THE ADAPTABLE CITY / 2 Europan 13 results The EUROPAN 13 results catalogue presents at the European scale the 164 prize-winning projects in 49 cities from 15 participating countries The projects of the 44 winners, 49 runners-up and 61 special mentions are classified into 4 thematic sites families: How to integrate vacant sites in urban development? How to transform physical obstacles into new connections? How to use new inputs to change urban space? How to create positive dynamics from a difficult situation? Each sites family is introduced by a point of view of experts pulling into perspective a selection of projects intelation 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 (lor the winners and runners-up).Contents MAP OF SITES INTROQUCTION: ‘THE PROJECT THROUGH THE PRISM OF THE ADAPTABLE CITY WINNING PROJECTS 181p19 ‘@nerner How to integrate vacant sites in urban development? POINT OF VIEW: REDISCOVERIES - OF MODERN MYTHS AND ANCIENT MEMORIES BARAEIRO (PT) Wir -Betvoon the Ure unnerup ins Cara BERGEN (NO) Wine-OurGil, Ou Cotesive nner up -Matencel West Frm Pit Pc to Regina implementa SSpecal manton - Heenan mt Fe BORDEAUX (FR) Punrer up-LRgara madre bates dhitabves locales Furrerup Las peden rpc Spec menton Raga. 100 FELDAFING (DE) her Fves or Rest Runner-up The Mogic Park o Fetstng GENEVE (CH) Wermr- Laie ramictare unner.up - Open Spaco Fab 1 mane -Emphuteuse Spec enon - Un Gly LEEUWARDEN (NL) Wir Te Haw Punner up - Lian Preston i manton leper Ho 8 METZ (FR) 50 Ww Wp -BASE NACKA (SE) 54 Special ranton- Decks and Sing Span renton - Naw Cin! Coser to Ns Spocialention The Hanging Garders Cl of Borge ZAGREB (HR) 60 Winnet- Sap re Ps Purr ua- Hoy! Thee ea iver Beyond How to transform physical obstacles into new connections? POINT OF VIEW: PHYSICAL AND STRATEGIC OBSTACLES TORENITALISATION fade Dios ache. and Matias Poet, Dotan ACORUNA (ES) a Winner Nie to Se Furor ua -Enbiotet Pumas - Wk ekg Burge sty BAMBERG (05) a Winner ation; Adan fumarn = CT Bamba GuAKOVA (KO) 8 net - SANRIO urrwrup-Caravancerais GRAZ AAT) 86 Winner = Nae INGOLSTADT (DE) 88 Wi pr Walctanse urrw-up-e-Connect IRON ES) 82 Furs - Urn la Natura Spocial non - Mugae Ganka - Over he Borer UBRAMONT (BE) 96 MARNE LA-VALLEE (FR) 98 Punnera- La ofp ‘Special mention -Felatonal Landscape MOULINS FR} 102 ‘ot Evoiitn ve Aer Becomes unrer pW pect mention - Les AIS de Mou (8 (No) 106 Winer -Osubia-Reir ng Seutia Funrerp-Peparng Dens Spec meiton-Linaight PALMA EES) 10 lon Seerbines SAINTARIEUC (FR) m4 rat -Saasce Nous unre Vets Vesa SEINAJOK! Ft) 118 Punner op - Semaphore ‘Spec merino jon ent an is he Crosson soe Spectd mentin - Semen oe! he Rtbvay How to use new inputs to change urban space? POINT OF VIEW: NEGOTIATE AS YOU GO ALONG" INFRASTRUCTURES FOR SHARED HYBRID" TERRITORIES: 128 ost caret plesaor Cr POINT OF VIEW NEWINPUTS, NEW PUBLIC SPACES 190 Cares Arye, inqu acnte=, uberis BOND (FF 134 ‘Speck mito - BoNDy Raves Dyaigu Special erin Fi BonaynaSirens unnorup- Paste Spec manton - Pol Spec nenten - Tumeing Abe Spc nenton = Weavng he Woods LANDSBERG (05) ‘ew Lng ng) Nake unnerup-Forst Fest LUND (65) Wore - Cute Since Punrerup- Monster Parriog SSpecal menton Fnac Speci menton - Pay Pah! MOLFETTA CT) ‘Won Hala ne Lne uonorup- Mattia, ena e Maro pce mentcn Aim Spacel nenten - Season MONTREUIL FR) unnstup- Sandip ol Fels Spec menten From Punetua o Ua Set nenton = CULPD SANTOTIASO (PT) Wore FOOD Sara Tso nner up scr Seca menton = Pay Tme SCHWASSCH GMUND (QE) unreryp- Crate Cy Funrerup -Nodes nner p-Lr-Break my Hard Seca nanton -PayfulHant STPOLTEN (47) ‘Wher ut nine Weer Punnetup ~The Best SSpecal menton AUS Kestha Pog Spaced menton -Csmace STAVANGER (NO} rer Fens .A@ing Runner yp As of Nara Specat menion Ince 198 vas a8 12 lewsragrectci) 186 10 168 170 14 TRONDHEIM (NO) 178 Wine The Fase Mar nerd - Mere Tosa Space| renton The Rm VERNON (FR 182 Winner reas stance urorup -Navigaele Cole Ee Womnon au See WEN (xT) 186 Winer -Pubiccatir How to create positive dynamics from a difficutt situation? POINT OF VIEW: REGENERATIVE METAMORPHOSES: OF INHABITED MIEUX ‘AND PROJECT CULTURE 190 Chis Yeurés,anno-phiosapher teacher FR 2 uta a chet ES) ev, aco. ans AZENHADO MAR (PT) 198 Winer Umencenera Fuew-up~Seeond Lines Spaclerenton Anns ‘Seca rrariion -Resarencol) ae Change BARCELONA ES) 202 Winner etan Purrorup Dermot haste Furerup -Sistanabiekierace Specs ereron - Computes Sent Food ‘Spec renton - Gert el bar So Liber Species Evasion BRUCKIMUR (aT) 208 unerup- Togatnet CHARLEROI (BE) 210 Pure up - Maker Rann fr iy urre:up ~The Hoterotoia Poot jecaimenton - Gly "Mane 8 Yourset™ ‘Spacalereron -Surles pas, apace GERA (OE) an Winner = Celonizaton othe ly Cente unacp -Connoced Ue ‘Special renton -Das Special renon - Gat Gotion Canto GOUSSAINVILLE (FR) 218 Wrner-Bess ie Punneri -Dasracnes at is ats ‘Special mention - vous Pays -Stopcing Foraard SIVASKYLA FD 2 ire Th unrerp- New Kiss onthe Bibs Sect mention Exchange Cty Sacks ‘Special mein Fog Speer mention ‘Wage LAcoAREZE (FA) 228 Virrw-C.ehouses ‘rrr -Shrng lesan Special mein - New Nomads Linz a) 202 reer Trarow's Pa Spec mon -Livkngine MARL (OE) 238 irre WEEE Wi Punnerp-GRes ‘Ry Factor Seca ment - The Seine ‘OASTA (NO) 200 ener -Cencing ata unrer up Litany Note Speced ment - Liman sa 05) au ‘irre -Uttan Tot Furrerp-Roundine Comer Speck monn leery +s SSTREEFAERK INU) 28 Wirt -r-Betvee Punneryp- Potosi {Special mention - Opraarvan WARSZAWA (PL) 282 rn Pier Cats nner up -Aopart Pus Suppo pecel mention Ama Teese ANNEXES 287 JURIES 258 EUROPAN SECRETARIATS 283 REDS: 268MAP OF SITES Europan 13 SAINTBRIEUC CORUNA |ISANTO TIRSO BARREIRO AZENHA DO MAR IRON = TRONDHEIM ¢ onl SEINAJOK SWASKYLA BERGEN os ESPeO NACKA STAVANGER s=LuND LEEUWARDEN MARL. STREEFKERK eee Gena CHARLEROI LIBRAMONT coussaviee SAMBERG™ SELB VERNON™ BONDYE = METZ ~—sscHWABISCH GMUND MONTREUIL" = MaRNE-LAVALLEE = INGOLSTADT Laci Linz ST POLTEN FELDAFING = SWien MOULINS, A BRUCK/MUR, ; GENEVE ae ta connéze BORDEAUX ZAGREB BARCELONA Ba EMOLFETTA PALMAHOW-TO TRANSFORM PHYSICAL OBSTACLES INTO NEW. CONNECTIONS? HOW TO CREATE POSITIVE DYNAMICS FROM A DIFFICULT SITUATION? BELGIQUE/BELGIE/BELGIEN (CHARLEROI P 210 LIBRAMONT P95 DEUTSCHLAND BAMBERG F 73 FELDAFING P28 GERAP 216 INGOLSTADT P 88 LANDSBERG P 144 MARL P 238 SCHWABISCH GMUND F164 SELB P 242 ESPANA ACORUNA® 74 BARCELONA P 202 IRUNP 92 PALMAF 110 FRANCE BONDYP 134 BORDEAUX 34 GOUSSAINVILLE 2.218 LA CORREZE F228, MARNE-LA-VALLEE P99 Merz P50 MONTREUIL P 156 MOULINS F102 SAINTBRIEUC P 114 VERNON P 182 HRVATSKA ‘ZAGREBP 50 ITALIA, MOLFETTA® 152 Kosovo GUAKOVA P62 NEDERLAND LEEUWARDEN P 26 STREEFKERK ? 248 NORGE BERGEN P30 os 108 ORSTAP 240 STAVANGER ? 174 ‘TRONDHEIM P 175, OSTERREICH BRUCK/MUR ? 203, GRAZ? 56 Linz P. 222 ST POLTEN F 170 WIEN P. 186 POLSKA WARSZAWA P 252 PORTUGAL. AZENHA DO MAR P 195 BARREIRO P25 SANTO TIRSO P 160 'SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/SVIZZERA/SVIZRA GENEVE P22 SUOMLFINLAND ESPOOP 138 SWASKYLA P 222 SEINAJOKIP 118 SVERIGE LUND P28 NACKAP 54Introduction ‘lof Architect The Project through the Prism of the Adaptable City ‘The purpose of the European catalogue of results o reflec the outcome! the Europan 13" session Strategies for defining the 21° century city? A theme and three sub-themes. Tris session continued the theme of the Europan 12 competition, The Adaptable City, applying it in new variations. For European, it is important thatthe processes arising fromm ‘the competition should da more to involve tho actors as protagonists ofthe project, bul in aferent forms. Urban projects need to be fable to evolve overtime, 20 the challange ie ‘0.conceive them diferently. The trick isto be able to combine the long tem —a vision forthe future that is necessary forthe transformation of a context — with a flaxible projact that proposes spatial solutions and modes of production that can adapt to a city that is ‘moving, changing. dynamic. How can we escape from the still prevalent ‘igi functionaism to produce Europe's cities, tile adapting to changes in ways of file and the erviconment? Europan uses this thematic as a background to-emphasise thvee eub-themes as questions tothe actors and competitors: frst, how can the project develop around value as sharing and solidarity; second, a a time of economic: crisis and also of private sector dominance In the production of cies and architecture, how can we devise new ways of organising Urban commissions and the actors that give a greater role to a bottom-up approach? And finally, how can the project concentrata rare (on the production processes overtime than on ready-o-buld objects? Sitee and people that are motivated, ‘but looking for pragmatic solutions 49 sites located in cities in 18 European countries wore selected around this theme. Is noteworthy thal desoite a severe crisis inthe puble fences, Europan found active partners vith intresting sites, For the ura players, the notion of adaptability is about the compatibity cof spaces to urban practices, but also about Integrating unpredictable timeframes iio the production of urban projects While the objective of the municipal players is still to obtain a vision for tho future oftheir sites, which can form the basis for political choices and wall appeal to their constituents, theres loo a realistic noed for these projects! visions to be embodied in highly practical implementation proposals. Tho aim may be to change the image ata sito for transitional period, until concitions are mote favourable to fulling the full aston Of the project. Or it may be to find “Wiggers” that will usher in a first phase of change, vith no short-term obligation to implement the full project. And when @ more long-term porspectve is possible, itis stil expected thatthe projects shouls, overtime, be abe to alract potential investors Inthe catslogue, these sites are presented alongside an interview with a local represen tative who explains the municipality's goals, Experimental projects proposing ‘mix of realism and innovation For the competitors, thetefor, the task was to ceaity out the complex exercise af coneetiing projects that comisine a vision forthe future, innovation inthe project design process and pragmatism in implementation, Naturally, different interpretations emerge in the recponses, bul the juries were keen to choose winning teams thal were proposing innovative project practices around one main question how to reconcile the need to define spaces able fo adapt to perpetually changing uses ‘end practices? Tho winning propesale that thie article wlehas to explore are those that propose changes in professional practices and challenge the tracitional role of the architect. It will dra on the projects thameolves, but will aloo eit the ppost-competition interviews conducted byEuropan Europe with the winning teams about thar positions on the question of adapability and the way itis tackled in ther projects The project as a lasting urban form that accommodates changing uses Some ofthe winning teams argue thal urban ‘otm and erchitecture are enduring factors. For them, the challenge is to reuse stable typologies that can adept to new uses. In some cases, this means harmonising with the existing refurbished urban fabric: in others it raane creating new building fore designad ‘olast. Only the uses change wit time anc the city has a permanent dimension capable of absorbing these changes withoutits structure and its spaces being atfected, The title of the runner-up project in Leeuwarden (NU), Liban Prescriptions (1), Puls ils carcs on the table, The challenges are to reclaim built-up plots in a historical ‘abric and to introduce a new program into fa Tormer museum site, For the team, this means reconciling respect for the existing qualities and adaptability, Le. a change in program, The team proposes to reinforce the public spaces in the block through small scala micro-interventions that wil render it adaptable without fundamental alteration “We believe thal the city of the future will not significantly change, t wil just be usect iterently” In this restored urban structure, the team proposes to convert courtyards into eco-produetive areas: water willbe retumedlto the abandoned channe's, temporary uses wil bbe proposed for vecant areas and convertible public spaces will be craated. However, this Intervention leaves open the integration -inthe long term- of future uses, which wil need to be agreed with residents Thig same standpoint is found in teams thal are not working on an existing fabric, but on a future new neighbourhood, linked with a pereaption of the nearby fabric, "The contemporary city Is not one but several placos. Ite a complex eructure rnultkayerad, varied, made up of complementary and interconnected ideas, concepts and systems," jaccorcing tothe runnerup team on the Nacka ‘te (SE), Tho Ende of the Cy (ig 2). ite tne torethink urban form as a factor of resilience, rather than something fulle that demands constant rehabilitation.” On a riverside Incustial storage sta, the tear proposes to build @ new uroen form, sharply defined by large buildings that form juxtaposed urban signals. However these big architectures are ‘dosignod ta be flexbio and to aeaormmadate to changing uses. For example, the floors can host alffeent functions and the programs can be converted from housing to workpiaces. The lasting object-project cannot be separated from the process whereby i is reused In Barreiro (PT), with Between the Lines {ig.3), the winning team adopts exactly the same attitude in another architectural style. I compaats lines at buildings that reeonaie with the landscape as large structural Units onsite, Theso lines are neverthaless sufficiently flexible to accommodate the roads and desires of the potential users and selt- organized initiatives”‘The winning teem in Grea (AT), Walzer (ha.4). also starts with the idea that “buildings generally ive longer than the programs for which they were designed. That is why we propose an adaptable structure that can saccommodate the curtent program, but also possible future adaptations." Their design for the station ate fs structure that is massive {and unitary but, for protection from railway noise, is bull around large interior squares. ‘And tie asaumes certain specifi spatial ‘arrangements to allow changes of use. This position is a renewed version of a feily traditional attitude in the culture of the European aly had been revived in tha 19808 vith the return of the city as @ matrix around the same slogan "The city doesn't change, only uses change.” The public space project as a framework for construction over time (Other winning teams are also looking for a potentially uniying structure, but exclusively through public space rather than buildings which, in thet view, do not follow the same timeframes. For hem, the public cimension of the citys what can be defined and controlled overtime, whereas buildings — which relate ‘mote to the private sphere ~are lass easy to program and are more arbitrarily embedded in time. The winning team in Ingolstadt (DE), Watasirasse (15), clealy tates it: the first priority is puble space, withthe aim of maxi- rmising the character of the Northern half of the town, Their idea is that pubic policies and structures should implement and manage such ‘a program. To this end, the tear proposes a sefies of 5 strategies and 25 intiatves to form tho framework for a clearly planned docision- ‘making timetable. From urben-scale parks to interior courtyards, this is a global strategy on public space entaling @ nordinear implemen- tation process. tie his stratogy that wll decid how the construction programs will be realised,In Schwabisch Gmind (DE), the runner-up team with its Croatia City (fg 8) project also largely concentrates on public space, noting the lack of pedestrian streets and space that the inhabitants can share in this madern pat ofthe city The team conducts a close analysis of possible programs to develop new ways fil through specific bulaing intervantione (housing, boarding houses, social centres, cultural foundations). However, all these programs wil be linked by a participatory public space with cizan invoNement, which allows implementation fo be spread across different sites and over the long term. In Molfetta (7), a city sacking to rehabilitate its seafront, the runner-up team, Moifetta, tora 9 mare (ig.7), proposes “activity points ‘that can be reelised overtime...” and itis the ‘outcome o the fst operations “that wil make It possible to bulls a promenade as a link” It willbe this public space -an urban premanade reconnecting city anc sea- that wll act as @ backbone to ensure the ocherence ofan urban seace that is et present highly fragmented. _to provide urban coherence. This raises the Itis interesting tos, in these young teams, question, jokingly asked by the winning tear in such confidence in the existence of an urban Ingoistact whether: "Would this be too much public sarvice and poltical officials capable of work forthe politicians? sustaining a long-term development project in their use pubic space as a faitly rapid way The ecological project associating the long term of the territory and the short term of the development ‘The winning project in Moulins (FA), The Theory cf Evoluion (a.8), conceptualises this double temporality as thoy gather reflactions fram Natural Sciences, through which concepts of Adaplabilly, Yanstormation, Evolution, et. ‘are developed, around ene question: “How do living species evolve and guarantee their survival facing modifications of their envi- ronmente?® if Darwin and Lamarck anawer the question in an opposite way, the teamnevertheless argues that both doctrines prove to be complementary for the urban project (on sites with higher natural value. The teen considers that th reflection on such a site — located around a river with contrasting banks, fone urban and the other mainly landscaped should include the ong term ofthe tertony: the slow evolution of tha Alar River, bridge lina, ‘loads, ces and floodplains act as a network of elements structuring the project. Sil faster development linked to “urban economy as ‘wells tha values ofthe parcale and the rants should not be forgotien This reflection creates ‘double temporalty implyina the association of expetisesin terms of project: the one ofthe landscaper, working on the long-term, topog- raphy, nydkograpy geology and ground char actersties, and the faster evolution ofthe cit, (Ono of both runner-up tearns in Saint Briouc (FR), Seaside Boulevard (tig.9). is also confronted to a teritary af natural valloys around which the city developed and the tapearaphy af which alloned the preservation ofthe urban development Just ike in Moulins, the toam proposes a double scale: the lang ‘term, creating a natural bouleverd as a matrix following the abandoned railway; and the short-term, implementing projects to open tp potential sites for development and "the installation of new programs as innovative initiatives." ‘The tunnerup project in St Polen (AT), Jud?) inthe Water Kiss That Frog (ig. 10), Bes as well ‘nthe creation of an environmental systern through @ structure that is defined by water, ‘sa large-scale grid capable of integrating different architectures and programs. itis “a new urban made! thal develops intima phases andis structured on waterlines and basins”, as ‘wells “a new vision of public space tha puts everyday Iie into ctect contact with nature” Masterplan/project versus acupuncture/ project? ‘Among the teams which believe that public Intervention is essental to maintain the long term coharence of the urban project, a few ‘accept the idea of a masterplan. Nothing raprohensibia in thet! But the quastion fae to maintain adherence to. plan that wil prescribe Urban form and guarantee its implementation Piece by piece over time? Inany ease, this isthe wager af the runnecup twain in Selb (DE), Found the Comer (ig 11), which proposes “a systematic approach based on a strong naw masterplan Working in a town that has shrunk as @ resull of industrial decline and is looking to regenerate its central nucleus, the team wants to stabilise the form of a town-centr district through a “process of urban consolidation, by eliminating Infrastwctural barriers and creating urban places”. However, since the project cannot be implemented in one go, the team proposes that it should start with ‘a regulatory siucture and “seek to adapt to ‘opportunities through flexible phasing’. Can tho town’s urban planning department stick to this proposal and quarantee to take the project forward over time? In any ease, after Europan 9 ithad already introduced with the \whoning team Guiére2-delaFuente Acquilecton {an acupunctural approach to amenities and housing inthe town, At the opposite extreme from the creation of ‘a masterplan ia the Colanization ofthe City Centre (ig. 12) winning project in Gera, another rmunicipelity experiencing dovmarowth. The team proposes reinforcing a large marginal space in the heatt of the town centre, by 1 process of colonisation based not on a plan, but on an acupunctutal approach that rovitalses an existing area by injecting now uses. “As the town has a limited budget to Invest in urban development, our project's concept is based on the idea of developing this district sector by sector, in constantcollaboration with its residents" The toan proposes beginning with the construction of thea bulldinga, followed by the injection of ‘temporary uses such as container geragee. private gardens, play areas, and open-air cinema and a Biergarten (oper-ai ba), which vill ccupy the space until mare substantial programe can be implemented. Itis atioute to slowness which, around a “stare” urban Project, proposes thal he net steps should be explored in collaboration with citizens. Between two project strategies thet operate in similar contexts and in the vacaney af the turban fabric, is iteresting to consider which ‘approach to adopt: long-term contro through ‘masterplan or a more open system in which the evertual outcome is notknownin advance. This itferance in method jaa good example of the diversity of ways in which the winning teams sack to manage adaptabiiy The project that emerges from the existing physical and human fabric Many teams reject the idea of arbitrary plan- ning new structures orobjects onthe sites. They ‘consider that these ates have a helo, both in physical space, bu also in practices. And they think thal the attempt to revitalise these often Peripheral areas requires respect for what is alteady there. For some, thetefore, the outine of the project emerges froma metculcus analysis ofthis exiting state The runner-up team in Gjakova (KO), Caravanseras (fg. 13),is racial in thisrespect The diagnosis of a changing urban situation the riverside areas- accounts for 95% ofthe conceptual work. This diagnosis, which brings family win the minute detals ofboth spaces and practices, forms the basis of micrentonen- tions intended to reinforce the urban structure ‘and the identi ofthe piace as a soot valueThe runner-up projact in A Coruha (8), Embroidering the Edge (fig. 14), proposes a remadeling of the seafront. For the tea, the ppanciples of adaptabilly and selt organization relate tothe idea of revealing the values of the place and drawing on them to define a new future, To achieve thie, it emphasises the Importance of the place, of morphology, of perception end evolution, involving hurnan boings as bolh inhabitants and makors of their emironment. The goal, as Cedric Price Called for in architecture, is prevention rather than cure In Barestona (ES), the runner-up project, Sustainable Interface (Hg.18). as & follow-on from the same team’s earlier Europan 12 winning project. begins with a meticulous study of the sile wih the aim of detecting the possiblities of inraducing flexibility of uses ‘vor time and maintaining a reversibly that vill alow the ete to relum to its original state. Their goal is to inttoduce into the existing fabric production spaces and activities that fre compatible with housing, They devise typologies capable of accommodaling such a mix: ‘active plinths" (productive ‘and commercial spaces) that sustain “val emergences” (housing, offices, hotels Finally, the runserup projet in Charleroi BE}, ‘Making Room for Gy (fg. 16), starts with the layered urban structure of hie alighty abeclat district as an opportunity fo develop flexible buildings capable of defining public space, With this gradual process, anchored in the ‘eating fabri, the projec ame to ansionm the site over ime. in keeping wit ts users’ needs,The project asa flexible strategy, adaptable to varying uses Some winning teams retuse to predefine a global physical etueture capable of accom- ‘modating exible uses, because they think that these forms can no longer accommodate to ‘changes in the ciy. They prefor to propose @ ‘lexible strategy, as a system that would tse be able to adap! to changing uses: ‘Wpical ofthis attitude ie the winning team in Baroslona (ES), In Motion (fig. 17), which takes the view that the adaptable city requires sttatagias for consteuctions whare “the ult ‘fabric ieno longer a fixed element, bute group of heterogeneous elements with different mae degrees of change”. On an industrial site slated for conversion, they see the priory as being able to accommodate to movement by introducing new strategies that combine adaptabilty, seft-suffcient systems, an eco- systemic perspective and a social approach (ohousing, The architecture self must be able to adjust rapidly to keep pace with changing In Santo Tirso (PT). the runner-up team, tusolines (9.18), proposes a projeet that Is able to adapt to the needs of the local population by creating a flexible strategy ‘around 3 lines: a connective green axis; a renavaled market that becomes pubic space, Increased building density to encourage the influx of new inhabitants and activities. Their project isnot a fnished form, but a strategy based around principles and that must be capable of adapting to real needs at ary time, lis concelved more as a "system of working that involves several urban agents choosing bbotween diferent activities and actions”In Zagreb (HA), the winning team, Swap on the River (9.19), proposes a faxble strategy that activates the site "by injecting temporary programs and creating ephemeral realities”. ‘The aim isto activate the riverbanks as an area for leisure and events, The approach is tolmplementa project