact on natural elements such as restoring rainwater flows or thinking about the energy system? We need design tools that do not depend on just one discipline in order to discuss this creative entanglement of scales.

11 — Risøy (NO), special mention — Life in All its Settings > See more P.59

archiving, identifying things that are forgotten and not represented anymore in terms of social and human interest — the education level, the legal existence and also the physical body.

NINA LUNDVALL, ARCHITECT, NORWEGIAN JURY —

Inclusive design means “being generous”. This debate on inclusivity coincides with the Cop26. At this stage of the competition we have to see the projects for their ideas and not as finish projects. It is at this stage of ideas that we can talk about inclusivity and diversity.

For example, the project Life in all its settings à Risøy (NO) shows both a deep understanding of the site as well as social awareness.

It is an island with small-scale housing directly next to large-scale ferries and shipyards. This project understands that the identity of the place lies in the relationship between both scales, but that

AGLAÉE DEGROS — Some of you have mentioned that the public space is an interface to inclusivity. Can’t we just say that the public space is the place of inclusivity?

VITTORIO BRIGNARDELLO, DIRECTOR OF THE TERRITO­

RIAL PLANNING DEPARTMENT, CITY OF VERBANIA (IT), ITALIAN JURY — The interest of Europan is that even though

we, as urban managers, know our city quite well, young international architects will look at it with fresh eyes. And when the items of a situation and a project are so complex, the public space is the main focus to achieve inclusivity. There are three levels: the social and jobs level, the common vision of life connected to the public space, and the private space, the landscape. Working on these three levels at the same time is not easy. The public space is the ultimate level where the other elements can meet —the landscape, work, and the social and private spaces. It is what the

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project Learning from the Lama in Bitonto (IT) tries to achieve (fig.12). The project works on 4 elements: — An urban green continuity with the Lama Balice regional park, that penetrates inside the different cities; — Water management of the Lama Balice and a better management of the rainwater in the city and valley. This is the ecological view of the project; — Management of the agriculture production chain to guarantee biodiversity agriculture and develop agricultural service. This is important for the jobs and for social inclusivity; — Development of rural tourism with the implementation of paths around cities.

NINA LUNDVALL — In the project Life in all its Settings in Risøy (NO), the focus is on the public space (fig.13). The city doesn’t want housing proposals. But of course, inclusive design is not only about every social level, every sex, ability or background; it is also about every kind of space, which can be private, commercial or public. In the project there is a real consideration of time: going back in time, looking at history, considering the existing. But we have to admit that projects like this one take a long time to implement and it includes a lap time that can be used to discuss with all the stakeholders.

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CARLES ENRICH — I believe that the public space is the most metabolically sensitive part of the urban environment. Because cities need public spaces “without a program”, public spaces to keep as a space reserve for the future. In Barcelona for example, we are studying the Barceloneta district and we know that with climate change, in the next 30 years, we will lose 70% of the beach due to the rise in sea level. The beach is going to retreat and the public spaces that are in the second line behind the current beach will become the next beach in 20-30 years. That is why public space is sensitive to metabolism and it is interesting to set up this

12 — Bitonto (IT), winner —Learning from the Lama > See more P.31

working line, the limits of these reserve public spaces. It is not so much the design or the program that is important, but rather this more metabolic idea of integrating the spaces with a life cycle, which allow for change and adaptation to climate change, and trying to introduce these movements, this dynamic into the cities. It is not a question of over-designing the spaces but of creating public spaces without programs to deal with the climatic conditions, the water cycles, etc.

CLARA LOUKKAL — There is a pitfall to avoid today in terms

of public space, which is precisely “over-programming”. There is a drive towards greater versatility, because we realise that the public spaces that are constantly being redesigned are those that were originally programmed for specific uses that very quickly became obsolete, that changed and evolved. I believe that we would gain a lot in terms of public space resilience if we left the door open to uses that we do not yet know.

