EUROPAN 7 RESULTS

3,500 registrations
2,031 project submissions (6000 participants)
401 projects pre-selected and debated in Graz
119 prize-winning projects and 67 runners-up
1,056,000 Euros were awarded to young European architects

The session of Europan 7 – a European architectural competition on an urban scale followed by project implementations – was launched on January 13, 2003, in 19 European countries on the theme "sub-urban challenge, urban intensity and housing diversity".
How can urban sprawl be transformed into real, environment-friendly and sustainable town planning, based on emerging social and cultural demands? How can the creation of new suburban residential districts, with innovative typologies and complex programme briefs, be fashioned into a strategic urban tool?

EUROPAN enabled the 2,031 teams of young professionals (out of 3,500 registrations) who worked on the 68 proposed sites, to work on an urban site from a territorial and architectural perspective.

Fifteen juries representing the 19 participating countries (Austria and Hungary, Belgium, Croatia, Finland and Latvia, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden and Estonia, Switzerland and the Czech Republic) chose the 57 winners, 62 runners-up and the 67 teams with honorable mention during the seventh session.

The winning teams and runners up will receive 12,000 and 6,000 Euros respectively. All of the 186 projects, winners and runners up, will furthermore receive national and European-wide promotion thanks to exhibitions, meetings and publications (results book, CDRom, Internet, etc.).
EUROPAN 7 is not only a competition of ideas. The 68 towns that proposed sites for the competition have undertaken to follow up the projects with urban and implementation studies.

Of the 119 winning teams, 41 % entered the competition for sites in a country other than their own, i.e. an average of three to four foreign winners per country. Among the foreign winning teams, 11 are based in Spain, six in Germany, five in the Netherlands, five in Italy and four in France.

The 7th session was characterised by the international make up of the teams as 27,5 % of them included members of different nationality.

The juries were composed of nine members: clients, municipal authorities, the culture officials, and researchers, most of them architects. At least three of the nine jury-members were from a country other than the one whose proposals they had to assess.

The national jury worked over two sessions.
The preselection of some 20% of the projects took place during the first session which focused on the urban concept of the proposals and their relation to the pre-set theme of the competition.
EUOROPAN’s Research Committee and the Technical Committee of the Towns and Juries Forum, an internal European event, which brought together site representatives and of national jury members in Graz (Austria) from November 14 to 16, carried out a comparative analysis of the 401 preselected projects. Grouped around the six sub-themes of the session (Considering residential fragments; articulating new polarities; revitalising over-planned housing developments; exploring the urbanised edges; dealing with infrastructure; converting urban voids) served as the basis for the 17 workshops and six thematic debates of the Forum.
The final selection of the winning projects was carried out during the second session of juries.

The European Forum of Ideas and Results in Athens (Greece), the 6, 7 and 8 May 2004, will bring together young European architects, the cities and the organisers around an exhibition of the prize-winning entries. This European event will feature the meeting of young prize-winning architects with the representatives of the 68 sites in workshops, thematic debates led by international experts and lectures about the prize-winning projects and implementations from previous sessions. The Forum will coincide with the publication of the EUROPAN 7 Results Catalogue – published in four languages – and the Results Book of Europan 1 to Europan 6, implemented ideas and projects. Taking stock of EUROPAN’s results, the book will present some 70 projects, which have been implemented or being implemented.

We are looking forward to seeing you in Athens!

More information on the seventh session of the EUROPAN competition can be found at http://www.europan-europe.com

Contact presse :
Yuna Conan, EUROPAN
+ 33 1 40 81 24 49
contact@europan-europe.com