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On the 15th of September 2007 two winners of the international competition for daylighting held by the Danube University, Department for Building & Environment were selected by a jury. The jury convened during the international conference, "Teaching in Architecture", which this year focused on energy and environment. All six submitted projects were presented in an exhibition during the conference.
In evaluating the projects the jurors considered:
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The prize for the two winning contestants will be the "Artist in Residence" of the Lower Austrian Architecture NETWORK at the Danube University for one month. Included are:
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1rst Prize:
History Park: "A former prison cell Moabit" in Berlin sculpted in concrete
Architect: Glaßer und Dagenbach, Garten- und Landschaftsarchitekten, Berlin
Client: The Middle District of Berlin, Senate Administration for
City Development
City Development
Completion date: 2006
Location: Lehrter Straße, Berlin, Germany
The jury found that this project responded especially well to the competition criteria. Sustainability is evidenced in several dimensions in an historic and spatial context, with light playings a central role.
The property of the former Prussian prison Moabit has been transformed into a park landscape. There is a wooded area with play and quiet areas for the residents, and an area for quiet reflection. A five meter high restored wall borders and shields the property. The main entry lies behind the concrete wall with the view to the outside blocked off. In the park the architect has recreated the four demolished prison wings by means of ascending concrete walls. Three exercise yards are symbolized with concrete shells higher than a man, to instil the feeling the inmates must have experienced. A concrete sculpture represents a prison cell in its original size and can be entered. The sounds of the past are recreated in tones from an installation by the film producer Christine Keppler. The setting is reminiscent of the poem by Wolfgang Borchert written during his imprisonment in Moabit. He wrote of light rays which penetrated from outside into the cell and thereby created a link to an invisible sky and world beyond. At a central location in the park, the place of the former central watch station of the prison stands a cube from concrete columns.
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2nd Prize:
A three-story residence on the Yokoham Harbour
Architect: Nagashima and Partner, Architects, Yokohama
Client: private
Completed: 2007-11-07
Site: Yokohama, Japan
The high aesthetic quality of this project is evident,but the jury was unanimously impressed that this object goes beyond being merely one in a series of Japanese Minimalism. It is superior because of its functional and location specific use of daylight. Contrary to the traditional approach, this building has enclosing opaque vertical walls contrasting a largely opened sloped roof. This is a creative deviation from the form codex. Its optimization of daylight availability in the interior spaces was very much appreciated by the jury.
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Additional finalists:
Parish Church Gallspach
Architect: Dipl. Arch. Ernst Beneder and Anja Fischer
Client: Catholic parish community Gallspach
Completed: 2005
Site: Gallspach, Austria
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Light Sphere Project
Architect: Architect Tchavdar Todorov
Site: Coast of the Black Sea, Bulgaria
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House of Building Economics
Architect: Hans/Peter Wildom ZT
Client: Federal Association for Building
Completed: 2004
Site: Vienna, Austria
Glass Roof Concept: Free space / Project
Architect: Sanjay Ektate