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EUROPAN 15

RESULTS

Table of Contents 1 Preface

Anna Catasta, President of Europan

E15 Map of sites

JUDGMENT

How are Europan projects assessed?

E15 Juries Presentation

WINNING PROJECTS 136 projects: 44 winners, 47 runners-up and 45 special mentions

RESULTS

Towards Regenerative Eco-Productive Milieus

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

1/ CHANGING METABOLISM

1/a Multiplying and Connecting Agencies

Learning to Multiply

Miriam García García (ES), PhD in Architecture, landscape architect & urban designer

34 35 36 37

Borås (SE) Winner – Made in Borås Runner-Up – Plugin 2 Produce Special Mention – Re:Mediate

38 39 40 41

Champigny-sur-marne (FR) Winner – Lost Highway – (L)earning from A87 Runner-Up – Stamping Ground Special Mention – Verdoyer, cultiver, hybrider

42 43 44

Guovdageaidnu (NO) Winner – Catalogue of Ideas Winner – Radical Reimagining

46 47 48 49

Marseille (FR) Runner-Up – 43°20’3’’N 5°21’39’’E: Manifeste clinique Runner-Up – Learning from Marseille Runner-Up – Le Faubourg du réemploi

50 51 52 53

Nin (HR) Winner – Soft Buffers Runner-Up – MOVEnIN Special Mention – A Moment Apart

54 55 56

Rotterdam Vierhavensblok (NL) Winner – Makers’ Maze Runner-Up – Platform of Commons

58 59 60 61

Täby (SE) Winner – The Generous City Runner-Up – Living Proximities Special Mention – Den Gröna Kilen

62 63 64

WEIZ (AT) Winner – Learning from the Future Runner-Up – Weiz Archipelago

1/b From Linear to Circular Economy

68 Article

Carlos Arroyo (ES), architect, urbanist, linguist, teacher

74 75 76

Charleroi (BE) Runner-Up – Forging the Fallow Special Mention – Carsid sur la Sàmbre Special Mention – Matière savante

78 79 80 81

Enköping (SE) Winner – Root City Runner-Up – Painting Greyfields Special Mention – Live + Work + Innovate

82 83 84 85

Graz (AT) Winner – 47Nord15Ost Runner-Up – Of Cycles and Streams Special Mention – Island (e)Scape

86 87 88

Karlovac (HR) Winner – The Fantastic Forest Phenomenon Runner-Up – Open City

90 91 92 93

Laterza (IT) Winner – O’ Sciuvilo Runner-Up – LA3: a Productive Square Special Mention – Up-CyclinGravina

94 95 96 97

Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine (FR) Winner – Boîtes à secrets Runner-Up – La ville école Special Mention – Reveal the City: the Telhu’Halle

98 99 100 101

Rochefort Océan (FR) Winner – L’escargot, la méduse et le bégonia Winner – Let the River In! Special Mention – Be Kind, Rewild

102 103 104 105

Warszawa (PL) Winner – Feedback Placemaking Runner-Up – NEWneighbourHUT Special Mention – Volcano

2/ CREATING PROXIMITIES

106

2/a Third Spaces In-between 108 Third Space as Transitional Agent

Socrates Stratis (CY), PhD in Architecture, urbanist and associate professor

114 Hyvinkää (FI) 115 116 117

Winner – Symbiotic Fabric Runner-Up – Come Together Special Mention – Come Together Special Mention – The Green Ring

118 La Louvière (BE) 119 Winner – InterActions 120 121 122 123 124

Lasarte-Oria (ES) Winner – Common Node Runner-Up – Agrihub Runner-Up – Lo-Lo-Land Special Mention – Baserritar 4.0 Special Mention – Basohiria

126 127 128 129

Madrid – La arboleda (ES) Winner – Proxiphery Special Mention – Treeness – Productive Arboleda Special Mention – Urban Biotope Special Mention – Zipper City

130 Rødberg (NO) 131 Winner – N.E.W (New Era Wharf) 132 Runner-Up – Lanterner 134 Rotterdam Kop Dakpark (NL) 135 Winner – Hybrid Parliament 136 Runner-Up – Coop*Work*Park 138 139 140 141

Sant Climent de Llobregat (ES) Winner – Prunus Avium Runner-Up – Masoveri@ Special Mention – The Shape of Water

142 143 144 145

Villach (AT) Runner-Up – Stadthöfe l Urban Yards Runner-Up – Thresholds (Myth) Special Mention – The Prosperity of a non-Efficient Neighbourhood

146 2/b

Interfaces and short cycles

148 Connectors and Enablers

Blaž Babnik Romaniuk (SI), Architect

154 155 156 157

Auby (FR) Winner – Extractions, from Source to Resources Runner-Up – Grey Matter Runner-Up – Productive Synergy

158 159 160 161

Casar de Cáceres (ES) Winner – La Charca de la Abundancia Runner-Up – Quesar de Cáceres Special Mention – Ithaka Special Mention – Hybrid Landscapes

162 Floirac (FR) 163 Winner – Souys-Lab

192 193 194 195 196

Oliva (ES) Winner – Productive Memories Runner-Up – Even a Brick Wants to Be Something Special Mention – Lattice-Work Special Mention – Look Back, Move Forward! Special Mention – Loop-settling

198 199 200 201

Pays de Dreux (FR) Winner – Urbanisme agricole Runner-Up – Ecological Magnets Special Mention – A(gri)puncture

202 Rotterdam Groot IJsselmonde (NL) 203 Winner – Hartland 204 Runner-Up – Semi-Urban IJsselmonde 206 Uddevalla (SE)

164 Runner-Up – Augmented Materials 165 Special Mention – New Mythology

207 Winner – Jalla! 208 Runner-Up – Wake “Bu-Hov-Berg” Up! 209 Special Mention – Plant Uddevalla

166 167 168 169

Halmstad (SE) Winner – Connection Hub Runner-Up – Walking Halmstad Special Mention – #Stationsstaden

210 Verbania (IT) 211 Winner – Landscape in Between 212 Runner-Up – Lung Hub

170 171 172

Romainville (FR) Runner-Up – Métropolis métabolisme Special Mention – Bridging Productivities Special Mention – L.A.B.S

174 175 176

Rotterdam Brainpark I (NL) Winner – Team Brainpark Special Mention – Building upon Brainpark Special Mention – Elegy for the Office Park

178 Selb (DE) 179 Winner – Scherben Bringen Glück 180 Special Mention – Selbstgemacht

3/ IMPLANTING 182 3/a

Productive Uses

184 Types and Fields

Julio de la Fuente (ES), Architect and urbanist

188 Innsbruck (AT) 189 Runner-Up – Happy Valley 190 Runner-Up – The Green Heart

214 215 216 217

Visby (SE) Winner – A Green Settlement – Outside the Wall Runner-Up – See you Between the Wall and the City Special Mention – The Great Visby

218 Wien (AT) 219 Winner – Capability Mound 220 Runner-Up – Der Januskopf

240 241 242 243

Helsingborg (SE) Winner – A Seat at the Table Runner-Up – Hello Helsingborg Special Mention – The Beach

244 245 246

Palma (ES) Winner – Beginning at the End Special Mention – Infrastructural Fields Special Mention – Parc-in

248 249 250 251

Raufoss (NO) Winner – Sewn Heart Runner-Up – This Must Be the Place Special Mention – Today Tomorrow

252 Rotterdam Visserijplein (NL) 253 Winner – Rambla + Kapsalon 254 Runner-Up – Productive Void 255 Special Mention – Rotterdam Housing-Hub 256 257 258 259

Saint-Omer (FR) Winner – Hydro-Productive Parks Runner-Up – Saint-Omer: 9 Places to the Sea Special Mention – Social Infrastructures

260 261 262 263

Tuusula (FI) Winner – Anttila Farm Incubator Runner-Up – 60ºNorth Special Mention – Pihabitat Special Mention – Symbiosis

WHAT NEXT?

264 222 3/b

Productive Milieus

224 Time as Agent to Implant Productive Milieus and to Rethink New Interactions Between Human and Nonhuman

Céline Bodart (BE), Architect, PhD in Architecture, researcher and professor and Dimitri Szuter (FR), Architect, researcher, dancer and performer

230 231 232 233 234

Barcelona (ES) Runner-Up – Blue Lines Runner-Up – Living Soils Runner-Up – Overlapping Vallbona Special Mention – Interchanger

236 Bergische Kooperation (DE) 237 Winner – Bergisch Plugin 238 Winner – The Productive Region

266 Projects-Processes Manifesto

Bernd Vlay (AT), architect, president of Europan Austria, Europan Scientific Committee’s member. With the contribution of the other Europan Scientific Committee’s members

270 Credits 272 Europan Secretariats

E15 Map of sites

2. CREATING PROXIMITIES

1. CHANGING METABOLISM

GUOVDAGEAIDNU

1.A Multiplying and Connecting Agencies

2.A Third Spaces In-Between

3.A Productive Uses

1.B From Linear to Circular Economy

2.B Interfaces and Short Cycles

3.B Productive Milieus

BELGIQUE / BELGIË / BELGIEN

HYVINKÄÄ TUUSULA

RAUFOSS RØDBERG

TÄBY

UDDEVALLA VISBY

HALMSTAD HELSINGBORG ROTTERDAM BRAINPARK I ROTTERDAM GROOT IJSSELMONDE ROTTERDAM KOP DAKPARK ROTTERDAM VISSERIJPLEIN ROTTERDAM VIERHAVENSBLOK AUBY SAINT OMER