AGLAÉE DEGROS — When defining the theme, we tried to combine metabolism with inclusivity. Wouldn’t it be risky if the transformation of these public spaces did not reach the people we want to reach? Because there is often a kind of gentrification related to the transformation of the public space. This is an open question for all the projects that really focus on public space as a place of inclusivity.

BENNI EDER — In the context of the Graz site, it is not just about public space. The project site is located on a private property, but there is also the Mühlgang River, this urban infrastructure between public and private space (fig.14). And the team did a nice selection of criteria (accessibility, porosity, connectivity…) that in a way describes their approach and is not limited to the public space only. It is more about the definition of the space quality than a problem of public and private space.

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13 — Risøy (NO), special mention — Life in All its Settings > See more P.59 NINA LUNDVALL — In the Norwegian jury, we had a really

interesting and heated discussion about the site in Risøy with one project in particular, which one member considered as “too complete”. How much do you have to do to develop a place, to change a place? Does this change always have to be physical?

Because the beauty and the identity of a place are not just about making it all green. There is something viable in the hard edge of this industrial place for example. The challenge of a project is to balance or negotiate the existing values with the need for change while still preserving the identity.

THORSTEN ERL — And as we are considering inclusivity, we also have to consider the opposite. What are the elements of exclusion in a site? There are special elements like fences or boundaries that contribute to this as well as programmatic elements like privatis­ ation of spaces. So, we have to analyse these negative aspects of exclusion to find new criteria for inclusion.

AGLAÉE DEGROS — The process of Europan juries have been explained as a sort of negotiation on the projects between what the clients want and the competition theme, which is expressed in the ideas carried by the projects. And for this session, the theme of Living Cities induces a certain shift from the client perspective, especially public clients who are the vast majority. We mentioned a masterclass with clients to develop their viewpoints and some projects go as far as already reconsidering the program itself. It is the task of the jury to question that and Europan must be a pilot in this shift.

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BELGIQUE / BELGIË / BELGIEN

DEUTSCHLAND

URBAN / ARCHITECTURAL ORDER

URBAN / ARCHITECTURAL ORDER

Valérie Depaye (BE) — Director ERIGES (Régie Communale Autonome de Seraing) (BE) – ERIGES

Saskia Hebert (DE) — Architect, subsolar* architektur & stadtforschung, Berlin (DE) – www.subsolar.net

Hardwin Dewever (BE) — Director of the Urban Renewal Projects division at Municipal company AG Vespa, Antwerpen (BE) – ag vespa

Timo Munzinger (DE) — Doctor, German Association of Cities – www.staedtetag.de/english

Nel Vandevanet (BE) — Project Director of the Architectural and artistic heritage department, City of Brussels (BE)

Iris Reuther (DE) — Doctor, Professsor, Senate Building Director of the Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (DE)

URBAN / ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN URBAN / ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN Carlos Arroyo (ES) — Architect, urbanist, teacher, Carlos Arroyo Architects, Madrid (ES) – www.carlosarroyo.net Lisa De Visscher (BE) — Architect, Head redactor of A+ Architecture, Brussels (BE) – A+ Architecture www.a-plus.be Pol Esteve (ES) — Architect, GOIG office, London (UK) & Madrid (ES) Laura Falcone (IT) — Architect, 2D4, Napoli (IT) – E11 Winner www.2d4.eu Philippe Rahm (CH) — Architect, Philippe Rham Architects, Paris (FR) – www.philipperahm.com

Thorsten Erl (DE) — Doctor, professor, architect, Metris Architekten + Stadtplaner, Heidelberg (DE) www.metris-architekten.de Kyung-Ae Kim-Nalleweg (DE) — Architect, Kim Nalleberg architects, Berlin (DE) – www.kimnalleweg.com Anna Popelka (AT) — Architect, PPAG architects, Vienna (AT) www.ppag.at Ali Saad (DE) — Architect, Bureau Ruiz Saad — Architecture Urbanism Research, Berlin (DE) – www.ruizsaad.de Marika Schmidt (DE) — Architect, MRSCHMIDT Architekten, Berlin (DE) – www.marikaschmidt.de

