Østmarka
Integrate a new nursing home and a scalable housing programme on a highly sensitive site.
Intro
Investigate how a new nursing home and a scalable housing programme can be integrated on a highly sensitive site. How do we prioritise between the need for housing, care services and urban ecologies?
Use this webpage to understand the site by exploring interactive maps, pictures and 3d models of the site. At the end there are links to the full competition brief and how to register.
Europan 17 Østmarka
This task goes to the heart of the challenges intrinsic to the idea of sustainable development. A denser city requires more services and housing, putting pressure on existing green corridors and urban habitats. How do we prioritise, and how can sensitive and innovative architecture and programming not just mitigate the negative impacts but also create regenerative concepts for an equitable city for animals, plants as well as humans?
Lade, the peninsula on which the site is located, is an important and complex part of Trondheim city. It contains many listed buildings and historical sites dating back from Viking settlements to listed modernist architecture from the sixties. The area is known for its green landscape and rolling hills, much of which also has different categories of protected status. With Trondheim being one of the fastest growing cities of Norway, Lade has become a strategic area for densification, leading to an increased need for municipal services, especially care for the elderly.
The Østmarka area already contains a range of different municipal and governmental services such as a school, kindergartens, assisted living facilities, and a psychiatric hospital.
The municipality has acquired the site with the intention of building a nursing home. In addition they plan a commercial housing scheme on the same site. Østmarka has obvious cultural and natural values and the municipality wants to strengthen and make them more accessible.
Plans for development on the site have met resistance among neighbours. They fear the loss of precious natural and cultural environments, old trees and fertile soil. The forest functions as a green lung for the area, allowing deer to move freely and the rolling hills of the meadow landscape are home to insects and pollinators.
Lade is unique in Trondheim for its soft interaction between wildlife and people and functions as an important recreational area. Also, a grassroots initiative has shown interest in acquiring the derelict old wooden houses on the site to establish a housing coop that could provide affordable housing through self-builder methods and collective practices.
Trondheim municipality is entering Europan 17 to receive ideas and concepts for how to reconcile the contested character of the site, and develop it in a holistic way that can address both the concerns of inhabitants and provide the care services the overall population needs.
Site parameters:
Task
1. A design concept for a nursing home with 60 - 70 units.
2. A design concept for a scalable housing programme that is sensitive and well adapted to the site.
Find innovative concepts that balance social sustainability with care for the ecological systems on the site.
E17 maps - sattelittbakgrunn
Commission
Trondheim municipality will invite the winning team for a workshop on site in the spring 2024. The budget for the workshop (including fees, travel costs and other materials) is approximately 100 000 NOK.
Based on the results of the workshop, client and the winning team will negotiate a timeline and follow up commission valued at approximately 400.000 NOK (ex VAT) in 2024/25 for developing the proposal further. The exact content of the follow up contract will be negotiated with the team based on the character of the proposal, the particular skill of the team and evolving needs of the client.
Trondheim municipality retains the option to increase the commission's size and scope with another NOK 500.000 at a later stage.
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Deliverables
- 3 vertical A1 project panels (pdf) - 1 illustrated text presenting the ideas of the project (4 pages max.); - Documents proving the eligibility of the team members; - Documents for communication (3 images + a text of 800 signs, spaces included);
Who can participate
Europan is open to any team consisting of at least one graduated architect, who may be in association with one or more professionals of the same or related disciplines within the architectural, urban and landscape field (such as architects, urban planners, landscape architects, engineers, artists) or from other relevant fields (such as sociology, geography, biology) and may further be associated with one or more students with a bachelor degree or equivalent (3 years of study) in architecture or related disciplines. The team may also have one or more contributors, who are not considered authors of the project. Every team member must be under the age of 40 years old on the closing date for submission of projects. See complete set of rules for Europan 17 on europan-europe.eu .
What is Europan?
Europan is an international architecture and urban design competition that takes place every two years. It was established in 1988 by to gather innovative ideas for solving Europe´s housing crisis and has since become one of the most prestigious competitions of its kind in the world.
The aim of Europan is to promote innovative and sustainable approaches to urban design, and to encourage young architects and urban planners to think critically about the challenges facing modern cities. The competition is open to architects and urban planners under the age of 40, and typically attracts several thousand participants from all over the world.
Each Europan competition focuses on a specific theme related to urban development, such as urban regeneration, social cohesion, or sustainable mobility. Participants are asked to submit proposals for a specific site within a designated European city, with the aim of addressing the theme and improving the overall quality of life for the city's residents.
The winning proposals are selected by an international jury of architects, urban planners, and other experts, and are typically implemented as part of the city's long-term urban planning strategy. The competition has been responsible for many innovative and sustainable urban design projects across Europe, and has helped to shape the way that architects and urban planners think about the challenges facing modern cities.
