No.25 - Faces and spaces

A New Centre for the Olympic Village District in Innsbruck Austria

Architects: Willi Froetscher and Christian Lichtenwagner

This book traces the occurrences in Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria, after Vienna based architects Willi Froetscher and Christian Lichtenwagner won Europan 4 in this area in 1996. The competition theme was "constructing the town upon the town". The architects were commissioned to plan and design 105 appartements (27 of which for assisted living), a multi-pupose hall, a supermarket, a nursery, a day care centre, a youth club, a parking garage and a public square.  The work was finished in July 2006.

Edition Europan, February 2007
Text in English and German
On-line price: € 10

No.24 - Åleryd, Reinterpreting tradition

44 apartments and a communal building with sauna in Linköping, Sweden

Architect: Asko Takala

How to convert a former hospital complex in new variable type of housing and services? How to manage the local dualism of scale of a locality that is marked both by the past and modern Scandinavian societies? The architect Asko Takala, Europan 4 winner in Linköping (Sweden) has developed a concept in relation to the common open and fluctuating green space opening to the oakwooded hill. The architect proposes a modern Swedish tradition of unobtrusive row houses in close relationship with nature. The simple-volume housing zone is separated from the traffic road in the west by a line of garages and extends itself toward the park in the east. Paths cross the area for different needs, interests and feelings. In a defined context, the houses are flexible, implemented with durable materials in order to create a warm, secure feeling, a familiar and attractive environment. Landscape and building belong together.

Edition Europan, Nov. 2006
Text in English and Swedish
On-line price: € 9 [Clic here]

And still available…
The 143 prize-winning projects of the last session

European catalogue of Europan 8 results
Description of the 143 prize-winning projects of the 8th session

To mark the eighth round of the competitions, EUROPAN has published a catalogue of the projects nominated in the 74 European cities of 19 different countries.
The general theme "European urbanity and strategic projects" must be considered as a common way of experiencing the city and its functions but also as a will to deal with the heterogeneity of its forms. The strategic question would not be that of knowing what type of European city we wish to perpetuate but what European city we want for the future.
This clearly reflects the will to create public spaces around what is, without doubt, the specificity of European cities, to favour encounters among people in places they share.

Editions EUROPAN, July 2006.
360 colour pages, CD-rom
Edited in four languages: English, French, German, Italian
On-line price: € 65 [Clic here]
Special price for the participants to Europan 9: €45
(order by email to f.bonnat@europan-europe.com)