Competition for Urban Development in Split Has Joint Winners

In the international competition for the urban development of the Duilovo area in Split, Croatia, architecture practices 3LHD and Drazen Pejkovic have won the joint 3rd prize along with two other teams.

The City of Split, as an investor, and The Association of Architects Split (DAS), as an organizer, announced that the 1st and 2nd prize will not be given, but three equal 3rd prizes. Considering the complexity of the intervention, the jury proposed a workshop for all three awarded teams to attend and work together on the further development of the project.

This is how the architects describe their project:

The idea behind the project with the work name SWS 2015 is to enrich the southern part of Split with the urban infrastructure regulation matrix and reaffirm the possibility of merging that part of the city with the shoreline.

The location on the Split’s shoreline that the potential to accomplish a quality urban contact with the sea, the intensity of which would dramatically influence the redefining of spatial relations on a much greater scale than those defined by the competition program.  A similar potential on the Split’s peninsula is possible only on the northern part of the city towards Solin, which is more suitable for designing a contemporary business zone when the need for such a program occurs.

The fundamental starting point of this project is to bring out the city to the sea in the full intensity – to be on the sea and functionally connected with the sea, in a way accomplished by today’s leading European and world cities, by implementing thoughtful and long-term policies of urban development – like Barcelona, Valencia, Rotterdam, Sidney etc.

Images: 3LHD