Location: DAZ Zagreb/Croatia
Competition start date: 10 January 2012
Inquiries until: 22 February 2012
Deadline: 5 April 2012, 12.00 CET
Competition number: 136-12-ZG-UA

General terms and conditions of the competition
Competition purpose and goal: to obtain a quality urban design concept that meets all the functional and economic criteria required to create a new and modern segment of the city centre, while both adding value to the wider urban area and providing a reminder of the historical development of the site. The site area should become a new factor in the definition of identity of this part of the city as well as the central point for the most relevant activities in the fields of business, tourism, hospitality, culture and art, while remaining a location providing quality everyday life environment for its inhabitants both today and tomorrow.

The competition will be carried out in accordance with the The Public Procurement Act of the Republic of Croatia (NN 90/2011) and the Rulebook on competitions in architecture and urban planning (published in Official Gazette NN 112/06) of the Association of Croatian Architects and the Croatian Chamber of Architects, and will be assigned a competition registration number by the Competitions Committee of the Croatian Chamber of Architects. This ideas competition aims to collect variety of conceptual design proposals, with no intention of realization. The ideas competition may serve as a preparation of the competition for realization, or to select authors who will participate in a limited competition.

The ideas competition is organized for the buildings or area that have not yet defined the programme of purpose and content. The competition is organized to determine the spatial, formal and special features of the building, and for analysis and exploration of the potential of the spatial planning area, which is the subject of the competition programme.Proposals obtained from competition are used to further determine the purpose and content the competition site.

The awarded entries will be a professional and expert basis for the city government in decision-making process about investments in this urban location.

The competition is open to all professionals, who hold a master's degree in architecture or have completed a five-year course of study and are graduate engineers in the field of architecture and urban planning. Each competitor, either an individual or a team, may only submit one entry in the competition.The competition will be announced and competition results will be published on the ZSA (DAZ) web pages, on international web-portals and in the printed media (Vjesnik). The opening and the result of the competition will be published in the electronic public procurement publication of the official gazette "Narodne novine“.

Documents:
The competition organizer will make the following documents available to all competitors:
1. Zagreb Badel Site Competition brief (*pdf)
2. City of Zagreb - Position of Badel Site in wider city area, 1:50 000 (*pdf)
3. Lower Town - Position of Badel Site in central city district, 1:2 000 and
1:10 000 (*pdf)
4. Zagreb Masterplan – Land use, Traffic 1:5 000 (*pdf)
5. Existing traffic surfaces 1:2 000 (*pdf)
6. Existing building stock 1:2 000 (*pdf)
7. Badel Block - Site border with basic requirements 1:2 000 (*pdf)
8. Photo documentation (*pdf, *jpg)
9. Archive documentation (*jpg)
10. Geodetic survey for Block Badel (*dwg)
11. 3D model of the site and surrounding area (*dwg)
12. Pictures 121_Zg0601504.jpg, 121_Zg0601505.jpg, ZG0800646.jpg
    selected for rendering the mandatory perspectives (*jpg)
13. Computation template to be filled in by competitors with summary data on surface areas and other data related to the conceptual design submitted, in A3 format, with instructions on how to fill in the tables, to be delivered at a later stage, together with responses to inquiries made by competitors. (form_A3-SUM.xls - Microsoft Excel 97/2000/XP file).

Competition documents can be downloaded from the following web site: www.d-a-z.hr/en/competition/badel after registering for the competition.

Written responses will be made available until Monday, 5 March 2012. Exceptionally, in case of technical difficulties, inquiries may be emailed to badel@d-a-z.hr

The competition jury will complete the entry evaluation process not later than Monday, 7 May 2012.

In case more than 100 entries are submitted, the technical committee and the competition jury may extend the evaluation period by two weeks the most. Exhibition of competition entries and discussion with the competition jury will be organized upon completion of the evaluation process both in Zagreb and on the official competition web-page. The event will be transmitted via the Internet. All competitors will be informed of the date and location of both events by email.

Awards
On condition that a minimum number of ten (10) entries that meet both professional requirements and the competition terms and conditions is submitted by the competition closing date, the Competition jury will award the prizes with gross amounts as specified in the following table:

First prize 226,800.00 HRK (approx 30,240.00 €)
Second prize 170,100.00 HRK (approx 22,680.00 €)
Third prize 113,400.00 HRK (approx 15,120.00 €)
Fourth prize 56,700.00 HRK (approx 7,560.00 €)

In case a smaller number of entries are submitted (less than ten) the prize number and amounts will be reduced in proportion to the number of entries submitted. The Competition jury may award written recognition to specific entries.

