Testo di descrizione

With the Patronage of “POLIS – International School of Architecture & Urban Development Policies”, “Municipality of Tirana”,”TAW – Tirana Architecture Week”, “UNIFE – Università di Ferrara”, “FAF – Facoltà di Architettura di Ferrara”, “ANHALT University of Applied Science”, “HSH Albanian Railways”, “AUA – Albanian Union of Architects”.

“Tirana city and metropolitan area nearby is a typical and complex example of a city in transition, a transition, which is continuous, and incorporates mixed structures and historical events. Tirana is a symbol of urban culture between the sea and the mountain, preserving Illyrian, Roman, Byzantine cultures in a Oriental atmosphere. In short, Tirana is actually one of the most dynamic cities in Europe and obviously represents a city of a typical and prolonged transition, which remains still the main and most dramatic challenge of the present days.

In the eve of new millennium Municipality of Tirana initiated important urban operations that are completely changing the image of the Albanian capital. Tirana Municipality’s goal is to prepare a vision of development that is flexible and adaptable to the rapid changes of the city. This necessarily requires the complete reformation of the town planning legislation as a process that should go side by side with the development of the city. The new urban regulation of Tirana can serve as good starting point for the new package of laws on Town Planning, which the country needs desperately.

Currently the trend of development of the city is directed to a main direction: densifying the city’s center. From all the studies carried out from 1994 and today, the most significant is “The Strategic Plan for the Greater Tirana” which constitutes a full set of documents including the complexity of the numerous social-economical issues and questions involved. This study takes into consideration land use principles as well as future activities, infrastructure needed for different future indispensable elements for normal development, what represents so far, a real innovative urban research work for Tirana and Albania.¹

Among other initiatives, the Municipality of Tirana collects ideas for a new railway station. AWR – Architecture Workshop in Rome with Polis University and under the Albanian railway system Patronage, proposes MOBILIciTY, ideas competition for the definition of a Master plan for Tirana’s intermodal station.”

Jury

Winy Mass / MVRDV / TU-Delft Holland

Besnik Aliaj / POLIS University

Rudina Toto / POLIS University

Ulrike Bega / Municipality of Tirana

Zamir Ramadani / HSH Albanian Railways

Stephan Pinkau / ANHALT University of Applied Science

Ledian Bregasi / AUA – Albanian Union of Architects

Antonello Stella / University of Ferrara

Awards

First Prize – 1500€

Second Prize – 1000€

Third Prize – 500€

Registration Period

March 1, 2012_June 30, 2012

Submission Deadline – July 15, 2012