mechanism that allows changes and adaptations. The process-project: negotiated uses and actor interactions ‘Some teams, adopting a similar atttude also bbased on flexible strategies, assume the role of tactcians, making the project a news of actor Intoractions and negotiated use, The projects less formalised, the sion of the {ture no doubtless defined, but he project is parmanenlly nogctialed around responces to change and precise urban goals, without the precise outcome of the process necessemiy bing known in ackance For example, Bondy's Count (fig.20), the winning project in Bondy (FF), is conceived ‘around eetions that invite the lacal economic actors and users to play a role in the site's transformation, This site, well postioned along the Canal de !Oureq on tha way out of Pari, is atpresent essential an area of commercial ‘and the brit i to make It compatible with business and residential activities. To achiove this, partial rearrangements of the plot structures have to be negotiated with the economic players, so that new uses can be introduced while stilimproving the cornmercial dynamic. "We consider the process-project as a set of negotiations in which, inthe long term, investors, city dwells and residents aro the future protagonists. In Motz (FR), on the site of an abandoned former aiport, the goal s to attract activities that will replace the old function with now dynamism. The runner-up project, Cycles- Sol-Ai {ig 21), tes ta incorporate each pat cof he program into “a redevelopment strategy forthe torn er aliport based on a balanced and which will benefit clusive process: project ‘everyone while integrating the ening actvios ‘and neighbourhoods”, I proposes testing functions with the participation of the users ‘and conceiving a process that adapts over time. “Adapiabiily is inherent to an epproachtf thie Kind: sel-organization, ehating anet participatory projects are an integral part of the strategy” and should drive a bottom-up process. Finally the runner-up project in Trendheim (NO), More Tronaheim! (ig 22), lakes the same approach ints plan to revitalise a stil functioning brewery by adding other programs based! aroune public activities and leisure. For them, the theme of adaptabily rllects ‘theneeds of he ste: ‘Working with strategies that are both programmatic and spatial and can develop aver time, rather than propesing a finished mastarpian.” And ite theae woll- defined strategies which “form a solic ‘ramewark thal will enable diferent things to take shape, cenending on increases in prices ‘and martgage rates, damagraphic eagragation and economic groups". ‘This catalogue recording the resulls of the Eurcpan 13 session provides a way fr readers {ofind their way through the multiplicity of sites and winning projects, based on a presentation around the session's four big themes, each Introduced by an article by one or two ‘oxperis which seeks fo offer an interpretative sramework,HOW TO INTEGRATE VACANT SITES IN URBAN DEVELOPMENT? Point of view: Rediscoveries - Of Modern Myths and Ancient Memories p.18 by Jens Metz Barreiro (PT) p.26 Bergen (NO) p.30 Bordeaux (FR) p.34 Feldafing (DE) p.38 Genéve (CH) p.42 Leeuwarden (NL) p.46 Metz (FR) p.50 Nacka (SE) p.54 Zagreb (HR) p.60Changes in economy, governance or society can give rise to overwhelming vacant spaces in the urban landscape: entire building complexes waiting for new users, former military zones, leftover green areas... These spaces cannot be taken up in normal/organic urban development as they are far too large and in need of full adaptation. Where should we therefore search for elements to fill the emptiness up and when can we consider it as a value? How can we give sense to vacancy and integrate it in new ways of making the city?Frarldut UAS Memos of Euan’ Teonncal Gor Point of view embetn Rediscoveries - Of Modern Myths and Ancient Memories “As fo your Newton, I confess Ido not understand bis ord and tis gravy: Jaamit he has demenstated the movement ‘ofthe insavenly bodles with more exactitude than his forenners; but you wil cine {tis an absurdiy 0 maintain the existence ‘of Nothing.” Betin. Thinking of vacancy in an urban context, itis my cy thal frst comes to my mind, Borin has been the capital of voids, atleast forthe last ity years, f we coneidar them as missing parts ina city’s fabric, clearly identifiable “ether” spaces, open, free, ful of generosity and unexplored possiaites (gt). Hete, inthe mythic home of space pionaers and temporary activations, a rele model for almost all sorts of voids could be found, smaller or lara, ‘voluntary or by inadvertence, poetic o violent Bertin, mon emeur Historically, the larger urban unbuilt areas in Berlin are, due to its polycentric structure, forring gaps or araas reserved for particular purposes between them, World Wer I changes the face ef the aly, causing multiple sratones and broken teeth, wounds and missing links, From the numerous open plots that have rot been rebuild after the evacuation of the debris of war tothe large voids visible in is centre untilrecently the sensation of openness ‘and unfinished characterise the city as a "Stactlandschall”, a city-landscape, rade of discontinuities, sudden shifts of spatial perception and large interior perspectives. Looking al these urban voids, retracing their history, their appearance and later ll up -or not-, the debates and controversies around them, there are three recent case-studles as archetypes of voids. Their nature has been transformed in the last 25 years, due to ‘changes in eacnomy, governance or aociaty None of these reasons have been unigue, it has always been a juxtaposition of diferent influences that made these voids change thot affectation, alsa according to unexpected occasions, change of moods or political Upheavals. Their fate could also be seen as a coming-of-age story, where the previously young and rude city becomes mature, covering the scar ofan exooasive and exhausting youth by the unified carsbaarc.ike scenery, tuning ‘anuncarian yt identifiable cenit into a hollow tin of as an opposte posture, exposing the ‘rake and wrinkles ina iragie wink Nostalgia. bums in the hearts ofthe strongest. Polaclamer Patz, the former econamie cenit ‘and going-out venue in the heart ofthe city, wes demolished in the war and abandoned during the Cold War due to the construction ofthe wall in its cente (g.2-3). The decision to recover the place was driven by economic Interests; it was rebuilt very soon after the fall of the Borlin Wall “as if nothing had happened”, according tothe urban dogma of tha “ethical reconstruction’, with the notable exception of come moderate towers. There ‘was no public debate, the pressure was too high. The result is well known, the former void hhas disappeared, replaced by the globally ‘ecopted mix of tashion brands, coflee shops ‘and urban enteriainment, masked by what Chats Jenicks quaitied as “trophy buicings cl the worst Kind”, the botoxed fae ot glabal capa architecture, Someone shot nostalgia inne back. The park Gleiscdroieck (fig.4) is a younger example ofthe transformation of e vacant site Inside tha eily A formar ralyard right in the South of Potsdamer Plat, it was abandoned for many years, pionest plants took over the site making it almost inaccessible. The shift fof tha ownership from the railway company to the city of Berin and the development of Potsdamer Platz made it possible to realise a new park on the site, The constructions needed an ecological compansation in terms of unsealed surfaces, and there was a lange public demand for green spaces. The discussions between the davelopets and the Inhabstants were tough, finally @ compromise ‘was found and it was dacided to redefine tho borders by new constructions, also meant to balance the costs forthe park ‘The third, most recent and probably trend- selting vacant site is the former airport ‘Tempelhot (ig), @ huge open space in the rmidalle ot densely populated housing areas, Constructed in the National Socialist era as “central airport, it was used by the American ferry during the Berlin arlit shortly after the war, and then again it served as ei! airport nt 2008. Over tne years, the ciscussion aboutiis uture never stopped, different scenarios ‘were developed, bu the cty ancithe architects never managed to convince the pub cpinion. Areterendur was held, opposing the officiel plan to build al the margins, and a citizens’ initiative to not build arything, After the never- ending story ofthe construction of the new Berlin airport, the posters with the bored face of the mayor and the question: ‘Would you confide another auport to this man?* put the {inal nail in the cotfin of Both the plans for Urbanisation and the polilical career of the city’s commanderin-chief. Now, the situation le blockad, in umes when thara ia a need for both housing and qualied public space, the field has nether equipment nar any services, sno constuction at als alowed. A disaster in communication, a Waterloo tor urban Planning and a cautionary tale for the power of BANANA — Buit Absolutely Nothing Near Anything Nor Anyone. Filled, ramed or faced. Three examples, in the course of a few years, which show an tered positon regarding urban voids and the docision-making processes, but also reacting profound changes in econemy, the modalities ff governance of societal conventions. In having a close look at the sites, although very alferent in scale and location, they are Unified by the search for a new destiny in Urban development, Blind spots, wastelands, ‘no man’s lands, leftover spaces... they are in nacd of full adaptation. These spaces are far too large to be simply weaved with the surrounding fabrie oF filled up with known ructures, Wth reference to authorship, Miche! Foucault has shown which conclusions can bee drawn trom methods, narative structures ‘and representations of plane regareing forms of authority and decision-making processes, Inlerprated in this way, the panorama of sites reveals ise as a mirror of curent debates on Urbanity. Reconnections Some of the vacant site basically need ‘a reconnection with their surroundings tightening the loose fabric and redefining a closer relationship with natura elements, This Is especially the case of the sites connected towaler, whether lake or ver, as the cy offers a fagade with transversal, viaual or physical ‘connsctions. In Nacka (SE), the site right on the shoreline wae inaecesaible for mare than 60 years, due to its occupation with oll cistems (ig.6) Today itis waiting to be rediscovered, ctfering {2 dramatic setting and immediate access to a natural egerve. An infrastructural hub at the river Tagus in Barreiro (PT) will be obsolete inthe near fulure due to the constuction of a new bridge (ig.7). This gives the city the unique occasion to promote a new contalty, combining elements ofthe bull httage and landscape features with additional activites. Tho sits in Borgen (NO) has a beautiful natural setting close to@ lake and a river atthe ease ofthe city ceire (ig 8). The brief did not only ‘sk fora diverse urban neighbourhood and innovative madls of colective housing as plot projects. but interestingly also for new forms of property and the appropriate govenanca. The city of Zagreb (HR) proposes a reflection area of several Mlometres along the banks of the river Sava, with four specific sites for possible scenarios inaida this largo perimeter (ig. 9). very contemporary situation familar to many European cities, a sort of waiting time until further decisions, tiled with temporary public ccccupations, Reinterpretations Other sites do not simply need to be reconnected, but rather interpreted, as the former progrems have been removed while the slructures -bulldinge or urban fabio are stl in place, forming diferent kinds of heritage, Haro, the task was to attract now Users, intensity urbanity anc! find out whet kind infil could give sense to these current urban \oids. Additionally, the question of governance‘was raised, in how far he changes in econoery and society could give way to new forms of management, imalying both private and public actors. ‘The site in Bordeaux (FA) comprises a listed historical fre station bul atthe beginning ofthe 1050's (9.10) ls futures part ofthe mutation of the whole Garonne Eiffel sector, and the challange ie to dal withthe tension between the heritage and additional new programs and to organise the subsequent realisation process. Asin many other European towns anct citea, the cily canta et Leeuwarden (NL) hac Undergone a transiormation, both in terms of ws cet ee & QD & ‘a_i (A a ratte ta a Use and infrastructure (ig.11), More and more ‘etal outlets are going cut business, leading tovacancies and deterioration. The aly noeds a strategic soltionto the decine ofthe threshold ‘areas leading othe main cation nthe carte, intervening both in pub space andinside the buildings. in Genave (CH), the proposed stale part ofa suburban fabric made of small plots owned by a mulitude of private landowners (fig.12), Recent denstcation processes led to ‘a patehwarc af email development projacts without any overall urban projector cocrinated lanchuse stratedy. Theretore, the brief asked for ‘amathod to structure the future urban design, a flexible pattem that allows adaptation to aifernt tuations. Reinventions {A thitd group of sites comprises former miltary areas liberated by the Europe-wide reorganisation of military forces and their concentration on fewer and smaller ses, finaly ‘a movernant of economy. These “alive Heide” otfer interesting development perspectives for the cies, as the former enclaves are part of the urban agglomerations: from now on nevertheless tnese out-ot-sceletentores have to be reinvented in almost all possibie fads, from program to structure ‘The military training campus right inthe South ofthe vilage of Feldafing (DE) was originally built as an elite school forthe National Socialists in an idyllic location next to a lake (19.13) Today, several identical buildings in alpine style sill remain on the site as testimonials, ofthe sinister past and the main task was to propose areorganisation of the sit indifferent 2anes, allowing fora floxibl and diferentiated evelopment. BAI28 in Metz (FR), a former alllaliar allatiak military airbase, has a minc-blowing scale it needs to be gtacaly converted by long-term process, ineorporaling multiple uses (1g. 14) A remarkable demand in the briet was the conception of new ways of constructing and managing projects, which almed to foster the fermergance of local natives, eluding a wide Variety of potential panne. Toolkits and catalogues “The proposals seuss conterperary questions cof roan forme light ity Vs. condensed city, vilage Ve suburbia-; in shot, the question of Uurbanty and how to actieveit Pally tis about “human beings creating volumes’, as stated ‘Swedish jury member Rolo Fitteer during the abate al the Europan 18 Forum of Cis and utes in Bratislava (SK). By deconstructing the projecs, thar propasad methodology and hair visual presertation, @ number of comparable approaches appears, in terms of strategy, expression and proposed programmatic keys, ‘aye in search for concepts that overcome the specitic problematic on-site and give a mote geneeal, conceptual vision, A number of winning entries proposes collections of possibilities, prototypes fer the ‘occupation of spaces, as modals that could subsequently be adapted to the specific situation, The design itsalls often random, fa square or a circle with people gathering around, occasionally named forum, agora, stage or plaza. Some of them appear as ppute domanetrations of i-coneeivad lista of possible interventions, while others try nat only to establish toolkits and catalogues, but lso aim to create an inteligent overiapping of ubiquitous spatial arrangements and tha local conteln Genve. winning project La vile iterméctaire {fg 18) proposes a charter to density the largely underused area. developing a series of toole to resolve the resulting conticts. This rule- based concept is completed by a toolkit with proposals to upgiade and adapt the exiting vias, The winner in Metz, 64728 Fésonances conomes (ig 16), sets up alarge ecological park on the former airbase, The existing lendscepe typolegiesin the region ave identifies and set up as models for the structuration of the vast space, using archetypes as the pra, the orchard or the agricultural greenhouse, In Leeuwarden, runner-up Urban Prescriptions {fig.17) proposes a catalogue of situations, ‘treatments and small inteventons to upgrade the publ paces in the centre. A clever and welltargeted adaptation of the omnipresent toolbox, applied at all scale level, rom the city nits entirety tothe profile ofa street, nt ‘without reminding Camillo Site or Christopher ‘Alexander around the comer ‘ivking and urben prescriptionsImbrications of scales It is noticeable that sinca the shitt of the compstitions topic from housing to more urban issues sometimes around the turn of the millennium, the range of scales has considerably augmented. The participants se0k to retlect from the dweling to the house. {ho ety bioo, the quarter tothe ante ay, anc even further in the region. An imbrcation of scales, from maora to micro and viee versa, that reflects the attention given to the individual plol within an wean aystem and the question ‘about how far aninavidual lot can contribute to the development cf the city as a whole. Again, winning project BA128 Résonances Economes in Metz gives an example of @ ‘oirtarial approach by tying to reconnect the ‘ormeryinaccessbl aired to ts surouncings through the revival ofthe margins, connecting the alreacy present transportation interiaces to ‘the canal void and donaiying the poripheral cores. It intensifies the existing by extension, using the newly gained space, The runner-up on same site, Cycles-Sol-Air(fig.18). goes turner bayondiin history, dleccwering the traces of roman aqueduct ancia baroque casts thet used lo be on the site. They are trying to not only anchor their project on the present entry but also in tho past, considering that a tetitry has a kind of inscribed memory to fake into consideration. In Bergen, the winner Our iy, Our Cofectve (ig 19), stats the reflection on the scale ofthe entire agglomeration. The lake clogate the ste interpreted ava sort of ose parkinstead ot abartr;tbecomes a meeting pont wih the proposal oa promenade around It which inks ell the currently isolated areas. “The project thus creates a walkable shared space along the shoreline thal connects the new cily quarter and is neighbourhoods, Some of the projects could be seen as reminders of an era when architecture was a cultural ciscipine, and not only a markating tool to produce exchangeable bores. They fare triggering the imaginary by a narrative, ‘often based on archetypes, presenting @ now romentcism, colages of stuatonel poetry tales {and traces thal are interwoven in an ongoingstory. Pianesis drawings of the Campo Marzio seem filter through asa background picture, Fossils back, at severallevels,aretun both to his nostalgic drawings and his vision o he cy ‘avays more sold figure than fabric, closer to ‘Athons than Romo, ‘The runner-up in Feldating The Magic Park of Folding (1g 20), has aromantio subthera: i sets Up a network of associations, imaginary connections and allusions, therelare creating cultuelinterterences intime and soace. Butthe proposal ia not any romantio~ itis alsa vary inteigentin tems of strategy, nteypreting the site asthe spatial continuity of the experience of the landscape, punctuated by folie that could be easly adeptec!tociferent programs. The winning team in Bergen Our Cily, Our Collective, uses a peaceful imagery to pass its politcal stalement ~a manifesto on social housing in Norway today. The large porous black breaks with the curtant production of dwellings, creating a entical mass that alowe 2 large ground floor with shared facilities land common services, The runner-up in Zagiob Hoy! Thera is a Biver Beyond (ig.2%), disguises ite highty analytical approach with colourful, elmost naive vieualsations that very ‘wellilustrate the playlul intentions and the imagined participative process. Other projects are more heroic in their ‘expression. The winner in Barriro Betweon the Lines (ig. 22), designs a framework as “limits for an open futur’, a local mega structure as elevated walkable atid, that allows anothera view of landscape. It creates new public spaces, both mineral and landscaped, which set upa dialogue with the heritage buildings on-site. The runner-up in Nacka The Ends of he Giy (ig 23), suggests an assemblage of ‘typologies on an tical created topography of ten plateaus on the sloped site. Its key stalement is the "resilience of urban form in timo", 2 statement that tee to reinterpret pat typologies in a nen assemblage, mingkng both intimacy and monumental Beyond mixity Besides the questions of strategy and form, there is the art of dynamic programming, fr what could be celled the design of the process, Uses, actors, temporal, all hese often maverick parameters have to be taken in consideration to create a projects alchemy AAs the commonly used anc! until now proved standard operation procedures tend not to ‘work correctly anymore, there is a need for ‘ow aolutione. The mast inoresting proposal ‘ace the question on beth edges. On the one hand, the perpetuation of ephemeral events to activate a site, a kind of a permanent revolution; an the ether hand, the exeation of collective structures and new forms of governance, neighbourhood. building as a laboratory experiment of intermediate democracy, (One ofthe runner-up projects in Bordeaux Les grandes maneeuvtes (fig 28), uses already tested methods to activate the site and transform it into a mixed-used core for the ‘quarter. The concept could be characterised ‘a a festvaizatio, inking intoligontly tatogy and tactics by a series of manoeuvres in ime and space. They consist in the creation of ‘an autonomous administration forthe ste, a ‘minimum restoration and miner extensions for tho listed buildings, and the installation of a theatre compary that plays the site with its huge co-constructed machines, The winner in Leeuwarden Te Huur fc.25), proposes a focalised bottom-up strategy to reactivate the city against the backdrop of the European cultural capital in 2018. By countering the shortage of hotel rooms for this event with the curtent vacancies in the area, a synerayis created that re-dynamises the centre Locals and trans-locals are mixed, the new inhabitants bring new actvtias, an ambitious plan whose directness is both intriguing anc stking, The runner-up in Mez Cycles-Sol- Ai, bullds its program on priorities, necessary measures to activate the site, so-called permanences as lasting programs and @ proposal of nol loes than 128 alternances, ‘temporary events largely inspired by what happens on Tempethat ‘As an example af the attempts to conceive naw modele of living together, the runner-up in Bergen Mellendal Wes (tig.25). proposes a rnon-proft housing sliatagy that challenges the traditional properly development in Norway, ‘The project proposes an intermediate density between the centre and the areas of detached homes, thus aiming to ereate an urban neighbourhood both in terms of space and of « careful reflection on communities and their necessary diversity: Even if the expression is rather modest, the proposal tries to raise a relevant poltical discussion on the modalities of production of subsidised housing. The search for allernative governance is also tackled in the winning project in Genéve La vill termediate, with the imagination of a legal-organisational interface that is neither public nor private, but takes the form of a collective charter. The authors imagine this structure as an inlormediate body in-betwoen the municipal authorities and the individual ptivato stakeholders to foderate thai and Integrate them in a common process, providing a framework for future negotiations inorder to ntate the necessary development Adapting adaptability The pie-vnning projects as a whol propose, indepencentiy ofthe inccual te, a range ot options on now to deal with valde, ose determined by the character, the stuation or the sizeof the individual situation than by the authors’ conceptual approach. Their points of view determine tne creation of a pectic arengement anew ston ora enble framework to stata future development. is aso interesting 10 better undertand the choice ofthe wining entries tra ne jy reports. They clearly state whether they search, in some cases, or racical imovation. or on citer sitos, fr pragmatic als Ancien, string othe cites’ epresetaies and thei motivations helps understand lot about curentvends inthe debate about ban planning procoduras. It aada to a crucial ausston Howto use Europan?in ome oes, the spect ermat has asinine, cool don a hectic anc premature debe, think careful and consciously about tha futur ofa to, ‘thout he pressure ofa classic competition Other ets, on the contrary, understand Europan as @ tool 0 epeed vp interminable and futless arguments, as a Jackin-ne- bostko gare changer to suddenly pu a ato on the map and ereao abuzz to break up a blocked situation, This fe probably the most incredible quality of Europan the possibilty to adn tha format accorcng othe specie conctons on the ate ‘Adopteilty also can be adaptableBARREIRO -1S00tY LANDSCAPE - ARCHITECTURAL jeri OF ESN TRANSPORT COMPANIES LOoAON BARREIRO MUNICIPALITY ‘AND MUNICIPALITY PORTUGAL (PT) 1008 TRB NAB, ‘uy TEE oP 0 PARTIAL URBAN Jpsieoo 916 ant HA ‘STUDY, SUBJECT TO SCENARIO corse 935HA Ano ACTORS DEFINTION. [EeROeOSED 8 BARREIRO MUNICIPALITY Interview of the site's representative ui Lopo, Couneiman Municpaty of PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS To STRATEGY ‘The gradual disengagement of structures linked to rail and river hentage has led to an increase of empty spaces, which -being a paar of the history and identity of Barreto should be kepl, Furthermore, the location and Jandacapa foature tamed the Tagua estuary tendithe rver Coina fete a "ight of ts own in almost a cinematic sense, as gazebo and ps, stage and scenery. The intended objective is a ‘tong attractiveness of this space, enhaneng different experiences and integrating uses and activites with strong value gains, becoming ‘a destination, an attraction point for a now centrality inBarcero, cher as aaa HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE ‘SESSION TOPIC-THE ADAPTABLE CITY? \With the landscape potential ofthis territory, it Is ecsentia to fine commen abjeotivas among various actors in en area marked by multiple Urben, economic and social candtions Its also essential to have flexibility and cteatvty in urban iniowantions, favouring local resources and values, allowing several actions that can be implemented autonomously, depending on the availability of agents to act on this space, and the feasibility and ‘adaptation to futuro interventions. DID YOU DEFINE A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION? A stralegic and fundamental objective of Barroito has been the urban regeneration of riverside areas, From the continuity of work in progress, rehabilitation and attractivanoss shall be promoted, in functional, economical environmental and heritage conservation points of view.LUCIE WEBER ( osc HM BOLANES FA) REMY GIRAROIN o ARNAUD CASEMAJOR-LOUSTAU WINNER - BARREIRO (PT) Between the Lines ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW The site has aivays been the transport hub inking tre land ta the Coin iver, which beyond ita industrial character has many green areas ta valavise. Que proposal aims at enhancing these features enci giving ita new meaning. We are seeking to improve the experience ofthe site by extending the waterfiont promenade through the entire site and implementing soft moi links within the city of Barreto and the Lisbon metropals, creating j9feen spaces on land and encouraging wator related actvtios. We propose an incremental project development fst by acting on the boundarias ofthe site fo transform it progressively {ots cove. The aim isto act on its boundaries to redefine the site. On the Eastside, the link to Sainal sarves as a backbone to tenfores the fishing and marina activites through reorganizing the movernents and parking of bath boats and cers. On the Westside, the former interchange area is to become a park Acknowledging he ra hetiage, the existing sructures willbe refurbished, cen “The limit between the park and the interchange terminal is a permeable fer, a flexible and versatile structure that can accommodate a wide range of activities allowing local resident's paricipation, The future is now ‘opening between those two ines. JURY POINT OF VIEW The project proposes a focus an program and feasiilty of the several parts through strang design ‘concepts characterizing the project area as an Independent and coherent unity. The parking ‘toa, ones the transpottinerfaoe is rernoved, may adopt a landscaping cof leisure role.MASSINO DICECCA ELISA AVELLIM MARCELLA CLAPS 1 ANDREA DE SANCTIS DARIO MARCOBELL! RUNNER-UP - BARREIRO (PT) Insert Coina JURY POINT OF VIEW This project is an interesting proposal on implementation Phasing methodology and activities mix integration, There is scarce information supporting parking dimension and rational use evotion TEAM POINT OF VIEW The site has become @ clear example of enclave inside the urban tonitory of Bare. tise grey zone, with memories kop bythe Inhabitants yet stowly fading ave, ‘The edges berly communicate with the city and the river. What affects Barrera is a common ‘isease” to many ather dsused European areas, raceabie to an uneven urban growing process strictly inked fo unsustainable wasting producing urban choices We have tied to conceive our projet ina ciffarant way, investigating the perspectives Europan 13 proposedt settorganizetion, sharing and process. Since the beginning, our main goal has bean to coneido the city as a process rather than a static abjact. We had the need 10 elaily the future transformations of Berio and the possible Key forces linked to tha transformation, Consequently, we intend to male Social and eeonamical actors, together with architectural and natural ones. in order to coordinate bath horizontal and vertical strategies, We ere nat pursuing any sort of populist urbanism. Instead we propose a getias of design actions and reactione that could make this site an ‘adaptable”, coherent and open-structure pat of the cy Barre has to 190 back to speak again with ts teritory and people. To this exten, a fst fundamental operation has to ba the re.appropration of is borders, We worked on a gradual, step by step process to define identities and places and to finally r-now ther,{DAVID CASTANHEIRA ‘SPECIAL MENTION - BARREIRO (PT) FRANCISCO CARRASCO 1") {oko paane oouee Sewing Spaces In-Between LUISA FRANCA (>) a ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW Rehabilfating and reconnecting, stucuring and sprawing, dersiying and consolidating. Rehebiltating spaces and buldings of interest, reconnecting them through an a car Urban platform that structures and sprawls th inonentien to an urban structure communicating PEDRO GOMES 67) bbetween levels, ayers and spaces, denetying and consolidating. Sewing, adepting and shacing pOHMTESTS architecture, nature and people thal indwell them athwart @ spatial, social and ecological convergence, never forgetting Barreio’s memory and herltage —natural and industial-, lying UR DE CeRCANDND axe altraneport network and infrastructures. Sevding spaces in-betwoenBERGEN secon URBAN ~ ARCHITECTURAL Vie PROPOSED ey BERGEN MUNICIPALITY 002/08 GRONNEVIKSOREN, BERGEN (ON COLLABORATION WITH HORDALAND COUNTY) NORGE (NOY 097 268000 nA SNR) OF THE lee SIE eH BERGEN MUNICIPALITY AND BRAS ror 7744 NAVEEN AFTER COPE BUILDING COMMISSION Interview of the site's representative Gyda Stramme, Urbanist, ty planning otfce Europan Norway PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS To STRATEGY ‘The Bergen Region is currenlly undergoing a rapid growth wth an expected 1's of 100,000 citizens in the coming 15 years. In order to sustainably accommodate this growth, a coordinated area- and transport plan was devised based on a new ight-al system, The Europan site is located close to a planned lightrail stop and the plan's aim is thal the now nd planned light-rail ines will be the star for ‘a igatioant densiization ofthe axing urban fabric, The site's location and quality makes it suitable for showcasing progressive solutions in urban design and architecture, HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE ‘SESSION TOPIC - THE ADAPTABLE CITY? Much of the Mlendal area has for decades been inaccessible and unsuited for cubic use, Now, hewever, a tranafoemation ion is way. “The municipality of Bergen has asked for anew housing project that can introduce new ideas cof sharing and co-esiding, The Europan site at Gronnevkeoren isto boa pilot for active mixing of ciferent demographics, citferent concepts for sharing and for sustainable lifestyles. DID YOU DEFINE A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION? Meating with the winning team in December 2015 was a positive experience for the ‘municipality who corves as owner, planning authority and developer ofthe valuable ste. The Bergan municipality vl iris the winners toa local workshop in Feoruary 2016 and arrange for meetings discussing strategie, urban and ‘rchitectural solutions for the site based on tha winning project. The alr ia to develop a seties of options to achieve the municipality's ‘goal: a housing pilot at Grennoviksoren, The ‘municipality of Bergen intends to commission the winnars for davoloping the preliminary project for this pt[RERNILE HEILMANN LIEN 90 Hae TONE 10 Lasoscare anoue WINNER - BERGEN (NO) Our City, Our Collective Lrteta som ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW A VERY BASIC MANIFESTO 4 Housing projacts ofthe future are more diverse! We want the wishes and needs ot the inhabitants to drect our being typologies, not the merket driven developers, -2- Our sreets are also a space we share! Ina dense city, they should be looked at as an extension of cur hing rooms. Hierarchy puts pedestrians and bicyclists fst, public transport ‘second and motorized vahicles last 3 The lure ailycitzens rida bikes! Not cars, within the city, Not only to transport themseWves, but alsoto transcor lighter goods. -4- Densification with qualty! The main quality ofthe city is social interaction, Good cities have high social interaction eta lw cost. 5. Sustainabiliy isnot an add-on! Iisa part of how we plan, build and lve. The most climate. ‘fiendly square meter is perhaps the one that we do rot build go we have to consider ceratly, 6 Diversity = a thriving city if! By offering a wide varity of housing units and typologies we can atract a wide variety of peopl. old, young, famifes, singles. students — with diferent daly routines, needs and aconamies 7. Sharing is carn We can shave on citferent levels and for diferent reasons: inside ahousing Uni, among several writin clus, inthe neighbourhood, in the strc, in Bergen as.acty For economic, sustainable social reasons, for cur pparsonal gain and the comman good, JURY POINT OF VIEW The project shows fa clear idea and sttatogy on all acales. It recognizes the water promenade end the water body of Store Lungegérdsvenn as a garden for the city ~a central park with an Importance for Betgen as a whole. Through ‘continuing and einterprating the neighbourng Urban fear of the student housing, the preject proposes two hybrid city blocks consisting of ‘commen porous ground floor that responds tourban connections inite surouncings, weil the upper floors resemble two larger perimeter blocks. The proposal shows a richness in ideas ‘nd guidelines for a cooperative housing plat ‘and howto active tha use of the wataront.RUNNER-UP - BERGEN (NO) Mollendal West - From Pilot Project to Regional Implementation ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW The premise of this proposalis the conviction thatthe current housing shortage and concomitant rise in house prices isin part caused by @ lack of innovation within the housing sector in Nonway. The municpaliy, commercial developers and local co-operative housing associations are unable to mest the aca housing demand. We woul lke to vestigate ‘the potential of a societal housing model, which would to some estent relive the pressure on these actors whist at the same time be present as a non-profit allematvs in a competitive and commercial housing marke. JURY POINT OF VIEW The project gains distinction with its proposal an developing non-profit housing strategy in Bergen that challenges the traditional property development in Norway. The urban scheme suggests a density somewhere between the city and suburbia by mixing two typologies, While neither the typology nor the urban plan is remarkable, the project is seen as a strong comment on how to build a neighbourhood ina fast growing city. In this sense, the proposal is complimentary to the winning project that pinpoints important aspects to consider for the city when developing Grenneviksoren asa pilot project.\BIGNE HELLAND NYBERG 1") ‘SPECIAL MENTION - BERGEN (NO) — Her har eg mitt hjerte, her har eg mitt ly ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW The projact challenges the usual construction methods related to _affoebilty and typology, Itemphasises the concept of dostyourselfand develops a constuction stem iiutrated ina housing catalogue with a get of basic rules on haw to put your awn housing ‘modules togsther. The raw housing module, easy transported tothe site, allows “creativity with pracictabiliy’ and the inhabtants devalop a sense of community and a sot of shared functions through the process.BORDEAUX FRANCE (FR) ey 7 Et ~asccony URBAN - ARCHITECTURAL L568 BORDEAUX, ‘BaSTiDE oisTRICT PULA 299,908 INHAB, rratran ore SMA ec} Se 1.9HA, vie phopose> by EPA EURATLANTIOUE, METROPOLITAN BORDEAUX, ‘THE CITY OF BORDEAUX phen) SF 1 Se EPA EURATLANTIQUE ‘OyvES0N ATER COMPETTON DETAILED ‘STUDY OF THE CONVERSION OF THE BENAUGE FIRE STATION. FOLLOW-UP OPERATIONS CAN. BE INITIATED WITH PRIVATE PARTNERS. Interview of the site's representative PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS TO STRATEGY ‘The Benauge Fire Staton stands on the right bbank of the Garonne facina the 18th century riverfront ofthe Ist bank, the historic centre of Bordeaux. The fre station is @ provocative, ‘emblematic landmark inthe urban landscape, \With the planned departure of the re brigade, concerns for the future of an architectural complex of 1.3 ha in the heart of the city arige, The fulura of the fire station ie part of the transformation of the whole sector: development along the banks ofthe Garonne fend renovation of the Bastide district. There sa dosia to opan the site tothe rest of the cy and fo maintain a degree of public space, HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE ‘SESSION TOPIC - THE ADAPTABLE CITY? What to do with an ald concrete fia etalion ‘nd a block of housing on pilots inthe heart ol the city? A diversity of functions, uses and temporaites need to be coordinated, The site thas the potential to become a laboratory for another way to construct the city with new claws ‘The fre station is @ place fora project process ‘along the theme of the adaptable ely. The isaues of opening up @ heterotopic complex to theres ofthe ciy redevelopment strategies for 20th century architectural heritage, transformation programmes, approaches 10 ‘co-construction and participatory processes become topes to be reinventedULES EYMARD 4 ALE WANONCORR PUL JAQUET =) MAXIME ROUSSEAU =) RUNNER-UP - BORDEAUX (FR) L’Agora moderne, incubatrice d’initiatives locales ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW Within a weakened welfare slate, who can guarantee the eomman Interest” In adition to its powerful investment potential, we believe the civl society's coming with a tertorial consciousness. Alongside the client ~who decides and the construction, ‘manager -who executes... we should include a sharing manager. For this, creating synergies between private investments and local concerms is fundamental The fre station renovation is an, ‘oppottunity to think about an incubator for local natives, based on @teritorilized mutipying effect, by which each invested euro is ampitied forthe common interest Nowadays, the Garonne stands up as the metropolitan Agora for Bordeaux and takes up the challenge to reunite both banks. In this ecosystem, the Caserne de la Benauge has all the necessary potential ta bacerne a new astriet Agora, Thus the project will hacome a spot for exchanges and intercistrict cooperation. ‘These are the basis fo the station renovation, as a specific heritage, a istrict agora and an |naubatar for focal intiatves. They dering a famenork ta instigate future investers to innova and initiate new ways in synergy with the cistnct. Beyond answering the cstic’sprotity needs, all these intentions wl favour meetings and olher random chances ta connect, form which we hope new motivations for the system to reinvent itself wll emerge. JURY POINT OF VIEW Withou! being Utopian, the project proposes arrangements thal donot exist and would raitiply the effects ofthe existing local programmes: a residential hotel allows the inhabitants to remain as ‘tenants while their homes are renovated, land counters the inevitable gentification of the Benauge district; A business incubator sives very small companies an opportunity to test ther businesses with tho advantage of the showcase effec; Teritarial Renovation Competitiveness Hub provides a way for local ‘voluntary sector and private neighoourhood renovation intatives to pool their eats; et.FRANCOIS DANTART (9 Wance maLHeRE >) DELPHINE COURROYE \'% SILVIA PIANESE )) AURELIEN LE ROUX EVA MANUEL. a ROMAIN MARTEN © EKOREER ARCHITECT RUNNER-UP - BORDEAUX (FR) Les grandes manceuvres ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW The xoject instantaneously beains withthe erestion of a worksite huts area providing the whole urban developement zone and financing the transforation ofthe fire station. The Grandes Manaeuvres association coordinates al stakeholders (publi, private, inhabitants) and leads every step of the process, from funding to implementation. The project spreads out fram the courtyard. Inthe pioneer phase, public space appropriation through fekde based produced urban furniture reveals the site potential and its commun vocation, According ‘o-an incremental stretegy, bulldings are gradually colonized and refurbished at a minimum evel wilh anecoromical ven, co tha hy respect thernonurentautbaniy. The now unions sip BAG mnyemanr nt» into the existing bullings, taking acventage of ther erchitectural qualities and bring the site to Me in tuno with the spint ofthe place, ‘The pateipatory dynamic strengthens the site attractiveness and reinstals the fre station ints ‘quattar even befor the firemen departure, which enables the installation ofthe actvitias making the ste reciatng in the city JURY POINT OF VIEW The quality ofthis picject es ints implementation ofa tied and testad method of recapturing and enhancing ‘vacant urban fai. The festivaigation of the dovelopment through the implementation of co-constructed street furniture creates fan address and value. The project cloerly Identies the partners. And the arrangement and phasing process proposed ilustates the Implementation of an ultimate programme {that i respactul of the existing horitage and its spectic charactenstics.NIcoLa scaRAMUzz! 1) “¥aai0 BIAGIO SALERNO | ELIANA MARTINELLI DAVID RAVEGG FRANCESCO SABBATIN LUCA SAMMARTINO OA INRACHTETTURARCANAL SPECIAL MENTION BORDEAUX Fm) Regarde-moi, je te vois TEAM POINT OF VIEW The city isan archilecture growing on itsalf and devsloping on the physical signs of the past. The barracks —Ike the cathedral- represent one ofthe signs for Bordeaux through which the community measutes spaces. They wil forthe tat time reveat themselves tothe city end become a creative hub. We will not take action onthe outer shepe with its essential festures; we wil ather empty the map aligned with the theory of modern movernent, placing modular inner spaces easly convertible overtime and suitable for artistic events to attract al the etizone of Bordecun,‘or URBAN LANDSCAPE - FELDAFING i ccsrecin DEUTSCHLAND (DE) 1 FELDARING, TELECOMMUNICATIONS SCHOOL F978 4100 NHAB, ves $1 1980KM PRONOSED 8 FELDAFING MUNICIPALITY os i ee NER Bima, (NSTITUTE FOR FEDERAL REAL ESTATE) ‘THE COMPETITION RESULTS WILL BE INTRODUCED AS IMPULSES INTO AN EXTENSIVE CITIZEN PARTICIPATION PROCESS Interview of the site's representative Berhard Sontheim, Mayer, PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS TO STRATEGY The municipality would Ike to establish now uses on the Bundeswehr site -expected to become tree in 2019- mainly in the felds of research and development, teaching and residential use, The goalis to realize long-term solutions over a period of about 20 years and thorelore structure the development in a way that is as socialy compatiole as possible forthe ‘municipalty of Feldating~with ts approx. 4,200 resid fe expansion ppossibiltios for the akeady exsting facies ts- and to prov HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE ‘SESSION TOPIC-THE ADAPTABLE CITY? Since the area to be treed up amounts to ‘approx. 1/7 of the area of Feldating that has already been built, this site's conversion for civilian uses wil change the face of Feldating vith respect to social structure, infrastructure ‘and g0 forth, Intogration in terme of urban planning or inks to the existing part of the ‘municipality should be kept in mind. The a larger event space or a genet ‘open space to be used for municipal purposes should be considered in the planning, creating ‘adcitional benelit forthe puble. DID YOU DEFINE A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION? ‘The designs rewarded by the jury will be pre- sentad to the Municipal Council atthe bogin ring of 2016; then to the cltizens in February (oF March 2018, Wa hope that the high qualty proposals also convinces a broad public, so thal we can begin the urban planning work con this basis and involving he architects end ‘davelop a lzyout plan for rmplomestation pror te the withdrawal of the Bundesweht[PABLO ALLEN-VIZAN ELISABETH GARCIA-ASENSIO WINNER - FELDAFING (DE) Forest for Rest ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW The project is based on Cilizens, Health and Leisure with a focus on free ouside spaces as Blergarten, fairs, markets and sports ~actviies that we should see as part ofthe landscape outside a low-censiy architectut. (Our proposal takes care of the forest, which should be almost anather type ot forest. The connection to the cily could include an exhibition or concert hall, a museum or a multi-use paviton. [tis conected to a square where al kinds of markets can take place, Leu and the existing uses have to be improved and connect the ake and the forestin the South ofthe site ‘The bypologies inthis location provide us with a chance to interpret i We propose sinallechoes ofthe landscape. We must activate the site with bit of architecture anda lt of landscape. The roots -prasented ae folds- become pat ofthe forest and tha program hides under them, The city and the citizene decide on when and what to build and they can even choose the future program of the fod JURY POINT OF VIEW The project proposes an easily comprehensible sin concept. The stripe facta a flebly usable organzation system that. in the course of development in which broad aspects are unforeseeable, seems repragrammable and hence “adaptable”. This project ‘ormulates @ unique and uncenventionel contribution tothe future development ofthe ste that continua the existing park landscape ina clever way and creates now, open fas of possibilty ASENETRAESE DA VHAWHABLOALLEN COMFRANCISCO JAVIER CASTELLANO PULIDO ‘Tomas Garcia Piniz JURK ANTONIO SERRANO GARCIA =) PALOMA BAQUERO MASATS (=) SERGIO ALVAREZ GARCIA RUNNER-UP - FELDAFING (DE) SERAND +EAQUERO UA SERRANG, PEAQLERC) ESTUDOBEERRANO A a The Magic Park of Feldafing ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW Fecennecting landscanes. Infrastructural picturesque. The term picturesque comes to dogp inthe past of tho Talecommunications Sahoo! ae a “ull colonia", traditionally marked by the harmonic relalionship between bulcing and garcen, The old and ‘modem villas of Feldafing are characterized by large cated green surtaces. This is why "The Megic Park’ is presented as a great colony without fences and vere the green field is made pubic —a park in which the old roads ara cubsttutod by pathe and pedestrian roads. This net of paths s sttuctured by sequences and visual cores around the tres revealing the presences ofthe teams and at some strategie paints lake Stamberg, The scenery is diesavered along the walk The architecture incido the park is submited to the nalure— itis let as nature, a fallen troos after a storm. The Strumblockhaus, the Casino or the current Canteen remain untouched (at least apparently) The rest of the builings are alteratvely cismantled to preserve the essence ofthe park transformed into modern ruins in new and! exsting architectures emeraing fram the remains of the old ones. Stil as an infrastructure, the ruins also allow the recycling of valued elements such as the structure (as @ sustain of the new anc lighter architectures) and the nets fof sanity and euppiving of serves. SURY POINT OF VIEW The work ses isaifthe challenge to refers! the site Itfocuses on the atmospheric effect of @ staged landscape space. Its basedon insights from intensive research fn racas and stories of development and the conceptual building blocks rectly derive fram this. The project offers to ascribe @ new and unique character tothe location and overarites the historical coding in respecttul manner eA4GEN EVE -o008 URBAN - ARCHITECTURAL LOoN108 ONEX- BERNEX = CONFIGNON SCHWEIZ/SUISSE/ 10 1,240 INRA, SVIZZERA/SVIZRA (CH) JesIE60 8 TERRITORY OF THE ONEX, BBERNEX AND CONFIGNON MUNICIPALITIES o.601 SI 5A HA REPUBLIC AND CANTON OF GENEVA oer OF HES PRIVATE OWNERS [AND STATE OF GENEVA [Oyen TER COUPENTICN: MANDATE TO STUDY AND ASSIST THE TRANSFORMATION. PROCESS OF THE SUBURGAN SINGLE DWELLING AREA Interview of the site’s representative PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS TO STRATEGY On this sie, the State of Geneva wants to tast flees centralised and constraining form of planning in ordes to Improve the efficiency of the planning end housing production chain. As ‘a gue fora progressive urban transformation the conceptual anproach should therefore be tho support forthe defntion of new operating modes, renewing the logies of actors or the modes of validation by the autherties, theretore avoiding blockages. Regerding the density of urbanisation and public access to open spaces, similar results to the ones ‘madi with the evicting tools should anyway be achieved. HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE ‘SESSION TOPIC - THE ADAPTABLE CITY? Moxphological as well as social diversity is tho base for the mutation process to consider, the issue of which also consisting in reconciling densification with social and! land realities. DID YOU DEFINE A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION? Tha four conceptual proposals rewarded by the jury introduce non-rigid approaches and allow quite large spectrum for evolution. “The Planning Office could give a mission the 4 teams to create a sort of think tank on the [preconditions (charter, lacal animation, legal instruments, etc.) to then make them wotk in teams on a sie, or potentially give a site to each ofthe teams.ONY SANTOS DURA FeFRANDEZ ES) 1 LE JOGEPHLARSOUER MOUNIR AYOUB : IMESSALAOALLE 1208 GENEVE, CH peony aor 1 44 reoz20%0 WINNER - GENEVE (CH) La ville intermédiaire ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW The densification of detached touses neighbourhood in the Geneva metropolitan area is @ possible way to reduce the crual shortage of housing. ‘The neighbourhood of Onex, Confignan anc Bemex has the human, tertorial and urban potential of its own mutation into a new city ‘model that enjoys the benefits of urban and uate of rural “Thais the intermeckay ay. JURY POINT OF VIEW Tho project proposes the implementation of a legal- ‘organisational interlace that ie nether public nor private but takes the form of collective charter The content takes the particular needs of stakeholders into account so that dialogue becomes possible. The charter Ie accompanied by a series of tools that allow a specific response fo situations of confit that may arise. These tools also propose a