Deadline: 6-Apr-22
The UN Development Programme (UNDP) in Bosnia and Herzegovina, in collaboration with the Municipality Centar Sarajevo, invites national and international architects, urban designers, landscape architects, and architecture and design students to compete in an open international Call for Ideas / Innovation Challenge for the conceptual design of the public space “Hastahana” in Sarajevo.
The scope of the Call is for conceptual urban, landscape, and architectural design targeting the sustainable urban transformation of the “Hastahana” site in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Award Details
- First Prize: BAM 15.000,00 (VAT excluded)
- Second prize: BAM 10.000,00 (VAT excluded)
- Third prize: BAM 5.000,00 (VAT excluded)
Eligibility Criteria
- Participants are encouraged to submit innovative, nature-inspired, and community-led solutions for urban regeneration and activation of “Hastahana” – an iconic location in the heart of Sarajevo, where significant historical periods overlap. The Call was preceded by public consultations on the future functions and uses of this space, with almost 400 votes received on the citizen’s visions for “Hastahana”, which are now part of the Call’s guidelines.
- An international five-member jury comprised of relevant renowned professionals will review the submitted conceptual design proposals and award three finalists in accordance with the terms of this public call
- After the award, the three finalists will be presented to citizens for online voting to decide on the people’s choice for the winner.
- The Municipality intends to support the implementation of the proposal which gets the highest number of votes by the citizens and will work with the author to develop the detailed design for the urban transformation of the “Hastahana” public space in 2022.
- Design proposals can be submitted by:
- individual authors (architects, landscape architects, urban designers, urban planners, students, designers, engineers); or
- teams of individual authors; or
- legal entities (public or private, individually or in consortium – architecture bureaus, universities, innovation centres, urban research centres, development think-tanks, and coalitions of partners with innovative visions). Individual/team applicants can submit maximum one design proposal.
For more information, visit https://www.ba.undp.org/content/bosnia_and_herzegovina/en/home/presscenter/articles/2022/promocija-konkursa-projektni-prijedlog-hastahana.html