The award-winning design deals with the topics like context, genius loci, landscape, country, tradition versus innovation, periphery and regional transformation. The area under scrutiny is the village of Český Jiřetín, a place with rich history at the Czech-German border line, strongly affected by the expulsion of Germans after the World War II, nowadays, a local centre of winter sports with around a hundred inhabitants.
The jury appreciated perceptive, contextual and holistic approach to the planning of local development. The authors have not designed only a new residential development, but also have paid attention to growth of the local public services and labour opportunities, development of the system of the public spaces, building forms and material solution. The same attention they have paid to changes in farming, refinement of landscape and to development of the ecosystem services from anti-erosive function, retention of water and biodiversity, to creation of new opportunities for the recreation. The jury also appreciated compelling graphic arrangement of the project.
