EUROPAN 9: Winners of the Czech site Dejvice Railway Station

EUROPAN 9: Sustainable City – New Public Spaces

26 teams of young architects from across Europe present their solutions for Dejvice Train Station

The exhibition of competition proposals from young architects under 40 – Europan 9 can be viewed from March 28, 2008, at the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery in Prague. The theme for this year's edition was Sustainable City and New Public Spaces, and the competition focused on architectural solutions for more than seventy designated locations in twenty-two European countries. However, twenty-six teams from across Europe chose the Czech territory – Dejvice Train Station – for their proposal. It was included in a group of competition sites that presented competitors with complicated transport infrastructure and the necessity for integration, healing scars and seams in the urban fabric.
An international jury led by Austrian architect Max Rieder, which included Czech architects Petr Bílek and Jaroslav Šafer, selected four proposals for awards – the winner was the design by Dutch-German duo of architects based in Oslo, Tim Prins and Nora Müller, titled "Bohemian pattern". The second place was taken by the Czech team Michal Hušek and Pavel Šťastný – "Networks on the move", and two honorable mentions were awarded to the Italian design "Easy voids" and the French "The displaced ghost castle". All 26 submitted competition solutions will be displayed at the Jaroslav Fragner Gallery in Prague (March 28 – April 13, 2008).
The event is organized under the auspices of the Ministry of Regional Development of the Czech Republic, with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Czech Republic and sponsors. Partners: Czech Chamber of Architects and the Association of Architects.

EUROPAN 9
Organizer: EUROPAN, representative for the Czech Republic: Ing. arch. Jan Kasl – President of Europan CZ
Jury: Max Rieder – chair of the jury; Manuel Gausa, Karoline Streeruwitz, Hansjörg Luser, Michael Pech, Angelika Fitz, Jaroslav Šafer, Petr Bílek, Janez Koželj, Ilka Cerpes, observers – Didier Rebois, Bernd Vlay
Subject of the competition: Architects could choose a topic from 73 competition locations in 22 countries. The competition location in the Czech Republic was Dejvice Train Station in Prague 6.
Number of participating teams: 1752, proposal for the Czech location submitted by 26 teams
Awards: 132 proposals – 65 honorable mentions

1st Prize: Tim Prins, Nora Müller – NT 976 BOHEMIAN PATTERN
Assessment of the winning design by the jury: The proposal develops an interesting model for a transfer transport terminal, in which different types of transport complement each other. The strategy of filling the space of the site while subsequently searching for cuts, gaps, and openings resulted in a rich and complex scheme that offers high-quality public spaces.

2nd Prize: Michal Hušek, Pavel Šťastný – PS 017 NETWORKS ON THE MOVE

Honorable Mention: Martina Tabo, Daniele Baiotto, Maria Pilo di Boyl, Ileana Marchisio, Carlotta Maria Giovanna Cortese – CZ 777 EASY VOIDS

Honorable Mention: Stephane Lagre – DT 010 THE DISPLACED GHOST CASTLE

What is EUROPAN?
EUROPAN was founded at the initiative of the French Ministry of Culture in 1988 by several countries - France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Portugal, and Switzerland. It is an activity that is organized simultaneously in 17 member states and in 4 associated European countries by EUROPAN - a non-governmental federation of national organizations which has a common secretariat in Paris.
The permanent theme of EUROPAN is "European Urbanity".
The goal of EUROPAN is to enable young architects and urban planners under 40 to develop and present their innovative ideas on an international scale. The task is to help cities find unconventional architectural and urban concepts for selected sites. The realization of these intentions completes the organizational process of EUROPAN. After seven editions of EUROPAN, 58 projects have been realized across Europe.