BERGISCHE KOOPERATION SELB LA LOUVIÈRE

PORT-JÉRÔME-SUR-SEINE PAYS DE DREUX

WIEN WEIZ GRAZ

INNSBRUCK

VILLACH ROCHEFORT OCÉAN VERBANIA

KARLOVAC

LASARTE-ORIA MARSEILLE MADRID - LA ARBOLEDA

BARCELONA

NIN

SANT CLIMENT DE LLOBREGAT CASAR DE CÁCERES OLIVA

PALMA

Guovdageaidnu

Raufoss

Rødberg

DEUTSCHLAND Bergische Kooperation

Selb

ESPAÑA Barcelona

Casar de Cáceres

Lasarte-Oria

Madrid – La Arboleda

Oliva

Palma

Sant Climent de Llobregat

FRANCE

ROMAINVILLE CHAMPIGNY-SUR-MARNE

FLOIRAC

Charleroi La Louvière

WARSZAWA

CHARLEROI

NORGE

ÖSTERREICH

ENKÖPING

BORÅS

LATERZA

3. IMPLANTING

Graz

Innsbruck

Villach

Weiz

Wien

POLSKA Warszawa

SUOMI-FINLAND Hyvinkää

Tuusula

Auby

Champigny-sur-Marne

Floirac

Marseille

Borås

Pays de Dreux

Enköping

Port-Jérôme-sur-Seine

Halmstad

Rochefort Océan

Helsingborg

Romainville

Täby

Saint-Omer

Uddevalla

Visby

HRVATSKA Karlovac

Nin

ITALIA Laterza

Verbania

NEDERLAND Rotterdam Brainpark I

Rotterdam Groot IJsselmonde XX Rotterdam Kop Dakpark

Rotterdam Vierhavensblok

Rotterdam Visserijplein

SVERIGE

JUDGMENT

Didier Rebois (FR) — General Secretary of Europan

(c)Daniela Mossbauer

How are Europan projects assessed?

JURY SESSION IN AUSTRIA

JURY SESSION IN CROATIA

JURY SESSION IN ITALY

COMMON EUROPEAN RULES FOR ALL

on the basis of their quality and innovativeness rather

THE COMPETITIONS WITHIN A SESSION…

than simply their immediate operational feasibility.

BUT WITH VARIANTS THAT REFLECT COMPETITION CULTURES IN THE DIFFERENT COUNTRIES

Technical committees with varying roles The juries are assisted by technical committees which do the preliminary work, analysing the content of the

a process of acculturation

projects and informing the juries of any infringement

One of the founding principles of Europan—

of the rules. Depending on the competition philosophy

to encourage the movement of young professionals

in the countries concerned, the role of this committee

of urban, landscape and architectural design within

can vary in importance. In countries where the number

Europe— was to open up the competition on a site,

of sites and submissions to be assessed is limited, the

regardless of its location, to all these professionals,

custom is for the jury to be responsible for the pre-

whatever their country of residence, provided that they

analysis of the projects, the committee and the jury

However, it is also a competition “followed by

have a degree from a European university or school

are almost the same entity. By contrast, in France,

session of Europan, it is perhaps worth reminding

implementations”, in which the aim is not only to reward

and… that they are aged under 40.

where there often are numerous sites and submissions

readers how the proposals submitted for the

innovative ideas, but also to convert those ideas into

Since the launch of Europan, the proportion of projects

(overall, several hundred projects to assess), the

competition are assessed.

more developed design processes and ultimately into

submitted by teams foreign to the site has not varied,

technical committee is made up of numerous experts

In fact, right from the creation of Europan 30 years

real operations.

remaining constant at around 50%. And the proportion

who spend time pre-analysing all the projects before

ago, great importance has been attributed to this

This paradox partly explains the time and effort

among the winning teams is roughly the same. At a

the juries meet for the first time. This committee explains

phase of assessment, and to the award —through

invested in choosing the teams that will be awarded

time of growing problems

the content of the submissions to the jury, by means of

the different national juries— of some 100 prizes per

the “Europan label” for their ideas, and in some cases

of identity in Europe, it is

analysis sheets and an oral presentation. The task of

session (winners and runners-up combined), plus

go on to receive commissions for a second, so-called

encouraging to see an

these experts is to present all the projects analytically,

special mention projects without prizes, out of the

“operational” phase. The juries have the difficult task

undiminished desire among

without making any selection. It is the jury’s job to

approximately 900 projects submitted. The filtering

of analysing the three panels the teams are required

young people to tackle

decide. Nonetheless, the committee contributes to the

process in this assessment phase is important and the

to submit, picking out projects that offer an innovative

cultures other than their own,

process of understanding and analysis throughout the

choice of the winning teams is a strategic issue not only

perspective, an original vision, of the question raised

and if they win, to test their

assessment process.

for the teams themselves, but also for the partners who

by the site, within the framework of a global theme

participate in the competition.

(the session topic), and awarding the Europan “label”.

This colours Europan in a particular way, through

Jury membership based

Indeed, in its founding principle, Europan is called

At the same time, however, the selected projects

projects that blend the cultural identity of their authors

on the competition priorities

a “competition of ideas”, and the primary objective

need to offer a strategy that sets out key orientations

with the social and economic culture of a given context

Each jury has 7 or 9 members, depending on the

is to reward innovative projects devised by young

for implementing their ideas over time, within a given

in another country. And it is not unusual, for example,

individual country’s choice, since not all juries have

European professionals of architectural, urban and

context. The best projects in a session are those that

to see Spanish teams attracted by sites in Scandinavia,

the same number of projects to assess.

landscape design.

meet both these requirements.

or Eastern European teams interested in sites in Italy.

Their membership consists of 2 or 3 experts representing

Opposites often attract! Though in other places, we

public and/or private commissioning entities, 4 or 5

equally find complicity between similar cultures in the

experts representing the design professions (landscape

choice of sites.

architects, urbanists, architects), and one other figure

It is important to specify that the projects are anonymous

whose role is to guarantee a diversity of viewpoints.

and that teams are required to submit their ideas in

Overall, out of the 100 or so jury members in the

English or the language of the country where the site is

Europan 15 session, there were 8 representatives

located, which makes it difficult to identify the nationality

of public authorities (Ministry, Region), 8 municipal

of the authors.

representatives (urban officials), 6 project owners,

Before discovering the winning projects in this 15

Teams from different countries to ensure

JURY SESSION IN BELGIUM

JURY SESSION IN NORWAY

JURY SESSION IN FRANCE

JURY SESSION IN SPAIN

Juries are made up of independant experts who have freedom to choose the winning projects

skills away from home.

JURY SESSION IN NETHERLANDS

JURY SESSION IN SWEDEN

3 urban managers, 13 urbanists, 4 landscape architects, Independent juries

31 architects, 15 architecture teachers, 1 architect-

Europan is designed as a federal structure, with national

engineers, 1 philosopher, 1 researcher, 1 journalist,

secretariats coordinated by a European entity. It is

1 industrial designer, 1 publisher… And some 10 of

therefore the national juries that assess all the projects

their number of former Europan winners.

submitted for the sites in a given country.

Each jury must include foreign members, a proportion

These juries are made up of independent experts

that can vary, but requires a minimum of two for a

— the site representatives do not sit on the jury— who

seven-member jury, or three for a nine-member jury.

have freedom to choose the winning projects, primarily

Out of the 7 members and 2 substitutes on the Austrian,

E15 Juries ©ANNA PANEK KUSZ

BELGIQUE / BELGIË / BELGIEN

DEUTSCHLAND – POLSKA (ASSOCIATED)

ESPAÑA

FRANCE

URBAN/ARCHITECTURAL ORDER

Xavier BINDELS (BE) — Technical Director of BELIRIS in Brussels (BE) www.beliris.be

Dr. Annette FRIEDRICH (DE) — Head of the Town Planning Department in Heidelberg, Heidelberg (DE) www.service-bw.de

Javier MARTÍN RAMIRO (ES) — General Director of Architecture, Housing and Land, Ministry of Public Works (Ministerio de Fomento), Madrid (ES) www.fomento.gob.es

Alain BERTRAND (FR) — Deputy General Director of SAMOA, Nantes (FR) / www.iledenantes.com

Agata BUSCEMI (IT) — Architect, Landscape Architect, b2barquitectes, Barcelona (ES) www.b2barquitectes.com

Claire LANLY (FR) — General Director of Emmaüs Habitat, Paris (FR) www.emmaus-habitat.fr

URBAN/ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN Jacqueline OSTY (FR) — Landscaper, European Garden Award 2016, Paris (FR) www.osty.fr

Chantal VINCENT (BE) — Engineer Architect, Urban Planner in Charleroi, Office Dessin et Construction, Charleroi (BE) www.dessin-et-construction.eu Makan RAFATDJOU (FR) — Architect, Urban Planner in Paris (FR) www.makan-rafatdjou.com Alain CASARI (FR) — Architect, Urban Planner, ATOP SPACE in Nancy-Metz-Paris (FR) linkedin.com/in/alain-casari-7b6907b/ Rodolphe LUSCHER (CH) — Architect, Urban Planner in Lausanne (CH) www.luscher-architectes.ch Jean-Michel DEGRAEVE (BE) — Architect, Urban Planner, Vice President of Europan Belgium, Habitat-Concept (BE) www.habitatconcept.fr PUBLIC FIGURE Chris YOUNES (FR) — Doctor in Philosophy, Professor at the National School of Architecture ESA (FR), GERPHAU Laboratory (philosophy-architecture-urban) www.esa-paris.fr

