Linz
RUNNER UP HR120 – LINZERTUS
Julio De La Fuente (E), Natalia Gutierrez (E), architects/ Madrid
Contributors:
Paul-Rouven Denz (D), student in architecture
The project takes high risks concerning the issue of building-preservation: the authors open the protected facades in the ground floor in order to create strong connections with the surrounding areas. On the other hand the projects suggests a convincing strategy of a series of precise interventions in different areas which could give to the city a valuable catalogue of transformation. The jury discusses the ambiguity between openness and closeness: the project seems to be inclusive and exclusive at the same time, the ground floor transversally cuts through the new urban structure whose development in parallel layers creates an interesting interiority which becomes slighty normative in its huge effort of opening up. At the same time the play with the angles in the ground floor area suggests attractive and surprising links between the site and its surroundings (excerpt¶phrase of the jury minutes).
