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7 finalists announced for 2022 EU Mies van der Rohe Award

By Niall Patrick Walsh|

Wednesday, Feb 16, 2022

Town House – Kingston University, London, UK / Grafton Architects. Image: Ed Reeve

Seven finalists have been revealed for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture — Mies van der Rohe Award, chosen from a shortlist of 40 works which we reported on earlier this year. The seven projects are divided into five architecture works and two emerging architecture works.

The awards jury described the seven works as ones which “encourage and become models and references for local city policies” addressing topics such as community engagement, circular sustainability, and productive, self-sufficient cities. “They are also a result of well-developed construction processes, and the care in the use of materials and details: A dignification of the day to day architecture, a dialogue between monumentality, education and heritage,” the organization continued.

Below, we have listed the seven finalist works, alongside jury comments for each project. An awards ceremony for the ultimate winners will be held on May 12th. Also in May, all shortlisted, finalist, and winning works will open their doors to the public for an “in situ” experience.

FIVE ARCHITECTURAL FINALISTS

85 Social Housing Units, Barcelona, Spain / peris+toral.arquitectes

85 Social Housing Units, Barcelona, Spain / peris+toral.arquitectes. Image: José Hevia
85 Social Housing Units, Barcelona, Spain / peris+toral.arquitectes. Image: José Hevia

Jury comments: “The bases of this new residential building are a matrix of communicating rooms that eliminates corridors to guarantee optimum use of the floor plan and the use of timber to enable the industrialisation of elements, improved quality of construction and a major reduction of deadlines and C02 emissions.”

Frizz23, Berlin, Germany / Deadline (Britta Jürgens + Matthew Griffin)

Frizz23, Berlin, Germany / Deadline (Britta Jürgens + Matthew Griffin). Image: Jan Bitter.
Frizz23, Berlin, Germany / Deadline (Britta Jürgens + Matthew Griffin). Image: Jan Bitter.

Jury comments: “The architects adapted the Baugruppe model to create workspaces for arts, education and the creative industries and assumed the roles of developers to build the community of users for the project. 32 small companies and non profits threatened by Berlin’s rapid gentrification joined to secure their workspaces. The architects first assembled the group around their programatic goals, and then designed the building in continuous dialogue with the users, the neighborhood, and the city.”

The Railway Farm, Paris, France / Grand Huit and Melanie Drevet Paysagiste

The Railway Farm, Paris, France / Grand Huit and Melanie Drevet Paysagiste. Image: Myr Muratet
The Railway Farm, Paris, France / Grand Huit and Melanie Drevet Paysagiste. Image: Myr Muratet

Jury comments: “Born from the desire of residents and local associations to see a place that combines urban agriculture and solidarity grow, the Ferme du Rail aims to integrate vulnerable people. The farm offers emergency social housing and social reintegration of 15 social reintegration housing units, 5 social student housing units, an unheated productive greenhouse, a restaurant open to the public, a mushroom-growing cave and a permaculture garden. Its objective is to minimize the need for energy, food and financial resources by implementing a circular economy.”

Town House – Kingston University, London, UK / Grafton Architects

Town House – Kingston University, London, UK / Grafton Architects. Image: Dennis Gilbert
Town House – Kingston University, London, UK / Grafton Architects. Image: Dennis Gilbert

Jury comments: “Inspired by the progressive educational vision presented in the brief, and the wish to connect with the community, we responded by arranging the programme in a three dimensional matrix, one singular complex space which links the various elements of the brief, giving at the same time to each part its identity, a place where spaces and uses interlock, and connect physically or visually, creating an environment that encourages overlap and exchange.”

Z33 House of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium / Francesca Torzo

Z33 House of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium / Francesca Torzo. Image: Gion B. von Albertini
Z33 House of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium / Francesca Torzo. Image: Gion B. von Albertini

Jury comments: “Z33 settles in continuity with the existing buildings around the béguinage, echoing the dual character of their facades, enclosed towards the street and open with windows’ filigrees towards the garden. The exhibition rooms and the secret gardens compose a spatial labyrinth, amalgaming memories of local passages with ones of foreign villas or palaces.”

TWO EMERGING ARCHITECTURE FINALISTS

Enrico Fermi School, Turin, Italy / BDR bureau

Enrico Fermi School, Turin, Italy / BDR bureau. Image: Simone Bossi
Enrico Fermi School, Turin, Italy / BDR bureau. Image: Simone Bossi

Jury comments: “The project transforms a school of the 1960s in a semi-peripheral district of Turin, rethinking the architecture through the engagement of school communities in the definition of pedagogical guidelines, with the ambition to renovate both learning spaces and teaching methods. The existing building had a poor relation with outer spaces and a series of underused interior spaces. Part of the strategy to reverse this condition lies on the reorganization of accesses and external areas, opening the school to the city.”

La Borda – Cooperative Housing, Barcelona, Spain / Lacol

La Borda – Cooperative Housing, Barcelona, Spain / Lacol. Image: Lacol
La Borda – Cooperative Housing, Barcelona, Spain / Lacol. Image: Institut Municipal de l'Habitatge i Rehabilitació de Barcelona

Jury comments: “La Borda cooperative housing is a self-organized development to access decent, nonspeculative housing. The cooperative prioritised making a building with minimal environmental impact, both in its construction and its lifetime. Another basic objective is to eliminate the possibility of energy poverty among its users, which some of them suffered due to the high cost of energy. The initial strategy of the project to reduce energy demand has been the optimisation of the program, renouncing the underground car parking, grouping services and reducing the surface of the houses.”

