The future of prefabricated housing areas presents a long-term challenge that cities in our region have been facing for the last few decades. In the context of Petržalka, the largest mass housing residential borough in Bratislava, Slovakia the project aims to transform its neglected part into a contemporary urban development.
As the main asset of the proposed solution the jury appreciated the approach of intensification through finding and placing urban forms that connect the existing mass housing structure of Petržalka and the natural landscape area of the Draždiak pond. This connection creates a new urban layer that integrates the anthropocene with natural elements of the environment. Each of the buildings offers a different typology of residential units that altogether activate the area with new possibilities for uses, while respecting and enhancing the existing network of public spaces with semi-private smaller-scale, community spaces accessible to diverse social groups.
What was particularly appreciated was also the straightforward and legible graphic presentation, as especially among the complex urban design projects is the ease of the understanding of a project of real necessity.
