Superstudio 2017 - ceremonial announcement

Awarded students in the Superstudio competition will have the realization: reSITE pavilion

The seventh edition of the nationwide architectural and urban planning competition for students, SUPERSTUDIO, has its winners. At the final evening on March 11, 2017, at the ALTA studio in Prague, the expert jury selected the winners from 14 teams that advanced from local rounds in Prague, Ostrava, Liberec, and Brno. The best design for a unified task of a pop-up pavilion in the center of Prague for the organization reSITE, which hosts an international conference, will for the first time in the history of the competition be physically realized.

This year, a record number of 68 teams from across the country participated in the local rounds held on March 3, 2017, solving a unified task within a strict time limit of 24 hours. The competition task was created in cooperation with the international architectural platform reSITE, for which two to three-member teams were to develop a project for a temporary pavilion on an currently unused plot in the center of Prague. The very specific task recommended working with six shipping containers to create a vibrant public space featuring a number of shops, a bar, and a lecture space. Students tackled the task with very different approaches, even devising a proposal for a sixty-meter tower broadcasting Wi-Fi signal to specific locations or the idea of using buses from Student Agency instead of containers, with which the students negotiated collaboration with the owner.

Local juries composed of architects, artists, and academics selected the 14 best teams, who then had another seven days to refine their designs. They ultimately presented their proposals within a strict limit of 200 seconds before the final jury consisting of Jan Šépka, Lenka Burgerová, and Igor Kovačević, along with reSITE founder Martin Barry, reSITE program director Osamu Okamura, and representative of the future pavilion operator Jakub Hradílek from Aerofilms. After lengthy deliberation, the jury awarded 2 honorable mentions and 3 main prizes, dividing a financial reward of 30,000 CZK and tickets to reSITE among them. The winning team was determined to be from the Faculty of Architecture at VUT Brno, composed of Barbora Juríčková and Oliver Kažimír, who shared the financial reward with the pair Lucie Červená and Nikola Karabcová in second place. The students will work on the final design of the pavilion with the assistance of professional architects.

The pop-up pavilion will be realized as part of the Shared Cities: Creative Momentum project. Its aim is to improve the quality of life in European cities. It explores different perspectives on sharing and creating a city while uncovering new possibilities for inhabiting our cities.

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