General Report of the jury – Part 2

International Urban Design Idea Competition Part 2 Jury day 17 January 2020

General information

General Information

Date: 17 January 2020 Location: SCHUNCK , The

On Friday 17 January, the jury day for part 2 of the International Urban Design Idea Competition of the Heerlen Rooftop Project was held in SCHUNCK- Glaspaleis, Heerlen. The jury consisted of the following professional and functional jury members.

Professional jury ✓ Sonja Beeck (Chezweitz, ) – Chairwoman ✓ Frank Havermans (Studio Frank Havermans) ✓ Cédric Libert (director CIVA Brussels) ✓ Robert Thiemann (director Fame Publishers) ✓ Peter Veenstra (LOLA Landscape Architects)

Functional jury (consulting role, no voting right) ✓ Mathea Severeijns (general director IBA Parkstad) ✓ Rocco Malherbe (director Cultura Nova) ✓ Martijn Valk (Province of , project manager IBA) ✓ Douwe Dijkstra (director Heerlen Mijn Stad/Heerlen My City) ✓ Kor Bonnema (director SCHUNCK)

SCHUNCK organization ✓ Andrea Croé (senior curator Architecture & Urbanism) ✓ Margot Reinders (junior curator Architecture & Urbanism) ✓ Jeanine Ruijters (project assistant)

Overall competition goals ✓ Receiving submissions for a high quality and diverse urban rooftop landscape ✓ Receiving submissions with participative approaches for solutions ✓ Stimulating creative talent in the field of architecture and design ✓ Generating support from the public and the city of Heerlen to develop ideas/engagement for the Rooftop Festival.

SCHUNCK Heerlen International Urban Design Idea Competition 2

Judging process & criteria

The professional jury took five judging criteria into account for both part 1 and part 2 of the competition.

✓ People - The creation of meeting points/meeting places for people in Heerlen - Participation: the project ideally has a participatory character. It should be suitable for a broad audience. ✓ Design - Quality of architecture and design - More beauty to Heerlen. Regardless of the purpose and functionality, Heerlen must become more ‘attractive’ in the first place. ✓ Process - Festival: in 2021 The Heerlen Rooftop Festival will be held. It’s a plus when a design fits in with the festival character/idea at least as a development phase. - Working ‘step by step’, the design has the potential to grow step by step in something bigger, something sustainable and more permanent. ✓ Sustainability, in terms of - Air - Energy - Waste ✓ Relevance - it was appreciated when an entry explains ‘why?’ certain choices were made. Also why this particular design fits Heerlen. A good answer to the question ‘why?’ makes a design relevant and increases the chance of feasibility.

Assignments for the 10 selected entries: The 10 remaining entries, selected by the jury for part 2 of the ideas competition, each obtained further general as well as specific assignments which had to be submitted on 13 January 2020 before 12.00 hrs. These specific assignments are not mentioned in this report. They were asked to further elaborate their ideas (scale M 1:200) in a sort of festival condition as well as in a long, perspective manner for one of the following three rooftops: Putgraaf, Berden or H&M. Questions, if any, were answered via [email protected]

The main task of the second part was to further develop and deepen the overall master plan in accordance to the following aspects: - Tell us how you’d make a festival out of your idea. Take into account that the financial budget for the realization part is limited to € 1.000.000,- - Bring your proposal in accordance with the following key demands: Involve the local community Give a basic design impression Address sustainablity, resilience and circularity Indicate a development process

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Make your proposal specific to rooftops and the city of Heerlen Answer the question: why?

Required materials The 10 selected entries were asked to present their further elaborated idea within the following materials (in English and named with registration and file number): - an A3 booklet (digital and printed version) - a representative/associative image - a panorama (film or stills of the rooftop landscape) - 1 (associative) object

Judging rounds The ten entries and their additional materials were carefully scrutinized and discussed during two selection rounds.

First round In the first round the following five projects were, unfortunately, dropped (in random order):

HRP027 7 Roofs, 100 Squares by Francesca Rizzetto, Oriana Pilia and Francesca Perugini, Rotterdam (NLD)

HRP042 Unknown Habitats by Joey Rademakers, Roel Slabbers and Dave van den Berg / De Nieuwe Context, (NLD)

HRP083 Stairway to Heerlen by Art Kallen / Workshop Architecten & Studio Blad, Amsterdam (NLD)

HRP180 In the Loop by Maikel Waterdrinker, Leiden (NLD) & Soledad Fernández, Monsserat Muñoz and Hiram Guzman, Cancun (MEX)

HRP182 Street art Next Level by Anouk Dankaart-Steenblik, Bennekom (NLD)

Second round In the second round two more projects followed (in random order):

HRP018 Vereeniging by Fred Greve / PERCEPT|on design consultants, Singapore (SGP)

HRP148 4 Points Program by Mattijs Brands, Basil Descheemaeker and Jérome Kockerols, Brussel (BEL)

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3 winning projects The following three projects were convincingly chosen as equal winners by the jury and were awarded €10.000,- each:

HRP006 Less Building, More People by Tom van Odijk, David Baars and Panagiotis Seltsiotis / TomDavid Architecten, Rotterdam (NLD)

In recent years a retail crisis has hit many high streets all over Europe. To transform vacant store floors into green spaces that are open to the public seems to be a solution worth exploring. The architects suggest to remove the roof of Heerlen’s H&M store to begin with, replacing it with a public garden. The proposal kills two birds with one stone: it returns vacant, but non-accessible space to the city’s inhabitants and supports Heerlen’s climate agenda by rendering that space green. Moreover, Heerlen’s rooftop landscape would become more diverse with this approach. An innovative project with a directional strategy for cities with similar issues.

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HRP145 World of Wonder by Giulia Azaria, Iñigo Ruiz en Linda Tonin / SELVATICO, Amsterdam (NLD)

Original festival concepts can put cities on the international agenda. World of Wonder proposes a festival of rooftop installations. Suggested is to create an archipelago of rooftop follies, temporary monuments to the imagination, where the effort to make your way to roofs is returned with visiting dream-like places of otherness. Starting off as a festival of ephemeral installations, the project’s potential lies in the opportunity to produce pavilions that will remain. Over the years an eclectic, but coherent collection of dream machines could be the result, making Heerlen the capital of rooftops.

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HRP185 Create Your Own by Lieke Robben and Isabel Morales García, Amsterdam (NL)

Whatever one wishes to program on Heerlen’s rooftops, supporting structures will be needed. By adopting the simple architecture of the greenhouse, Create Your Own proposes a unified, neutral language of great simplicity, rooted in the utilitarian. This is not about making an architectural statement, but instead about offering infrastructure that can easily be adopted by inhabitants with an interest in joining the rooftop movement. In fact, it’s an intelligent strategy to invite locals to open up their rooftops and make their city greener.

Heerlen, 17th January 2020 Sonja Beeck (chairwoman), Frank Havermans, Cédric Libert, Robert Thiemann and Peter Veenstra

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