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| international housing competition in catalonia 400,000 homes |
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Open |
Registration Deadline: |
4/2/2004 |
Submission Deadline: |
9/3/2004 |
Open to: |
Professionals and students |
Entry Fee: |
60 EURO / 30 EURO |
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| http://400000.coac.net THE COMPETITION Forecasts for growth over the next twenty years calculate the number of new homes that will be needed in the metropolitan region of Barcelona to be 400,000. This increase in demand is due mainly to newly independent inhabitants and the growing immigration wave. The large number of homes and the impact they will have on the territory make this the major problem facing the country in terms of architectural interventions. We believe that this challenge calls for reflection on the part of architects and that, as a framework, the formula of an international competition is the most appropriate. There are two main motivations leading us to organise this competition. Firstly, our responsibility, as professionals, to contribute ideas and generate a responsible debate about models of growth, and also to offer public authorities and governments tools and arguments with which to regulate this dynamic, over and above party interests. And secondly, we want to take this debate into the international realm, to enable professionals the world over to contribute their experience and viewpoints in an open, participatory, propositional and above all enlightening way. THE QUESTION The competition is conceived on a territorial scale. We propose three locations which, due to their geographical particularities and programmatic requirements, present very different scenarios. By proposing three areas, we aim to encourage reflection beyond the strictly practical solution, enabling the competition to address real problems, raising questions about growth, building density, the sustainability of a very limited territory, etc. The question of the competition aims to transcend styles and ways of proceeding that are no longer adequate today for facing the complexity of growth on this scale. Historically, housing problems and the repercussions on public space of growth have been addressed typologically [even before the word 'type’ came into use]. It has also been envisioned in terms of optimisation, both functional and constructive. Urban solutions have been proposed that are conceived on the basis of addition — that is, ideal units were added together to construct composite units, and these composite units were used to construct fabrics on a larger scale. These procedures, though they are still valid and form part of the project, are now insufficient when it comes to responding to the new problems arising in association with growth of the kind we are experiencing and in a field such as ours. We are more interested in addressing the issue of what housing does than what housing should be like. Rethinking collective space by transcending the private-public dichotomy; modelling the empty and the built space; incorporating tools traditionally associated with landscape architecture in order to deal with interventions that involve this kind of problem; understanding growth as a more complex and powerful movement than the simple reproduction or mechanical accumulation of units; developing models of growth that transcend the eternal dichotomy of repetition-variation [which tends to boil down to an indiscriminate accumulation of units with the addition of decorative monuments intended to introduce meaning here and there in a space that comes into being before it is assigned a precise classification]; discussing the potential of local elements in relation to more global strategies and reflections; introducing new family and professional models; challenging excessively hygienist or bucolic models; incorporating density as a variable that is not necessarily negative, with a view to preserving the territory and intensifying urban realities; understanding sustainability as the substance, not as cosmetic legitimisation... All of these questions seem to us to be of interest. They are questions that call for one or many answers from competition entrants. We are sure that the resulting proposals will be based on very differing interests. Some will be addressed in typological terms, others on the basis of a concern with the prototype, reflection on technology or strategies for occupying a place, and so on. Together, they should form a constellation that generates the critical mass which, we hope, will provide the foundation for decisions affecting the future of our cities. http://400000.coac.net |
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אלמוג, אדריכל-יוצר האתר |
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| [email protected] 03-7467780 +972-3-7467780 |
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