Peter STUBBE (DE) — Head of the GEWOBA AG Wohnen und Bauen, Bremen (DE) www.gewoba.de/unternehmen/unternehmensstruktur URBAN/ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN Prof. Mario TVRTKOVIC (DE/HR) — Architect, Urban Planner, Urbanorbit Cologne/Stuttgart, Professor at the University of Coburg, Cologne/Coburg (DE) www.hs-coburg.de Alessandro DELLI PONTI (IT/FR) — Architect, Urban Planner, KH Studio, E12 Winner in Mannheim, Paris (FR) www.khstudio.org Prof. Christa REICHER (DE) — Architect, RHA Planners, RWTH Aachen, Aachen (DE) www.rha-planer.eu Hubert TRAMMER (PL) — Architect, Warszawa (PL) www.wozownia.pl

Eduardo DE MIGUEL ARBONÉS (ES) — Architect, Office VAC arquitectura, PhD in Architecture, teacher Valencia Architecture School, Valencia (ES) www.vacarquitectura.es

Marie-Hélène BADIA (FR) — Architect, Atelier Badia Berger, teacher “Theory and Practices, Urban and Architectural Design” ENSA, Paris-Val de Seine, Paris (FR) / www.badia-berger.com Olivier BASTIN (BE) — Architect, Office L’Escaut co-founder, Brussels (BE) / www.escaut.org

Enrique ARENAS LAORGA (ES) — Architect, Office arenas basabe palacios, EUROPAN 8, E9, E10 & E12 Winner, Madrid (ES) www.arenasbasabepalacios.com

Joào CARRILHO DA GRAÇA (PT) — Architect, Professor Politecnico Milano, Doctor Honoris Causa Faculty of Architecture of Lisbon, Lisbon (PT) / www.jlcg.pt

Bernardo BADER (AT) — Architect ZT GmbH, Office Bernardo Bader, Bregenz (AT) www.bernardobader.com

PUBLIC FIGURE Anne KESSLER (DE) — Federal Ministry of the Interior, Building and Community of Berlin (DE) www.bmi.bund.de

Pilar DÍAZ RODRÍGUEZ (ES) — Architect, Paisaje Transversal, Madrid (ES) www.paisajetransversal.org

SUBSTITUTES

Lucía CANO PINTOS (ES) — Architect, Office Selgas Cano, Madrid (ES) www.selgascano.net

Dr. Irene WIESE-VON-OFEN (DE) — Architect in Essen (DE)

URBAN/ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

Aglaée DEGROS (BE) — Architect, Artgineering, Teacher, Europan Europe Scientific Council, Brussels (BE) / Graz (AT) www.artgineering.eu

Karin SANDECK (DE) — Architect, President of Europan Deutschland, Bavarian Ministry for Housing, Building and Traffic in Munich (DE) www.epsa-projects.eu

Jean-Baptiste BUTLEN (FR) — Deputy Director of Housing, Urbanism and Landscape Department, Paris (FR) / www.cohesion-territoires.gouv.fr

PUBLIC FIGURE Joan BUSQUETS (US) — Architect, Urbanist, Office BAU and teaching, Boston (US) www.bau-barcelona.com SUBSTITUTE Fernando RODRÍGUEZ (ES) — Architect, FRPO, PhD in Architecture, Teacher Madrid Architecture School, Madrid (ES) www.frpo.es

Anne DEMIANS (FR) — Architect, Urbanist, Office AAD, Paris (FR) www.annedemians.com Sonia LAVADINHO (CH) — Anthropologist, Office Bfluid prospective and expertise in mobility, Geneva (CH) / www.bfluid.com PUBLIC FIGURE Etienne TRICAUD (FR) — Architect and Polytechnician, Co-founder of AREP, 1997-2018, Paris (FR) / www.betocib.net SUBSTITUTES Léa HOMMAGE (FR) — Landscaper, E12 Winner in Vichy Val d’Allier, Office La Forme et l’usage, Nantes (FR), Young architects & landscapers awards 2018 / www.laformeetlusage.com Gilles HUCHETTE (FR) — Urbanist, Director of Euralens, Young Urbanists Award 2018, Lens (FR) / www.euralens.org ASSOCIATED PUBLIC FIGURES CONSULTED Agnès VINCE (FR) — Deputy General Director of Heritage, in charge of architecture (2014-2019), Culture Ministry, Paris (FR) www.culture.gouv.fr Hélène PESKINE (FR) — Permanente secretary of the PUCA, Paris (FR) / www.urbanisme-puca.gouv.fr Francis RAMBERT (FR) — Director of the architectural creation, Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine, Paris (FR) / www.citedelarchitecture.fr

RESULTS

1/ CHANGING METABOLISM 26

A new balance must be found between the relations, processes, flows and multiple forces of the sites that are large and contain a variety of agents (human and nonhuman) with long–and short-term cycles, and far-reaching ecological, economic and territorial implications.

1/A Multiplying and connecting agencies By defining and connecting the future agencies regarding air, water, soil, flood, programmes, activities and users, and new layers of functions, it may lead to a balanced growth on these sites. The final design will be something more than the sum of circular urban economies. ANALYSIS ARTICLE: Learning to Multiply

Miriam García García (ES) — PhD in Architecture, landscape architect & urban designer Borås (SE)

XX Nin (HR)

Champigny-sur-Marne (FR)

XX Rotterdam Vierhavensblok (NL)

Guovdageaidnu (NO)

XX Täby (SE)

Marseille (FR)

XX Weiz (AT)

Learning to Multiply analysis article by Miriam García García (ES) — PhD in Architecture, landscape architect & urban designer www.landlab.es/en/

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Winning project Soft buffers (fig. 2) shows the potential of the landscape as a mediator of fluxes and an activator of new uses that are visible from the scale of the architecture to the scale of the city. This way, the settlement of Ždrijac goes through a densification process while progressively being surrounded and protected by a forest park. The houses outdoor spaces serve both as public spaces and as cooling devices. The brickyard,

The sites in this group are large in relation to their

“SOFT BUFFERS”

surrounded by the landscape of constructed wetlands,

contexts, and include a wide variety of agents, human

is not about introducing new uses but about catalysing

gets a new chance to be productive. The wetland size

and non-human, with long and short-term cycles, as

new relationships between the existing ones, by turning

is determined by the maximum number of inhabitants in

well as long-reaching ecological, economical and

the borders into intermediate landscapes for sharing.

territorial implications. Multiplying agencies implies

It is about permitting different flows to work together in

working with the relations, processes, flows and multiple

a productive way while maintaining their differences.

forces related to the site. In this context, adopting a

The city of Nin (HR) is located in a lagoon on the

broader system perspective means that spatial limits

Eastern part of the Adriatic Sea, and is surrounded by

must be extended and abstracted so that they reinforce

natural sandy beaches (fig. 1). Four entities co-exist on

an agreed division between what is human — t he

the site, each with their own characteristics and without

society and its culture — on the one hand, and what is

a productive relationship. There is the old town on Nin,

nature — the ecosphere — on the other. The temporal

the settlement of Ždrijac with coastal flooding effects

limits must also be extended to match the spatial

due to climate change, and an old brickyard next to

limits. This socioecological perspective applied to the

the saltworks.

multiplying agencies implies working with the relations, processes, flows and multiple forces related to the site

Ždrijac at the peak of the tourist season, the wetland becoming a device for waste managements

while simultaneously creating a new landscape that fits the existing ground. At the same time the constructed wetland sets up a new tradition of

dealing with human waste, turning it into a catalyzer for

productive city implies designing strategies that are

the creation of a new biome. The wastewater treatment

able to catalyse new agencies around the site based

produces a by-product of sludge that becomes a ferti-

on its synergies. This design-thinking approach leads

lizer once processed.

to the integration of both social and ecological values into the design and into the management. In order to

“PARALLEL AXIS”

4 — WEIZ (AT), WINNER — LEARNING FROM THE FUTURE > SEE MORE PXXX

activate synergies and to change the sites metabolism

is about promoting the connections between the river

ecologies along the mobility infrastructure and the river

into a more balanced and productive one the E15

and a human infrastructure — namely the currently-

that feed one another. The potential of the idea lies in

winning projects deploy various fertile strategies.

under-construction new mobility artery, which includes

the detailed approach: the single public surface not only

a rail track for commuter trains, a road, a bike path and

links the green space with the urban texture, but it also

several footbridges.

defines different scales and allocates traffic speeds.

The site of Weiz (AT) aspires to include new agencies,

The project works with the site values and makes use of

new layers of functions that may lead to a balanced

the existing relationship between the river and the street.

growth (fig. 3). Winning project, Learning from the Future

It highlights the specificity of the place by connecting

(fig. 4), proposes a sustainable, experimental, and

the single elements into one coherent tissue, thereby

active urban landscape to match and reflect the

creating a strong identification of the street.

inhabitants’ creative and entrepreneurial energy.

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2 — NIN (HR), WINNER — SOFT BUFFERS > SEE MORE PXXX

The masterplan designs both the physical spaces

“ACTIVE MEGA-VOID”

and their strategies from the perspective of a circular

is about creating productive hybridities between existing

economy, intensifying the local strengths, namely the

resources and new inputs combining mobility and

pioneering attitude towards energy and climate, which

nature to organize a larger productive metabolism.

has yielded world-class industries and knowledge

Here, the larger scale and metropolitan dimension are

services. The project addresses several scales and

particularly important.

