International Ideas Competition for Young Architects

UNESCO-UIA, Fundació Mies van der Rohe – Barcelona City Council, 35 yaşın altındaki genç mimarların 10 adet bölücü duvarı dönüştürmesi ve çevredeki kamusal alanı geliştirmesini kapsayan uluslararası bir fikir yarışması başlatıyor. Yarışma için 5 Ağustos 2024 tarihine kadar başvuru yapılabiliyor.

Context

Blind walls are anonymous walls that divide properties. Although they play no role in the building’s external appearance, they can end up being exposed to public view in a permanent provisional state because of urban planning changes. When this happens, it creates a discontinuity in the landscape, a rupture in the urban fabric, which can cause serious structural and habitability problems for the affected and neighbouring buildings and they have a marked visual impact on the public space.

Twenty-five years ago, with the aim of eliminating these urban discontinuities and creating new façades that are integrated into the urban landscape, the Programme for the Remodelling of Blind Walls in the city of Barcelona was launched.

Citizens can apply for subsidies to improve these blind walls and, as a result, enhance the thermal insulation of the building. Alternatively, they can use the funds to create new openings to make their homes more comfortable, among other interventions.

The competition’s main goals

As part of Barcelona’s nomination as the World Capital of Architecture 2026 by UNESCO-UIA, Fundació Mies van der Rohe – Barcelona City Council have launched this international competition of ideas to remodel 10 permanent blind walls, spread across the city’s 10 districts, aiming to leave a lasting legacy in Barcelona, and is calling on the world community of young architects to participate.

The competition’s Jury will select for each of the locations a winning proposal from among those presented in that location, and a second and third prize.

The winning proposals will be implemented whenever possible for their inauguration in 2026 as part of the programme of activities of the World Capital of Architecture and as a legacy of enduring material of Barcelona as the 2026 World Architecture Capital UNESCO-UIA.

Jury Members

Ali Kural

Teddy Cruz

Anna Ramos

Meriem Chabani

Philip F. Yuan

Camilla van Deurs

Maria Buhigas

Calendar

Launch of the competition June 10, 2024

Questions June 10 to June 20, 2024

Publication of answers July 1, 2024

Submission of proposals deadline August 5 23:59 GMT+2

Jury meeting and decision September 9-17, 2024

Publication of results September 25, 2024

All deadlines in the above table are set at 23:59, Barcelona time (GMT+2), on each of the dates indicated. Any submissions that are not submitted by this deadline will not be considered.

Prizes

First Prize: 3.000,00 €

Second Prize: 1.500,00 €

Third Prize: 750 €

Up to three honourable mentions with no monetary prize may be awarded for each site, to be decided by the Jury.

The winning proposals will be implemented whenever possible for their inauguration in 2026 as part of the programme of activities of the world capital of architecture and as a legacy of enduring material of Barcelona as the 2026 World Architecture Capital UNESCO-UIA.