PUBLIC FIGURE PUBLIC FIGURE Eric Corijn (BE) — Cultural philosopher and social scientist, Director of the Brussels Academy (BE)

Kaye Geipel (DE) — Architectural critic, Deputy Editor-in-chief Bauwelt, Berlin (DE) – www.bauwelt.de

SUBSTITUTE Dr. Irene Wiese-von Ofen (DE) — Architect, Board of Directors Europan Deutschland

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ESPAÑA

FRANCE

URBAN / ARCHITECTURAL ORDER

URBAN / ARCHITECTURAL ORDER

Iñaqui Carnicero (ES) — General Director of Urban Agenda and Architecture, Ministry of Transports, Mobility and Urban Agenda (ES) – Europan España President

Nicolas Binet (FR) — Consultant urban renewal, housing, planning, Marseille (FR) – www.linkedin.com/Nicolas Binet

Niek Hazendonk (NL) — Landscape Architect, Den Haag (NL) Rocío Peña (ES) — Architect, estudio peña ganchegui, San Sebastian (ES) – www.ganchegui.com

Jean-Baptiste Butlen (FR) — Chief Engineer of bridges, water and forests, Deputy Director of the DGALN, DHUP, Paris (FR) www.ecologie.gouv.fr Sophie Rosso (FR) — Deputy Director of REDMAN immobilier, Paris (FR) – www.redman.fr

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Mariona Benedito (ES) — Architect, landscape architect, teacher, MIM-Arquitectes, Barcelona (ES) – www.mim-a.com Tina Gregoric (SL) — Architect, Dekleva Gregoric Architects, Ljubljana (SL) – www.dekleva-gregoric.com Enrique Krahe (ES) — Architect, Enrique Krahe architecture species, Madrid (ES) / Delft (NL) – Former Europan winner in Spain – www.enriquekrahe.com

URBAN / ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN Sophie Delhay (FR) — Architect, Paris (FR) www.sophie-delhay-architecte.fr André Kempe (NL) — Architect, Atelier Kempe Thill, Rotterdam (NL) – www.atelierkempethill.com Sonia Lavadinho (CH) — Urbanist, anthropologist, blfuid, Genève (CH) – www.bfluid.com

Eva Luque (ES) — Architect, elap arquitectos ingenieros slp, teacher, Almería (ES) – www.elap.es

Clara Loukkal (FR) — Landscape architect and urbanist, altitude 35, Saint-Denis (FR) – www.altitude35.com

Arantza Ozaeta (ES) — Architect, tallerde2, Madrid (ES) – Former Europan winner in Spain – www.tallerde2.com

Caterina Tiazzoldi (IT) — Architect, designer, Turin (IT) www.archinect.com/tiazzoldi

PUBLIC FIGURE

PUBLIC FIGURE

Socrates Stratis (CY) — Architect, urbanist, Associate Professor at the University of Cyprus, Nicosia (CY) – www.socratesstratis.com

Francis Rambert (FR) — Director of the architectural creation, Cité de l’architeture & du patrimoine, Paris (FR) www.citedelarchitecture.fr

SUBSTITUTE

SUBSTITUTES

Carles Enrich (ES) — Architect, Barcelona (ES) – Former Europan winner E12, E13, E14, E15 – www.carlesenrich.com

Fabienne Boudon (FR) — Architect and urbanist, teacher, co-founder of Particules, Paris/Berlin (FR/DE) www.particule-s.eu Vincent Josso (FR) — Polytechnic engineer, urbanist, co-founder of Le Sens de la Ville, Paris (FR) www.lesensdelaville.com

ITALIA

NORGE

URBAN / ARCHITECTURAL ORDER

URBAN / ARCHITECTURAL ORDER

Vittorio Brignardello (IT) — Director of the Territorial Planning Department, City of Verbania (IT) www.comune.verbania.it

Berit Skarholt (NO) — Architect, Deputy Director in the Department for Planning, Norwegian Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation (KMD)

