A total of 62 works were submitted to the competition. The jury consisted of Mateusz Gyurkovich, Igor Hobza, Jan Mackovič, Katarína Smatanová, Péter Szaló, Agnieszka Szumilas and Radek Toman. Among the award winners, the jury selected projects that focus on the effective complementarity of centres, appropriate scales of public spaces or the development of peripheries. "Some of the student proposals may seem unrealistic, crazy, but sometimes we need to be radical to realise the need for change," mentions the judge Agnieszka Szumilas from the University of Wrocław.
The winning design by Tereza Říhová from the Rothbauer studio sensitively restores the town centre and the relationship to the river that Strakonice has always had and which it has lost thanks to car traffic. The jury appreciated the careful work and the inspiration of the original urban structure. "With the help of very well chosen regulations, it creates a new level of river banks, a block structure with pleasant street spaces and small squares," the jury added in its evaluation.
"In recent years, we have seen more often moderate and small interventions among the awardees that find and reconstruct hidden values of existing structures or discover the possibilities of new impulses in the context of the present. Such an example is the award-winning concept for the development of Sarajevo," comments Zuzana Poláková from the Institute of Spatial Planning at Faculty of Architecture.
All awarded works, including the jury's statement, are available on the competition website. On YouTube of CTU Faculty of Architecture, you can watch a recording of the debate, which was attended by representatives of the Institute of Spatial Planning, heads of studios from abroad and the jury.
Awarded projects:
1. PRIZE Tereza Říhová – Return to the river
FA ČVUT Praha, Institute of Design I.
Thesis supervisor: doc. Ing. arch. Zdeněk Rothbauer
2. PRIZE Patrícia Pecková – Kohn's Brickworks - a carbon neutral city
FA VUT Brno, Institute of Urbanism
doc. Ing. arch. Gabriel Kopáčik, Dr.
3. PRIZE Martina Kováčová, Kristína Čangelová – Bratislava Petržalka DK Lúky zone
FAD STU Bratislava, Institute of Architecture of Civic Buildings
Ing. arch. Jozef Bátor, Ph.D., Ing. arch. Štefan Polakovič
REWARD: Anna Mahdalová – Still looking for a garden city
FA ČVUT Praha, Institute of Urbanism
Ing. arch. Michal Kuzemenský, Ing. arch. Petra Kunarová
REWARD: Tamás Gombos, Máté Érsek – VBL.PRSPRTY
FA BME Budapešť, Institute of Urbanism and Urban Planning
prof. Dr. György Alföldi DLA
REWARD: Zora Bogárová – Delirious Sarajevo
FA VUT Brno, Institute of Monument Conservation
Ing. arch. Radek Toman Ph.D.
REWARD: Michal Križo – WARSAW – KAMIONEK
FAD STU Bratislava, Institute of Ecological and Experimental Architecture
doc. Ing. arch. Heinrich Pifko, Ph.D.