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productive city as a cultural change that reverses the

productive district of Rotterdam (NL). The challenge is

consumption trends, involving an educational project.

to transform an industrial port area into a Circular Urban

The project contributes to connecting people and

Makers District around the notion of a circular city where

activities through apprenticeships; it is, in real terms,

working and living meet (fig. 9).

an unequivocal call to connect urban renewal to job

In Makers’ Maze (fig. 10), the winning project, archi-

creation, training programs and the development

tecture is reconnected with the economic, social

of micro-economies for a population far from formal

and political realities of the city by offering a flexible

employment. It also associates public spaces to a

method rather than a rigid design. The requested

progressive and participatory renovation process,

programmatic mix of 30-40% businesses, 10-20%

establishing new relationships between indoor and

offices, 30-50% housing, and 10% services is easy to

outdoor public or private spaces and creating the

achieve and adjust, because the clusters are devel-

conditions for the emergence of semi-public or

oped not in tandem, but one by one, allowing small

semi-private public spaces. The plan includes a

adjustments based on market pressures. The charm of

comprehensive green proposal, drawing a difference

Vierhavensblok lies in its informal character, where one

between slow (cycle paths and pedestrian access) and

can find the unexpected around every corner and where

fast (cycle paths, road for vans and cars) networks.

chance encounters and meetings breed new collabo-

This network connects the district to the new green

rations. Inspired by these qualities, Makers’ Maze pro-

infrastructure that will connect it to the city centre. On a

poses a series of building clusters interlocking around

metropolitan scale, the companions’ initiatory journey

a network of passages, streets and squares, creating

follows the rivers and contributes at extending the soft

a unified, resilient and unexpected urban scheme.

mobility network. The visual opening on the maritime

The streets and squares of the masterplan are defined

and mountain landscape as well as the reinforced

by the surrounding architectural volumes, both new and

accessibility by public transport (with the creation of the

existing. The clusters work as showcases of materials

new TER Litorral-Cabu stop-over) establish the district

and provide a way to organize, categorize and label

as a new centre connected to the metropolitan area.

them. Existing workshops are no longer temporary, but rather become an integral part of the foundation of the

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“MULTI-LAYERED ISLAND”

plan. New volumes are attached to them or cantilevered

is not a collection of diverse buildings, but one big

above them. These new structures, besides adding floor

interconnected ecosystem where energy, water, working

space, provide access to rooftops and are also used

spaces and waste solutions are shared.

as communal gardens with shared functions: laundry

The site of Vierhavensblok has a rich history as a

rooms, storage, flex offices, game rooms, labs etc.

The site of Champigny-sur-Marne (FR) is part of the

transport by would develop around this green lung,

Layers of shared spaces work as buffers between the

A87 project for a third motorway ring road planned

but this time in a transversal way to create a dialogue

living and working zones and create a diverse, mixed

in Paris in the 1960s (fig. 5). This global project was

with the surrounding environment. The proposal

urban fabric: not only horizontally, but also vertically.

never implemented and was finally abandoned in the

foreshadows a succession of parks and project sites

1980s. A piece of territory on the East of Paris — namely

capable of forming a green belt in accordance with

“ARCHIPELAGO OF CLUSTERS”

the towns of Sucy, Ormesson, Chennevières, Cham-

urban developments and improving their purposes.

is characterized by a form of free-flowing occupation,

pigny-sur-Marne and Villiers) — is crossed by a cor-

The project proposes to work on the edges of the

where smooth multifunctional spaces sometimes

ridor of land that this unfinished project has literally

corridor, examining built densities and possibilities to

overlap and blend into smooth experiences. In this

frozen. These pending lands create a surprising and

preserve the open space.

socio-ecological system, polarities of clusters intuitively

designing a grid of public spaces and local actors that operates at multiple scales, from the territory to the individual

define an in-between multifunctional space.

singular void in the dense

The site of Guovdageaidnu (NO) is a culturally condi-

periphery. The result is an

“MULTISCALAR NETWORK”

exceptional metropolitan

is about designing a grid of public spaces and local

tioned landscape-urbanity based on continuous terri-

garden phenomenon on

actors that operates at multiple scales, from the territory

torial mobility (fig. 11). The place holds the history of

this scale. Today, the vari-

to the individual.

a nature-based household and practices connected

ous parcels that make up

In the South of France, Marseille Rénovation Urbaine

to a larger territory; at the same time, it is in transition

this lost highway are the

(MRU) has big expectations for the Cabucelle site, a

towards a more ambiguous relation between landscape

support of isolated urban

popular district where business and residential uses

and settlement, nomadic livelihood and a more sed-

development projects.

and a myriad of other informal activities are expected

entary lifestyle. Guovdageaidnu is visually and physi-

The urbanization process

to initiate a gradual re-appropriation (fig. 7).

cally defined in a clear topography and by clusters of

should develop around a bus line that crosses the axis

Runner-up team Learning from Marseille (fig. 8)

public buildings and services surrounded by sprawling

along its length, connecting two future stations of the

envisions La Cabucelle as an exhibition space for

housing areas. The building pattern and the intercon-

Greater Paris region.

experimentations on techniques of building and

necting landscape allow a large degree of free move-

Winning project Lost Highway (fig. 6) intensifies the role

managing public spaces towards a zero-waste district

ment between buildings and functions, settlements and

of the void with a territorial strategy instead of filling

that would stand as an example for the Mediterranean

landscape. Here, the two awarded projects show the

it in. As a result, the emergent metropolitan garden

region. The whole project relies on the learning process

complexity of this socio-ecological system where the

becomes a backbone for the different municipalities,

as an “initiatory journey” developed by the Tour de

Sámi identity is closely linked to the relationship be-

and relies on the system of Sensitive Natural Areas in

France companions — a training companionship for

force in the Val-de-Marne region. The project of public

professional craftsmen. In this way, it is a vision of a

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tween human activities and the landscape through soft layers of mobility and connectivity.

BORÅS (SE) PROJECT SCALE — XL/L – territory / urban + architecture

SITE PROPOSED BY — City of Borås

LOCATION — Gässlösa, Borås

OWNER OF THE SITE — City of Borås, private sector

POPULATION — 110,000 inhab.

POST-COMPETITION PHASE — Urban studies in collaboration

STRATEGIC SITE — 720 ha / PROJECT SITE — 58 ha

with the City of Borås

City of Borås — 1. WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF THE SITE MUTATION?

Gässlösa shall be transformed into a varied and vibrant neighbourhood that contributes to the city development in general. Today, Gässlösa is fragmented and the area has a distinctly industrial character. The proximity to the city centre and with the Viskan River running through the area, the underlying conditions can be transformed into future assets of a new modern neighbourhood. The goal is that Gässlösa will be a new urban district with 5000-8000 inhabitants and 1000-2000 job opportunities. A neighbourhood with a character built on the existing values in the area, like the industrial and textile history. Also, the transformation of Gässlösa area shall be sustainable and caring for the green and blue stretches; it shall have a variation among accommodations and hold a role model for future developments in Borås. 2. HOW CAN THE SITE BE INTEGRATED IN THE ISSUES OF PRODUCTIVE CITIES? HOW DO YOU CONSIDER THE PRODUCTIVITY ISSUE?

The area has traditionally been the centre for the construction sector in Borås. The ambition is that a majority of –if not all– the 100 businesses that exist today can remain in future Gässlösa.

Made in Borås

BORÅS (SE) — WINNER

AUTHOR(S) — Gauthier Durey (FR), Architect, urbanist,

CONTACT — edit / atelier

landscaper; Linn Runeson (SE), Architect, urbanist;

+47 96742371

Eric Reid (CA), Landscaper, urbanist

gauthier@edit-atelier.com / www.edit-atelier.com

The Europan contributions had an inspiring width of interpreting the “productive city”. Their examples of productivity were culture, small businesses, energy, sharing economy, biomass, ecosystem services, etc. With the transformation of Gässlösa we can use this to expand how the area has traditionally been used within productivity. 3. HAVE YOU ALREADY DEFINED A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN AND/OR ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION?

The future planning of Gässlösa has some strategic challenges. It is the largest urban development project in 40 years in Borås. Borås wants Gässlösa to be a model for sustainable urban development. The roadmap ahead is to determine a target vision, where the Europan contributions play an important role on how and what we want for the future Gässlösa.

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — Respectful of Borås’s identity, its industrial

and textile history, “Made in Borås” proposes to combine these elements with Gässlösa’s unique location on the Viskan river. Re-affirming the city’s riverscape as a strong tool for renewing Gässlösa’s, providing high quality living and climate adaptability. This approach led to the conceptualisation of a metropolitan river park at the core of Borås and its future developments, introducing the necessary spatial qualities for a denser urban living. JURY POINT OF VIEW — It is a great proposal that takes advantage

of the existing qualities of the site. The proposal contains an interesting variety of typologies but is at the same time a distinct unit. The proposal convincingly takes care of the situation by the water and shows how the river can be a real asset to the city. The old industrial buildings that are preserved provide a good basis for businesses to establish but also give a distinct identity to the area. The urban structure has a spatial clarity and stability that can be developed further.