Giovanni Squitieri (IT) — Coordinator of the Presidential Committee of the Sustainable Development Foundation, Roma (IT) – www.fondazionesvilupposostenibile.org

Aga Skorupka (PL) — Professor, social psychologist, head of social science at Rodeo Architects, Oslo (NO) www.rodeo-arkitekter.no

URBAN / ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

URBAN / ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Jordi Bellmunt (ES) — Architect, landscape and public space design, B2B, Barcelona (ES) – www.b2barq.com

Henri Bava (FR) — Landscape architect, TER office, chairman of the Landscape Architecture Department at K.I.T., Paris (FR) www.agenceter.com

Christine Dalnoky (FR) — Landscape architect, educator and researcher, L’Isle sur la Sorgue (FR) Edoardo Milesi (IT) — Architect, Archos, Montalcino (IT) www.archos.it Guendalina Salimei (IT) — Architect, T-Studio, associate professor at the Faculty of Architecture of the Sapienza – University of Roma (IT) – www.tstudio.net

PUBLIC FIGURE Maurizio Carta (IT) — Urban planner, architect, full professor of urban planning at the Department of Architecture – University of Palermo (IT) – www1.unipa.it/maurizio.carta

SUBSTITUTES Simona Ferrari (IT) — Architect, scientific assistant ETHZ, Zurich (CH) – E15 winner in Verbania (IT) www.landscapeinbetween.com Caterina Rigo (IT) — Architect, PhD student and research fellow on strategies design issues for the revitalization of territories at UnivPM, Ancona (IT) – E15 special mention in Laterza (IT)

Nina Lundvall (SE) — Architect, Caruso St John Architects associate director, London (UK) – www.carusostjohn.com Sabine Müller (DE) — Architect, Principal at SMAQ Architecture Urbanism and Research, Berlin (DE), Professor at Oslo School of Architecture, Oslo (NO) – SMAQ Architecture Urbanism and Research Øystein Rø (NO) — Architect and founding partner, Transborders studio, Oslo (NO) www.transborderstudio.com

PUBLIC FIGURE Wenche Dramstad (NO) — Researcher at NIBIO, Head of Research in the Landscape Monitoring Department www.nibio.no

SUBSTITUTES Gro Bonesmo (NO) — Architect, Professor and co-founder of Space group, Oslo – www.spacegroup.no Merete Gunnes (NO) — Landscape architect, Founder and director of Landscape design at TAG- arkitekter in Bergen (NO) https://www.tagarkitekter.no/ Linn Runeson (SE) — Architect, urbanist, managing director at edit AS – www.edit.land Joakim Skajaa (NO) — Architect, founder of SKAJAA Arkitektkontor, curator of contemporary architecture at the National Museum, Oslo (NO) – www.skajaa.com

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SUISSE / SCHWEIZ / SVIZZERA / SVIZRA

URBAN / ARCHITECTURAL ORDER Andreas Hofer (CH) — Architect, director of IBA‘27, Stuttgart (DE) – www.iba27.de/en/team/andreas-hofer-3/ Elisabeth Merk (DE) — Architect, Planning Director of the City of Munich, honorary Prof. at the TUMunich (DE) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisabeth_Merk

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URBAN / ARCHITECTURAL ORDER Ariane Widmer Pham (CH) — Architect-urban planner, State of Geneva urban planner (CH) Claudia Bauersachs (CH) — Director Plannification and bulding at Wohnen & Mehr, Basel (CH) – www.wohnen-mehr.ch

URBAN / ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Ola Söderström (SE) — Professor of Social and Cultural Geography, University of Neuchâtel (CH) – www.unine.ch

Susanne Eliasson (FR/SE) — Architect, Grau strudio, Paris (FR) www.grau-net.com

URBAN / ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Akil Scafe-Smith (UK) — Architecte, RESOLVE, researcher at LSE Cities – www.resolvecollective.com

Mireille Adam Bonnet (CH) — Architect, Atelier Bonnet, Geneva (CH) – www.bonnet-architectes.ch

