The result of the architectural competition for Šatovka is to be in October

Participants can submit their competition designs until the end of September, after which they will be evaluated by a jury composed of three representatives from the municipal district and four architects. According to the approved document, the costs of the competition will be around 1.6 million crowns. Most of this will go towards prizes for the participants. The winner will receive 625,000, second place 375,000, and third place 250,000 crowns.

The municipality aims to build small apartments for seniors in distressing life situations who can take care of themselves in the unused building and the newly created smaller houses around it. "Seniors will be able to engage in a more active lifestyle within the community center," the document states. Prague 6 intends to finance senior housing with social services, community centers, and dining facilities independently, utilizing subsidies.

Prague 6 received the Šatovka for management specifically for social purposes. Until 2011, the estate served as an apartment building, and in 2015 the last tenants of the non-residential premises left. In March of this year, Prague city councilors approved a change in the functional use of the building from purely residential to a public utility building.

At the beginning of February, the Šatovka estate in the Šárka Valley was occupied for a week by a group of squatters who wanted to draw attention to the fact that the building was unused. They wanted to create a space for people who create, educate themselves, and wish to live without the need to own, profit, and generate profit. According to the police, the occupation of the building constituted a criminal offense, and the District Court for Prague 6 imposed community service on nine squatters. The activists faced up to two years in prison. The judgment is not final; the defendants have appealed against it. The squatters had occupied the estate once before, at the turn of 2015 and 2016.