Re:Mediate

BORÅS (SE) — SPECIAL MENTION

AUTHOR(S) — Alice Lemaire (FR), Martin Näf (BR), Teresa Arana Aristi (MX),

CONTACT — Blåsutgatan 2,

Architects, urbanists; Anna Nötzel (DE), Emeline Lex (CA), Dominika Misterka (PL),

41456 Gothenburg (SE)

Marcin Zebrowski (PL), Tony Nielsen, (SE), Victor Ohlsson (SE), Urbanists;

+46 722300615

Fernando Gonzalez-Camino (ES), Landscaper, urbanist

urban10.contact@gmail.com

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — Introducing an adaptative urban

ecosystem in Gässlösa The synthesis between living, working, nature and recreation are the main drivers for the design proposal, ultimately creating a productive cradle-to-cradle neighbourhood. The vision is that Gässlösa will become its own kind of ecosystem, in which a symbiosis between the green, the built, and the living is able to support the needs of people and nature on the same level. This will create a cycle of functions in which everything that is put into it will mutually define, impact and support something else.

Plugin 2 Produce AUTHOR(S) — Alexandra Kashina (RU),

BORÅS (SE) — RUNNER-UP CONTRIBUTOR(S) — Franziska Dehm (DE), Urbanist

Husain Vaghjipurwala (IN), Architects, urbanists;

CONTACT — +46 707713708

Johan Nilsson (SE), Urbanist

mail.omni@tutanota.com

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — A city that produces a broad knowledge

base for future generations and is open for diversity of skill levels, age and experience, will have the capacity to contribute to a greater good that goes beyond an individual, a family or a city. Building a resilient community demands time, focus and goals, which are shaped by going beyond traditional modes of living and working, and its interaction with the natural and the built environment. JURY POINT OF VIEW — It is a well written and well thought out

proposal. A clear strategy with three phases is presented. The ideas concerning “plug-ins” in the area are very interesting and could be developed further. The proposal deservingly incorporates many of the existing buildings in the area, which is a challenge. The proposal is strong in terms of ideas but not as clear spatially.

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In the physical space of the city, but also at temporal and actors’ scales, it is about establishing proximities between living and working both within residential areas and between residential areas and monofunctional production zones. It is also about rethinking the transition between high-speed metropolitan mobility and the low speed of neighbourhoods.

2/A Third spaces in-between A third space is a new space inserted between housing and production areas that can catalyse the transformation of current production cycles by creating synergies with urban territories and everyday life. It can be located in residual spaces within neighbourhoods, between existing monofunctional zones or emerge from recycled urban fabric. ANALYSIS ARTICLE: Third Space as Transitional Agent

Socrates Stratis (CY) — PhD in Architecture, urbanist and associate professor

Hyvinkää (FI)

XX Rotterdam Kop Dakpark (NL)

La Louvière (BE)

XX Rødberg (NO)

Lasarte-Oria (ES)

XX Sant Climent de Llobregat (ES)

Madrid – La Arboleda (ES)

XX Villach (AT)

Third Space as Transitional Agent Analysis article by Socrates Stratis (CY) — PhD in Architecture, urbanist; Associate Professor, Dpt. of Architecture, Univ. of Cyprus. Co-founder of AA & U. www.aaplusu.com; www.socratestratis.com

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OVERCOMING CRISIS

politics happen. And if they diminish, the contemporary

How far do the products you consume travel in order to

society needs to support them because they can

reach your nearest drugstore or supermarket? How far

confront regressive politics of division by transforming

do you need to travel to work, and with which means

impenetrable limits to porous edges, encouraging,

of mobility? Two questions that don’t come to our

therefore, urban exchanges (Sennett, R., “Edges: Self

mind very often. However, when a crisis occurs, they

and the City”, in Mohsen Mostafavi, ed. “Ethics of the

THREE TRANSITIONAL CONDITIONS

the new proximities between living and co-producing.

re-emerge persistently. The coronavirus COVID 19 has

Urban: the city and the spaces of the political”, Lars

TO ASSOCIATE THE CITY WITH ITS TERRITORIES

This kind of place will operate pivotally by diffusing

made visible the trajectories of people and goods in

Muller Publishers, Germany, 2017, pp.261-268).

According to Alain Maugard (Europan France president,

change to the rest of the urban environment and

the laissez-faire globalized economy. “Where to land,

It is not surprising how much the Europan 15 theme of

Forum of Cities and Juries, Innsbruck, October 2019),

countryside.

how to orient ourselves in politics?”, is Bruno Latour’s

‘Productive Cities’ has become utterly topical and at

the potential role of the Europan 15 project vis-à-vis

I argue that “third space”, introduced in the Europan 15

question having realized that the “ground” the humanity

the same time challenging. Topical, since the Europan

the productive cities, lies in the establishment of the

subtheme, “creating proximities through third spaces”,

stands on is not stable or even non-existent anymore

actors are discussing how the transformation of

territorial economy to counter the laissez-faire global

embodies the three aforementioned conditions and can

due to the devastating ramifications of climate change

peoples’ milieu can reformulate the relation between

one. The Europan 15 project can associate the city with

be an agent for a transition. I will examine some of the

(Latour, B., “Où atterir, comment s’orienter en politique”,

co-living and co-producing. To shorten, in other words,

its territories. To do so, we need to consider the Euro-

winning Europan 15 projects to identify the potentials

editions La Decouverte, France, 2017). Latour seeks for

the production trajectories, to make them sustainable,

pan 15 project as a transitional device that allows us to

but also the challenges of third spaces as transitional

an answer away from the modernists’ approach that

to invent new ones. Challenging, because, the Europan

attach to soil on the one

agents. More precisely, how they may contribute to

takes for granted planet Earth considering its resources

actors are discussing urban design projects that are

hand and to globalize

transforming countryside communities and urban

inexhaustible. Moreover, he denounces the nationalist

by default limited in size and fragmented when the

on the other, according

neighbourhoods into open and inclusive places thanks

way of reacting with a populist regressive manner to

coronavirus COVID 19 reminds us how interconnected

to Latour (Latour, 2017:

to new relationships between living and co-producing.

the global economic and environmental crises. Richard

humanity is within the actual problematic global

22). How to re-invent in

The notion of third space takes us to the Lefebvrian

Sennett gives an additional answer, as regards to

economic context.

other words, the way

definition of the term as well as to another similar

people live and produce

concept, that of third places (tiers lieux). According

together by shaping in-

to Edward Soja who based his work on Lefebvre,

clusive communities

the notion of third space is on purpose a tentative

and open neighbour-

and flexible term that attempts to capture milieus

hoods?

that are constantly changing and shifting (Soja, E.

To tackle the afore

“Third Space”, Blackwell Publishing, USA, 1996). On

mentioned questions, we need to understand how

another take, the notion of third place (tiers lieu) refers

the transition can take place through urban projects.

to spaces that are neither about living or working and

It cannot be established at once by one-off physical

they informally promote social interaction. The café,

projects. On the contrary, it happens gradually, in an

the public library, the park are some examples among

incremental non-linear way with carefully-designed

many others. This rather simple definition will help

processes. Transition needs urban manifestation in a

us to demonstrate the spatial dimension of everyday

physical, programmatic and actorial sense. Transition

processes that change our actual relations between

needs firstly to be associated with a strategic territorial

co-producing and living.

figure bound by trans-scalar processes that will work

I will briefly discuss two groups of E15 sites with their

as a common reference for the citizens as well as a

reciprocal winning projects. The first one is about the

catalyst for transformation. Secondly, transition requires

countryside or periurban communities: Sant Climent

new synergies and protocols between actors that are

de Llobregat (ES), Rødberg (NO), Lasarte-Oria (ES)

responsible for different kinds of nested scales of

and La Louvière (BE) (fig.1 to 4). The second one is

fragmented territories which do not usually collaborate

about potential urban neighbourhoods and centralities:

(European, national, city, countryside, neighbourhood,

Hyvinkää (FI), Villach (AT), Rotterdam Kop Dakpark (NL)

etc). Thirdly, transition needs a place for incubation of

and Madrid – La Arboleda (ES) (fig.5 to 8).

where to land ourselves: at the places where everyday

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How to reinvent the way people live and produce together by shaping inclusive communities and open neighbourhoods?

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agriculture, on craftsmanship and co-working spaces.

nodes, such as shared streets and a public space by

In this case, the reconnection between the city and its

the river, in the case of the runner-up project, Lanterner

territory depends on the multiplication of living / co-

(fig. 13). Moreover, the network-like territorial figure is

working clusters such as in the case of the runner-up

expanded along the river as a green corridor, thanks

project in Lasarte-Oria, Agrihub (fig. 11), as well the

to the winning project, N.E.W (New Era Wharf). Also,

Masoveri@ project in Sant Climent de Llobregat.

the territorial figure gets an iconic centrality, a sort of a

Third space as a transitional agent can contribute to overcoming the divide between rural and urban, between urban living and agriculture activities.

On another take, the win-

flagship, hoping to operate as an attractor to the people

ning project in La Lou-

from the concerned territory (fig. 14). Another strategic

vière, InterActions, aims

territorial figure is that of the Common Node proposed

to transform a devaluated

by the winning project in Lasarte-Oria (fig. 15). It is a

housing estate into an

centrality with modernist architectural references, that

ecological neighbour-

calls for synergies between actors coming from the

hood. This project propos-

nearby housing and industrial areas. The buildings’ form

es multiple micro-places

and typology, as well as the treatment of the inclined

for incubation of new prox-

topography, offer a rich internal environment around

imities within the housing

a collective courtyard. The aim is to work as a pivotal

estate. It offers, among

transition agent avoiding closing itself to a secluded

other uses, an artisanal

housing estate.

workshop and collective green houses (fig. 12).

