Wednesday 22 & Thursday 23 October
10.00 to 17.30 – Looking to the future
Watch as six international architecture schools compete, working on a brief to redesign a brownfield site in Barcelona. They have just 36 hours. Who will win?
The brief
The revitalisation of a redundant industrial complex in the Barcelona suburb of Sant Andreu. This substantial set of buildings, on a large site in the middle of the area, was the former Fabra i Coats factory and associated buildings.
Barcelona’s head of urbanism, Oriol Clos, picked the site, which is also the subject of a current regeneration exercise by the municipal authorities. We are grateful to the City of Barcelona for their help in identifying a site which presents a series of challenges to any architect: the relationship of new to old, the site planning of a series of cultural and community buildings, and the introduction of new ideas about how to exploit a site which can be brought into the fullest public use.
View an aerial photo of the site here »
View a plan of the site here »
Participating schools
A total of six schools will be participating:
- Bartlett, University College of London (UK)
- Hafencity Universitat (Germany)
- School of Design and Environment (Singapore)
- Ravensbourne College (UK)
- Kazan Architectural University (Russia)
- Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad CEU San Pablo (Spain)
Judging
The judging panel will include British Professor David Dunster of Liverpool University, German architect Stefan Behnisch, Barcelona architect David Mackay, and US journalist William Menking of The Architect's Newspaper.
The students will present to the charrette jury on Thursday 23 October, competing to become the winning team. Drop in and see them in Room 3 between 15.20 and 17.15.
Each team will have 10 minutes to present, just as the architects shortlisted in the WAF Awards do.
