RUNNER UP
TEAM REPRESENTATIVE:
Jose Manuel Lopez Ujaque (ES) – architect
ASSOCIATES:
Francisco García Triviño (ES) – architect
Katerina Psegiannaki (GR) – architect
BASED IN:
Elche – Spain
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TOGETHER
TEAM STATEMENT
““Being Together” is much more than a simple addition of single individualities. It is a way to have cooperation within diversity, a way to create, grow and learn. Together is a project where each designed layer responds to everyday spatial politics with decisive interaction. Everyday situations of cooperation will be the identity of the project. Who am I working with? What will I share with him or her? Who is going to pass through my place?
Working together is a necessary exercise in order to innovate, develop and undertake the needs of contemporary society. Three strategies of building relationships between different agents will articulate the aim of the proposal. Superimposing our spaces in order to have unexpected exchanges, creating in-between spaces in order to share common infrastructures, and filling our spaces with other spaces in order to get influenced by each other.
The result, an architectural system that will assume the complexities of this necessary but incomprehensibly weakened working mode of everyday cooperation in many aspects of our life. A singular building will be the place where cooperation between different people will take place. At the same time, new public space areas will be designed to make the disconnected pieces of the city come together. Bruck an der Mur together with the nearby cities of Leoben and Kapfenberg have the necessary geographical and infrastructural conditions, to make the joint project that it is proposed possible.”
Working together is a necessary exercise in order to innovate, develop and undertake the needs of contemporary society. Three strategies of building relationships between different agents will articulate the aim of the proposal. Superimposing our spaces in order to have unexpected exchanges, creating in-between spaces in order to share common infrastructures, and filling our spaces with other spaces in order to get influenced by each other.
The result, an architectural system that will assume the complexities of this necessary but incomprehensibly weakened working mode of everyday cooperation in many aspects of our life. A singular building will be the place where cooperation between different people will take place. At the same time, new public space areas will be designed to make the disconnected pieces of the city come together. Bruck an der Mur together with the nearby cities of Leoben and Kapfenberg have the necessary geographical and infrastructural conditions, to make the joint project that it is proposed possible.”
JURY STATEMENT
First Session: The proposal includes extensive urban development solutions and is able to dissolve the large linear infrastructural structures of the federal roads Leobner and Grazer Strasse and particularly the northern part of the Wiener Strasse into space-like structures This leads to a significant improvement towards a high-quality public space beyond just mere beautification which, however, needs to be scrutinised with regard to the increased traffic volume.
The proposal to introduce a processual and participatory development based on modular space structures on the site is seen by the jury as principally positive. This could however, also be realised at a different already existing site (vacancy). The experimental fundamental idea that new spaces can lead to new social forms is undermined by the rather conventional positioning of the hall structure which is described by the jury as unscandalous.
Second Session: The jury appreciates the main intention of the project and criticizes unanimously the architectural formulation of the hall-structure with the roof. “Together” is considered to be the only submitted project that provides the requested time-puffer for the city to start a process on the site. Moreover “Together” could even work on a small scale and low-budget level as the first starting point in order to occupy the site and establish the first step of a strategy. Providing car parking as first step of the strategy and as entrance to the city of Bruck/Mur is discussed and could run into danger to become a permanent usage of the site. The proposed program of micro production, co-working and start-ups seems interesting and can be improved and enriched.