seties of planning strategies that address the densification needs of a particular terrtory, these strategies integrating the notions of upgradeabiity and adaptation over time. leona ore nese eye gene rt“AURA MARTINEZ ALONSO MARTA DE LAS ERAS MARTINEZ (=) MIGUEL GONZALEZ CASTRO Fs =a ania Nuflez RODRIGUEZ PRIATAPRITAFUBLICARGALC ARCHITECT AR OFENSTACETABRIC TUMER RCRA ANIBAL HERNANDEZ SANCHEZ Open Space Fabric =: reais Pom oF MEW Tessier Ons Banani ak urban fabric, highly influenced by the East-West axis due to its position in relation to Geneva and Stra comn The cara pt eaten te ie oe pope tet lan oh, ia ee Gevacpnet arpa wh tm ae aan an wth rope eT op cpus ae ements ep coer sya arin oe eth and dasires of the community. The landscape progressively changes, an additional layer of public and collective spaces allows ll actors to intervene in the process at citfeent moments. We propose a process rather than a closed project thal will emerge trom the application of technical rues, the participation of the stakeholders and its interaction with the utben, social and ecological cont A representative stipe of land, with a North-South orientation to get all this versity without loaing the East West perspective, i used as.an example. Through thie abetraction wa can better analyse the urban fabric to propose citterent densification stistagies. The sttige is avery useful tool out of which we can more easily establish a coherent set of ules to apply fo olher tertories with similar charactvistes. JURY POINT OF VIEW The proposition revolves around three main objectives: Articulation of a wilto conserve elements on the site and a need for resilience: - Work on the potential of the sit and not on the basis ofa tabula rasay - Search for urban forms that stimulate the bith of new community forms. A North-South ‘seo illustrates the process rellecting the eaneistency a! the proposition. The Preview expicity corveys the main ideas ofthe propostion and opens up the fields of application tobe developed in mace deta-MICOLAS LOMBARDI ‘JEROME HERVE 1) [LAURA ROS MARTINEZ (= CORISTINA ROS BALLESTER (=) ATTHIAS SCHWEISSHELM (-~ NeLSLOVEARD@.CMAL CoM SPECIAL MENTION - GENEVE (CH) Emphutheusis TEAM POINT OF VIEW Ths project “Emiphutheusis” prosents various densification scenarios rather than an applied result. Literaly meaning “the action of planting” in ancient Greek, 3 zaiages of intervention character the projact ~The improvement ofthe exsting network of oreen spaces to unify both sides ofthe site - The densification of the vila lenttary to. open up this area tothe Avenue de Chancy with alarge range of puibic spaces «Tha identification of underused land for Implamantation of publie eervieas and future evelopment according to the urban densiticaton planned for 2050, (CLARA RODRIGUEZ LORENZO =) NATALIA VERA VIGARAY SPECIAL MENTION - GENEVE (CH) Un-City TEAM POINT OF VIEW Vie propose a progressive transformation ofthe low-density ila rea Into a socially diverse city that acapte to the society needs ever time. We generate a spatial software or protocol basa on the maintenance ofa manirrurn footprint rato of 30% to keep the countryside lifestyle identty ofthe ste, The system allows the owners to sel part cf theirland, the whole property ar build until fullling thie eccupaney. The available land situation ie than something open that can generate muticle uncertain scenarios that allow the new developments tocoexit with the curent viasLEEUWARDEN eorccum ARCHITECTURAL NEDERLAND (NL) (07 UBEUWARDEN, SOUTHLERST CITY CENTRE 40,000 NAB, Sve 19H Froweorene- 04a HA * IR, ABE BONNEMASTICHTING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE OWNERS ‘ouvienn ae Tee CoMPEn TO. INVOLVEMENT INLOCAL DESIGN ASSIGNMENT Interview of the site's representative PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS To STRATEGY ‘The Southeast part ofthe city of Leeuwarden hhas many historical, strking buildings. But ‘many resconial propetios ard shop premises are vacant and/or struggling with overdue maintenance. The area deserves upgrading hereby new sustainable uses for vacant shop premises are devised, The sludy site covers the entire Eastem part of the historical city contro. Within thie area the "building block’ (projects) bordered by Voors reek, Tunen, Turimankt nel Koningssirant-is exemplary. The ‘objective is the preservation and restoration of the historical, vieual quality and the raicental function, complementary to the olher city Cente functions. The city couneilis constantly alert to ideas for an innovative approach to housing and new forms of accommodation ‘euch as communal housing fo the elderly or rmixed-generation housing. HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE ‘SESSION TOPIC - THE ADAPTABLE CITY? ‘As inmany other European towns and cities the ely cenite of Leeuwarden has undexsjone a transformation, both in terms of use and Infrastructure. Bloth during daytime and in the evening the lively atmosphere has declined: more and more retail outlets are ‘gding oul of business, leading to vacancies ‘and deterioration. Leeuwarden aspires to a dynamic development of the sity contre, ‘one that anticipates the opportunities that a changing society offers, envisages a return to.a combined residental-work tunction with smaller shops, studios and offices among the housing in @ way that reflects the needs cf the inhabitants ae well as autonomous developments-SLAUDIA MAINARDI GIACOMO ARDESIO | [ALESSANDRO BONIZZONI ‘VERONICA CAPRINO (! ANTONIO BUONSANTE WINNER - LEEUWARDEN (NL) Te Huur ‘JURY POINT OF VIEW This unique project tackles with a clever approach the probleme Leeuwaicen is facing. The plan visualises the cily’s ambition of being progressive andl it is very -perhaps excessively concentrated The proposal’s strength is its intelligent Uunderstancing of the assignment on different leyele: the age group that Leeuwarden needs to support a dynamie environment, navel interpretation of the Existenzminimurn {subsistence level) for that group, and the potential conamie value a! tha vacant spaces inthe area, ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW Lecuviercen is @ bboautiul city thal does nat neod anything else than the definition of an approach able to combine the promotion ofthe city centre fend the involvement of the citizens in this piceass. Through a carol investigation ofthe current living concition, the preject proposes a bottom-up strategy that, starting from the problems related tothe depopulation process of the centre, will be able to reactivate the Urban cote, Only reviving he cenit, the shops val ave a market the eerices wil have users the tourists context fo visi. na shrinking city thera is definitely no need to built new dwelings, ‘The vacancies area resource to define new ways to inhabit anc work. The models offered by the ating economy clearly dine an altrnative and rore resilont pattern forthe requalifizallan of the areas. The sharing of the space is a useful tool fo create the condition for start-ups, conorkings, and other programs. The peer-to-peer economies represent as well an instrument to tackle the need of new ‘accommodation for outs, during the yoar whan Leeuwarden isthe European Capital of Cultura and the folowing ones. What we expects the oceupationin the shor! term ofthe vacant spaces though a wide catalogue ot possicle activities and the slablzation inthe long fem of his weak system trough the energies ofthe inhabitants, who have decided to invest in this ct,-RORIA GUARDIET 3) OcALAO STREET SANDRA TORRES =) mo a sHceLon ES ArOATECTE 7 Estupigesruoesoracos ‘rn EsTUCICENT4 CoM RUNNER-UP - LEEUWARDEN (NL) Urban Prescriptions ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW WYe propose a series of urban prescriptions to implement bayand the Project area. A catalogue that can be exporied to urban envitonments wih similar problems and ‘opportunites asin Lesuwarden, Prescriptions implemoniod at smalland medium scale but with Sighiticant consequences to the whole cly. Prescristions tha put the citizen inthe foreground. ur prescriptions are as follows - Svengthening links between water and ciizenship by recovering former canal, creating ‘water ‘nods or placing water tanks into the inner courtyards: - Placing strategic uses in currenty empty premises ofthe old town to change the current rend of aif-enoring af public and commercial uses. - Restoring the inner courtyards as open areas to develop citferent community activities (urban cgarciens, tte plantations, leisure activities, ec.) - Fling the empty plots and vacant premises with different strategies: from fast and cheap ‘ccupations to more stretural and lang tern actions; « Translorming the canal banks as a tranemission vehicle of gresnery and culture to ring them closer tothe citizenship, = Progressive transformation of housing by promoting typological diversity, social renting, temporary housing, etc. or improving ther energetic behaviour, = Temporary and fexble pubic spaces allowing a diversity of uses and atmospheres with only some minor changes JURY POINT OF VIEW The proposals departure pointis the creation ofa taficltee city. The plan is very diferent rom other toolbox plans it does not lead to ani-concsved Ist of possible Interventions but applies the toolbox at al scales, from the city in iis entirety to the dverse ‘teat profes and courtyards. Tha tools are realete and seneitva tothe present situation in Leeuwarden: they address spatial, social and programmatic subjects. However the plan puts forward a number of not really innovative opportunities for dalogue,DANIELE PASIN ()) SPECIAL MENTION - LEEUWARDEN (NL) vance Manta tit sau lepen House cetana wou et JURY POINT OF VIEW Take some ary vacant cua mots Akl a fowls of ture trenton: ou gl helper Hau, Thug ana alam of pcos to sar apa aron thes per Hanstin to herthorognmanesteamarie ay orkoarvel any ote eat ec apace ep a aa Wn aE trea You lve an “acatonl Cher ANDREY HODKEVICH ‘SPECIAL MENTION - LEEUWARDEN (NL) NEDKO NEDEV (=) _— Leeuwarden 2.0 JURY POINT OF VIEW “Leauwarden 2.0" is @ possible conceplual interpretation of the consequences ofthe nformetion Revolution. This is an architectural experiment that proposes adiferentiypology of architectural space —a “Pracess Structure’, A concept inspired by the koy factor in the digital age -the computer, which shits the attention from tangible to non-tangible s9p200, Dosignacs to be located atthe historical heat of Leouwarcen, tivestigates the posaity tobecome a Global Capital of Culture for 2078. It reveals anew concept of architectural space, ‘8 new layer on top ofthe existing architecture fabric ofthe cy. BO el & oe ae!METZ FRANCE (FR) vasecoety URBAN |LOcA)(0N METZ METROPOLE ~ AUGNY, MARLY, MOULIN 2S-METZ opULA/ $20,000 INHAB, 600 HA 50 HA Fponeto or METZ MéTROPOLE, ETABLISSEMENT PUBLIC FONCIER LORRAINE. neni OF HE MINISTERE DE LA DEFENSE. FUTURE OWNERS: ETABLISSEMENT PUBLIC FONCTION LORRAINE AND METZ METROPOLE ‘Oyen ATER COMPETITION ORGANISATION (OF A WORKSHOP WITH THE CHOSEN TEAMS ~ FURTHER IN-DEPTH URBAN STUDY PROJECT MANAGEMENT ASSIGNMENTS FOR PUBLIC ‘SPACES - PARTICIPATION PROCESS. FOLLOW-UP OPERATIONS CAN BE INITIATED wird Prwvare paRTHERS Interview of the site’s representative PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS TO STRATEGY Aller developing to the North and then to the South-East, the conurbetion is beginning balanced development to the South-West, triggered by the miltary’s release of Airbase 128 atthe heart ofa strategic area, The aspi- ration fer the conwersion of the site depends ‘on three prerequisites: to develop job and wealth creating actvtes, in pericua targeting sctors that offer a potenti for growth and innovation; te capitalise on the model of the Cente Pampicou-Metz in expanding the city's Influence; to bring the population closer to jobs ‘and services in ordar to improve their qualty tlt, The conversion of miltry and ineustriat brownfield sites -to be undertaken by Metz \Metropola- offers a real potential for renewal {end large-scale support for the aspiration. HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE ‘SESSION TOPIC-THE ADAPTABLE CITY? Formerly a 400-ha monofunctional sit, closed to the public, BA128 neods to be gradually ‘converted into ajoilly managed shared space, ‘open to everyone, incorporating multiple uses, {and thereby to be gradually integrated into is lnmediate urban and natural environenent To achieve this, 4 primary uses have been chosen: sports and leisure, renewable eneray, peri-urban agriculture and small business actives This deop transformation is based on tho fol- owing principles: introduction of a lang-term process including he recycing and reversbilly ‘of uses and spaces; rational use of space by pooling public and private spaces andl ame- nities: focus on the relation between city and nature, which entaile protection of natura ataas ‘nd the provision ef high-quality services; new way of constructing and managing projects, ‘which aims at iosteing the emergence cf local Fniatves anc inctucing a wise vara of poten- tial stakeholdersNATHLDE CATALAN FF WINNER - METZ (FR) BA128 Résonances Economes ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW Between public impetus and citizen intiatives. “The adaptable oly thity, We cont belleve that a “custainaba” projact ie compatible with the liberal logic ofthe “alvays more”. The night balance between spending, produced effort andthe achieved effect must be conceptuelised itferenly. Living in Frescaty means ting in astategic and privleged cualty cistict near Metz, Mace of certain rustcty the projact synthesizes both the eity and the counteyside. ‘This transversal and prospective approach aims fo synergize urban andlandscape dynamics to identity metropolitan issues. To affirm the economical, social anc environmental vocations ofthe BA 128 Frescaly sia, considering its development and diversity of uses and programs implies finding aright meesure: to be both embtious ancl adapted to cantests an environments. Each pattern engages in an overall ecological but also productive logic, drawing the oulines othe living spaces of tomorrow. This attude requires fincing resonances and solidarity both locally and on a wider scale, in order to promote the expertise an resources offered by the leritory. ‘The project recognizes what nists, and make i the stating point ofa collective story narrative mutation. The project is bom of hybridization between pre-existing elamonts and future development becomes vector inks and brings of new uses in a ich endl varied environment, ATELIER LACTIALAFONT ATELIERAEIALAPONTBONAIL COM JURY POINT OF VIEW The project propases ‘occupying the edges as a way of reconnecting the site to its territory. By extending the ‘existing intermodalites and the inks withthe ily centre, the team seeks fo reconnect the ‘isting urban entities on the oulskirts of the site by denstication,civerstication and the ‘enhancement of pivats land Al this takes place in a landscape inftastructure organise lice an eoolagleal park in whieh the “Nature” present Is enhanced and completed.{OCEANE FOLLADOR 1) TTHIBAUT NGUYEN >) Towns ree RUNNER-UP - METZ (FR) B.A.S.E. ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW Once a secret area kept avi from the city Metz Frescaty BA128 opens upto the Metz population, Through the long fences, we used to see the embankment and the runway. Now that itis open, the extraordinary tettry might paradoxicaly intimate. Beyond the fonces the visitors might feo! overwhelmed in this 400ha land, shaped by a history of conficts ‘The BAI28 indeed needs to be domesticated. ts location between urban and rural encouraged ste design tas a hyphen binging ety and counityside togather. ‘The BASE, (Balance /Aglty / Serendipity / Experimentation) approach cares about both these ‘major issues. Sociabilty and approptation shape the project and provide a fertile ground, Where cteathity and local intatives can flourish Propostions trom the BASE approach are set inthis framework. Tha main part ofthe project, “named "Bese Agricole 128ha"- emboctes all the principles of our persosctve. It involves the re-use of 128 hectares of land for local farming, All the ciizens vil be invited to take part to the project conception and bull the foundations fora local, social and solicanty-based economy. es FLEDUNARA JURY POINT OF VIEW The project is founded in @ participatory and community based approach. The team proposes to organise public events in order to foster the emergence of projects and community choices, A coordinating body dedicated to the programming process will have the role of fostering the emergence of emblematic projects through debate. The aim is to feabiin a dialogue and cooperation betwoan citizens and professional. Programmatic zoning is proposed in 5 places as a basis for development. The rest of the site is ‘donaiied by “block potentials", spaces lat 10 particular intiatves, avalabie for diverse and experimental programming. AGRICUTTURAL HECTARES: CREATED JOBS|ANTOINE ALLORENT 1) ZILLALNE NOOLAG FR FANNY CHENU (HIE RUNNER-UP - METZ (FR) Cycles-Sol-Air ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW In the course of history Frescaty has been a place for gatherings, farming and more recently a disputed miltary grouncs. Now that tha mila is gona, how ean tie huge tertory open up ono its surroundings agai, between town, country and cornmercial area? Drawing on the context, the projet recreates continuity by earnecting the forest dots where the buiicings once lay it preserves the empty space ofthe afield, making future gatherings possible ‘uh eatfirying ts agrioultual purposes. Besides, raoyeing materials and pravious uses atfera "as Of tie ee Sa Yo Sy WF Wel RTO ‘The synercies created beth intemally and with the surrounciing environment allow restoring ‘exchanges belwean the various hubs and their outying activites, io, catering schoo), farm produce processing, agronomic research. allomments, garden centre, wood workshop, recycling facily, sel. construction workshops, recteation anc sport areas. ‘The project's management ditfers from the commercial aspect ofthe activities around by promoting a socially responsible economy, with co-operative and non-profit businesses, community associations and an emphasis on rehabilation. This resutts in a gradual stage process giving prirty to the sating up et young farrmare, the reeyeling tacit and partially ‘pening the grounds to the publi. In the long term the ensuing dynamics should beneft the entire wea. fe Wo pers ota ab Lee SURY POINT OF VIEW On the basis of tho histoncal context and avery thorough analysis, the team proposes to reoccupy the existing buildings forthe development of a varied set cf programs. The project is introduced in a reasoned end precise way. Althe actties ae described in detail, installed and connected by the definition ofthe infernal networks ard connections. In addition to the programming, the project develops a nonexhaustive list of 128 possiole activities. The project stands ‘0 fx is vary procige and dotaled instalation (on the basis of a reoecupation ofthe existing buldings.“chs URBAN LANDSCAPE ~ NACKA ancurecruna SVERIGE (SE) 08 NAGA 2.12 CFF 05,000 NH. 40H so.ec) le ATMA roo sch 8 NAGKA MUMCPALETY ner NAGKA MUNICIPALITY ouiviSON AEIER COMBE NON URBAN AND LANDSCAPE STRATEGIC STUDY DEVELOPMENT OF PLAN PROGRAM {AND MASTERPLAN IN COLLABORATION WITH [MUNICIPALITY AND OTHER PARTNERS Interview of the site’s representative PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS TO STRATEGY ‘The strategic site area is characterised by 2 dramatic topography; as a consequence tho sottloments are broken up into islands, separated by forest-covered hills. The existing housing areas are mainly suburban areas that polticians in general want to turn more urban and cite, The project site is an existing area of oil storage built in the ‘60s ancl today run by Stafol. The current sie leasehold ight runs out in 2018, which opens up for other uses. There are no collective memories of the site from Inside the crea; yet tom the auteld, Baxge has bbeen a signtcant landmark for more than halt fa century, Within a decade it will be opened up to constructions. The whole process of planning, opening up and colonising the site Wall bo contralto the tack. Nacka’a Northern coast is connected to Stooktoim city centre with a fery for commuters. The site has an ‘outstanding locaton HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE ‘SESSION TOPIC- THE ADAPTABLE CITY? (One of the most spectacular sites in the SStookhalm ragion will ea0n be accessibie {and eubject to planning. The project ste area hhas been closed to the public for more than (600 years. The main target is to transform the existing ares of ol storage tanks to housing, ‘workspace, public and reczeational space; in other words to transform it to a new part of Nacka with is ovm identity, ‘The market would obviously ke to develop this area to an attractive seaside housing enclave: one of the challenges is to make Borge accessible toa greater public and to connect ito the rest of Necka.{KARL ZETTERHOLM, ypoHovecn WINNER - NACKA (SE) Lucker ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW Berg s centrally ocatedin the Stockholm region but by urban standards Ite fatty periphera! both in relation to canta Stockholm and cantial Naoka and the coming subway. which is set to become the spine of future development in Nacka. Lucker" seeks an urbenity that does not overlook ils regional pasion but also that can ereate new centralites and that has distinct urban qualities not based on formal mimicking of inner fly urban pattems. tls character comes fram is closeness and openness to the landecape It's generous to those who want to participate in bulding it looking to create a true diversity, Lucker" aims to: - eraale a physical stuctire fo fostor a vital poriphoral urbarity, - develop a planning model that can hancle unpredictably and change while creating a clear visual urban character, encourage integration and afferdbsity JURY POINT OF VIEW The “Lucker” proposal offers a masterplan ori thal can be ofeneficial se for the municipality of Nacka, without major adjustments. The proposal permits to bul in stages and suggests @ plaming strategy that encourages integration, The conoept addresses the two most demanding issues of this location -how ta intecratea peripheral ste in an existing urban fabric anc how to generate a structure close to an exposed wetertont, on the edge of nature[RORIAN PHIFFER RUNNER-UP - NACKA (SE) The Ends of the City AURY POINT OF VIEW “Tho resiiance of urban form in time" is the key phrase of this proposal, suggesting a dramatic of typologies. The lancscane formation i the starting point ofthe design. Ten plateaus are and given diferent proposal offers programmed sp identis aracters, The as shetes or nfornal and temporary use. The buildings are organised to support everyday actwvitios as woll as sublime and ceremonial vents, The building type publ jons and shared spaces in cosy enclosures and monumental voids, TEAM POINT OF VIEW Whilst many contemporary urban i the Nacka site, how to build the postal city? How to buld the edge of the city? How to re-adapt industrial sites into domesticated 185 converge on ban are city? Our proposal brings into ight an almost ban planning: the 7 How to plan a hight adaptable forgotion aspect of resilience of uban form in time. We refuse to the dichotomy af Objo put forwerd in the competition brief and prefer as.a strategy to Ve. Process to intertwine bath cones plan the Adaptable City pio the maghicent industrial presence an the Nacka cite, we have dacided not tofllin love with i Nacka seems tobe the type of site where any existing concition can be a solid pant of departure inthe design process. Mero than anything, the white tanks are extremely tempiing. They are baautful yet useless when one has to imagine a cty. We preter to start our project from the most basic condition of the site ~ the ground, Striped of ary bull form, the site presents itself in a “nakad" postion revealing a plex collection of plateaus where different urban reales can be imagined. The proposed plan accepls the fragmented nature of the ground and takes it asa theme. Each plateau seems to ictate whatit should hold ebove it. This understancing ot the site fon 1 basis fora design made up of solitary urban moments that vary in type.so stones SPECIAL MENTION -NACKA (8) OBKAR aMUNOSTROM Unk HOGBERG ANDERSSON ABC-X ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW ABC-X isa proposal for the area of Bergs wih mainly three urban rules BAURHOLUSCAIAN ‘apples. They make the area accessible in three ways: horizon! streets io make itaccessible for racious tranaport, vietas going up the hil te give a clear erder of tha area, anc reserved round footprints sa 708912 from the deralished oil cisterns to create focal poinis of diferent sizes. Low.ise housingy osarinn@avat cow workspace cover the rest of the area. The proposal enhances what we call the Xactor the com billy to communicate beth intemelly and externlly- andl ties to take the cea ofthe communal ta. coms AABC-otas tron tha 60's further NATALIE ADELHOEFER (= SPECIAL MENTION - NACKA (SE) RUBEN STUIIK =) ~ Decks and String ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW Reconnecting Beigs to Necka municipality ‘The project reuses the site's defined features as the thvee esting platforms, footprints and Inks by lranstorning them with the help of two dacks (nav built structure, two platforme) and a sting (ight structure, wake and bicycle ways) ito new housing and recrectional spaces. Both decks overlap in a central pat caating a dense urban atmoephere while leaving the resto the te as ‘open un-buit spaces. The builcings on top of the decks offer cross-connections and views of ; each building vith both natural green spaces and fantastic views over the watertont and the city of Stockholm[MOHAN ALTENIUS KAROLINA ORNEBLAD = JENNY OLAUSSON SPECIAL MENTION -NACKA (8) New Cityfront Closer to Nature TEAM POINT OF VIEW Borg uniqus location by the water en the boundary between the city {and naiure makes ta place with greet potential to Gevelog new attrctve anc sustainable housing ‘and businessae ane! became a meeting plaoa for outdoor recreation in elose proximity to the iy, Amixed building structure with a varied and small-ccale property cision is proposedtin the ‘area with respect to landscape and views ever the sea, The expansion is proposed to stages and accommodates dwelings of approximately 170,000 scm, services enc commercial. space for activities, ecocyetom sarvioas and cutdacr recreation, DaviO BONSIB. DANIEL LARSSON JOHANNA LJUNGDAHL LUNDBERG IRIN ARANTATOU (=) SPECIAL MENTION - NACKA (SE) The Hanging Gardens City of Bergs TEAM POINT OF VIEW [hs pr0;05a! [ocuses of lapis as he conn publ, natu ng proces: -goliaton trough a role-play, The proach ol bailing to reach and subsivsion agreements i simuating and points towarc new ory planning tools wih aresut hat anit takZAGREB “con URBAN ARCHITECTURAL Loenon 2AREB HRVATSKA (HR) #0878 790,000 NAB, 15HA r45 HA +50HA HOH £5 8 CITY OF ZAGER Pee ee eau NER ‘cITV OF ZAGREB, PRIVATE OWNERS [oye ETE COMPEN TON THE SITES ARE PROPOSED FOR TEMPORARY PUBLIC USE, ‘ORGANIZED BY THE CITY IN COOPERATION WITH NGOS, CITIZENS’ ORGANIZATIONS AND SIMILAR STAKEHOLDERS Interview of the site's representative Ana Magele, Architect, Cty Offce of Strategie Planning end Development. iy of Zagreb PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS To STRATEGY The city of Zagreb proposed four sites positioned along the Sava river, derelict and Unused at the moment, yet with 2 potential to provide good and dynamic publie space, The faim of the projects to propose experimental uses on sitae of high altracta potantial, on hich renewal end development has stopped 4 processes or economic situation. While waling forthe final uae ofthe proposed sts, the Ciy proposes to launch a reflection for new temporary uses. The expected result is a representation of possible public use sscenatios for derelict spaces through the Implementation of naw activities, accossiblo to the public, while avoiding aggressive and ppormanent inlonertions in space, to various clreumstances, transition HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED To THE ‘SESSION TOPIC- THE ADAPTABLE CITY? The program can be associated to each of the three subthemes of adaptable cly: seit ‘organization; inclusion of the inhabtante into the decision-making process is considerable through NGOs and citizens’ organizations sites can be shared both in tems of purpose fandin tors of ime. DID YOU DEFINE A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION? There is a recommendation that afler the ccompetiton the City of Zagreb and Eurooan should organize a seminar and invite the authors of both prize-winners to elaborate ‘on the entries and bring light onto the scial context - and where presentation to all stakeholders and interested publle would be first step in process to tolom.