Competition Jury:
Zoran Boševski, architect, Croatia, President of the Competition jury
Jadranka Veselic Bruvo, architect, Croatia, Vice president of the jury
Prof. Tadej Glažar, architect, Slovenia
Prof.ir. Francine Houben, architect, Netherlands
Irena Matkovic, Msc, architect, Croatia
Silvije Novak, prof., Croatia
Toma Plejic, architect, Croatia

Deputy of a Competition jury member:
Robert Jonathan Loher, architect, Croatia

Expert collaborators
Prof Anka Mišetic, PhD, sociologist, Croatia
Tamara Rogic, PhD, architect, Croatia

Technical committee
Ana Dana Beroš, architect, Croatia
Azra Suljic, architect, Croatia
Marko Trzun, architect, Croatia

Competition secretary
Sanja Cvjetko Jerkovic, architect, Croatia

The COMPETITION ENTRY CONTENT and ENTRY FORMAT are displayed at www.d-a-z.hr/en/competition/badel

Evaluation criteria
In addition to checking the fulfilment of all the competition terms and conditions (content, due dates and mandatory appendices) the Competition jury will also evaluate the following:

A -achievement of urban values - manifestation of the site identity by accentuating its values, quality of spatial relationships in the proposed structure and the site, i.e. the contact area, quality of proposed public spaces and their accessibility
B -sustainability of the proposed design concept in relation to the realized social and ecological (content focus, green spaces, impact on life quality of the contact area) quality and its economic values (attractiveness of proposed content, rationality of solutions and phase development)
C -aesthetic and visual qualities - completeness of the proposed urban space composition, realization of new urban values (new spatial landmarks) and the relationship between proposed volumes and the surrounding urban tissue
D -treatment of protected buildings - adequacy of the selected use of protected buildings, their relationship to the proposed morphology and their role in defining the identity of urban space
E -functionality of the proposed allocation and use of space in relation to the competition zone, surrounding area and the proposed morphological structure/ building typology, and rationality (feasibility of the proposed spatial brief) and functionality of the proposed traffic solution and the relations achieved between new programmes present on the site and the surrounding urban structures

The evaluation process will take place in three stages:

• Selection criteria - Checking technical criteria to verify that all the criteria from the competition entry content have been met
• Evaluation criteria - assigning specific points
• Deciding on awards

Evaluation grid attached to the Terms and conditions.

Final Provisions
By submitting their entries, competition entrants accept competition terms and conditions, and public exhibition and publication of their entries. The competition entrants are required to keep their entry anonymous up until the competition results are made public. A competition entrant is the author of the competition entry and has copyrights of the entry. The promoter will by awarding competition prizes acquire the right to use the material submitted for the competition.

The winning authors and the promoter of the competition are required to act in accordance with the recommendations made by the Competition jury regarding further actions and use of the prize-winning entries.

The official language of the competition is English.

This competition has been organized in accordance with the Public procurement act of the Republic of Croatia (NN 110/07) and the Rulebook on competitions in the field of architecture and urban planning (NN 112/06) of the Association of Croatian architects and the section of architects of the Croatian Chamber of Architects and Civil Engineers, that all the competition entrants are to adhere by.

Further Information:
Competition Promoter and investor is City of Zagreb, with registered office at Trg Stjepana Radica 1 in Zagreb, represented by the mayor, Mr MILAN BANDIC, Tel.: +38 5 - 1 - 61 01 11 1.

Competition organizer is Zagreb Society of Architects (ZSA / DAZ), with registered office at Trg bana J. Jelacica 3/I in Zagreb, represented by the president, Mr DAMIR LJUTIC, Tel.: +38 5 - 1 - 48 16 15 1.

Competition files are available for downloads at the web page of the Zagreb Society of Architects, www.d-a-z.hr/en/competition/badel with the the obligatory registration.

COMPETITION JURY
Društvo Arhitekata Zagreba
Trg bana Josipa Jelacica 3/1
Tel.: +38 5 - 1 - 48 16 15 1
Fax: +38 5 - 1 - 48 16 19 7
eMail: daz@d-a-z.hr
web: www.d-a-z.hr

Source: © DAZ; The terms and conditions in this article make no claims of being complete.

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