Paola Vigano (IT) — Architect, urbanist, Studio Paola Vigano, Milan (IT); Professor in Urban Design at the EPFL Lausanne (CH) and at IUAV Venice (IT) – www.studiopaolavigano.eu

Pascal Christe (CH) — Mobility engineer, Christe & Gygax Ingénieurs Conseils, Yverdon-les-Bains (CH) www.cgingenieurs.ch

Bernd Vlay (AT) — Architect, StudioVlayStreeruwitz, teacher at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna (AT) – www.vlst.at

Sarah Haubner (DE) — Architect, Office Oblique, Zürich (CH), E14 winner in Kriens (CH) – www.officeoblique.com

PUBLIC FIGURE

Mathias Heinz (AT) — Architect, Pool Architekten, Zürich (CH) – www.poolarch.ch

Elke Krasny (AT) — Cultural theorist, curator, urbanist, author, PhD, Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Vienna (AT) www.elkekrasny.at

Lukas Schweingruber (CH) — Landscape architect, Studio Vulkan, Zürich (CH) www.studiovulkan.ch

PUBLIC FIGURE SUBSTITUTES Benni Eder (AT) — Architect, studio Eder Krenn, teacher at TU Vienna (AT), E13 winner in Linz (AT) www.studioederkrenn.com Daniela Herold (AT) — Architect, THuM ateliers, Linz (AT), E7 winner in Salzburg (AT) – www.thum.co.at

Frédéric Bonnet (FR) — Architect urban planner, Obras, Paris (FR) – www.obras.fr

SUBSTITUTES Yony Santos (CH) — Architect, Typicaloffice, E13 winner, Genève (CH) – www.typicaloffice.ch Barbara Stettler (CH) — Architect, SIA internal Affairs department, Biel (CH) – www.sia.ch

SVERIGE URBAN / ARCHITECTURAL ORDER Tina Saaby (DK) — Architect urbanist, City architect of Gladsaxe (DK) – https://twitter.com/tinasaaby Jessica Segerlund (SE) — Art curator, Head of place development at Älvstranden, Göteborg (SE) https://alvstranden.com/

URBAN / ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN Karing Bradley (SE) — Associate professor urban planning and environment at the KHT, Stockholm (SE) – www.kth.se/en/som Anna Chavepayre (FR) — Architect, Collectif Encore, Labastide Villefranche (FR) – www.collectifencore.com Bengt Isling (SE) — Landscape architect, Nyréns arkitektkontor, Stockholm (SE) – www.nyrens.se Ted Schauman (FI) — Architect urbanist, Schauman & Nordgren Architects, Helsinki (FI) www.schauman-nordgren.com

PUBLIC FIGURE Christer Larsson (SE) — Architect, Adjunct Professor at Lund University, Malmö (SE) – Christer Larsson

SUBSTITUTE Tove Fogelström (SE) — Architect, AndrénFogelström, Stockholm (SE), E15 Winner in Täby (SE) www.andrenfogelstrom.se

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And After?

— Co-production

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Europan was created on a paradox…

It is first a competition on territorial, urban and architectural scales aiming to bring out talents capable of formalizing strong and creative ideas in response to contexts given by cities and in relation to a theme reflecting social, economic, cultural and environmental issues of European cities.

It is therefore a labelling procedure for young talented designers — architects, landscapers, urbanists…— based on innovative ideas. For this E16 session on the inspiring theme of Living Cities — Inclusivity and Metabolism, 40 sites were selected to participate to the competition, offering the young professionals a set of situations of the Anthropocene that mix natural and historical qualities with spatial problems —infrastructures, fragmentation, anti-­ecologic areas…— a result of the last decades of functionalist urban development.

A change of paradigm operates in this session’s winning teams’ projects, that shows more respect for the living dimension of the sites and the existing, yet articulated to its social evolution, trying to create hybridity between a metabolic approach and an inclusive attitude at different scales between the two parameters. For the winning teams there is a direct “benefit” of participating and being rewarded: receive an award of €12,000 for the winners and €6,000 for the runners-up, accounting all in all to more than €75,000.