(BARLOS ZARCO SANZ DROUIN COSTA SARA PALOMAR PEREZ (: . ZZUHAL KOL (7) JOSE LUIS HIDALGO nen ZAGREB (HF) Swap on the River ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW As the river tune through approximately 20 kon adjacent to the city, the question raises as howintervention on ‘our separate sites can have holistic effect to change movements and relationships af the entre river with they. Therefore, the proposal Introduces a tramework afnegotition in whisn a constant conversation of the sites/their surroundings programs is promoted through movement and exchange anjaround tho wae Since this framework strategy requies tactics to be supported and operated in different levels, the project functions on three scales of interventions: XL-river an oly: L—tour sites and thoi suroundinge; SM —actiator pavtone and the combinetione. This mult-sealar approach develops a design mechenism alloving for change and adaptation but stil enabling the uniformity ofthe design as ang asit serves within the main envelope of neqesiation. The eomenen concerns of each scale tactics ave allowing flexible development; anticipating active participation ofthe sor and eeolagy: concaivng continuous and legible spatial organ zation for mare interaction, “while onsicerng the signiicance of open spaces as pubis spaoss and addressing these issues jn mutiple progrem scenarios in the process of new culture. JURY POINT OF VIEW The project offers a ‘good connection between the four sites and the cifferent uses proposedt are vel ulin Ithas a very clear graphic outine and a very reasonable intellectual viewpoint, The proposal creates visual links in order to attract people who would noxmaly sate in ans of the old centre of Zagreb. With the aporopriate tools, this work regenerates the totally ofthe four sites and gives thelr exiting character a new physical and social identty without foxgotting fan adequate structural and ecological approach.EMANUELE ROMANE) INCESCA CODEN (1) FILIPPO PASINI) 1 saseecostces MARGHERITA LOCATELLI >) OFFEORA.CELOMEMAL [ALESSANORO BENETT LORENZO SANTOSUOSSO (") AROMTECTSSURBANISTS RUNNER-UP - ZAGREB (HR) Hey! There is a River Beyond ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW How to reintroduce a permanent strategic value to Sava River through its temporary re-design? ‘This fundamental question involves a seres of challenges that the project has to deal wth: some areas would probably undergo @ permanent development in the next years, while an overall ‘meltopolen strategy should be outlined, undisclosing the potential ofthe Sava River beyond its actual situation, These premises suggest the cefition of @ set of ules, parameters and models that would possibly be developed to rebuilt long lost relationship between the ciy andthe iver. ‘The answers look for a more polarized layout ofthe riverfront: the specific features of each site are enhanced and integrated to the Sava network. A sensible and delicate epproach is ddaveloped, one that hae more ta deal ith participatory and architectural aoupurcture than with ‘radtional pervasive urban planning, Inhabitants regain awareness of the landscape by bing directly involved in an open source strategy, while architects act as mediators and coordinators converging all the actors involved! and supporting the municipalty curing the whole process. In search of a physical and aoelal adaptability the projact responds tothe ourent economic circumstances, geting maimum reculs atthe lower costs. By all these means, the project would possibly generate a fywhieel effect on the cy and the region. JURY POINT OF VIEW The pyoject fea the four stes ae tour diferent eandtions of how the Urban fabric interacts wih the River Sava. tladopis a two-lane strategy: to inerease the continuity of soft traffic circulation along Sava; and to develop a strategy of dversitication of the four stes toa broad range from urban activation, Insligent tools of urban acupuncture and process of participation envision the change ofthe sites. But the proposed elements do not seem strong ‘enough 10 really tigger the change towarda more urban activity a slated in tho project.HOW TO TRANSFORM PHYSICAL OBSTACLES INTO NEW CONNECTIONS? Point of view: Physical and Strategic Obstacles to Revitalisation p.66 by Aglaée Degros and Mathias Rollot A Coruna (ES) p.74 Bamberg (DE) p. 78 Gjakova (KO) p.82 Graz (AT) p.86 Ingolstadt (DE) p.88 Irdn (ES) p.92 Libramont (BE) p.96 Marne-la-Vallée (FR) p.98 Moulins (FR) p. 102 Os (NO) p. 106 Palma (ES) p.110 Saint-Brieuc (FR) p.114 Seinajoki (Fl) p.118We understand “bridges” as linear connections between different contexts spanning over a barrier, which may be a river, a railway track or other physical obstacles. But we can sometimes transform the obstacle so that it allows movement in different senses and directions, becoming a connecting element rather than separating barrier. The obstacle may be inhabited, cut or criss-crossed; it can become an opportunity to increase density, change the functions on either side or bring anew perspective to a familiar context."ROLE DEGROS, «: Page urban desion agency in Rotewdam (N frolessor the dopetren’ es, Member of Europan Point of view MATHIAS ROLLOT,Diclor 0 Bo rvestgatng,conmis ie Main i.co-ourcer of LAMINA Physical and Strategic Obstacles to Revitalisation ‘France embodies everything religious zealots everyuiere hate: enjoyment of li here on earth na myad live ways: 2 iragrent cup of ccoftee and a buttery croissant in the morning, beauiful women in shor esses smiling Feely ‘on the sree, the smal of warm bread, a bots ‘ofwine shared vith fiends, a dab of perfume, children playing in the Luxembourg Gardens, the ight not to believe in any goa, notto worry ‘about calories, 0 and smoke and enjoy sex ‘ouside marriage, to take vacations, to read any ‘book you lit, 19. go to School fr toe, to play, {0 laugh, t argue, to make fun of prelates anc politicians ato, to leave worrying about the attri to the dead. This fine passage published in the New York Times tollowing the attacks of November 13. Is about France, but it also sums up the very ‘essence of European urban if. touches us as urban designers and archilects because itis a reminder cf how in Europe we have created spatial ervironment suited toa fee and open way of if: streets linod with café terraces, squares where events ave staged, perks where ciliron play For ths ftee and open way of life to be able to develop, the city is constantly adapted regenereted, reinvented. And there is no doubt that the challanges it faces today ~ demographic, economic, sociological ecological - entail enormous changes: it has to tackle its weaknesses and failures while retaining the torttoral strengths that ge ree rein to urban lie While these weaknesses are primarily social, wa should not forget that many cities are, at this time, places in criss*, with extreme social and economic divisions, where weaithy and luvurious neighbourhoods sit alongside dingy areas with very high levels of poverty and unemployment, with the emergence of unprecedented urban violence, tka the assaults committed on the concourse of Cologne station during the 2016 New Year festivties. Mary cites need to deal with their ‘own spatial weaknesses, whethar arising from growth, decline, or simely geographical location. These difculties take a number of forms, First, there is the posttion of the railway, which divides the eity into diferent entities: from the part “in front of the station to the more neglected part “behind”, trom the part that is too close and therefore affected by noise, to the patt that is too far away to benefit... Than thera are river crossings, hich can cause segregation between left ‘and right bank, ike the Aller in Moutine (FA) hich creates a sharp cision between cent and petiphery (ligt). Or there are the roads, hich reduce such environmental problems that they darnage local quality of life and are Unhealthy to lve near. “Today's ciyis, more than ever, a fragmented territory marked by numerous physical and rnonphysical fractures, Some of the fractures mentioned above are cleatly obstacles inhesited fram the European city’s industrial pas: rail inrastructure,large- scale road infrastructure and river structures, For its part, modem urban design has trated them as boundaries that define areas. Canarias Averue in Palma (ES), a silane barrier, separates the beach area trom the residontial fabric (fg 2). In this approach to Utsenism, spatial cistrbution is basedi on the setting of surfaoae and boundaries. His not ‘wall sulted to our contemporary, postncustrial 1a, inwhich tis connection that is considered tobe fundamental This ie an jasue that the French philosopher Edgar Morin covers extensively in his work Explaining in La Méthode that “knowing is first about being able to distinguish, and then linking what has been cistinguished’ hho emphasises the value of the ink and the fact that complexity, which characterises our ‘modem werld and the kin of thinking it needs, comes from the Latin word "complexus” whieh means binding. There ie no doubt that this isthe biggest currant challenge facing cour profession, to create links between the fragments of the city so thal Ife can freely La init Inthe category of projects submitted for the Europan 13 competition "How to transform physical obstacles into new connections?" the entrants and winners all clearly identified tho fragments of otis lo be linked, caused by the physical obstacles. Most of these fragments were infact clearly indicated in the site descriptions. Most of the entrants also subscribed to the post-industrial urbanistic \ision of creating links between the fragment. It wae in the implementation ofthe strategy that they differed, choosing between three categories of approach: Using construction to reconnect and regenerate; Drawing on local dynamics to ereata links; Ravaaling and ‘modeling the speciic potential of boundaries.e Using construction to reconnect and regenerate (fig.3) ‘Among these winning projects, a fst group of responses chose as their solution the design of alarge-scale architectural or urban ensemble. Their response to the multiple risks of segregation is to commit to city of sharing, Our examples for this group are ‘the winning projects on the St-Brieuc (FR), Qs (NO), Irén (ES), Bamberg (DE) and Graz (AT) sites. To begin with St6rieuc. the winning project here looked at the possibilty of establishing new connections between the large-scale mobilly networks, the terriory ant the coastal landscape. The quest here is to establish a new dialogue between city and nature and to examine the leritorial identity that may arise from this exchange. ft was in this effort to redirect the city towards the sea ‘and to reassemble the “landseape-puzzle" that the team conceived Seaside Boulevard (fig.4), Forming a circular shape that is both a rmatix connacted with the existing fabric and at the seme time a “promotional space” for Potential future developments, this boulevard ‘acts as a tool that helps to span the dificult geography that characterises the town. A structuring narrative that forms the basis for multipl potential opanings, it ie aleo a symbolic proposal, which seeks to transform nat only practices bul also the imaginative experience of the place.Ina somewhat similar way, in Os, the winning project also proposes working between ‘mobity structures and bul fabric. On this ste, ‘the task was fo transform a small disparate fabric that was blocking a dialogue between the town centre and the seafront: haw coule this place become a new area capable of reconnecting a fabric and disconnected banks? In an exploration of the meaning of “euburban’, the team identiies and proposes to reinterpret 6 specific icons: the individual dwelling, the car park, the shopping centre, the gas station, cultural identity and the structural ad, This show Osurbia- Redefining Suburbia (fig.5) sesks to respond to future demographic change in Os, while atthe same time preserving its cently in a possible move towards an “osurbia’ capable of physically crossing the existing obetactes and forming an attractive new urban polarity. For kin, the task was to work an the relation between the city and its large rall centre ‘The runner-up project Ure Eta Natura (6), stresses theirnportance cl thinking bout urban transformation in terms of natural ecosystems land @ productive inhabited landscape. It therefore incorporates the station site into reflections and studies relating to a larger geographical area, approaching the need to ‘108s tho rails as only part ofa nacessary sot cof reconnection projecis situated at citferent places and different sealee. in this way, it demonstrates that there ia no incomestibilybetnieen the need for physical connection, a danse urban fabri, and landscape quality arch the presence of nature In Bamberg, the goal was to work out new dynamics between the town centre, the sation ard the fast developing Bamberg Eat district. The question was how to fit in with the changas already underway, and pureue and reintorce the processes of revitalising this lage, disparate urban fabric. To answer this question, the winning team focused ite efforts on highlighting an urban project Capable of improving the structure of the built fabri, establishing new public spaces, offering a wider choice in terms of mobility and programme, while at the same time Luntying the neighbourhood within anew, mare legible structure. In allthis, the claim made by Tradition: Adaptation: Verknusptung (ig. 7) is thet itis by focusing on the development ofthe istrict tel thatthe problems of disconnection caused by the rails can be resolved Libramont too faces problems in matching rail infrastructure to urban fabric. The special ‘mention project 60 Shades of groen (fg 8), proposes densitying the competition site through further construction. Grasping the possibilty of building on either side of the rallront, i proposes the creation of a now, relatively dense disc, with an emphasis on Urban agricuture. n this, 00 seems to wish to show how the issue is nol just ane of rail crossings and station access, but alsoct giving meaning fo the whole wean area around bosIn Graz. nal, the municipality was looking for ‘a proposal for he conversion ofa site situated in ron ofthe allway ine andl the station. Here, the physical facture caused by the railway line was minimised by the winning project Waizar (ig 9), by means af a very thorough mutfunctional programme, Simultanecusly hybrid and unitary, durable and adaptable, assertve and discreet, the formal procositon ignores paradoxes to offer a high qually architectural ensemble. tis "by giving anew reason’ for ctsing the railway ina, I might be sal, that the project spots the possitalty for @ more successful connection with the town contra, and convinces in is design of a structuring element forthe metamorphosis of the diatrit Drawing on local dynamics to create links (fig.10) Every one of these submissions shows the capacity of the teams to propose a high- quality when-archtectural solution, expaibla ot creating inks beyond the abstactein question, butalso moce broadly to generale not only the Urban sites presented forthe competion but also ther surcuncing areas. In cute aciferent ‘way, second set of proposals chose to tackle the obstactes by focusing instead on the local and miro scale, networking and bottom-up processes. Innumerable responses 100k this approach. Here, we will look atthe winning projects nthe sites in Glakova {KO}, Moulins (FR) and lngolotadt (DE), and show how all these winning projects, whether chizomatic thematic or conceptual, are strategies that focus on stimulating citizen involvement in ‘order a lnk and reviaiee the ites Inthe case of Gjakova. the objective is to rasp the potential offered by the watersi¢es, Currently unused despite their advantagoous Urban location — right inthe heart ofthe town can thase daca be redeveloped at limited cost? To prove it, the winning team (fg.11), highlights the capacity of cultural activities and events to promete temporary uses ofthe place, uth title naed for intial facies or physical transformations. By dentitying areas capable of accommadating concerts, summer film screenings or seasonal markets, SEAMbIosis rmokes a persuasive case: from erallelaments, Inserted here and there (wooden decking, built-in benches, “treasure hunts", etc.) substantial uiban dynarnies could emerge. The riverbanks at Moulins were also one of the aitee in this session's competition Lager in scale, and creating a much greater discontinuity between the two sides of the river these banks undoubtedly constitute a ‘miesed opportunity. Draving on a thacratiea! alignment between Lamarck’s “tanstormism” and Darwin's “evolutionism”, the project ‘conceives and presents its proposals within fitter ‘unified perspective. Though this distinctive interpretative framework, the winning team proposes in The Theory of Evolution (fig. 12) nine different initiatives ranging from the architectural conversion of sheds to the planting of irees, from the invention of a “viewpoint-slide" to the installation of an ‘amphibious neighbourhood’ or houses on sti. In each case, the idea is the same with 2 renewed dialogue between the wider landscape and human habitat, they propose 2 sat of intervantions to revitalise local ‘activity and enhance the relationship with the “obstacle” ofthe Rivar Allies While itis not the river that is the issue in Ingolstadt, but rather the problem of urban devitalisation and the need to inlroduce new force into the relationship betwoen mobility ‘and urban quality, ones again itis a unificatory approach thet characterises the winning Waldstrasse project. Suggesting 25 diferent, localised actions (seiting aside a space for ‘events, adding new bus stops, redrawing the profile of the stests, ec) on a unified ground ‘space, the proposal seeks to tun the main street into @ more atractve lineer park, where pedestrian mobilty ean became more than {an environmentally desirable way of moving ‘around by generating new urben practices.AUER —-RIPSYLVE DIGUE LESVERGERS DE LA MADELEINE _ vaine pature I Revealing and modelling the specific potential of boundaries (fig.13) Soaswecan see, each ofthese winners, inits ‘own way, devises other foes of develonment with the capacity lo overcome the real, symbolic or imaginary obstacles that urban ‘dynamics can encounter. And, insofar as they ‘were able to consider the proposed themes of *self-cgenisation” vs. "welfare state” anct “cbjact’ vs. “project, they constitute enttios that reveal new project trends and practices in Europe. Finally. a third cetegory of responses invites analysis. These gonsiat of the winning proposals for the sites in A Corufa (ES), MAISON SUR PLOTIS — 2EME FRANCHIS Palma (ES), Seingjoki (FI) and Mame-la- Valiée (FR). In their consideration of the specitic architectural and urban potentials associated with boundaries (whether coast, amtorway or a raway line), these projects seem to have the capacity to devise distinctive ‘arrangements suited tothe ste concemed ang ther probleme, FRAYERE ASAUMON QUARTIER AMPHIBIEIn Palma, the task was to rethink the city's relationship to the sea, What urban arrangements could replace the current major road to accommodate a set of more sustainable and desicable forms of mobil, batter able to connect the bul fabric wih the seatront? The winning project Salvemos e! hhorizonte (fig. 14), chooses to work with the site's distinctive feature: the horizon, Arguing that ane of tha objectives les inthe “non construction” of the ste, the project redraws streat profiles that are mora hospitable to ‘walking and suitable for the cteation of @ {ganuinoly chared public gpace Fortis session. the town of ACoruri proposed! 2 complex site, a large heterogeneous fabric between @ major road inrestructure and @ ‘watertrt, The quostion waa what etatue anc future shouki be devised for this tertary with its mutiple identties, and what crossings to introduce in order to make access easier, The {Nice to ‘Sea’ You project won the commpettion by proposing a phaced prosee in which thie “unproductive” zone would be converted into a “productive territory, Drawing on this leitmoti to enhance the area's capacttes to hoet leisure, production, housing or mobility systems, the proposal also sought to show the economic credibility (notably in terms of attractiveness and therefore the potential for public-private partnerships) of euch ideas in stimulating “productivity. In Seindjoki, the potential of the Boundary revealed by the winning project (ig.18) was Guile diferent; Notch sees a site that calls for a remodeling of the telalionship betwaan a stalion and its surroundings as an invitation to architectural invention: what does it mean {o live and work every day by the railway line, and how can architecture itself be ‘pen to this specific situation? The winning taam responds, in particular, with a set of hexagonal geometries as a matrix for new housing lypologies perhaps mors suited to the conditions off by a rallway line. ln reepone to the ciscontinuly caused by the divisive road inftastructures in Marne-te-Valée, the winning project Vile Nature (9.16) explores the history of he location to highlight the greet svenath ofthis terrtory located at the interface between city anc nature. Developing the multiple ways in which this boundary situation could be better presented, it Seeks to invoduce a mere resiient urban form, with better managed interfaces, by proposing new uses (housing, “observation places ‘arrangements of public spaca, ete) for the ‘green lane" procuced by this metamorchosis. ‘Also an opportunty to rents tha architoturat ‘experiments that may have accompanied the ‘creation of thee naw towns, argues the team, In short, combating powertul processes ot ‘compartmenialisation through a revitalisation strategy that once again entals the highlighting ‘and development ofthe particular situations created by the physical obstacle, rather than necessarily crossing it at all costs. Adaptable urbanities, between ambition and practicality ‘One may begin by concluding that though the winners propose to introcuce built structures to tegenerate the city they do not see these structures as finished objects but rather as projects that progress in stages. In other Words. this is less about fined objects than projects that evolve, adapt, are constructed racially In fact, the awareness of economic Uncertainties, but also of the difficulty ot Implernenting "turnkey" projects on sites containing obstacles and therefore invoWing numerous actors (road companies, rail ‘companies, river management bodies...) encouraged the winners not only to develop phased implementation pracasses, but also to propose solutions that recruit the various existing and potential acters of urban production, to devise innovative partcipatory proceso0s, and final to oreate new apenings for possible catalysts for implementation (establishment of alternative economic arrangements, development of management structures, eto). ‘Therefore, although all the projects propose ‘spatial solutions to the crossing of physical Dbstacles, they also combine these solutions vith nonphysical strategies. Inallths, the projects often consider more than the spatial ramework alone, acquirng a social economic and even ecolagical dimension Similar, the notion of adaptability has not been understood simply in its functional sense, but has been employed more broadly by the teame, to encompass the temporal, structural, or evan symbolic dimension. Each cof these axes conatitutes a new approach to the understanding and conception of hurnan ‘settaments and thair melamorphases. Byway of conclusion, we would note that these projects are (in the large majority) extramoly modest and