Barcelona World Capital of Architecture 2026—International Ideas Competition for Young Architects – Announcements – Notice Global Online

Taking a travel nervy to meliorate the calibre of open expanse finished the World Capital of Architecture that the municipality module stop in 2026, Barcelona launched a new International Ideas Competition for Young Architects to transform 10 imperishable blind walls, digit in apiece district, and invoke them into newborn facades. This call, designed by the Barcelona City Council and the Fundació Mies camper der Rohe, made together with UNESCO and the International Union of Architects, is hunt architectural proposals that provide message to walls that are currently nameless and without some prominence, unclothed in open expanse in a imperishable tentative state.

Blind walls in the municipality of Barcelona 
Barcelona City Council, finished the Municipal Institute of Urban Landscape and Quality of Life (IMPU), has counted around 6,000 blindfold walls with a brawny proximity in the city’s open spaces. Ten imperishable blind walls hit been designated for the competition, digit for apiece district, they are party walls of buildings that module not finish since, according to underway planning, they module not be awninged by another buildings and at the aforementioned instance play open spaces, with the seeable effect that this entails.

The proposals submitted module be evaluated according to the mass objectives:
–Urban quality, that is, the knowledge to create newborn facades for the change and transformation of the cityfied landscape, and the reactivation of the connector floors with newborn openings of the premises and edge accesses, finding corners or spaces hypersensitive to intense use.
–Habitability, with the inaugural of newborn windows and balconies that meliorate the calibre of chronicle of residents.
–Sustainability, with the incorporation of forcefulness detachment to process richness and meliorate the forcefulness action of buildings, or also the artefact of photovoltaic getting or another strategies for generating decent energy.
–Biodiversity, with the process in plumb foliage and the creation of newborn habitats for fortified fauna.

Competition and schedule:
–For architects with a honor in some land in the concern and under 35 years of age.
​–The punctuation for submitting ideas is from June 10 to August 5, 2024.​
–The commission module superior a success offering and a ordinal and ordinal accolade for apiece of the sites, the rivalry has a accolade money of 52.500 euros.
​–The winners module be declared on Sept 25, 2024.
​–The budget for the feat of the 10 designated proposals module be roughly 4.5 meg euros and module be awninged by the metropolis City Council.

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