The second benefit for the winning teams is the advertising done through catalogues, interviews and publications in the different Europan countries and at the European level (just like the present catalogue). We would like to reinforce these indirect effects of promotion. Helped by the National Secretariats in each country the goal is to make the winning teams —thanks to the Europan label— access other orders and competitions where they can develop their talents.

ideas can be developed together in a positive way. It is a period when the sites representatives better understand the ideas selected in their diversity and the teams that carry them.

Of course, after some months of this intermediary phase it is important that the actors integrate the ideas in an operational process in steps and professional contracts be given to the teams to continue the procedure.

To illustrate different types of implementations, three process-­ projects are presented on different scales and diversity of implementation methods: — In Wien (AT), Europan 10, on a 10-ha site with the goal to implement 1,000 housing units, the fundamental idea was to develop a diversity of housing architecture around a grid of gardens shared by the inhabitants at the proximity scale.Ten years of negotiation were necessary to federate all the actors through an intense participation process.The winning team was in charge of the design with an addition of experts and they managed, with the city of Wien, all the urban project involving a multiplicity of clients (private, social, public…) and built –as architects– one part of the whole, including 82 housing units. The continuity of the different phases and the coherency of the initial idea were maintained despite the necessary program changes.

— In Marseille (FR), Europan 12, a social housing estate was demolished due to its obsolescence, and replaced by a new district, unfinished to this day. In a beautiful natural Mediterranean landscape, the runner-up team proposed to hybridize new types of collective housing with public spaces.The project was also integrated in a participative process. A first step was to test a sport space; then a 7.5-ha public space was developed integrating leisure space for the inhabitants of the districts, and particularly the young people.

But the most challenging par t of Europan is the post-­ Today the building of a new type of collective housing is in progress, competition phase: to make the winning teams develop their offering quality private spaces and a good relation between indoor ideas to a negotiated project on the sites, that will integrate all the and outdoor. local actors. In this part —the implementation phase— the key to the success is to start a discussion with all the actors on the win- — In Lasarte-Oria (ES), Europan 15, the construction of a ning ideas and to federate them around main guidelines that could building of 100 housing units with workspaces has started in a natube, for the people in charge of urban planning, a structure to start ral environment. It is a project at a smaller scale, nevertheless mixing the process in time. The contexts’ territorial or urban dimension architectural and landscape levels. During the implementation promake the challenge complex, as many factors can delay or even cess, in order to integrate the jury’s request to open the internal prevent the development of a process right after the competition courtyard, the work-housing mix inside the building was further or along the way: political changes, economic crisis, multiplicity of developed, with variable devices following the different floors. soil property, soil contamination, lands resale to others investors, multiplicity of actors involved, arrival of news actors at different These 3 very different implementation processes show that it is levels. But despite the difficulties, which vary from one context to first necessary to have a strong winning idea as a base for discussion another, a significant part of the sites is transformed thanks to sev- between the actors; then, to properly integrate the specificity of eral elements: the relevance of the winning ideas, the team’s ability the place and its potential evolution on uses; to make participative to be part of an operational process, the other partners’ ability to procedures that enrich the projects and give them their credibility; engage in innovative proposals for their territories and to manage and then, of course, it is essential that the negotiated idea/project adaptative processes. be supported by the party in charge of the implementation through procedures that often have to be invented in order to reach the An important phase is what we call the intermediary phase, innovative dimension of the project. which takes place after the competition, but before any decision is made on the contractual phase. During this period, there are dif- I hope that a majority of the E16 winning ideas can be integrated ferent ways, depending on the countries and contexts, to create a in such positive and productive processes in order to participate to connection between the local actors: owners, municipalities, admin- the big change in the Nature-Culture relationship to see projects istration, users… and the young professionals. Sometimes it can be emerge reinforcing biodiversity, mixing the respect for the living a workshop with the two or three teams selected by the jury for (human and non-human actors) with the social evolution of the a phase of discussion and exchange to see which projects better contexts, and imagining new ways to reinvest the existing in order corresponds to the situation; or, on larger sites, to see how several to reinvent the future.