pragmatic: no big engineering fo architectural gestuces, instead frugal and contextualsed strategies... Something that ‘was undoubtedly much appreciated by the ‘municipalities present for the discussions fat the Cities and Juries Forum. Howaver, in these gloomy times, one may perhaps regret the absence of fantasy and ambition, a hint of fally that could give us food for dreaming in tho future? Mere than evo, ii Important to jergue perhaps a litle too loudly — in favour ‘of ambition for quality of life, openness and freedom forthe “European city’ tis our task to imagine and implement urban spaces that are ethically committed to what constitutes the strength of our shared urban virtues: their capacity to accommodate both the singularity ofthe individual and the breadth ofthe universalA CORUNA ESPANA (ES) 1 URBAN - ARCHITECTURAL LOcA)/2N A CORUNA, RIA DEL BURGO 246,203 INHAB. A1c02 916 42061, AREA 1: 6,749 SQM / [AREA 2: 6.63 SOM, ‘A CORUHIA CITY COUNCIL NER PUBLIC AND PRIVATE COMMON ACTER COMMENTS. INGLUSION INTHE TEAM THAT WILL COORDINATE THE PARTICIPATORY PROCESS TO DESIGN TOOLS. {AND PLANS. POSSIBLE PARTICIPATION IN AN [AFTERWARDS PROJECT Interview of the site’s representative Department of Urban Regeneration and Right to Housing, Municipality of A Corufia ‘The ra is @ paradigmatic unt of the Galician ‘seography, Its skrong identity lies on ts shape fend milieu. The coast unfolds in a repetition and sequence of ras “The la spatial profile which could also extend tony other Galician geographical fom (hence lis condition as @ paredign)- Is nothing lke a river mouth or an estuary. le space is more than amere transition as a passage between two milieue: this transit space is also an enclosure intel, a temtorialty. The indation cl the way outs shapng this eneloeure. ust ke in any other periphery the intervention tea of the Ria del Burgo urvels ts biases and raises a lot of questions, Interpreting it as @ periphery means that the void ~dtined ty watar- imposes ital 19 the heterogeneous superposition of the urban systems; thal continuity is not characterised by the coherence of ts look. but rather by its ‘contast; that it gathers many social axhition fd exclusion; ofthat no single characteristic slands out, as all the marks on the tenitory cverap and criss-cross. Wo assume that this space accumulates a strong concentration of accidents while the ran systems are constantly mutating after the resolution of so many singularities. The Now or the Vernaculer almost aivays emerges this way As long as we cannot undorstand it we wll only see disorder‘MUAN MIGUEL SALGADO Dab WRENS WINNER - A CORUNA (ES) Nice to ‘Sea’ You ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW ‘Nice to ’Sea’ You" is an activation program with public and private Inliatwes focused an a sphere of actuation wih both neighbourhoods of As Xubias and A Pasaxe, including 2% ofthe city population. It converts the atea into @ pracuctve neighbourtiood ‘The atea vhere the sanitary buildings ae placed senselesslyis defined by an abrup! topography and three ines -highway,trainiram and water border. This space of opportunity is a coastal ‘ecoeysiom with good capabiltios or crops anda pariurban ae between growing urban areas Intetconnected phases are based on a needed step: pubic initatives about enhancing public ‘transports and a strip to sove the highway border and the trafic and parking problems The activation program starts with some primary operations: the bridge to Oleiros as a new Urban link: the new traintram public transport with stations both at the new perk and square: several transversal connections; a new inoenlive parking. These measures lan As Kubias ina tree-car new urban node. Pubic subsidios improve the housing conditions and attract population as iregularsotlements are relocated. Buling is associeted to production, greenhouses, ground cultivation andl shell fishing. Tha productive park isthe space for naw events and the restored building i a new activity focus, The borderline is tured into a water trealment pond, with a more pleasant sea loch approach, JURY POINT OF VIEW This project ie proposed as a tour ot a terstoryin which small scale actions trigger the reactivation of various Points idenliieg as problem areas, The projsct does not propose a set of actions. Instoad, the actions are related to the itinerary: the eense of transit. The places thal are generated are much more han spaces, They ate regarded as the result ofthe joint action of incNiuals with ther individuals or withthe space. The project inserts space, time, memary and mevernent into. single action hsLeeewu oncoM"NURIA PRIETO GONZALEZ >) ANGEL MONTERO PEREZ HUGO MALVAR ALVAREZ DIEGO LUCIO BARRAL =: (OMAR CURAOS SIMEON =) RUNNER-UP - A CORUNA (ES) Embroidering the Edge ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW "I said: the horizon is a complex of Cartesian lis. Then, he said bacause we ive in @ box over another box, and | said Life has nally made an impenetrable labyrinth, and he added: Where to knew each other is a great adverture, nevertheless, | sal “There wil always be a place to mest up” (Gallego, 1899) ‘The competition area is an arnaigam on the coast border creating a profile. This horizon of Ccomplaxtias has become inflamed, dsrupled and entangled over ime, Al first sight the wounds are visible: disconnection, high speed, marcinaly A territory thatthe city has tried to phagocyte imposing a range ol scales that colle wilh the identity, A place whore the landscape sets Clues of its open sea condtion, tamed in an organic way to find human scale. Four conceptual interventions matarialzo the project: REsttucturation, REarganization of comectione and mobi, activation of the coastine and REartangement ofthe resilential fabric. “na line the werld comes togetherWith a line the world is dvidee/Orawing is beautiful and ‘errble" (Childs, 2003). Drawing this teritory reflects what is worth, ony witha few more lines ‘rom an arbitectual project, thaws is natura. Baautiul and ere, tha project in thie ete ie a line that tries to civide the obstacle to make t disappear anc! to jin men and sea nature, A sea thal is the main character of a project conceived in a town sculpted by water. AURY POINT OF VIEW The piojact uaee the observer's personal experience as an activating element for the landscape. This perception helps the project recognize the territorial structure and reconnect it by reoxganising the mobiiy infrastructure and the ‘connections talso includes a welltheugh-out revision ofthe residential fabric with controlled ‘growth adjusted to the operation scale and ‘he proposal ofan interesting morphological solution. Qoubts subsist about the imposing size of the proposed building and the ‘excessive pressure on a landscape, which the project ite acknowlecgos ae harbouring ‘ragie memories,‘Maia MESTRE GARCIA =>) GNACIO MOREU FERNANDEZ. [AUMUDENA MAMPASO CERRILLOS (°°) GGIANMATTIA BASSANELLO RUNNER-UP - A CORUNA (ES) a Walk along Burgo’s Estuary ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW The project propases a way of working in the environment keeping is wn charactr. operates recognizing critical stuations that can be understood as an obstacle in the landseane ‘These situations recognized as operators ofthe tool, depending on a conten that isnot visible, abstract and changing, and decisive forthe development ofthe city. This contest is considered in a parametric form, generating soktions according tothe contest, this lows irking solutions to ‘the public space, Generating a connected and constantly renovated landscape, without forgeting tho charactor or basic structure ofthe terry. ‘The consideration of this context and the implications of private collective, cooperatives, associations... allow the ely 6 faster and baer respond to current neads. The admrietration has a shared responsiblity with ctizene inthe development ofthe city, in some cases working as manager or arbitato. [Althese stuatons or operators ar aclates rcund a common Ink. The outs ergenizng ~~ he tng rea-theroad pasa, thepacestian tet, he alvay Yan are ectuyy-con onaate =e Unity and cohesion in the land regardless of the solution developed. Itis possible thanks tothe gs transition spaces-clements-uses that pul tether each solution with the routes, allowing the L Understanding of the identity and unitery character of the avea, JURY POINT OF VIEW Tho project assumes the extreme Kragiiy ofthe proposed etudy area and clearly reflects the need to miniize inatves invoking new housing blocks. It proposes a catalogue of ntatves focusing on whal already exists and striving to improve i. The resull is a tailed sum o local anc regenerative interventions enttusted with the faskin a possible method of revitaztion, ciming to engage private agents as managers of the space under te aratration ofthe Administration. The large number of operations entrusted to diferent stakeholders caries the tsk of complex management ofthis space as a unitary body.BAMBERG ‘ery URBAN ~ LANDSCAPE ~ ARCHITECTURAL DEUTSCHLAND (DE) 00/7/01) BAMBERG EAST Lanes 74,900 INHAB, 200 HA ASSHA/BIBAHA/COSHA oro oy BAMBERG erry COUNCIL neni OF E80 BAMBERG ey COUNCIL, VARIOUS OWNERSHIP (PRIVATE AND PUBLIC) CONVERSION AREAS: FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF ‘GERMANY (BIMA), ACQUISITION BY BAMBERG CITY COUNCIL PLANNED OUTLINE OF LOCAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN, Interview of the site’s representative ‘Andreas Burr, Municipality of Bambera, Head of the Urban Planning Authority PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS TO STRATEGY The development of the site should not only contribute to prevent the former miltery area from isolated development, but also set an Impulse forthe entre Oststact. Urban planning interventions chould upgrade the existing residential areas and streetscare and imorove tho link baleen Bamberg's sistadt and the town centre. HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE ‘SESSION TOPIC-THE ADAPTABLE CITY? The site is forced fo change and undergo further structural development. Besides classic urban planning tasks such as subsequent denstication and the conversion of commercial wastelands inte dwellings, conceptual, uban planning, and cestive ideas should contribute fo strengthen and better ink the cstict. This should resultn strengthening the Osteladt and provide impetus for changes. The characteristic special features of the distict should, honever, nal be negated, but the development of an independent identity fenhanead instead DID YOU DEFINE A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION? Teo faster the urban planning development of the site, the residents of the district should be involved in the planning. Information events were lready held in the leactup tothe ‘competition and the goal is now to go on with {an exhibition. Preparations are areacly being ‘made for talke with the different propery ‘owners, in which the individual aspects of the difforont tasks wil be prosentad and discussed. In the process, we should also dotermina the potential subareas available for Implementation[SHRISTIAN EICKELBERG 0" WINNER - BAMBERG (DE) ae jon : Adaptation : Verknuepfung RE Tp AS a Se RS ga ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW A wide area of ralway tracks is viding the Eastem side of Bamberg vith lange barracks to convert into a residential area. trom the Wester — with the UNESCO vier Henge. Ves Sox The prop proposes netwerkof smal cscs with aiterent levels of pracy in combination with new and existing public spaces connecting cycle-and footpaths between the barracks, the adjacent giesn space of Haupisimoorweld and the inner cy. Special care is civen to the area along the reiway. The development is strengthened by the renovation and widening of the ZolrstraBe tunnal and a new direct cycle tunna, both staring from the new bicycle parking house and the relwey station. New buildings are proposed along the raitay racks to adapt and represent the local radtiane of gardener cultura and exoque style. The baroque principles of overlapping, plasticty and moving observer are translated into ‘contemporary forms. Plantod alrurns and vatical green walls are raferances for the gardaner cle, Offce buildings anc parking garages are set along the rllvay tracks as an acoustic noise barrio fo the residential bucings. The design shows how to adapt radtione and to connect toa subtle network, ze JURY POINT OF VIEW The Work convinces 4s a result of a coherent urban development land open space concept characterized by {generous interconnections of green areas and paths, precise urban development inks via small squares, and structural additions to-scale, The design is cistinguishec above allby he unosthoxiox, smallscale construction along the ralway tracks. This building sructure has the potential to give rise lo a new quality at the entrance to the Oststadt, allowing development in small stepe and faciitating realization by smaller enterprises and private developers|BERNARDO GRILL! DI CORTONA \ FRANCESCO CORONA ji FRANCESCAERRICO MARCO MIOTTO \) RUNNER UP - BAMBERG (08) CT*Bamberg ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW °CT’Bambera’ aims at revitalizing Bamberg East by reinforcing its identity and connecting it to the city Taking into account the UN post.2015 development agenda "make cites and human settiements inclusive, sae, resent and sustainable", the project fecuses on pedestiians and establishes cartes zones and tramway tines. The 9 areas aro sean as parts ol the same body -with diferent functions and abies, but complementary {and moving together in a common airection, ‘A. Connective Boundary: A multifunctional structure is sat elose tothe railway as a noise barrier, ‘connection to town, a lanémark to attract the tourists and a meeting point forthe inhabitants from both parts ofthe city BB Domestic Core: Regeneration of the etea thraugh densification and creation ofa new public {green path and semi public green spaces opening up some private groan spaces set within buigings: ©. Cultural Core: The conte of ataction of he area is centemporary music. The urban tissue is ‘opened to insert new students or young couples houses. JURY POINT OF VIEW The project proposes a corvincing conceptual approach, which cavelops an independent profil from the existing framework conditions and offers the lacation a new significance. Linear construction along the raiway line and effectively connecting Luitpokdsta. © and the Oststact by means of anew pedestren bridge creates an urban cly distct entrée, wth ite comacty resolved structural connections, precise sttuctural composition and open areas with different characters, the project offers a strong response for the future ofthe Ostastact ov cua pevayaGJAKOVA sco URBAN - ARCHITECTURAL L028) 08 QUAKOVA KOSOVO (KO) ‘9,000 nA rr ore THA Sy MUNICIPALITY hss oF HE SF IW OF @UAKOVA ‘URBAN PROJECT MANAGEMENT ROLE, [DESIGN OF PUBLIC AND LANDSCAPE AREAS: REVITALIZING OF THE RIVERBANK AND "TRANSFORMATION OF CENTRAL PUBLIC ZONE; RECONNECTING THE AREA TO CITY CENTRE Interview of the site’s representative Mimoza Kusari Lila, Vayor of Gjakova Elida Bojtullahu, Acting Dractor of Liban Planning and Environment Protection PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS TO STRATEGY ‘The site ig located in the centre of the city development and stretches on both sides of the Krena Fiver the river creates a restrictive barrier between the old and new part af the cil through natural elements, a chain of public {and private buildings of cultural and natural hritago, anc abandoned pubke spaces, refore leaving the area as a passive devolop- ‘mont area, The strategy aims to oirinats the barriers and establish new approaches, which should end up interlacing both riverbanks in cone single compact urban space. HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE ‘SESSION TOPIC - THE ADAPTABLE CITY? “The current area implies the idea of ing eva- lated as potertial area te transform through suitable treatment, r-dastination ofits use, enrichment with public functions ané social services, urban and architectural radesign, ‘adaptation 1 current needs and requirements wh alable economic and social actos fem a restictve area to aloidging one between the ‘surounding spaces, The ely fe ready to adapt the area through the ground configuration ‘and alignment on a variety of destinations to develop -tke selt-sustaning economic actvi- ties, to improve ite atractivaness, the activity end the eynamics ofits use. DID YOU DEFINE A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION? The city will engage in composing a detailed project for execution and a strategy of imple: ‘mentation, including the previous fnancial eva- lation ofthe implementation cost and the ana- lysis ofthe buciget and financial possibilities for implomentaton. Depending an tna project, tho possiblities to implement in phases and the Municipal Budget and othor potential nancial sources, the Municipality plans to start the project implomontation for the folowing year, invoWving the winning tear,|ERBLIN BUCALIU RRITA PULA = DEA LUMA WINNER - GJAKOVA (KO) SEAMbiosis TEAM POINT OF VIEW Active society identity Public transportation. Clean air and water Community partcipation, Deceriraizaion, Happiness. Cultural hetitage, Flow, Chien, Regulated sewage. Public realm. Artisans. Local stores. Religious harmony. Industry. Shared spaces. Education. Four seasons. Wellbeing. Bike lanes. Micro: economy. Organic farming. Lush nature, Green parks. Sustainablily Adaptive reuse. Technology. Traditions. Free movement. Diversity Flay Acoessiby Tourism. Smokers’ comers. Weddings. Hospital Dignity Connections. Safty. Pedestrian-based. Good wil. Equally. Free spintuaty. Arts and crafts. The old and the new. Opportunities. LED street ighting, Farmors markt, City landmarks, Hybrid, Bridges, Water collectors, Solar energy, Vibrancy. Awareness. Day anc night. Relaxation, Coexistence between generations, Sharing and caring. Blurred boundaries between puble and private space. The seamnetwork between these essentials make the city cf Giekove a living organism; an urban SEAMbiosi. JURY POINT OF VIEW The projectntroduces large pubienges: it starts with what is there and works wth ito create accitional qualtes. It does not invent anything but the simplicity of smaller interventions creates a diverse proposal. The project is very wall elaboratact land works with the current landscape, The authors created 2-3 orassing systems. They didn't introduce a Jat of bridgas but they created connections to bring more people {0 the area. The proposal of biking paths strengthens the idea and crestes diversity of activilies. The project overlooks the ecology ofthe city.CAROLINE FOULON CARLES@CARLESENRHCOM rare caP0 65) DENTS INARCHT UNNER.UP -QJAKOVA (KO) Caravanserais ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW Gjokova has 8 song ‘radon as commercial ton, Theol groups of mercantie caravans that used ta cross Giskova inggeredithe construciont abunch v4 of bridges over the Krena River at became identiying meeting points for inhabitants anct yoe traders “To maximizo urban cohesion and empower the city’s identity, the intervention focuses on the exiting bridges and their immediate paces, Becoming strong urban reference pols and recovering the spint othe ancient Caravanserais by introducing new program related 10 eports, musi, leiewe and mark. be The new Caravenceras ae aploce of seuctue 3 acting as a bicycle stop, street furniture é lighting and along pubic accessbilty othe tverbanks. AL the sama time we propose the subversion ofthe actual ver concn om aresidue space fo reclaimed and sariized maiz ae, by acing restorative nature and canalizing sewage water. Then, we bring forware an urban erironmantl strategy that consists in a green ring along the rors and three graen arories structung the ety ‘Thanks tothe re-acivation othe bridges and their surroundings, we can reinoxce the existing streets to defn an urban network that connects Gaba Milwith the Eten Ave, inking the archiletuahoitoge andthe cual and ecole area othe ciy wth thant, The proposal is complemented by targeted intervention in existing tulcings on bot sides ofthe rer JURY POINT OF VIEW The proposal has landscape continuity. It creates two arteries slong the river. Mare dedicates to a bicycle ppath, bridges are the social centres of the project and they are bringing beck thelr own Importance, Interventions ara very light Proposal for urban furniture is lacking. The proposal is concentrated on the dfintion of current uses of existing roads for business clustaa, Whale ineroating is that tie bengng the eazaar near the river. Even with light intorvantions the authors achieved to road the cy and its functions correctly. By adging particular values to oortain aroas they eraatod an interesting approact.Gece : woscech maaan Strip(e) the Common pererainess - TEAM POINT OF VEW “oi landrover lan. Th igo ptes fis eben ae rtended ob seen fom shot stare”GRAZ sco ARCHITECTURAL Loonie RAR OSTERREICH (AT) 098 280000 nA alee SIE 9BHA/PHD.ECT STE 1.8 HA {e020 ay EITVOF ORAZ AND OF (@USTRIAN RAILWAY COMPANY) (088 & HANSCHMANN GMBH DESIGN OF ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT, POSSIBLY IN PARTNERSHIP WITH OTHER ARCHITECTS Interview of the site’s representative (Christopher Kreiner, OBB-Real Estate Management Gmb4 Eva Benedikt, Department of Usan Planning, ly of Graz PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS To STRATEGY ‘The cential location in the West of Graz is a “Europan Kondo’ With a mixed.use neigh- bbourhood (housing, work, commercial and sociocultural facilities) the air is to build abridge to the West and formulate a "West Entée" for the main alway station. The projact ‘area and the Bahnhofsviertl West develop- ‘mont area bordering io the Wost are two of several future cl cisticts. Te development of formar industial areas into mixad ty it ts plays an important role. A main strategic aim ff the OBB i to make the station area mere etractve for travellers. The Southern pedes- tuian tunnel i to form an aditional essential Wast-East axis that will create an attractive public area. HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE ‘SESSION TOPIC- THE ADAPTABLE CITY? ‘The desired mix of use, the emphasis on solutions that create high quality ving spaces rear the noisy main tain station, the approach to public spaca and tha design of a centro round the main train station and close to the sensitive ads leading to Schloss Eggenberg to reflect urban planning-releted end ercitec- tonic conoapts all these aspects ate relevant and reveal that cities need to be adaptable in the future. DID YOU DEFINE A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION? Belore the concrete project development can bain, itis compulsory to present a develop ‘ment plan for the area, meaning that an urban planning concept needs to be created, which Is then ordered by the municipal Proprie- tors OBB / Henschmann, the City of Graz and the winning team will discuss any potential coplimisation in @ workshop to examine how tha project can be used as tha basis for tho development pianIMAL BUSE Yo) Tavis CHER 6 MARTON TéuIss! 5°) PSCHTECTSD RENDERNGS amo WINNER - GRAZ (AT) Walzer ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW A:ew identity should be gluento the ste frit to become the pair ofthe ‘rain station as well asa gate tothe ety centre. The raway is @ connection on a regional scale but also physical barier within the ely, Changing the attitude towards is important, eo instood of hiding it, why not exploiting if? Undergroune! tunnels are a functional but poor way to connect city aris. We propose a strong visual connection and the gate to the station needs te become a place onit oe, We uss the building macs to define a sttong public space ~a square- connected to the urcen context yet also protected. Secondary courtyards are cut into the building mass, bringing in natural ight and creating semi-public spaces. Special care is givan in defining the {good relations between these public and private spaces. ‘The building as an urban artefact works on dilferent scales ~towors on the city scale, building base on the dstic scale, colonnade on the human scale. As programs are in constent change the adaptable stuctue propased wil noe a large range of furctione and the diverse uses and Users will grant the ste a great chance to become a place ful of fe, JURY POINT OF VIEW The project proposes @ very clear strategy’ the implementation of posive and negative volumes (high points anc noise-protacted courtyard), ha diflarentation of ‘the building heights, the idea ot a generous open space as a central plazelike courtyard and the adaptable integration ofthe existing neighbouring buildings are convincing design elernents. The Project gives too much weight tothe closure of the square, a fact that could be easily improved due to the robustness ofthe structure. co MENIEOTLE 1 498 reasINGOLSTADT 2...