TURNING BUFFER SPACES

The winning and runner-up

INTO TRANSITIONAL PLACES

projects in R ødberg, a

The winning projects of the second group of sites

countryside village with major farming and hydropower

propose various ways to transform voids that are so

production, have a similar approach. They propose a

far buffered, even limits, into all sorts of thresholds

diffused network of places of incubation of new prox-

between living, co-producing and socially interacting.

imities between public uses, the inhabitants and the

In other words, where everyday politics take place,

many visitors camping at the nearby forest. The terri-

according to Sennett.

torial figure in this case is a network of small common

The strategic territorial figure in the winning project

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OVERCOMING THE DIVIDE

economy around cherries (fig. 9). The agripark figure

BETWEEN RURAL AND URBAN

is becoming influential in the European territorial

The winning projects in the first group offer ideas about

planning as well as in the establishment of ecological

how third space as a transitional agent can contribute

neighbourhoods (L’agriparc : une innovation pour

to overcoming the divide between rural and urban,

l’agriculture des territoires urbains ? Françoise Jarrige

between urban living and agriculture activities. The

et Coline Perrin Dans Revue d’Économie Régionale &

agripark is offered by the competitors as a strategic

Urbaine 2017/3 (Juin), pp. 537-562). The winning project

territorial figure bound by transcalar processes. It is

in Sant Climent de Llobregat, Prunus Avium, touches

explicitly mentioned by the runner-up project in Sant

upon the territorial scale of the agripark by reclaiming

Climent de Llobregat, Masoveri@, drawing references

the long-gone former cherry tree terraces from the

from the agripark of Mas Nougier in Montpellier (FR).

intruding pine forest. Besides, it revalorizes the existing

We can learn a lot from such a figure because it brings

building stock of the village and proposes its extension

forward the required synergies, even protocols, between

by additional linear type housing (fig. 10). It remains to

city actors and agriculture actors. The Masoveri@

be seen if there are alternative co-habitations between

project offers a blueprint for a potential social practice

cherry trees agriculture and the pine forest.

of landownership and use as well as of co-governing.

Moreover, the agripark territorial figure is essential to

Moreover, the team proposes synergies with the actors

turning housing into ecological neighbourhoods by

from the adjacent industrial area to boost a circular

offering collective activities sometimes based on micro-

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HYVINKÄÄ (FI) PROJECT SCALE — L – urban + architecture

SITE PROPOSED BY — City of Hyvinkää

LOCATION — Hyvinkää

OWNER OF THE SITE — City of Hyvinkää, State of Finland,

POPULATION — 47,000 inhab.

private landowners

STRATEGIC SITE — 95 ha / PROJECT SITE — 27 ha

POST-COMPETITION PHASE — Urban study, masterplan

Anitta Ojanen — Architect, Planning Director, City of Hyvinkää 1. WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF THE SITE MUTATION?

Hyvinkää city center is located on two sides of the main railway line of Finland. The project area on the West side lacks character and is less defined than the city center on the East side. The objective is to find an urban concept for the project area with various functions including productive uses. The different sides of the rail line should also be better connected to one another. The new urban concept will be used as a guideline to develop the area with various landowners and stakeholders. 2. HOW CAN THE SITE BE INTEGRATED IN THE ISSUES OF PRODUCTIVE CITIES? HOW DO YOU CONSIDER THE PRODUCTIVITY ISSUE?

The main goal is to integrate new ways of working, production and housing together in the area. It is important for the site to achieve

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its own new identity by creating a new high-quality environment

Symbiotic Fabric

and functionality in these “third spaces”. The goal is to integrate

AUTHOR(S) — Laura Huerga Cadenas (ES), Pablo Magán Uceda (ES), Architects

CONTACT — Hypersite

small scale production into the urban fabric i.e. co-working spaces,

CONTRIBUTOR(S) — Óscar Ruiz Nieto (ES), Sophia Arbara (GR),

Rotterdam (NL)

workshops, artists, makers etc. and to ensure that the development

Pavlos Ventouris (GR), Javier López-Menchero Ortiz De Salazar (ES), Architects;

info@hypersite.eu

also generates livable residential places and opportunities for

Marcello Felice Vietti (IT), Urbanist

www.hypersite.eu

community-building. The train station area should be developed into a mobility hub which also generates new services for travelers and inhabitants. 3. HAVE YOU ALREADY DEFINED A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN AND/OR ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION?

The proposals of the awarded teams will be used as the basis for various master plans for the area. The awarded teams have already presented themselves and their planning philosophies to the politicians and civil servants of Hyvinkää. One or two awarded teams will be asked to develop their plans further in the near future. The plans should be finished by the end of 2020.

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — Symbiotic def: denoting a mutually

beneficial relationship between different people or groups. “Hyvinkaä” makes Hyvinkaä as a main strategy to create a new symbiotic city, between the nature and urban fabric. A productive environment with new interchanges taking place on the loop boulevard, which weave the areas with the rest of the city giving it an urban identity. Revealing the green to embrace the city into the nature, more human live creating new proximities in the new productive third space. JURY POINT OF VIEW — The team behind the proposal have

succeeded in identifying the key links within the city’s fabric and strengthened them through a series of interventions, including functions that drive production, working and homes in the area. The result is less a highly detailed master plan but a strategic vision for how to transform Hyvinkää’s centre, currently dominated by transport infrastructure into a busy, vibrant and dynamic urban environment. Its particular strength lies in the simple and straightforward, diagrammatic approach that view both sides of the railway tracks as a single whole but which allows for further work and development without losing its essence.

HYVINKÄÄ (FI) — WINNER

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Come Together

HYVINKÄÄ (FI) — SPECIAL MENTION

AUTHOR(S) — Tomi Jaskari (FI), Architect, urbanist;

CONTACT — Porvoonkatu 19 B 48, 00510 Helsinki (FI)

Laura Hietakorpi (FI), Landscaper, architect, urbanist

+358 405278050 tomi.jaskari@nembi.fi / www.nembi.fi

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — “Come together” transforms the

Hyvinkää station area and its surroundings into a connected urban environment that creates a continuous, vibrant and green urban flow. The plan connects the key functions of the city centre through a series of memorable public places. With the addition of new wellplaced functions and the enhanced proximity through new urban connections, the East and West side are brought closer together physically, visually and mentally. This allows the area to prosper as a productive urban core. The proposed plan is based on five main themes: — A network of meaningful places; — Priority to pedestrians; — A vibrant, artful and green identity; — Green at heart; — Healthy, active and smart living.

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HYVINKÄÄ (FI) — RUNNER-UP

AUTHOR(S) — Lassi Mustonen (FI),

CONTACT — 51 Boulevard Auguste Blanqui, 75013 Paris (FR)

Architect

+33 760124072 lassi.a.mustonen@gmail.com

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — “Come together” is searching for the lost

connection between the human and the environment in Hyvinkää, a

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The Green Ring

HYVINKÄÄ (FI) — SPECIAL MENTION

AUTHOR(S) — Radostina Radulova-Stahmer (DE), Urbanist;

CONTACT — STUDIOD3R

Deniza Horländer (DE), Architect

Parkring 37, 68159 Mannheim (DE)

CONTRIBUTOR(S) — Viktoriya Yeretska (AT),

+43 6706083858

Student in architecture

info@studiod3r.com / www.studiod3r.com

new and refound connection that is not mediated by cars. The belief of the project is that fluent physical connections improve human

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — To link the separated areas of the railways

connections in the city. A good city offers spaces where citizens can

we suggest to frame the fragments of Hyvinkää‘s city core with

meet. Public spaces are therefore the key to a city that connects and

a green ring, expanding the existing green areas. The defining

includes everyone. Human connections and encounters in the city

elements are three bridges crossing the rails: the forest bridge, the

always open up new opportunities. Therefore, an inclusive city loses

light bridge and the square bridge. Bicycle lanes and pedestrian

no chance to create something new and good for the community.

zones in the green ring become a part of public space in our vision.

These encounters can turn into productive capacities for the city.

They close gaps between functions situated on both sides of the

Thus, Hyvinkää’s new and productive cityscape is green, connected

railway. Mobility is reorganized so as to reduce and keep motorized

and inclusive. Open spaces, streets and pedestrian areas as well

traffic away from the centre. The third in-between spaces are defined

as bike lines create new connections.

by the new greenhouse building at the train station, which integrates small scale building stock in its village-like structure and introduces

JURY POINT OF VIEW — “Come together” seeks to facilitate as

productive functions to the area. The greenhouse functions as a

many encounters as possible in the centre of Hyvinkää. The team

catalyser and magnet for the transformation and further adaptation

demonstrate a good awareness of the scale of the site and the

of the site.

challenges posed by the elevation differences and the railway tracks that dominate the area. The project’s approach to creating a unified city centre is characterised by its surgeon-like precision. By creating a brand new and clearly conceived central square above the platforms, the team has created a fresh urban space that succeeds in being close to everything and cleverly combines the station area with the surrounding streetscape and the public transport terminal.