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7 finalists announced for 2022 EU Mies van der Rohe Award

By Niall Patrick Walsh|

Wednesday, Feb 16, 2022

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Town House – Kingston University, London, UK / Grafton Architects. Image: Ed Reeve

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Seven finalists have been revealed for the 2022 European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture — Mies van der Rohe Award, chosen from a shortlist of 40 works which we reported on earlier this year. The seven projects are divided into five architecture works and two emerging architecture works.

The awards jury described the seven works as ones which “encourage and become models and references for local city policies” addressing topics such as community engagement, circular sustainability, and productive, self-sufficient cities. “They are also a result of well-developed construction processes, and the care in the use of materials and details: A dignification of the day to day architecture, a dialogue between monumentality, education and heritage,” the organization continued.

Below, we have listed the seven finalist works, alongside jury comments for each project. An awards ceremony for the ultimate winners will be held on May 12th. Also in May, all shortlisted, finalist, and winning works will open their doors to the public for an “in situ” experience.

FIVE ARCHITECTURAL FINALISTS

85 Social Housing Units, Barcelona, Spain / peris+toral.arquitectes

85 Social Housing Units, Barcelona, Spain / peris+toral.arquitectes. Image: José Hevia
85 Social Housing Units, Barcelona, Spain / peris+toral.arquitectes. Image: José Hevia

Jury comments: “The bases of this new residential building are a matrix of communicating rooms that eliminates corridors to guarantee optimum use of the floor plan and the use of timber to enable the industrialisation of elements, improved quality of construction and a major reduction of deadlines and C02 emissions.”

Frizz23, Berlin, Germany / Deadline (Britta Jürgens + Matthew Griffin)

Frizz23, Berlin, Germany / Deadline (Britta Jürgens + Matthew Griffin). Image: Jan Bitter.
Frizz23, Berlin, Germany / Deadline (Britta Jürgens + Matthew Griffin). Image: Jan Bitter.

Jury comments: “The architects adapted the Baugruppe model to create workspaces for arts, education and the creative industries and assumed the roles of developers to build the community of users for the project. 32 small companies and non profits threatened by Berlin’s rapid gentrification joined to secure their workspaces. The architects first assembled the group around their programatic goals, and then designed the building in continuous dialogue with the users, the neighborhood, and the city.”

The Railway Farm, Paris, France / Grand Huit and Melanie Drevet Paysagiste

The Railway Farm, Paris, France / Grand Huit and Melanie Drevet Paysagiste. Image: Myr Muratet
The Railway Farm, Paris, France / Grand Huit and Melanie Drevet Paysagiste. Image: Myr Muratet

Jury comments: “Born from the desire of residents and local associations to see a place that combines urban agriculture and solidarity grow, the Ferme du Rail aims to integrate vulnerable people. The farm offers emergency social housing and social reintegration of 15 social reintegration housing units, 5 social student housing units, an unheated productive greenhouse, a restaurant open to the public, a mushroom-growing cave and a permaculture garden. Its objective is to minimize the need for energy, food and financial resources by implementing a circular economy.”

Town House – Kingston University, London, UK / Grafton Architects

Town House – Kingston University, London, UK / Grafton Architects. Image: Dennis Gilbert
Town House – Kingston University, London, UK / Grafton Architects. Image: Dennis Gilbert

Jury comments: “Inspired by the progressive educational vision presented in the brief, and the wish to connect with the community, we responded by arranging the programme in a three dimensional matrix, one singular complex space which links the various elements of the brief, giving at the same time to each part its identity, a place where spaces and uses interlock, and connect physically or visually, creating an environment that encourages overlap and exchange.”

Z33 House of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium / Francesca Torzo

Z33 House of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium / Francesca Torzo. Image: Gion B. von Albertini
Z33 House of Contemporary Art, Design and Architecture, Hasselt, Belgium / Francesca Torzo. Image: Gion B. von Albertini

Jury comments: “Z33 settles in continuity with the existing buildings around the béguinage, echoing the dual character of their facades, enclosed towards the street and open with windows’ filigrees towards the garden. The exhibition rooms and the secret gardens compose a spatial labyrinth, amalgaming memories of local passages with ones of foreign villas or palaces.”

TWO EMERGING ARCHITECTURE FINALISTS

Enrico Fermi School, Turin, Italy / BDR bureau

Enrico Fermi School, Turin, Italy / BDR bureau. Image: Simone Bossi
Enrico Fermi School, Turin, Italy / BDR bureau. Image: Simone Bossi

Jury comments: “The project transforms a school of the 1960s in a semi-peripheral district of Turin, rethinking the architecture through the engagement of school communities in the definition of pedagogical guidelines, with the ambition to renovate both learning spaces and teaching methods. The existing building had a poor relation with outer spaces and a series of underused interior spaces. Part of the strategy to reverse this condition lies on the reorganization of accesses and external areas, opening the school to the city.”

La Borda – Cooperative Housing, Barcelona, Spain / Lacol

La Borda – Cooperative Housing, Barcelona, Spain / Lacol. Image: Lacol
La Borda – Cooperative Housing, Barcelona, Spain / Lacol. Image: Institut Municipal de l'Habitatge i Rehabilitació de Barcelona

Jury comments: “La Borda cooperative housing is a self-organized development to access decent, nonspeculative housing. The cooperative prioritised making a building with minimal environmental impact, both in its construction and its lifetime. Another basic objective is to eliminate the possibility of energy poverty among its users, which some of them suffered due to the high cost of energy. The initial strategy of the project to reduce energy demand has been the optimisation of the program, renouncing the underground car parking, grouping services and reducing the surface of the houses.”

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RELATED NEWS Lacaton & Vassal's 'housing transformation' in Bordeaux wins 2019 Mies van der Rohe Award
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