WINNERS EUROPAN 13 SPAIN

The call for EUROPAN 13 was announced last February and aimed to continue "The adaptable city" line, which was proposed in the last edition. The 15 judges of this edition have chosen the winners from among 1,305 submitted projects in 49 locations of 15 different European countries.

The session of EUROPAN 13 Spain we present next was organised around four different locations - Barcelona, Coruña, Palma and Irún - and has resulted in 15 rewarded proposals - three first prizes, five runner-ups and seven special mentions.

EUROPAN 13 SPAIN jury was composed by.- José Juan Barba, Fernando de Porras-Isla-Fernández, Marcel Smets, Sabine Müller, José Miguel Roldán y Juana Sánchez Gómez.

• Barcelona.- First prize + two runner-up + three special mentions.

First prize: In motion by María Langarita Sánchez (ES) and Víctor Navarro Ríos (ES). Collaborators.- Ángela Jurranz Serrano (ES), Ramón Martínez (ES) - architects, Guillermo Diego (ES), Jacob Kummer (ES) - architecture students.

The result is a flexible, open building/structure. Its ability to replicate as a form of action is feasible throughout the district. The author does not tackle the dialogue of this new form of colonization with the pre ‐ existing, consolidated constructions.

Runner-up: Sustainable Interface by Eduard Balcells (ES) - architect, and Honorata Grzesikowska (PL) - architect urbanist.

Sustainable Interface proposes the construction of a system of greenways that will link the Marina del Prat Vermell zone to the southern slopes of Montjuïc by means of optimized urban drainage systems.

Runner-up: Infraestructura doméstica by Carlos Gor Gómez (ES), José Luis Concha Jerónimo (ES), José María Díaz Martínez (ES), Pablo Fernández Carpintero (ES), Agustín Gor Gómez (ES), Álvaro Gor Gómez (ES) and Álvaro Gutiérrez Gutiérrez (ES) - architects.

This project is presented as a large residential condenser whose main virtue is the interaction and condensation of public spaces, which can be used by residents and visitors alike.

Special mention: Computers Aren't Food by Gregorio Ramirez Vila (ES) and Enrica Santacruz Sastre (ES) - architects.

It is proposed as a natural extension, an enlargement of the Baix Llobregat Park that penetrates the city, creating an ecological-productive corridor.

Special mention: Gent del barrí by Enrich Carles (ES) - architect. Collaborators.- Adriana Campmany (ES), Anna de Castro (ES) - architects, Caroline Foulon (ES) - interior architect, Laura Belengue (ES), Rafel Capo (ES), Minerva Ramírez (ES) - architecture students.

Instead of adapting the current master plan the project defines small interventions to allow current and new residents and visitors to coexist: strengthening of ground floor programmes, and introduction of mixed and communal use in existing built structures.

Special mention: Urban Species Evolution by Daniel del Rey (ES) and Alejandro Londoño (ES) - architects. Collaborators.- Sergio del Castillo (ES) - computer graphic designer, Cristina Marcu (ES), Elisa Pozo (ES), Raquel Villa (ES) - architecture students.

The proposal commits itself to the urban development of the neighbourhood and shows that there is not a final form of city but a continuous evolution over time that can be subjected to discontinuous rhythms.

•  Coruña.- First prize + two runner-up.

First prize: Nice to 'Sea' you by Juan Miguel Salgado (ES), Alba González (ES), Yago Liste (ES), Luis Manuel Santalla (ES), Vanesa Veira Castro (ES) - architects. Collaborators.- David Domínguez (ES) - architect, Antonio Antequera Reviriego (ES), Ander Bados Sesma (ES) - architecture students.

This project is proposed as a tour of a territory in which small-scale actions trigger the reactivation of various prints identified as problem areas.

Runner-up: Embroidering the Edge by Nuria Prieto (ES), Omar Curros (ES), Diego Lucio (ES), Hugo Malvar (ES) and Ángel Montero (ES) - architects. 

It is a project that evidences the authors' great sensitivity. It uses the personal experience of the observer as an activating element for the landscape.

Runner-up: Paseo por la ría del Burgo by María Mestre (ES), Giammattia Bassanello (IT), Almudena Mampaso (ES), Ignacio Moreu (ES) - architects. 

The jury appreciated the project to assume the extreme fragility of the proposed study area and to clearly reflect the need to minimize initiatives involving new housing blocks, even if this is not its main aim.

• Palma.- First prize + two special mentions.

First prize: Salvemos el horizonte by Juan Socas (FR) - architect urbanist, and Murielle Clair (FR) - architect. 

This confident project suggest a section containing serial solutions running perpendicular to the sea, to be applied to the multiple circumstances of the city's coastal strip. It presents "non-construction" as an interesting operating method.

Special mention: Grace, Let's Go Swimming by Sebastian Martorell Mateo (ES), Francisco Cifuentes Utrero (ES), Luz Myriam Duque Tardaguila (CO), Carles Grabriel Oliver Barceló (ES) - architects. Collaborators.- Pere Bennàsar Bennàsar (ES) - landscape architect, Miguel Cañellas Girand (ES), Cristina Llorente Roca (ES) - architects, Eduard Cuadrado de Juan (ES) - environmentalist, María Razumova (RU) - economist, Rafael Velasco Fernández (ES) - civil engineer-architect, Lara Fuster Prieto (ES), Ernest Bordoy Andreu (ES), Aina Roca Mora (ES) - architecture students.

The project aims at restoring Palma's waterfront and its various ecosystems such as dunes, rivers and subsea grasslands in the bay at a pre-mass tourism stage.

Special mention: Seambiosis by Tomeu Duran Gelabert (ES) - architect, Carles Francesc Baeza Server (ES) - sociologist, Lara García Gimeno (ES), Jorge Giménez Ibáñez (ES) - environmentalist, José María Ros Matheu (ES) - architect. Collaborators.- Lluís Bort i Cerezo (ES), Daniel Ippolito (ES) - architects.

To recover the symbiosis that existed between Palma and the sea, disrupted by the dynamics of mobility imposed by road traffic, the proposal strengthens a city to be lived on foot, thus encouraging the connections from the inner city to the seafront promenade.

• Irún.- Runner-up + two special mentions.

Runner-up: Ura Eta Natura by Gerard Duran Barbarà (ES) - architect. Collaborators.- Anna Casadevall Sayeras (ES), Alba Fernández Rella (ES), Joana Tril Queralt (ES) - architecture students.

Its interpretation based on the territorial dimension, in which great importance is placed on the geography, and also for its relatively dense, cohesive urban model, with a grid defined by regular and irregular components.

Special mention: United Uses of Irun by Jorge Antonio Ruiz Boluda (ES) - architect urbanist, Nicola Corvasce (IT), Jorge López González (ES), Tania Navarro Aparicio (ES) - architect.

The project is based on a thorough analysis of the area, which it uses to draw up four line of action: nature, society, the economy and history. This led the authors to propose several measures, are also considered indispensable in any urban strategy.

Special mention: Over the Border - Mugaz Gaindiko by Eli Grønn (NO) - architect, Juan Berasategui (ES) - landscape architect, Marit Langslet (NO) - architect, Anja Standal (NO) - architect urbanist. Collaborators.- Tom Davies (GB) - historian of architecture.

The design of the new urban fabric intensifies the need to eliminate the barrier formed by the railway tracks by means of three major transversal corridors, each one with a specific character related to renaturalization, links to cultural uses and mobility.