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The challenge for cities to be both productive and sustainable is to interlink resources, mobilities and conditions of fairness. There are two aspects that implant

3/A Productive uses

new dynamics or reactivate resources such as urban farming and educational,

Uses can become productive if they go beyond their own functional limitations:

research or creative forces: productive milieus and productive uses.

productive uses work as a trigger that can initiate dynamics of change in a way that transforms the surrounding environment. They are a response to a situation in which an absence of dynamics has led to a powerful «use-ambition», the demand for a credible programme, a catalyst for change that fits smoothly into the existing context. ANALYSIS ARTICLE: Types and Fields Julio de la Fuente (ES) — Architect and urbanist

Innsbruck (AT)

Uddevalla (SE)

Oliva (ES)

Verbania (IT)

Pays de Dreux (FR)

Visby (SE)

Rotterdam Groot IJsselmonde (NL)

Wien (AT)

Types and Fields Analysis article by Julio de la Fuente (ES) — Architect, urbanist and co-founder of Gutiérrez-delaFuente Arquitectos in Madrid. www.gutierrez-delafuente.com

3 — WIEN (AT), WINNER — CAPABILITY MOUNT > SEE MORE PXXX

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4 — UDDEVALLA (SE), SPECIAL MENTION — PLANT UDDEVALLA > SEE MORE PXXX

…I lived in one of the most distinguished streets... In the

Types tackle the issue of implanting believable

house in which I was living, sugar was boiled, which

productive uses from hybrid artefacts associated with

created a lot of activity, both night and day… My next-

small-medium scale architecture and linked to the

door neighbor to the right was a goldsmith and, to

public and collective space to conclude mixed-use

with a series of artefacts to be colonized on time with

organized around the tuna auction hall.

the left, lived a coppersmith. It is easy to imagine the

urban fragments. Types are a strong device to host

a well-being oriented mixed-use program led by the

The winners in Wien (AT), Capability Mound (fig. 3),

frantic activities of the carpenters all day long, but the

innovative programs and stress the latent potential of

food industry. These “supports” are attached to public

propose a LAB to define a new urban identity capable

hammering and tapping… Right opposite me lived a

uses for a new dynamic to come in action.

space and linked to the main local agencies —the

of catalysing mixed situations, where production,

spur maker…

Fields are related to frameworks of different kinds:

university and the

distribution, consumption, and housing happen

The German poet Johann Rist provided us with this

political, socio-economical, spatial, infrastructural or

hospital— to ensure

simultaneously in a natural environment. “A linear hof”

description of urban life in Hamburg in the middle of

natural. The field condition of use is explored to generate

the programmatic feed

promotes the spectacular void of logistics —referred

the 17 century.

coalitions to trigger prosperity and equity, negotiating

in the future.

by Nina Rappaport in “Vertical Urban Factory”—

Nowadays, many territories are willing to take that level

the interest of owners, investors, and communities, as

A collection of empty

as the necessary condition to involve the collective in

of intensity and real mix of uses, including productive

well as creating new circular environments at different

spaces is present in

the cycles of production, consumption, and recycling.

activities. But could we consider the artisan component

scales.

Even a Brick Wants to

The banal spatial conditions of logistics are subverted

Be Something (fig. 2),

to become the spine of the scheme.

r u n n e r- u p i n O l i v a

On another scale, the special mention in Uddevalla

(ES). The power of

(SE), Plant Uddevalla (fig. 4), starts a process of

emptiness is stressed

regeneration through the land restoration of invisible

of the pre-industrial city as the solution to improve our

5 — OLIVA (ES), WINNER — PRODUCTIVE MEMORIES > SEE MORE PXXX

The memory of a place, its former natural and productive resources, can be powerful tools to attract new economic dynamics.

environments in the digital age? How to anchor the uses

TYPES

of the next economy to an existing urban tissue or a

Support and Infill

rural area adding local values and inclusiveness?

What are the specific uses to implant on a place as

According to Richard Florida, “the urban/rural economic

mediators between “the need and the wish”? The

as a design driver in

landscapes by planting trees with a new environmental

success is associated with the 3T’s: Technology, Talent

real need of a place versus the provocative wish to

the preservation of the existing industrial warehouses

sensibility. The first step is a greenhouse (a tree nursery)

and Tolerance”. The proposals included in this paper

use ambition. Both poles are often included at the

with an atmospheric and sensitive approach. The

that provokes a new imaginary of the collective and a

try to define the processes to create a high degree

same time in a single proposal thanks to open and

refurbishment of the dryers and brick factories supports

vision of a production facility for the 21st century. Could

of acceptance of new credible uses. But which are

flexible spatial configurations to drive a programmatic

a productive scheme that is looking for the coexistence

a warehouse be as memorable as a library?

the methods on the fabrication of these tolerance

evolution, following John Habraken’s ideas to separate

of sleeping uses at Rajolars. The paradox between

thresholds?

the physical infrastructure of buildings into “support and

density and emptiness is reviewed through a new

FIELDS

There are two main attitudes found betw een the

infill”.

relationship with the public sphere.

Memory of Productive Landscapes

awarded entries to deal with this notion of tolerance:

Happy Valley (fig. 1), one of the runners-up in Innsbruck

types and fields.

(AT), draws a hub of dense activity along the river Inn,

1 — INNSBRUCK (AT), RUNNER-UP — HAPPY VALLEY > SEE MORE PXXX

2 — OLIVA (ES), RUNNER-UP — EVEN A BRICK WANTS TO BE SOMETHING > SEE MORE PXXX

The memory of a place, its former natural and Richness of the Productive Uses

productive resources, can be powerful tools to attract

A new reading of productive activities as logistics,

new economic dynamics. Agricultural production

manufacturing or farming, could trigger the production

and food manufacturing can be smoothly integrated

of hybrid scenarios. Recoding the complexity of

into an ecological vision of a territory, managing the

everydayness is a tool to explore the potential of very

different seasonal cycles, as in the tourism industry.

specialized uses. The role of the collective space arises

Some teams are dealing with different potential scales

as a referee for a better balance between production

of superimposition of new proximities, as a cascade of

and consumption. The current cultural shift towards

metabolic loops.

the “local” and the technological context allows new

The winning team in Oliva (ES), Productive Memories

visibility conditions for the spectacle of logistics and

(fig. 5), advocates for a reactivation of the territorial

manufacturing. The new Toyosu Fish Market in Tokyo

identity that has been asleep for decades. The entry

is an example with a constellation of public programs

is an action plan for a 20-year process of ecological

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INNSBRUCK (AT) PROJECT SCALE — L/S – urban + architecture /

PROJECT SITE — 3 ha

architecture + context

SITE PROPOSED BY — City of Innsbruck

LOCATION — Innrain, Innsbruck, Tyrol

OWNER OF THE SITE — IIG – Innsbruck Immobilien Gesellschaft

POPULATION — 133,540 inhab.

POST-COMPETITION PHASE — A commissioning for a strategic

STRATEGIC SITE — 17.5 ha

urban concept of the winning team is intended

Philipp Fromm — Architect, Planning Department, City of Innbsruck 1. WHAT ARE THE GOALS OF THE SITE MUTATION?

The Europan winning projects are an important start for us in the development of an urban design process for this specific area. The different approaches show the diversity of the potential of this location. In any case, the aim is to generate the greatest possible positive added value for the people of Innsbruck and for the diverse users of this quarter. The projects are catalysts for the transformation of the promenade and the building plots from an “inner-city backyard” to a lively riverside promenade with new spatially animated connections to the city. 2. HOW CAN THE SITE BE INTEGRATED IN THE ISSUES OF PRODUCTIVE CITIES? HOW DO YOU CONSIDER THE PRODUCTIVITY ISSUE?

Productivity at this location means on the one hand to use the capital of the urban society. This involves creative capital, innovation

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Happy Valley

INNSBRUCK (AT) — RUNNER-UP

potential, the production of knowledge and know-how. On the other

AUTHOR(S) — Andrew Mcmullan (GB),

CONTACT — Mcmullan Studio

hand, the productivity of existing potentials, such as the market

Henry Lefroy-Brooks (GB),

40 Mortimer St, London W1W 7RQ (GB)

hall, might be expanded. The programming of the square and

Architects, urbanists

+44 2039738880 info@mcmullanstudio.com / www.mcmullanstudio.com

the promenade are also part of the production of a special social space. This strengthening of specific site values and public space is intended to enhance the power of urban transformation towards a sustainable urban society. 3. HAVE YOU ALREADY DEFINED A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN AND/OR ARCHITECTURAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION?

On the basis of the winning projects, key objectives and framework conditions for the development with the various stakeholders will be identified. The winning teams are involved in this frameworking process. The potentials of the programming, which the projects demonstrate, form an important basis for the creation of a holistic concept. Out of that, an urban planning procedure is then selected and architectural and landscape competitions will be subsequently held. Due to the importance of the area for the identity of the city, it is intended to involve the public.

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — A healthy city is a happy city. It is also

a more productive place. Our vision for Innsbruck will turn the challenges it is facing as a modern city into a transformative and resilient urban plan that will help Innsbruckers enjoy healthier, happier and more productive lives. Building on the city’s proximity to the mountains, its reputation for academic and medical excellence, and the population’s passion for healthy living, our vision revolves around a new Discovery District focused on wellness. It will create a cluster of knowledge-producing organisations and knowledgehungry businesses dedicated to advancing our understanding of wellness through pioneering research, innovations and commercial enterprise. To ensure everyone benefits from it every single day, our holistic urban plan designs wellness right into the city’s fabric —from the riverfront and the marktplatz to a new life-enhancing bridge. JURY POINT OF VIEW — The project proposes a complexity in terms

of program and its linkage to space. The proposal is explicit on built form and uses architectural elements to strengthen the identification of the place. In suggesting different types of spatial areas (roof valley, covered/open square, pop-up boxes) and working with the 3rd dimension, it offers connections between public architecture and open space in various ways.