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E10 Wien (AT) — Winner

EUROPAN 10 — 2009-2022 FULL PROCESS PROJECT COMPLETED ARTICULATING URBAN, LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURAL SCALES

CLIENT(S) ARE (AUSTRIAN REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT GMBH) CITY OF VIENNA - MA21 OFFICE

Towards a habitable suburbanity THE CITY OF VIENNA PROPOSED FOR E10 A 10 HECTARES SITE LOCATED IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE CITY TO DEVELOP A RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT AND RESPOND TO URBAN GROWTH

THE PRIZE-WINNING IDEA IS TO DEVELOP ON THESE 10 HECTARES A DIVERSITY OF WAYS OF LIVING AROUND A GRID OF SMALL GARDENS, SHARED SPACES OF PROXIMITY 260

WITHOUT MODIFYING THE PRINCIPLE OF THE GREEN GRID, THE PROJECT HAD TO EVOLVE TOWARDS BUILT DENSIFICATION, MULTIPLYING THE TYPOLOGIES

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ENRIQUE ARENAS LAORGA (ES) LUIS BASABE MONTALVO (ES) LUIS PALACIOS LABRADOR (ES) ARCHITECTS

ARENAS BASABE PALACIOS ARQUITECTOS, MADRID (ES) ESTUDIO@ARENASBASABEPALACIOS.COM WWW.ARENASBASABEPALACIOS.COM

with reasoned densities and shared natural spaces MANY ACTORS HAVE BEEN INVOLVED DURING 10 YEARS IN A PARTICIPATORY PROCESS: PLANNERS, PROMOTERS, URBAN AND LANDSCAPE EXPERTS, USERS…

THE OFFICE SUPERVISED THE IMPLEMENTATION OF 1000 HOUSING UNITS ACCORDING TO THEIR STRATEGY AND DESIGNED AND BUILT 82 HOUSING UNITS IN PART OF THE DISTRICT

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E12 Marseille (FR) — Winner

EUROPAN 12 — 2013-2022 FULL PROCESS PROJECT COMPLETED ARTICULATING URBAN, LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURAL SCALES

CLIENT(S) MARSEILLE RÉNOVATION URBAINE ERILIA SOLEAM / CITY OF MARSEILLE

Rehabilitation of a social district IN THE DIFFICULT DISTRICTS IN THE NORTH OF MARSEILLE, A LARGE COMPLEX WAS DEMOLISHED AND REPLACED BY A NEIGHBOURHOOD THAT NEEDED TO BE COMPLETED

THE PRIZE-WINNING PROJECT FROM CONCORDE OFFICE DISSOCIATES THE LAND OWNERSHIP FROM THE BUILDING, STRUCTURED BY A 5 X 5 M GRID WITH LOW-COST FLEXIBLE RENTALS 262

WITH THE OTHER RUNNERUP TEAM, THE DANISH OFFICE ARKI_LAB, IS DEVELOPED A PARTICIPATORY APPROACH ON THE FUTURE OF THE SITE, PRELIMINARY TO THE IMPLEMENTATION

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CONTACT

SIMON MOISIÈRE (FR), JEAN RODET (FR) ADIRNE ZLATIC (FR) ARCHITECTS NICOLAS PERSYN (FR) GEOGRAPHER

CONCORDE, MARSEILLE (FR) CONCORDE@CONCORDE-A-U.COM WWW.CONCORDE-A-U.COM

by connecting creative public spaces and mixed housing A PARTICIPATORY PLAYGROUND IS USED AS TEST TO THINK ABOUT CREATIVE PUBLIC SPACES PROJECT (2HA), CONNECTION BETWEEN FRAGMENTS AND LANDSCAPE