°°"; \0F POPONED by CITY OF INGOLSTADT [ARCHITECTURAL - TRAFFIC - SOCIOLOGY ONNesIg)O /HE =: CMY OF INGOLSTADT, DEUTSCHLAND (DE Oc,001) TOWN CENTRE NORTH FREE STATE OF BAVARIA ua 490,000 INHAB, COMMON ACTER COMPENTON URBAN AIeOO WTF AQHAVPFOISCT OTT 64HA ——MASTERPLANPRELIMINARY DESIGN STUDY Interview of the site's representative Renate Preblein-Lehie (Cty Building Councilor ef the Cty of ingoltact PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS TO STRATEGY The goel ofthe urben planning isto preserve the historically evolved old city with its distinctive character, but nonetheless Understand it as an urban space thats open to change and transformation processes and has fo adapl to changing demands and needs. “The necessary upatading anc redefining of the ppublc space and the potentials of individual areas in the project area in the North of the ld city of Ingotstadt allow for funciar reflection on the identity anc future ofthis, Urban epace. HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE SESSION TOPIC-THE ADAPTABLE CITY? Within the framework of the Europan competition, what shauld be considered here ae the interventions that ave suitable to aonerate an alractive living space, involv the different actors inthe use ofthe spaces, create ‘ow interest pointe that aniken tha ald ely as a ‘whole, and ensure a perceptible ink between locations via the public space. In connection vith the Central Bus Station (ZOB) -which is located in tho atea-, naw mobilty concepts should also be taken into consideration DID YOU DEFINE A SPECIFIC PROCESS. FOR THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION? The results of the Europan compeition offer a vice range of ideas for the sill pending public and political discussion of the future of the Northarn section of the old ciy. Up to now, the develooment approaches have focussed fon a restiucturation of the North-South axis ‘and subsequent densification in the erea of the 208, Tha competion Interesting contributions relati points. A speeific planning process has not yet been determinedWINNER - INGOLSTADT (DE) Waldstrasse VIA DSTPASSEAOIS@OMAL COM ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW Through an urban inti reform plan, we balance the Noth and South poles of the old town to atomise the oacupation, using the green ing as the origin of he infrvention and the absence of vegetation in the ol town as an opportunity, ‘The HarderStrasse is turned into equipment with unique identity communicating with the centre ofthe old town with the glacis, which acts as a ‘walkway tothe ring and the NEW-ZOB -relocated in the North access ofthe wall as alarge technified green space n themain North South axis. Tis ‘way, a new element can be created to strengiien quotidian idenlly, The sleet becomes a neal park and pedestrians not only have public way, JURY POINT OF VIEW Tha project proposes four precise measures creating divorse urban qualities. In particular, the relocation ofthe bus station is seen as a beneficial and inteligent ‘measure that contributes to improving the quality af spending time there and allows use as Shared space. Al a relatively ow cost, the design makes a significant contriouiion to upgrading ‘that extends not only publi, but also to semi-publc spaces. This projec provides differentiated {and comprehensive responses fo the multifaceted queston of te compettion, while also keeping simple realization in view bu also a nuciaus of activity where they can enjoy a comferable public space at street level The now green axis is articulated in the North with the inherited esplanade from the (OLD-208, which can host events controlled by the city council via @ cultural agenda The urban space mutates into a public scenogrepty. When expanding the activity to the North, naw esidantial and ove appetunity spaces open (supported by the current public spaces), which can be occupied by permanent residents,O-NIKLAS D000 11 EROL SLOWY (= RUNNER-UP - INGOLSTADT (DE) Re-Connect JURY POINT OF VIEW The project chooses to reactivate the pubic space by increasing the number of people who use it and proposes a buiding development with twee freestanding residential buildings on the ZOB site. The provision of naw residential spaces in a Centrallocation is expressly welcomed, but the ‘concrete formulation is questioned, especially the open semi-public and private ereas that will havo dificuties daveloping qualities in a densely urban city even if ney ere elevated ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW The sites situated Inthe historic cent in which urban living and development are key characteristics Prerequisite for a vital urban area is a heterogenic environment with high density, diversity and frequoncy of protagonists and their usage options We propose to establish anew mixed district close to the 20B-area and use the area in the historic centre to increase density and vitalization, We focus on the provision of ‘common area and new forms of sharing ant living for diverse age groups and mod! vivend vithin the historic centre. A new "Quarter of Gonarations’ then emergos and enables participation i the new urban living. ensuring f high user frequency and purchasing power. The vivid Quarter is @ counter pole to Ingolstadt's mono-funetional housing developments. The ZOB is tansterted to the North and ‘he exploration of the centre begins at is intial intetace. A muttfunctonal green bridge buds Identiy, as a landmark, and act as prelude forth historic centre, supplying access tothe lacis and merging the disconnected gresn area.a, ‘ IRUN src URBAN rie proposed by IRON emTY COUNCIL LOcA/EN RAILWAY STATION ZONE; (ONES) OF /HE SE: PUBLIC (ADIF) ESPANA (ES) 1RGn, cuiPGzcon AND PRIVATE so. 61887 Ae, {y]0H 4 eh GONE Hen) MANAGEMENT yor 8622 Ha (OF URBAN DEVELOPMENT PROJECT Interview of the site’s representative Mikel Gargallo Fernandez, Director of Planning and Emironment ofthe Ciy af rin PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS TO STRATEGY The new irin masterplan advocates rational Intensive land use with dense, compact and ‘complex urban structures. It prioritizes fo, bicycle and public transport mobiliy. One of the aime is to recover the reilnay zone, reduce ite current impact onthe town and encourage the insertion ofits remaining infestructure into tho urban area. The main goale aro: + To reorganise the railway zone, adapt its faites fo tho requiremants arising from the incorporetion of the city inthe TGV network To build a new intarmodal station with business. tatay, recreational and other uses: To define a program for housing, businesses {nd public facies on tis released lend! To build road links acroas the railway aoa to overcome the current physical barter HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE ‘SESSION TOPIC -THE ADAPTABLE CITY? Thosa intiaves ato streamline he operation of the railway area, They are expected to significatly reduce the major barier created by the railway infrastructure, release land to complata the existing urban fabric and thus improve road and functional communication between bath sides of he railway land. A new hub is expectec to be created on the basis of ‘a void with a major impact on the town contra {nd produce new living spaces with uses that cenerate activity. DID YOU DEFINE A SPECIFIC PROCESS. FOR THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION? A dialogue and consultation pro hhas begun amongst the various publ stakeholders with a view to defining a comprehensive masterplan. The planning proposal for the Europan competition wil facilitate the production of a tool that will ‘gonerate the mastorplan for this area once the rallway study is completed, The proposals wil also permit the pata! conversion ofthe formar (Customs precinet into university facilties.(GERARD DURAN BARBARA © AANA CASAC GATERAS 9 RUNNER-UP - IRUN (ES) Ura Eta Natura TEAM POINT OF VIEW “There is rothing permanent except change * Heracitus of Ephesus The ety isan image that transforms from the frst instant and never materializes. It should be Understood as a dynamic entiy, where nothing remains the same overtime, where everything is sequential. It flows governed by the laws of nature anc! human being. Its therefore impossible tecanerate, aa laws in censtant anstexmetion datormine every ely Naverthelese, the aveitoot, through study s able to understand their development logics and act accordng}y, allowing the fulute to Feavin harman AURY POINT OF VIEW The project propoces an interpretation based on the ltl dimension, in which great importance is placed on the geography and a relatively dense, cohesive urban ‘model, with grid defined by regular and iregular components by means ofa reinterpretation ofthe value ofthe street block as @ unl condensing cy is. investigates nev alteratives fo reconcile urban and rural environments, including the natural values remaining around ini. Could be an ideal tool to reacpraise the future development of this area and its implications for the est ofthe town‘SPECIAL MENTION - IRUN (ES) Mugaz Gaindiko - Over the Border ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW The aval ofthe high-speed fain wil once again rechape In and ils ELL GRONN > ‘economy. The project proposes to keep the ralway as a visual quality inthe city. yet reducing “CvHlee Ura ‘he physical barrier. To do this the tale terraced ~ ane aide i elevated as a “pier” overlooking ‘ne tracks, hile the otter is lowered as a paral street wi activity on both sides, Together wath new connections over and under the tracks, these elements make a station that isan integrated Patt ofthe city. Surrounding disticts are weaved together withthe new by continuing existing streets and public spaces. SPECIAL MENTION - IRUN (ES) JORGE A. RUIZ BOLUDA ¢ ‘ peeneceereaie United Uses of Irun {once .6rez conzitez meee potential lines of action: nature, society, economy, history. We propose to generate anew central PU hoagal Gage ausihabWlaimadgudirtaubcaNaad HAianennd ahiLIBRAMONT scsmcense BELGIQUE/BELGIE/BELGIEN cco usramonrcHevicny, (BE) TRAN STATION bistrICT 905 10,987 INHAB. SIRES STE SBA Hi dS vie ROPORED By MUNICIPALITY ‘OF LIBRAMONT AND BELGIAN RAIL (SNCB) DNR OFTHE STE: MOSTLY SNCB, ‘THE MUNICIPALITY AND PRIVATE INDIVIDUALS TOWN PLANNING STUDY, ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN OF PUBLIC SPACES ‘AND CERTAIN BUILDINGS Interview of the site’s representative Pierre Amould, bourcmestre PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS TO STRATEGY Libramont-Chevigny is the pole of a rural region at the heart of the Belgian province cof Luxemburg. The town developed around the railway ~ the North-East area hosts an inlerirodal and servioes pole while mary pulbke builcings le the Southstest -all around the ‘main square. The municipality wishes to ereata ‘anew dynamic forthe tran station district with the project "Cceur de Libramont” (Librament’s Heart). The mainissues are the improvernent ff the station functionality 10 turn i into a 21 Cent, stalion, and the restructuration of both sides ofthe rllvay, HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE SESSION TOPIC -THE ADAPTABLE CITY? “The crection of Libramont’s Heart is planned in stops: linking both railway ices; planning ofthe station dstict: and implementation of buldings for housing, atices, shape, senvicas ‘and parking lots on the area South West of the railway. Each step should be planned in a flexible and progressive way, and should specifically consider tho spacing aut and modularity ofthe parking lots as well as the reversibly of housing and offices. Finally, ‘one has to lake into account he progressive eration of lands and insure the cortinuty of the site's features DID YOU DEFINE A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION? As the site isthe attractive feature to develop lis contro, tha Municipality is looking for a ‘masterplan for the whole area, The Europan 13 winning team could be granted a collective mission by the SNCB (the Belgian railway company) and the lacal and ragional euthortes,RARIA TERESA NESTAREZ NARVAEZ (1 LORENA TRINIDAD PHANG (= MARILYNE SOUCHE MORENO =) 50 Shades of Green TEAM POINT OF VIEW The vision ofthe project reinforces the development of urban agriculture uetin the uroan tissue It provides the neighbourhood with a speci: actity Improving the quality of lfe and encouraging communily participa, beceming the aly’ touretaraction, Our proposal is crganic and open but also logical and staged. Within the organic gtd of green ‘and blue, we generate spatial hierarchy and zoving allowing the use fo easly understand space istrbution and functions. The project aims at developing a way of ite where the community ‘auld manage shared eutdoor spaces.URBAN - ARCHITECTURAL VAL MAUBUEE, NOISIEL AND LOGNES MUNICIPALITIES MARNE-LA- VALLEE FRANCE (FR) ie propoeh ey ETABLISSEMENT PUBLIC D’AMENAGEMENT MARNE-ALVALLEE NER > STATE, EPA MARNE, ‘GENERAL COUNCIL, MUNICIPALITIES, PRIVATE MANAGEMENT OF THE ARCHITECTURAL ‘AND|OR URBAN PROJECT AND STUDIES Interview of the site’s representative PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS TO STRATEGY Foutty years afler the creation of Mame-la Vallée, the Val Maubuee territory is facing societal challenges of a new kind and is actively pursuing the urban changes and transformations to enhance its metropolitan attractiveness: revisiting the free public and privale spaces that structure the neighbourhoods anc blocks, and adapting thom to modem usee and human practices: eperopriately and inventvely acting to foster new uses and the sacio-economie balances of the town: making the links between neighbourhoods and the relations between housing and jobs more legible, taciitating residential movement, enhancing the spaces wwii housing estates, HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED To THE ‘SESSION TOPIC- THE ADAPTABLE CITY? The Route de la Brie-which runs from tho Ad motorway othe central part of the new town of Marne-4aVall6o- raises the question of urban divisions ane the future of residual spaces round the centres and neighbourhoods it crosses, Roads and successive roundabouts separate the neighbourhoods, organised around perks, atfcial lakes or green strips, \Which are the trademark of the new town, They sometimes sgem to be juntaposed. The biel is to think about boundavis, residual interstitial spaces wih uncertain purposes, the recycing ‘and re-adaptation of these spaces, which suffer roma lack! legibly anc appropriation, ‘These spaces have significant potential, to exploitin ordarlo device new places of if and activity, ancl offer possibilties for densification foruran intontfioaion.aeaia TOOR ‘YOANN DUPOUY WINNER - MARNE-LA-VALLEE (FR) Ville N(M)ature ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW Since ils inception, Le Val Maubube was conceived as a cily-parkc The Iramework was supposed to generate new relations of habitat to the nature, Unfortunatly, tis row oovious that despite the impressive amount of publie green areas the lfferent forms of interfaces between habitat and nature are irited. The buit-up areas on the site are ul ot closed systems that tutn ther back to the surrounding gteen areas. Our project suggests revealing the potential of mutalion ofthe interfaces in the very centre of sector 2 by uniting the existing line of ponds and the residual spaces of infastructures into a central igure that becomes a ‘connecting green hoar! ofthe area, In our opinion the ideation of project is nocessariy territorial as itreveals o be an appropriate scale to ervision the denstfications ofthe Val Maubuée. The stratogy of deneileation is not seen ae a formal process, proceeding by juxtaposition of the new territories "won by urban”, but as a tool to work on the connections and the resilience ofthe existing neighbourhoods. We propose a linear discontinuous densification by small 8B th Ba bul roe connectad to thoir groan ans built environment. The frst identification of the possible project ares along the interlace reveals that the potential of the residual spaces ie mare impostant than one right think, The advantage of this approach is the existence of the road-network and its flexbiliy of implementation in time, operation by operation. JURY POINT OF VIEW The project offers @ forward-looking vision ofthe nature-ity which concentrates on the interface between the landscape areas and the axing bult spaces. Itis an inteligent and original project which lexends beyond the set perimeter and pursues the experimental work inated on the terttory | through a resolutely contextual territorial and landscape approach. This strategy of scatiered interventions brings out the infrastructures perceived as obstacles in the ‘erty, leading te the emergence ofa large- scale inhabited landscape that has tuined its back on experiments withthe jxtapstion of ‘mutually disconnected bull components we 4 4TADNATHAN CACCHIA ERRESNES LEN 6 SONTACTE@PTOMU-BOHN EU CECILE FRAPPAT “ONOMIV MAN HcTOHU CLAIRE GIRARDEAU =) MELANE CARRATU FA LOUIS MEJEAN NG.ATOF RUNNER-UP - MARNE-LA-VALLEE (FR) La déprise ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW New towns ate the symbol of peculiar era: @ generous and complete vision matching the hopes of thal time, Whether it was imposed or wanted, this model still survives. Yet, we question it especially when contronted to an uncertain ecolegical, economical {and social temiory an which it depends, ‘We thik that keeping cities entrap in auch a system is unbearable. Indeed, we are looking ‘or means fo guide cies fowards resiliency andthe abiliy to adapt io is transitory needs. But ‘whore and haw is such a mutation possible? We choose to adopt a "back uo” posture towards: these New Towns model, and particulary towards its main feature —"Green Spaces" Instead of pursuing a pressuring, entrapping logic, we explore a backing up stetegy to generate tho urban projec. te starting points a movament of arrancjpation to give room te one chocking sel before being put back together. This backwerd rush cveates enough room, Ike afertle vacant field, so back and forth movement can start again. Unpred ctabilty can happen again: here aro the necessary foldng and untalaing waves to the consttuton of such atemtory. Moteover, we achise ciy-makers to e-evaluale ‘the'r ebilty to contol, manage, handle and live such a termtory: we propose instead a humble tactic to settle the basis of ‘mastered Uncertainty” in space and time. SURY POINT OF VIEW The project ideas locus on the role of nature nthe New Town, which is seeking 2 new identity buts imited in ts resources given the current economical and poltical conta The proposal davelops a strategy o intensification and deactivation on certain spaces, This dtferential treatment is liked to the local economy and backed by a network of mutiple local actors exganized in tha form af a cooperative. Dactina gives resience to the spaces, Iderttea in consultation.BORIS VAPNE y=) MAR ARMENGOL = spacers anoHeST pv@xozeu wwawvowzeu ‘SPECIAL MENTION - MARNE-LAVALLEE (FR) Relational Landscape ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW The urban fabricis remeshed and punctually donsifed to eval into a fd fromits existing tractal organisation. Those actions alow renegotiating the dominant postion ff care.and anawreation to the publio space ean emaxge. Ye, euch plane can anly be completa in callaboration with local residents. To involve them, a triennial is organized on the theme ot the landscape of new towns, allowing the promotion ofthis common and the transformation of these omamental parks in a relational and active landscape. The strategy mixes the ehysical transformation of inrastnuctue with @ curatorial approach,‘URBAN - ENVIRONMENTAL ‘MOULINS ancozcuna FRANCE (FR) foe oh) MOUUNS - NEUW 1 28867 NAB, AIEAG STE SYOHA/*F0.CCT STE: 108 HA E PROPOSED SY MOULINS COMMUNAUTE AND THE TOWN OF MOULINS jeri OF HES MOULINS COMMUNAUTE, TOWN OF MOULINS, SOCIAL LANDLORD URBAN sTuDy, ‘URBAN PROJECT MANAGEMENT, PUBLIC SPACE PROJECT MANAGEMENT, ‘SOME ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT MANAGE- MENT MISSIONS COULD RE INTRODUCED Interview of the site's representative Sandrine Masquelet, itector othe Panning Urban Planning, Habitat deparrent PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS TO STRATEGY Tho sto is sot around tho banks ofthe Aller Fiver that goes through the town of Moulins and federates the territory of the Moulins ‘Community. The creation of a new building te relieve the unique bridge submits the site to major urban evolutions ~ the right bank 18 the heart of the old town, and the lett bank -a.ka. La Madeleine- more salvage ‘and representing a potential support of new Uutbenity. The Community wishes to boost an overall davelopment dynamic on this bank through a rebalance thal advantages the whoke conurbation HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE ‘SESSION TOPIC- THE ADAPTABLE CITY? ‘We meant to receive innovative scenarios cf mutation for the sector, intagrating the dimension of nature in town, presenting an daplable managamont af the project and edcing value tothe River while integrating the “environmental (Woods) rules and fon the short-term (urbanize without growth) The scenarios should also allow boosting the conditions for economic and social attractiveness of the heert of the urban area constal ‘and helping recaplure the town in its human dimensions through the creation of a new rmobily ofr. DID YOU DEFINE A SPECIFIC PROCESS. FOR THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION? “The Moulins Community wishes to go on with tho dynamic and the partnershipwith Europan by organizing a workshop with the winning teams and all the local pariners to alow the emergence and copraduction ~in link with the suetizing projects ofthe community taritory. cf an overall project shared by al the actos,BENOIT BARNOUD 1 (CLARA LOUKKAL WINNER - MOULINS (FR) The Theory of Evolution ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW A town isan evolving lvng stucture, In which way can we anticipate future changes? What lingers on in spite of changes and whet doss not survive changes ina town? We looked for answers in natural sciences in which concepts about adaptetliy, ‘ranstormation of evolution are developed According to Lamarck, ifthe lining eoncitions of a species are altered, then the individuals ‘must make their organs evalva to guarantee their survival. An active participation is imposed, Behaviours imply adaptation, Then a town s the coprocuction ofits whole inhabitants, Darwin's theory is based on the Idea that individuals composing the same species are all different trom one another The only surviving individuals are those ceaeually equippad with the most optimized Characteristics fora specific environment. The struggle for ving can be interpreted as an ‘economic competition. Than a town sems to be the sum of incvicual patterns These posiiates are ackiional forthe analysis of oan dynamics and constitute tools in the development of a sustainable town, though scientifcally opposed. The town of Moulins, erogead by the Alliar River, eutters trom macrocephaly -the right bank developed at the detriment of the left ane. But this bank already has the necessary organs for its survival. ligating, hybridizing and stimulating the good organs allow urban development and Keep on offering a possibly for organs fo evo've depending on the residents’ need, JURY POINT OF VIEW The project considrs the development of the city aver the long term, with respect to natural or anthropogenic: alterations to the river system. By identifying the parts that raflect natural evolution and ‘those that rellect human alterations, the project divides into nine ternterioa related to epecstic types of action, The cartographic layering of those lerteries reveals a fluid landscape structure, reilecting @ set of deliberate transformations that do at provent the natural evolution of the rtieus.SIMON GUILLEMOT (1 CANE SERRES OF Provera CCHARLY CROCHU JEAN-BENOIT BOCCAREN (=) 012 HS RUNNER-UP - MOULINS (FR) ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW Reconsidering the relation ofthe cy with the river isto make it par of ateritory. Staring from the heart of Moulins, the project connects the departmental pak ofthe Valley of Alc, inking the various natural spaces of the riverbed to the surounding cities. Now pedestian and cycle routes. on both sides ofthe stream, shape a vast network eunning through beaches, floodplains, undergrowth and fields, participating in the new urban system. I the city ) x BesceAN TUBER STUDENTE NAR? RUNNER-UP - 05 (NO) Preparing Density ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW In order to create @ complete luing experience forthe inhabitants, Os does nat need more built structures, but an increase in the number and diversity of functions and social interactions, making ita vibrant and active space ofthe community. (Our proposal uses itferent mechanisms to soften the strong mits bounding the site, We aim to create events on thei paths, to perceive them ot as obstacles but as opportunities fo connect vith natural elements or peor. In architectural terms, the site isa straight, man made platform. We devised a process to regenerate the spece for public use, which starts by introducing the paople tothe site and asking ‘ham to participate. Moet ofthe exiting buildings ae to be rlocatad. A completa avartaul of ‘he equate and its infrastructure wil set the premises for further development, covering the area with a texture of pavement, green patches and wooden deck surface ‘To activate the stage. prefabricated wood pavilions are proposed in strategic positions, ccontiguations and denstiea. The madules can be rentad for smal businesses or aft pen and transparent to host temporary functions. The development pian includes epectic rules over how people chose to extend the constuction onthe ste to folawa deske charactet. The final layout and aspect ofthe square remains lor the people to decide, ero DPROECTe;CAL COM JURY POINT OF VIEW The project challenges «8 conventional lype of development and the planned densification of Os, It argues that a ‘raditional densification would harm the Os ‘community and proposes instead a stratecy Cf densitying social, cultural and economic interactions. It introduces a pavilion structure ‘on sits to promote temporary activity in the centre of Oseyro, ensuring large parts of Os ‘ly contre to becoma dedicated tothe publle ‘and not to private market forces. As 2 result, {a generous urban space with “unrestricted ‘mobily" is creeted. The project promotes a ‘stem of empawerrant where the inhabitants can irectly participate in developing the town conte[NEMANUELA ORTOLAN! SPECIAL MENTION - 08 (NO) MICHELA ROMANO. fMuA Rost) Limelight aviD vEceit a ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW The proposal fr the fulure development of Osis designed o premate 2 growth mode that not only aims at increasing densification but thatis able to leunch the city Fina cencauy ‘especialy ftom an aconomie point of vow, taking ts ident and its inns quali into account NeoLA CONAN em Theinserton ofthe fm incustry is one of the focal points ofthe strategy designed forthe renewal DENTIN ARCHITECTURE process ofthe city. Os must provide complementary functions tothe ones aready present in the region. The cecision to include a creative industry represents a possible activtion tool in the cra ase ererTUn development of networks and relationship cn a regional acale 19, Bry1 soso URBAN ARCHITECTURAL PALMA (CUMIN aU, MALLORCA BaLEAE ESPANA (ES) ISLANDS, SEAFRONT PROMENADE 0.9 406000 AB rac ot 988 HA eo} se 64 MA, \0F (oPONTD ey DIRECTORATE-GENERAL OF [ARCHITECTURE AND HOUSING, [BALEARIC ISLANDS REGIONAL GOVERNMENT 1) OF E/E PALMA CITY COUNCIL ‘AND HARBOUR AUTHORITY COUWESN ATER