Offener Wettbewerb | 09/2014
Klekovaca Competition 2014
Anerkennung
Preisgeld: 5.000 EUR
Architektur
Landschaftsarchitektur
Bauingenieurwesen
Erläuterungstext
A complex enclave marked by centenary forestal and agricultural activities has been chosen for a mountain resort. Apart from skiing slopes the program contains various sport facilities, a riding school, a golf course, a centre for alternative medicine, an ecological food market amongst others. The masterplan has to establish the necessary strategies in terms of program, geometry, typologies, architectonical and landscaping guidelines and especially environmental issues as it is planned to make this project a model case of its kind. The proposal is based on a relatively compact centre with hotels, apartments and services in order to avoid an uncontrolled and unsustainable sprawl into the surrounding landscape. Its temporary use invites to try out new forms of living. Flexibility, diversity and the capability to adapt over time are the principles of a plan where the buildings act as natural species that occupy the clearing, a new ecosystem whose founding act is the massive plantation of trees converting the hamlet into the nursery of the species that will repopulate the valley. An urban farming program, a water treatment and storage system and an ecological transport system will complete the new landscape.
Beurteilung durch das Preisgericht
The project proposes a model for development based on the idea of ‘cultivation of land’, rather than city-building – a strong and clear possible model to develop a new resort over time. Its urban morphology, as a natural consequence of the particularities of the development model applied, is somewhat lacking in atmosphere – a resulting settlement, with its large open spaces seems to remain in a state of (permanent) minimal definition.
On the other hand, the sustainability model – consequently applied to settlement-making, as well as building-making, and applicable to singular buildings, as well as to the entire resort, is a strong demonstration of a possibility of integration of all relevant (climatic, hydrologic and other) data into a working, well articulated and well designed architecture and environment.
The jury has concluded that the central ski-arena area of the project is especially well designed, offering a possible vision of reality for the future.
Likewise, the particular building types of the settlement, all developed from the same - or similar - basic model, related to traditional mountain architecture, but contemporary in expression and based on the issues of sustainability, are a particularly good ‘model’, to be potentially further explored in the future.
On the other hand, the sustainability model – consequently applied to settlement-making, as well as building-making, and applicable to singular buildings, as well as to the entire resort, is a strong demonstration of a possibility of integration of all relevant (climatic, hydrologic and other) data into a working, well articulated and well designed architecture and environment.
The jury has concluded that the central ski-arena area of the project is especially well designed, offering a possible vision of reality for the future.
Likewise, the particular building types of the settlement, all developed from the same - or similar - basic model, related to traditional mountain architecture, but contemporary in expression and based on the issues of sustainability, are a particularly good ‘model’, to be potentially further explored in the future.