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A MIXED HABITAT —PLANNED IN THE COMPETITION— IS IN PROGRESS IN THE SOUTH OF THE SITE, DESIGNED

BY CONCORDE OFFICE. TO BE FOLLOWED…

E15 Lasarte-Oria (ES) — Winner

EUROPAN 15 — 2019-2022 PROCESS PROJECT IN PROGRESS ARTICULATING LANDSCAPE AND ARCHITECTURAL SCALES

Hybridize housing and workspaces IN A RURAL AND SUBURBAN AREA, THE CHALLENGE IS THE DESIGN OF A NEW TYPE OF HABITAT THAT PROMOTES THE PRODUCTION

REINFORCING BIODIVERSITY, THE PRIZE-WINNING PROJECT IS SET UP ON THE SLOPE AND PROPOSED A MIXED OF HOUSING (100 DWELLINGS) AND PRODUCTIVE SPACES 264

CLIENT(S) BASQUE GOVERNMENT CITY COUNCIL

AUTHOR(S)

CONTACT

ALEX ETXEBERRIA AIERTZA (ES) EDUARDO LANDIA (ES) ARCHITECTS

TARTE. ARKITEKTURA, ZARAUTZ (ES) TARTE@TARTEARKITEKTURA.COM WWW.TARTEARKITEKTURA.COM

ELE ARKITEKTURA, DURANGO (ES) EDUARDOLANDIA@ELEARKITEKTURA.COM WWW.ELEARKITEKTURA.COM

thanks to a change in regional regulations FROM THE COMPETITION TO THE IMPLEMENTATION THE PROJECT EVOLVED: AT THE REQUEST OF THE JURY THE 2 BRANCHES OF THE BUILDING HAVE BEEN SHORTENED AND A POROSITY OF THE COURTYARD CREATED

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TO MIX USES, THE REGIONAL REGULATIONS HAVE BEEN ADAPTED. THE GROUND FLOOR BECOMES PRODUCTIVE; ON THE UPPER FLOOR ARE HOUSING + WORK DUPLEXES

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Credits Europan 16 results This book is published in the context of the sixteenth session of Europan HEAD OF PUBLICATION Didier Rebois — Secretary General of Europan EDITORIAL SECRETARY Françoise Bonnat — Europan Europe responsible of Europan publications AUTHORS Carlos Arroyo Zapatero — architect, urban planner, Carlos Arroyo Arquitecto, teacher in Madrid’s Universidad Europea (ES) Céline Bodart — PhD in Architecture, researcher, teacher at Paris-la-Villette School of Architecture (FR) Aglaée Degros — architect, Artgineering in Brussels (BE), professor and director of the Institute of Urban Planning in Graz (AT) Julio de la Fuente — architect, urban planner, Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos, Madrid (ES) Miriam García García — PhD in Architecture, landscaper, urban planner, Landlab, professor, Barcelona (ES) Didier Rebois — architect, Secretary General of Europan, teacher at the ESA school of architecture, Paris (FR) 268

Nicolás Martínez Rueda — architect, founder of DOCEXDOCE Architecture Competition, Barcelona (ES) Socrates Stratis — PhD in Architecture, urban planner, co-founder of AA & U, Associate professor, Nicosia (CY) Dimitri Szuter — architect, researcher, dancer and performer.

Co founder of the P.E.R.F.O.R.M!, Paris (FR) Bernd Vlay — architect, teacher, director of StudioVlayStreeruwitz, president of Europan Österreich — Wien (AT) Chris Younès — anthro-philosopher, professor at the ESA school of architecture. Founder and member of the Gerphau research laboratory, Paris (FR), founder and member of ARENA ENGLISH TRANSLATION Frederic Bourgeois GRAPHIC DESIGN AND LAYOUT Radiographique — Léa Rolland & Redouan Chetuan www.radiographique.com PRINTING UAB Balto print (Vilnius, Lithuania) EDITED BY Europan Europe Montreuil, France www.europan-europe.eu ISBN n° 978-2-914296-33-5 Legally registered Second quarter 2022

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