Schindler Award for Architecture 2005/06

Paris – city of culture and fashion – boasts innumerable museums and exhibitions well worth your visit. Adding just another one, you might say, is an undue luxury. Not quite so! At least not for those who cannot visit too many of these heavens of culture, because they are inaccessible to them.

To facilitate Access for All to some of the many museums in the very heart of Paris presents a great challenge. Even though these museums are grouped close together at the foot of the Eiffel Tower, the height difference between the southern bank of the Seine river an the bluff on the northern bank, the heavy traffic on the expressway avenue de New York and the steps leading up to the Passerelle Debilly make an easy stroll from the southern part to the northern part of the area almost impossible for people with disabilities.

1st Prize
"Zigzags Inside and Out"
Marta Neic
Marco Di Nallo
Manfred Sponseiler
University of Technology Vienna (Austria)

2nd Prize
"Counter Point"
Adam Beard
Marie Henrike Haase
University of Technology Delft (Netherlands)

3rd Prize
"Alterscape"
Elin Algotsson
Petra Nilsson
Olivier Arseneault
Peter Bringselius
Carl Hall-Karlström
Karl-Johan Holmberg
Magnus Lundquist
School of Architecture (Sweden)

4th Prize
"sensescape"
Gheorghe Bratu
Florin Cobuz
University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest (Romania)

5th Prize
"Escalatoria"
Marta Bordas Eddy Prof. Miguel Usandizaga
Technical University of Catalonia (Spain)

Special Mentions

"Arome des Roses"
Grzegorz Zietęk
Technical University Gdańsk (Poland)

"People in Motion"
Kathrin Kulle
Bauhaus-University Weimar (Germany)

"The big idea"
Mateusz Adamczyk
Michal Palej
University of Technology, Cracow (Poland)

"Quartier de Tokyo"
Daniel Hoffmann
Marc Knechtges
Björn Thun
Bauhaus-University Weimar (Germany)

"Museum Walk for All"
Silvia Palmerini
University of Florence (Italy)
 

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