Young Architect Award 2010 Finalists Are Known
On September 6 and 7, 2010, the expert jury of the Young Architect Award 2010 competition convened in the National Technical Library in Prague, narrowing the 128 submitted works to a shortlist of 24 works advancing to the final round. 5 works have been nominated in the Studies category, 12 works in the School Works category, and 7 works in the Implementations category.Nominees:
Category Studies:
- Development of the Hyncice pod Susinou area
MgA. Ing. arch. Lukáš Blažek - ječmen studio - Design of a Modular Residential Complex in Nitra
Bc. Ondřej Fiala / Bc. Tomáš Henel - Suspended Park over the Blanka Tunnel Mouth
Ing. arch. Jiří Opočenský / Ing. arch. Štěpán Valouch - Sheltered Workshop for Making Pickled Camemberts and Sausages in Davle
MMM - architekti / Ing. arch. MgA. Klára Makovcová / Ing. arch. Pavlína Macháčková - Guarda Environmental Monitoring and Interpretation Offices, Portugal
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Cena Stavebního Fóra "Pilot in Architecture" za návrh stavby ukazující cestu rozvoje lidských sídel
Jury argumentation: The study is an example of the changing roles and responsibilities of the contemporary architect. Analogous to an “urban planning intervention“, this “landscape planning intervention“ analyses the entire urbanism of the landscape, assesses historical and contemporary aspects of the task in question, and conceptual propositions are made not only in the scope of the designed solution but extend to the entire regional and communal management.
Jury argumentation: The project embodies the modernist conception of a “garden town“ using contemporary urban planning and architecture means, taking advantage of comparable studies and projects of densifying existing cities of the present generation. A responsible, fresh, and sound designing approach to the assignment.
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Jury argumentation: The most distinct example of the changing profession of the architect and new forms of architectural commissions. Although it is the only submitted work from a large number of “city interventions in Prague“ by the eponymous Prague-based initiative, the study offers a high-quality architectural solution of one of the most painful consequences of monumental urbanistic-transportational and engineering decisions lacking expert architectural involvement. Not only does the design positively “attenuate“ the negatives of the urban environmental modifications, but the architectural solution itself also gives a chance to the “new aesthetics“ of the civil engineering structure of the transportational construction.
Jury argumentation: More than just the singular or sophisticated qualities of the architectural solution which is very simple and pragmatic, the jury appreciated the “gender-oriented” approach to the architectural solution for the client – a civil association and its “sheltered workshop”. An architecture which intends to narrate and communicate in the language of “its wards”, an architecture manifesting its users rather than its creators.
Jury argumentation: A very complex solution and a morphological approach to the transformation and restoration of a “ruin”. The inverse architectural process of the transformational method of design. Innovative thinking of contemporary architecture, a study which however requires to be tested and verified in its implementation.
Category School works:
- A City within a City, Valencia
Marek Benada - ExLibris – New Building of the National Library of the Czech Republic
Alexander Daxböck - Bathhouse with a cinema
Ing. arch. Andrea Kubná - Restoration of Valtice Chateau Garden
Ing. Jiří Dohnal, DiS. - Transformation of New Gallery, Berlin
Bc. Vojtěch Geryk - Bathhause
Magdalena Tunak - Rotating high-rise buildings in Majorca
Ing. arch. Hana Kasalová - Prague – Holesovice Philharmony
Tomáš Beránek / Lucie Horkavá - Prague – Troja Northern Park
Bc. Jan Alinče - Prague – Florenc
Ing. arch. Dominik Aleš - EUROPAN 9 – Urban Park Hradcanska
Ing. arch. Pavel Šťastný - A vision for Prague
Ing. arch. Anna Háblová
Jury argumentation: A very complex and specific solution of a contemporary urban planning assignment. A shared issue of current suburbanisation of city centres disregarding geo-climatic conditions.
Jury argumentation: A very professional implementation of a library project as a multi-functional “flowing” landscape with a variety of additional programmes, spaces and qualities. One of the most potent candidates for gaining the award in the entire competition.
Jury argumentation: An example of hybridisation architecture programmed based on joining seemingly incongruous and incompatible scenarios. An inspiring example of testing the limits of architecture.
Jury argumentation: One of traditional approaches to student assignments with an objective to make a basis for suppressing insensitive intervention into a historical monument by historical analysis.
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Jury argumentation: Most discussed by the jury, this student project exposed a number of issues of the direction of contemporary architecture which, in our country, are scarcely considered or even left to rot. Rather than appreciating the manifested qualities of the submitted project, the trends represented by this project were analysed. Despite attitude (not generation) differences among the jury members and the controversial nature of the very assignment of the task by the supervisor (Greg Lynn, Angewandte Wien – transformation of the existing Miese’s New Gallery of Contemporary Art in Berlin into a form employing current technologies and trends in architecture), the jury’s voting signalled the decision to acclaim a student project which may instigate a further academic debate.
Jury argumentation: A topographically conceived architectural solution of a bathhouse in an atypical coastal environment, thermal springs, and urban landscape. A bathhouse as a new architectural environment.
