Prize: NOWA HUTA OF THE FUTURE
July 5, 2012Prize
BASIC CITY in collaboration with Felixx, Magdalena Szczypka and Ania Molenda (mo.st), wins 2nd prize for the “NOWA HUTA OF THE FUTURE” international competition in Krakow, Poland. The prize is won at a high-profile open international competition with the participation of many large multinational architecture and planning firms.
We have proposed a spatial development framework that articulates the (re)engagement of all the available resources through time, from human to infrastructure and natural. It helps to rethink the leftover industrial space, employing the redundant work force, reuse the unattended infrastructure, feasibly re-mediate the polluted land, fine-tune the relation between built land, nature and agriculture.
Nowa Huta becomes a unique urban condition that offers all at once: urban ambient, proximity of the genuine nature, production landscape, active and healthy lifestyle, intensity and emptiness. It is fine and robust at the same time. Urban and rural. The first one of the kind. Forerunner and the ultimate model for the transformation of similar urban conditions in Europe.