CME ION PRELIMINARY Ungan STUDIES Interview of the site's representative sear Canali, Hoad of the Department of Urban Projects, Accessibilty and Disclosure of the General Diection of Architecture and Housing, Balearic Government PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS TO STRATEGY ‘Theaim ot this competion was to seek ways to ‘adapt Palma City tothe new needs and desires for batt qual ifesyles and tourist focusing the work onthe seafront promenade, The olly naw immersed in an adaptation process to reconcile is curent structures with today’s trends in uses and practices, which for clizens and tourists ake have evalved towards ‘a noe ox physical exeressaand the use ofthe cealrontteraces, Thase uses should therelore be prioilized, while atthe same time catering propartonaly tothe local need for mobilty and facilitating access to aternatve uses HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE ‘SESSION TOPIC- THE ADAPTABLE CITY? PPalma’s seatrort is @ 5.5-krn-long read from Manuel Azafa Steet to the fery torrinal. Part ofitborders the old town and the city walle, and ‘another part runs beneath deneely occupied districts with hotels. apartment blocks. restaurants, nightlle and nautical recreation facilties. The cence of ahuman scale and the proximity of the sea are greatly diminished by access problems and conflicts with trafic ‘experienced by esidants and vistors alka. is now impossible to restore ts physiognomy {alts stat prior to the changes brought about by the tourist boom in the second hall ofthe 20" century, but we can ty to evoke it wth a ‘suovesstul adaptation project DID YOU DEFINE A SPECIFIC PROCESS FOR THE URBAN DEVELOPMENT OF THE SITE AFTER EUROPAN COMPETITION? ‘The aim was to receive dea proposals for the renewal of the Palma seatont promenade, Participants were asked to take into account tho planning provisions, although they could present ideas for the development of these plans and also propose improvements and atemativesQUAN SocAS >) MURIELLE CLAIR WINNER - PALMA (ES) Salvemos el horizonte ocAS@WUANSOC ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW We applied an external and independent variable a2 a pattern, able to organise and assume the form othe site, The insertion ofthese bands “that ate able to integrate multiple problems leona gestura- implies a serioe of mutations generating various public spaces thal, without adding new built elements, allow salving the problems of connection, changes of altitude, ‘vegetal densification, comnpatibilty of uses, integration offuriture, nsertion of equipment ‘as wol as incoherence of flow, ‘The project isin fact the result of making compalible an open system, abstract and generic able 10 adaot itself tothe singulertes ofthe ste and the premise of "no construction”. Stil can a project adopting a dacisiveattude of "no construction’ be economically eustainablo? ‘Along the marten ont pockets ofland appear that could receive uses generating financial pro With the goal of sustainable management weactvale anc connect hase fet to the sy eres so that the generated income finances other aspects ofthe project the same time, we propose to sstengthan the local SLC; inaxchange tar the explatation al these spaces we inser! green areas in parking zones, uses of vantage point, etc. thereby decreasing the maintenance costs fortaayers JURY POINT OF VIEW This confident projact suggests 2 section containing serial solutions running perpendicular to the seato be applied to the multiple circumstances of the city's coastal strip. It presents “non-construction" 2s an interesting operating method. Ittacklas th iaaue ofthe interface betweon tha ay and ‘water throughout this area wit ve major cuts, teach of which including seven repeatable solutions adacted to the traffic requirements, the topography, tho various types of flow and the landscape.FRANCISCO CIFUENTES UTRERO ‘kuz myRIAM DUQUE TARDAGUILA SEBASTIAN MARTORELL MATEO |") ‘CARLES GABRIEL OLIVER BARCELO |) DENTS IN ARCHITECTURE ENURONENTAL ERONEES ‘TOMEU DURAN GELABERT =) JOSE M. ROS MATHEU. ‘JonGe cIMENE? 1a? LARA GARCIA GIMENO ( ‘CARLES F. BAEZA SERVER soeie108s' Dee SPECIAL MENTION - PALMA (ES) Grace, Let’s Go Swimming TEAM POINT OF VIEW Tho project proposes to transform the waterfront into @ gisen inttastructure. Beyond the coastie, the proposel thinks the entire iy. Through @ new motilty ‘mod and the reerganizaten ofthe aiferent uses we propoee to enabia the restoration of acting ecosystems and puic space. The strategy is based on the environmental connection between the Tramuntana Mountains and the sea; a sustainable water management by recavering the soll permeabilly; and the enhencement ofthe heritage anc! environmental value of the adjacent ‘consolidated urban aroae. SPECIAL MENTION - PALMA (8) Seambiosis TEAM POINT OF VIEW Ou: propocal extends the area of consideration far beyond the stip ofthe waterfront. The main idea ofthe project is o recover the symbiosis that evisted between Pima and the sea by strengthening the linkage between the walerfront and the city behind Pla's waterfront should be reconsidered within the context of the street spaces and squares that connect the urban tue and the sea. Giving depth te the stip the watertront ty means of aticulating the inks to the uroan network may be a way to absorb the pressure on the waterront ‘and to “urbanize" the seafront atthe same time13URBAN - ARCHITECTURAL ‘SAINT- came BRIEUC es FRANCE (FR) TOT 70 HA (CITY CENTRE) +6 HA (LEGUE AREA) 10F REPORTS by MUNICIPALITY OF SAIN BBRIEUC, WITH SUPPORT OF EPFB (ETABLISSE> MENT PUBLIC FONCIER DE BRETAGNE) NNER) OF THESE, VARIOUS Ou /ESON AFTER GONPENTON PROVECT [AND STUDY MISSIONS ON ONE OR SEVERAL MUTABLE SITES FOLLOW-UP OPERATIONS CAN BE INITIATED WITH PRIVATE PARTNERS. Interview of the site’s representative PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS TO STRATEGY The Saint-Brieue Municipality wishes to undertake a strategic reflection on the organisation and future of the territory, Uunderpinned by the highlighting of several geographical and cultural pairings: town landitown sea, man-made tewn/nature tow, plateau town/valloy town, In ardor to organise the urban, economic and tourist development, tho munieipalty i looking at Europan for an overall vision that wll notably explore the continuity of its urban and natural public spaces and the quality of the routes from town to sea, Al this raiae questions about rmobilty and public spaces, the possibilty of projects in interstitial spaces, and a reflection ‘on combiring access fo and use o he valleys vith the protection of their landscape and environmental quali. HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE ‘SESSION TOPIC - THE ADAPTABLE CITY? In proposing a large study area, the Saint Brieuc Municipality is raising a question of ‘aeagraphical scale forthe implementation of a strategy of urban transtormetion through a new ralationship between land and sea in toms of landscape, urban routes and public spaces. “The overall uban and landscape vision should reinforce the heart of the conurbation and propose project processes approprite to the town's specific historical and geographical features: the land relie and the slopes, the protection of nature, the town's identity and relationship to the sea, the interweaving of functions and uses, the presence of large Infrastructures, the organisation of mobilWINNER - SAINT-BRIEUC (FR) Landscape Focus JURY POINT OF VIEW The project combines perceptual, physical, temporal anc economic approaches tothe landscape. It recognises the ambivalence of this landscape and invites uso uly the quest forthe sea in order to open up to the multiplicity of Saint-Brieuc's landscapes, “The strategy divides into twe phases: showing and providing access. In the fal phase, the handling of the landscape, and in particular the partial deforestation ofthe valleys, has the effect of opening up new views, creating new routes and beginning a cycle of production and ‘alorisation of materia, In the second phase, the eslvaties ate ieniiied as potential project locations, bringing a special relationship withthe sea IRS CHERVET@CRIAL COM wrwveans0c0. OuNRISCHEE ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW The project makes the question of the proximay ofthe sea relevant by opening Saint-Brieuc to the multiplicity of landscapes composing it. In a play of ‘contrast, the development of town ieniy as ‘mountainous helps to ream the ciference in-sea landscape. In tis way iflrent manners to recover a relationship between Landi and ‘Soa can be explores = opening of views showing the potent ‘geography ofthis tertitory - through a gradient of landscape pattems ‘making the transition between natural vallays nd inhabited plateaux, = through uses, evolving in the centre of a dence and attractive uroan framework; = by ol aornecting the ray etation tothe harbour anc opening upon broad landscape: = through the relationships between stake- holders involved in environmental inusiry, on emblematic sites in estuaries from valleys. Tho approach les on a horizontal view of tert- tory based on perception through sight, vertical vision through the appearance of buildings ‘rom the ground upwards and a temporal view thal articulates projects. The strategy consists cof assessing @ collecton of possible projects through @ long-term vision, then placing them in time by order of protity. The tertorial project is pul inte place through landecape management, initiating @ virtuous cycle for ‘material re-use to develop public space. The ‘material thus creates the link in space arxitime bpotween each site in the project‘evRiL BRETON PIERRE-OLIVIER CARPENTIER MAXIE GENEVRIER FNONEEA, Unc WINNER - SAINT-BRIEUC (FR) Seaside Boulevard ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW Sain-Brieuc gave its name io a broad bey, based on a lively ecosystem ln which the tia range akvaye rulas tha setiamant of men's and tewn's life. ora othe bay, ‘where deep sea is permanent, towns have naturally grown around the shores and beaches, ‘whereas at the end ofthe bay towns has setled fow kilometres from sea inthe inner lends. This situation isa kayissue inthe project. With the LGV extending (French high spoad tran) Saint Brieuc is given the apportunty to become the only city of the bay directly accessible with high- speed trains and tighlly inked to the sea, The old and stil exsting ralway (lor Height trancport and tourism between Le Port du Léqué and the vain station is reshaped as a seaside Boulevara, ‘Theor isthe mati for uiban interventions that fi the encountered landscapes, lopagraphies, programs and to land arming opportunites. The project gathers multiple contextual issues and ‘anawers them using 20-callod! “oaks”. n order ta better adapt to these chavacteritcs, tools ake combined andl also act as the scope of interventions just as much as the guiding principle ot the project. This course across the ciy isthe area where experiments come up and provide an ‘opportunity to offer promising prospects ta the surrounding environment, JURY POINT OF VIEW The quality ofthis project ies in its capacty to combine a teritonal sralegy with situated projects. The authors describe the Sain-Biieue landscape as a puzzle" ‘Thetr strategy isto draw on the existing infrastructure in order to introduce local interventions ‘long a “tral of opportunites” and provide a “panoramic and continuous" interpretation ofthe landscape. They iden nine project themes (described as tools] that are combined and apolied appropriately to the diferent sites. [LOOMTAG BR coeINICOLAS PINEAU 1 MARIE-EVE TURPEAU NOEMIE SCHMIDT = ‘QAYLOR CHIAR! ‘JEAN CHEVALIER = RUNNER-UP - SAINT-BRIEUC (FR) ANDRE RENIEL : Versants Versatiles TEAM POINT OF VIEW We suggest ‘approaching the tonitory of St-Brieue Kom a ‘oral singulaty: the topographical BO meters NGF line that integrating the city centre in the Gouét valley. The general strategy consists in working on the teiaionship between beth entiies separated by this line. on one side the urbanized plateaus and on the other the verted hilsides In terms of mobility, we propose a 2-speed network allowing increasing the connectivity between plateaus and hilsides ty the crossing cof a loop of public ranspertation situatad on the axis station-harbour with a transverse padostian network arving from the hile ‘These are therefore considered as connection ‘spaces rather than remole puting (On this weft, punctuations formed by mobile Uses are situated in the junetion of the various dietrcts to connect and activate the connections. These uses take the form of sl trucks proposing services such as cinema, rary, or food truck In terms of landscape, the projact suggests ‘qualifying the binary report between plateaus and valleys 3 thres modes of actions: interpenetration of natural spaces and but ‘spaces (derelict industrial sites); conversion of natural spaces in food-producing spaces {hillside of Notre-Dama); and traneposition of landscape (city centre). This set aims to define a more diffuse landscape system, including the meshing of tho landscapes and the uses and questioning the reaopropriation of hilsices JURY POINT OF VIEW The quailty ofthis project les ints capacity to reinforce the multipolar nature of the town, The authors noticed tha the 80 m long line that sgparates the plateau from the valeys means thatthe town centr is part ofthe later enti Their strategy consists in reinforcing the mutual conneatvly of the spaces by working an mabilty anc landscape. They propose establishing a new bus loop from the stato tothe sea, combined wi the enhancement ofthe hillside tracks. lng this avi, areas are sel aside for service vans and mobile shops.‘SEINAJOKI - se URBAN - ARCHITECTURAL, ‘SUOMT-FINLAND (FI) Le a e205) 70H yore saa PROPOSED 8 CITY OF SEINAJOK Er CITY OF SEINIJOK!, ‘STATE OF FINLAND AND SEVERAL PRIVATE OWNERS ‘COMMISSION AT THE LEVEL OF URBAN ‘STRUCTURE AND URBAN PLANNING Interview of the site’s representative PRESENTATION OF THE SITE WITH REGARDS TO STRATEGY Seinajok’ is one of Finland's fastest growing tes, with an annual growth of 15%. The city isthe regional contre of southern Ostrobothnia end stives tobe an attractive and vale choice forreciencs and businesses, The aly stralegy is to develop the quaity ofthe environment in the cont and improve its commercial viability ‘This can partlybe done increasing the housing donsily in tho ely centre and its immediato surroundings, The competition area is the railway station with its ralway yards and station buildings. Ite an important junetion of the rail nas hallway betwean Helsinki and Oulu, Those were originally bul between 1880 and 1913 and the city grew up around the station, The ld cargo railway yerc has become obsolete ‘and ig curently an urban fallow. Many of the warehouse buildings as well as alarge pat of tho tracks on the Pobia sic willbe removed in the future and the area wil become avellable fornen development. is hoped that a varity of diverse mixed functions and housing will be created in the area, including work places, services and public nctions. HOW IS THE SITE CONNECTED TO THE ‘SESSION TOPIC- THE ADAPTABLE CITY? ‘The objective is to develop Seindjokiralway station rea into a versatile centre where ‘multiple functions, commercial services and housing come together. The station's lo in the very centre of Senajok is ideal and itis hoped that the new functions willbe clasely lnkod tothe contre and aniven the surrounding areas. Developing the railway station are wail offer an opportunity to comploment and expand the city centre and bring the city a ‘much noedod new urban quality‘TAPIO KANGASAHO W) WINNER - SEINAJOKI (FI) Notch ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW "NOTCH creates anew dense urban care for Sendjch. The new station structure isthe hear! ofthe design, croating a naw landmark for Seinajoki and acting asa visual ‘welcome for passengers. The station ferns a new nede inthe city, acting as a bridge between Pohja dlstict and ally cantra and eimpliying cycling and waking around ratway tracks, Twonew Lncerpasses also make the connection o Pohja district even easier. ‘The station area is liked tothe city centre by continuing aly centres street lines and block structures sill maintaining distinctive visual design, vinich gives the new area is own cheracte. ‘The station buleing hae a wide range of functions from bus and railway station to real, atfice and hotel ‘The urban fabric close to both sides ofthe tracks visually and functionally reduces the barrier cffet ofthe tracks. The new area on Pohja side ofthe tacks is mainly focused on housing with 2 few retall spaces. tis cteated es dense housing area with enough porosty due tothe shane ofthe bulling blacks, SURY POINT OF VIEW The proposal has a successful gtasp of the competion area as a whole, crecting astengidanity forthe diferent areas. The agproach fo the urben structure is bbeauiiful and the new connections work wel, ‘The functions have been successfuly outlines. Tha block typology ig novel and the dosign Is bold. The blocks of the Pohie district are typologically the most interesting part of the proposal. There are mary options availabe in the communal yards, even though no functions have been incicated for them. The form itself see's lowarcs communal iiing. Te buildings can easily be bul in stages.‘ATTA KINDBERG LAURA NENOWEN (: ARCHITECTS MIKA WuORISTO >) ARCHITECTURES RUNNER-Uf SEINAJOKI (FD) Semaphore Tay HENTTONEN SONAHULM WUORsTO@EVAL COM TAMNDBERGATGMAL COM ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW & new travel ‘centre is placed one biock South-East of the ‘ld bulicing to shift the city gravity centre Southwards, establishing better connections to the locomotive stables and the Aalto centre, The new travel centre isa central node directing lows and becoming a metepherioal semaphore", an ol railway signal systern. A cycling bridge connects the Pohia cstict tothe travel contre. A new pac South ofthe station extends the as to the Lakeuden risti church, ‘Apedestrian bridge connects the travel cari to the locomotive stables. All this is connected with tran and bus travellers, @ hotel, offices, ‘commeroial functions and dvelings. The Northern part of eub-aroa A const frente block typologies, all of which create a strong wall-ike border against the allway andl a weaker more open border against the street. Courtyards are located between both borders. Sub-area B is developed as a place for events, recreation, small businesses, pop-up activites and culture sarving both vistors and local residents. Proposed functions include a microbrewery, a summer theatre, wan farming an cifferent rental spaces. Sub-atea C consists in along, meandering Fiobon of apartment blocks protecting the rest ofthe area from the rally. A public parks formed between the buildings and the rama. The atea behind the ribbon is a dense small-scale seting ith a network o diverse spaces, JURY POINT OF VIEW The proposal recognises and Is successtuly connected to the most important elements in the urban structure of Seinajoki: the commercial centre and the Aalto Centre. & skit! otal has been weaved together around the aves, connections and landmarks. ‘The now urban structure i nfluanced by ie surroundings, and it changes in accordance withthe surrounding existing structure. The orentation, functions and disturbances shape the character of the parts, ranging from a walle and enclosed situetite all he way to a small-scale and breathing structure.‘BUILLERMO DORI « MATTHIAS WINTER (1 ‘BOUER KAPOLEI OF LAURA HIETAKORPI “TOMI JASKARI MESSERURSENATUS 18 KARIGPGNAIL.COM SPECIAL MENTION - SEINAJOKI (Fi) Intermezzo ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW The proposal establishes cloar hiorarchies in favour of sharply dined, nuit rooms-public spaces. These common rooms are used for leisure, sports or agriculture, “They are equaly open to both oly dlarcts and serve asa connecting tissue. The clear structure of the built space allows @ super-censity within the emptiness. Programmatically creating extremely diverse and dense common spaces. The bul structure s nota border belween the Clearances but a feme end a catalyst for singularity and uniqueness ofthe rooms. The buildings ‘are parmeabie and aly connections perpendicular to the spaces. ‘SPECIAL MENTION - SEINAJOK! (FI) | Went Down to the Crossroads ‘TEAM POINT OF VIEW The project creates an urban fabric with Ostrobotrian idantiy in the heart of Seingjoki and expands the pedestrian area inthe centre. The existing train station is replaced witha travelhutyinnovation centre hal consists of dence biocks with pedestrian human: scale spaces inbetween. The pedestian biidges on bath sides ofthe train station act as gates hen approaching the ely. An underpass connacts the Iocomativa event pa tothe innowation ceri. On the Easter side ofthe ras there is a modernized vilage of ‘Ostrabotnian’ housing, ‘retreat within the etyS18KO HOVILA ‘enw Lautso. ‘SUV! SAASTAMOINEN (>) SPECIAL MENTION - SEINAJOKI (Fi) Somewhere over the Railway TEAM POINT OF VIEW Al main ditactions load to a unique hub of mobility, Resicontial, commercial, ofce, culture and leisure functions beost the liveliness of Seinajok. Vatonktu ‘root ie an urban boulevard wth human scale mile including epacious pedasttian evironemant {and high quality bicycle lanes. Public spaces and connections, nclucing fou attractive pedestrian and bicyele accesses, weeve through he ely stucture, Ralway Park ads othe ger landscope structure. Development chases show a varay oftemporary functions during the iong construction process.HOW TO USE NEW INPUTS TO CHANGE URBAN SPACE? Point of views: “Negotiate as You Go Along”: Infrastructures for Shared “Hybrid” Territories by Socrates Stratis New Inputs, New Public Spaces by Carlos Arroyo Bondy (FR) Espoo (Fi) Landsberg (DE) Lund (SE) Molfetta (IT) Montreuil (FR) Santo Tirso (PT) Schwabisch Gmiind (DE) St Pdlten (AT) Stavanger (NO) Trondheim (NO) Vernon (FR) Wien (AT) p.126 p.130 p.134 p. 138. p. 144 p.148 p 162, p. 156 p. 160 p.164 p.170 p.174 p.178 p. 182 p. 186How to profit from new inputs to transform urban space and disperse the incoming positive dynamics to adjacent areas to create new urbanities? How to manage potential tensions between the local and translocal activities? These inputs are related either to new public transport network connections or to new programmatic developments. The scale of these incoming urban dynamics varies from the urban agglomeration to the whole world.1SSOCRATES STRATIS, ect al he deparirent of fc lubansi’ and armembet Point of view “Negotiate as You Go Along”: Infrastructures for Shared “Hybrid” Territories The article is an investigation about the Infrastructural role of Eurapan 13 winning projects in enhancing shared “hybrid tories. Such teritories have multi- geographic realities resulting from urban transport network connections and incoming programs while transformed by all sorts of on-site locailties. The projects unfold their political itue by proposing gradual changs of relations amongst the projects’ actors, hence influencing hew new incoming urban Gmamies: “inputs may transform the competion sites into sharod “hybrid territories, The tonsions may arise due to potential conficts between ‘on-site urban actors agendas andithase atthe incoming ones. Europan projects’ challenge is therefore to became negotiation apparatus in thehands of he uroan actors fr the adaptable Cy in, iat fostering the presence a the pie domain when there is decreasing absence ot the Welfare State; second, promoting shating within an increasing segregated world; and third, alowing fornew relations and negotiating moments between the urban actors during project making where urban traginentation is growing, Infact, this article departs from the last ebjectve o shorty revisit the other to, The Europan 13 hosting sites of such new Inputs are grouped in three categories. The ‘tst one is about large mono functional areas, of big box urbanism (fig.1) -Bondy (FR) Wien (AT)-, of fossil {ual ncustrios (lig.2) Stavanger {NO}-, or of former miltery camps ‘and actual teachers’ and achaol cente (ig 3) -Schwabisch Grund (DE); most of them with reduced public presence and need of community spit. The second eategary ie about ereas part of large territorial figures, such as riverbanks (ig 4)-Venon (FR, foxner industrial watertonts (fig 5) Trondheim (NO), Motfotta(7)-, or natural landscapes (lg 6) Espoo (FD), Landsberg (DE}-, pressured by Increasing private development and threatened by dacteasing local community role, The thre ‘roup Is about rather isolated! areas, some with community activity (1ig.7) -Lund (SE), ‘Montreuil (FR), Santo Tso (PT)~conttontedto ppotonial overwhelming metrepolitan flows due to imminent connections to agglomerations! transport networks (ig 8) SI Plten (AT) The Europan project in changing times: from participation to negotiation ‘The expression "Negotiate As You Go Along” could draw references from practiogs back in the 1960s and 1970s, such as thal af Cede Price collaboration wth ine Acion, an altema. tie theatre colectiv, to build the Inter-Action Contra, allowing him to investigate the role of architectural practice in changing times with the emergance of mass media, mass consum- cerism and mass housing. In fact, Price attr buted negotiating capacites to architecture by jopeningup the design process into collective platform, inuting for patioipation. According to Tanja Hera, he found himeett exposedin a rather broadened architecture's shit in terms ‘of communication, project davelopmant and project outcome. Price Invested in participatory ‘moments thanks to the adaplable nature of Inter-Action’s infrastructure based on a flexible technical building eystem, However, the results ‘were rather questionable due tothe incommpat- Iolty ofthe high-tech building infrastructure vith the low-tech labour contiaution intended bythe “InterAction” collective? Going back to Europan 13, the winning teams ate investing in paticipatory moments thanks to the invisible technology of the urban project, ‘8¢ wellasto the viele one of he architectural object, both being quite decisive for the co-production of shared “hybriatertores. "The task at hand invelves warking in offerent sales and witha diverse set of mechanisms blending urban planning, programming, ‘parative and recreational landscapes, Inrastucture and communication.”