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The Green Heart 190

INNSBRUCK (AT) — RUNNER-UP

AUTHOR(S) — Lucia Anderica Recio (ES),

CONTACT — studio.alt

Javier Ortiz Temprado (ES), Jorge Lopez Sacristan (ES), Architects

architecture.salt@gmail.com

CONTRIBUTOR(S) — Carmen Simone (IT), Architect

instagram.com/salt.arch

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — The project proposes a new productive

neighbourhood through an integral approach in connection with the city. The new vision of the site stands on 4 pillars to change the way the riverside will be lived and experienced: — A network of uses, a map of activities that create a diverse fabric, creating a 24/7 sequence of dynamics that bring the neighbourhood to life; — A close relationship between the city and the river, bringing the people in controlled closeness to the water; — A space for pedestrians, free of cars, where the different activities and uses extend from the buildings out to the public space; — A green corridor built using different strategies, bringing agriculture, vegetation and wildlife back into the heart of the city. JURY POINT OF VIEW — The project offers a detailed plan with

a particular spreadsheet. The proposal blends into the existing context and shows an integral approach, working with the existing urban fabric. The restructuring of the urban spatial system is done in a subtle way, thereby linking various spaces well with program. An analysis of current uses, which should act like “seeds” for future functions, anchors the new proposal and densifies the uses. The project focuses on the relation of the programming to the space.

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WHAT NEXT?

Projects-Processes Manifesto article by Bernd Vlay (AT) — architect, president of Europan Austria, Europan Scientific Committee’s member With the contribution of the other Europan Scientific Committee’s members: Carlos Arroyo (ES), architect, urban planner, teacher; Maurizio Carta (IT), architect, urban planner, teacher; Aglaée Degros (BE), architect, teacher; Miriam García García (ES), architect, landscaper, teacher; Didier Rebois (FR), architect, teacher, Secretary General of Europan; Socrates Stratis (CY), architect, urban planner, teacher; Chris Younès (FR), philosopher, teacher, researcher

E13 – ZAGREB (HR), WINNER — SWAP ON THE RIVER

E13 – GOUSSAINVILLE (FR) — PARTICIPATIVE PROCESS

Sharing and celebrating the opportunity of unfamiliarity

ENGAGED ACTORS FROM AN EXTENDED

through the concept of a collective project is therefore

DISCIPLINARY FIELD

the basic principle for all actors who believe in the

Concerning the ambition to match the agenda, all

curative power of architecture, urban design and

involved actors share the passion to reconsider their

landscape architecture. Innovative and experimental

everyday practices. They are ready to get proactively

approaches are inevitable. Nevertheless, they can

involved in a collective project that responds to the most

only satisfyingly address such crisis if they animate an

urgent question of our times: How to contribute to the

extended field of disciplines through their very design,

cure of the symptoms of the present crises in order to

crossing natural sciences with humanities and even

make a worthy future happen?

judiciaries, so as to trigger a shared awareness about the imperative of the collective project, growing out of

Europan’s ambitious agenda is about giving rightfully

the disciplinary field. This notion of collective project or

contextualized responses to this most urgent question

shared project is operative in Europan.

by means of the collective project that grows out of the disciplinary field of architecture, urban and landscape

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After the competition, a phase begins where winning

imbalance, exclusion and marginalization, the sense

Architecture, urban design, and landscape architecture

design. This response is based on a figure of action

teams communicate their ideas, in particular with

of abandonment of the non-metropolitan population,

gain their full curative potential exactly through releas-

demanding a collective “re-formation” of thinking and

the representatives of the sites that play a role in the

or the uneven accessibility to housing, work, education

ing a comprehensive co-production of transformations

acting performed by a spectrum of engaged actors.

transition to implementation.

and public services. The pervasive presence of human

regarding our living environment: territorial and infra-

Some teams —on the conclusion of these exchanges,

activities since the industrial revolution has been

structural authorities, politicians, developers, as well

may take various forms (presentations, on-site

accelerating territorial, social and climate changes,

as other professions and

workshops, publications, etc.)— will be selected to

generating an enormous human footprint on the planet,

build a “negotiated project” process with the local

a steady erosion of resources. It has diminished the

actors. This is most of the time an intermediate phase

capacity of urban settlements to entertain ecological

where the competition project —while keeping the

and productive relationships with rural land; it has

strength of its ideas— will be specified according to

sedated the productive and generative capacity of local

local circumstances that were not necessarily taken

manufacturing; and it has neglected the regenerative

into account during the competition. If necessary, the

value of taking care of places in the sense of maintaining

team can be expanded to be strengthened and to

and fostering circular processes.

form a highly skilled engineering team. Then steps will

Europan is based on a figure of action demanding a collective “re-formation” of thinking and acting performed by a spectrum of engaged actors

The aim is to…

all kinds of affected users

…encourage young professionals of architecture,

become co-authors of a

urban and landscape design to have them understand

collective project, inas-

that their contributions are concrete site-related

much as they are ready to

translations of the aforementioned agenda, but that they

share the concerns about

can only substantially contribute to it if they integrate

the necessity to act in an

the conceptualization of a process that “manufactures”

unfamiliar way in order to

the project’s unfolding in the site-related realities after

act successfully.

the competition phase, aiming to establish a durable process that is able to take care of the inclusive city.

be defined to consider over time the realisation of the

All these examples reflect a fundamental, global

projects, which are often varying in scale.

crisis that operates on multiple scales. Within this

This text has been written for the publication of a

crisis, global forces directly affect local and regional

“Manifesto-Guide” of some sixty project implementation

conditions, and vice versa, establishing a multi-layered

volved actors embrace

…instruct site managers and developers, who are

processes from previous sessions, classified according

interface of multi-scalar influences. Each single location,

the societal responsibilities of taking care about the

responsible for the post-competition phase about

to specific themes.

no matter how small, has become a “hybrid set”,

city. Their shared commitment provides a powerful

skills and modes to successfully “design” the transition

disposing of comprehensive, complex, sometimes

ground to achieve equitable access for all to goods

from competition to implementation, understanding

AMBITIOUS AGENDA FOR TODAY

conflictual narratives. In order to be able to offer a

and general interest services, whether it is simply af-

the idea of feasibility as a progressive step-by-step

AND TOMORROW…

future beyond the actual crisis, these narratives, as

fordable housing, transport infrastructure, access to

procedure, the progression mode of which introduces

A range of contemporary conditions challenges

well as the way they intermingle, have to be carefully

health services, education or culture, or even employ-

a strategic and tactical bandwidth that goes beyond

the familiar agendas of architecture, urban design/

discovered and sensitively addressed. Their “multi-

ment. The project of comprehensive co-production is

the classic stage set of masterplan implementations

planning and landscape architecture as material design

dimensionality” unsettles familiar patterns of space,

therefore one of the keys for an inclusive and ecological

or architectural realizations, allowing the competition

practices that address our environment. Think of the

such as city/countryside, place/territory, urban/rural,

city: the common ground of shared commitment finally

site to play a public role for the rest of the city. Winning

increasing conflicts on resources, the perturbing rise

global/local, public/private, visible/invisible, etc.,

encourages public spaces open to otherness; and at

ideas are not standard, they are game changers;

of ecological disasters, the sharpening development

manifesting a dimensional depth, all at once social,

the same time, its shared operation will considerably

implementation needs to be imagined as we go along.

of economic polarization, the continuous rise of social

cultural, ecological, physical, and (geo-)political.

improve the city’s metabolism.

Such an ambitious agen-

Winning ideas need to intensify their engagement with

da requires a shared

the site.

commitment, as all in-

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Credits

Europan 15 results

AUTHORS

ENGLISH TRANSLATION

in the context of the fifteenth

Carlos Arroyo

John Crisp (from French)

session of Europan

architect, urban planner, Carlos

This book is published

Arroyo Arquitecto, teacher in Madrid’s HEAD OF PUBLICATION

Universidad Europea (ES)

Didier Rebois

Blaž Babnik Romaniuk

Secretary General of Europan

Architect, founder of the office Obrat –

PROOFREADING

Françoise Bonnat

Ljubljana (SI)

Europan

Frederic Bourgeois TheWaysBeyond

EDITORIAL SECRETARY

Céline Bodart Françoise Bonnat

PhD in Architecture, researcher, teacher

Susan Burnell

Europan Europe responsible

at Paris-la-Villette School of Architecture

Europan

of Europan publications

and Liège University (FR/BE) GRAPHIC DESIGN AND LAYOUT

Julio de la Fuente architect, urban planner, Gutiérrez-

Radiographique

delaFuente Arquitectos, Madrid (ES) PRINTING

Miriam García García PhD in Architecture, landscaper, urbanist,

UAB Balto print (Vilnius, Lithuania)

Landlab, professor – Barcelona (ES) EDITED BY

Didier Rebois architect, Secretary General of Europan,

Europan Europe

teacher at Paris-la-Villette School of

Paris, France

Architecture (FR)

www.europan-europe.eu

Socrates Stratis

ISBN n° 978-2-914296-32-8

PhD in Architecture, urbanist, co-founder

Legally registered

of AA & U, Associate professor –

Third quarter 2020

Nicosia (CY)

Dimitri Szuter architect, researcher, dancer and performer. Co-founder of the P.E.R.F.O.R.M! (FR)

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