Jury argumentation: One of the few submitted student projects aiming to learn a lesson from the drawbacks of traditional building development, together with making use of contemporary technology. Adding the fourth dimension – time – to architecture brings about an interesting enlivening of the “archigram“ concept of houses and cities, but not limited to it.
Jury argumentation: This example of a mono-functional architecture of a concert hall continuing the idea of parametrism of the acoustic solutions by Scharoun (Berlin) or Gehry (Los Angeles) is a solitary and rarely assigned task in this topic in architecture which is not yet fully exploited and topical today.
Jury argumentation: Judged as inspiring by the jury, this student work is an example of taking urban responsibility into account while searching for balance in the city between traffic, park, and outdoor activities, triggering unusual connections (parking area and chateau beer hall).
Jury argumentation: A student project much discussed by the jury in connection with an awarded project for Berlin. An organic restoration of city layout and transormation of an urban artery into a lively city boulevard represents a traditional approach to school assignments and an endeavour for a pragmatic solution from the point of view of indisputable urban planning dogmas. The group of jury members of different opinion emphasised the lack of alternative approach in solving the assignment.
Cena architekta Josefa Hlávky
Jury argumentation: The concept of the solution of one of Prague’s principal traffic nodes located right on the edge of an urban conservation area arises from the primary problem of noise burden and the absence of parkland, green areas, and the social attractiveness of city spaces. The profile of a new terrain topography generates a new centre as an “oasis”.
Cena rektora ČVUT
Jury argumentation: A very complex, Prague-specific, detailed vision of freezing the expansion of city limits, identity generation for urban and suburban structures and designing particular architectural solutions of pre-selected locations. An outstanding example of a coordinated research-study process at a school of architecture.
Category Implementations:
- KOMA SHOWROOM
Ing. Tomáš Cendelín - Domestic Capsules
Roman Jesus Cordero Tovar / PLUG - 66 Gallery – Botas Concept Store
MgA. Lenka Křemenová / MgA. David Maštálka / A1Architects - V-528 Multi Activity Center
Benjamin Scharf - Family House in Kraluv Dvur
Ing. arch. Jiří Opočenský/ Ing. arch. Štěpán Valouch - Mustelka Tea House
H3T architekti / Štěpán Řehoř / Vít Šimek - Flying Sauna
H3T architekti / Štěpán Řehoř / Vít Šimek
Jury argumentation: The updated topic of container constructions keeps bringing in new impulses and solutions responding to contemporary needs and requirements. A constructionally and aesthetically interesting elaboration of latent topics in architecture employing its technological and environmental improvements.
Jury argumentation: This original conception of layout and climatic aspects of a family home is inspirative not only in the local context of the site of implementation, but also in the broader context of the global topics of penetration of outdoor and indoor spaces, public and private “neighbourhood“ and capsular “post-metabolic“ design.
Jury argumentation: A positive contribution of an advanced marketing and designing strategy of the manufacturer, apparently continuing the old traditions of Czechoslovak shoemaking industry wherein the sales culture of the shop interior works in synergy with other design aspects of the product. An interior architecture corresponding to the period.
Jury argumentation: An example of Mediterranean public space generation employing independent forms and poetic methods of design. Amorphous light constructions of domes in the historical environment of the city of Hvar embody summer pavilions accommodating various cultural urban activities.
Jury argumentation: Although the category of implementations was filled with a multitude of good-quality family houses representing a high architectural standard in the Czech Republic, the jury finally decided to lay a special emphasis on an example of re-interpreting “transparent“ and “floating“ houses of the 20th century architecture into current conditions.
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Jury argumentation: For a number of reasons, the jury unanimously took the liberty to nominate two implementations submitted by a single team of authors. The projects caught attention by their poetic sensibility, gentleness of design and architectural resolution with which they re-opened the three-thousand years old issue of profession and role of the architect. Blurring the division of roles between the client and the architect and again bringing about the issues of experiment and risk, these houses on the borderline of reality and illusion, functionality and ephemerality bring architecture back from the mere sphere of construction industry, politics and commerce to its fundamental topics. Two architectures responding to the most current topics of contemporary architecture with a specific aesthetics in a globally comprehensible language.
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Jury argumentation: For a number of reasons, the jury unanimously took the liberty to nominate two implementations submitted by a single team of authors. The projects caught attention by their poetic sensibility, gentleness of design and architectural resolution with which they re-opened the three-thousand years old issue of profession and role of the architect. Blurring the division of roles between the client and the architect and again bringing about the issues of experiment and risk, these houses on the borderline of reality and illusion, functionality and ephemerality bring architecture back from the mere sphere of construction industry, politics and commerce to its fundamental topics. Two architectures responding to the most current topics of contemporary architecture with a specific aesthetics in a globally comprehensible language.
Why did you accept the offer to become a YAA Jury member?
I got myself familiar with the last year’s results and I was pleasantly surprised. Competitions have an important place in my life and I am sincerely pleased that opportunities for commissions are offered also to young architects through competitions. Works by young authors are characteristic in that they bring new, refreshing opinions and solutions. And I like being refreshed.Mgr. Akad. Arch. Roman Brychta, PROJEKTIL ARCHITEKTI s.r.o.