2022 Lacul Morii Park, Bucharest

RESULTS PRESS RELEASE

The jury evaluation of the projects submitted in the Lacul Morii Park International Design Competition, officially launched on August 10, 2022, took place between October 28 and October 30. The Competition was organized by the Romanian Order of Architects (OAR), in partnership with the Bucharest Territorial Branch of OAR, together with the Contracting Authority – The City Hall of Sector 6, Bucharest.

The main objective of the competition was to select, in order to award the design contract, the best project for the new „Lacul Morii” (Lake Morii) Park in Bucharest. Lacul Morii (Lake Morii) represents a relatively recent hydrological development, being a reservoir resulting from the flooding of a marshy area at the entrance of the Dâmbovița River in Bucharest – an area partially occupied in the past by a traditional, impoverished tissue, typical of the city margins. The area was minimally landscaped and, except for some technical and infrastructural investments, in the years after 1989 it did not benefit from major interventions to enhance its natural recreational potential. In addition, due to the lack of investment, the existing facilities have deteriorated.

The results of the competition were announced on Monday, October 31^st 2022, during a Press Conference hosted by the The City Hall of Sector 6, Bucharest. The event was live streamed on the Facebook pages of the Organizer – The Romanian Order of Architects and of the Contracting Authority – The City Hall of Sector 6, Bucharest.

The event could be viewed in real time on the Facebook pages: The City Hall of Sector 6, Bucharest and OAR Competitions.

AWARDED PRIZES

1^st Prize: the estimated value of the design services contract 2.677.700 LEI without VAT

2^nd Prize: 148 254 LEI without VAT

3^rd Prize: 74 127 LEI without VAT

În urma deliberărilor juriului au fost selectate proiectele câștigătoare:

1^st PRIZE

Project no. 100 – ML2024 – METAPOLIS ARCHITECTS (BELGIA) trough its branch METAPOLIS ARCHITECTS (ROMÂNIA)

Main authors: METAPOLIS ARCHITECTS: Mircea Munteanu, Cristian Panaite
Architecture collaborators: METAPOLIS ARCHITECTS: Diana Sava, Mihai Șom, Laura Dinu, Bogdan Stoicescu
Specialties collaborators: STUDIO DE PEISAJ ANA HORHAT: Ana Horhat, Ivona Svinți, Claudia Uglea

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” The project shows a highly sensitive approach to the landscape as a whole, with its different degrees of anthropic influences, as it delivers a blueprint for a larger area than requested in the brief. The ecological rehabilitation and recovery processes included are reverberating in the entire 6th District throughout the Crângași Park, Marin Preda Park and the north-eastern polder area as well as the southern lake shore and the Dâmbovița waterway to the southeast. By doing so it sets a first step into the rethinking of the development of a green-blue infrastructure in the northern part of Bucharest.

(…) The landscape design is based upon a linear composition favoring a clear walking and planting path network along the park while generating depth by overlaying multiple stripes along them as successive and overlaid filters. Considering both directions this instrument allows dynamic variations of perception during the promenade, but also strengthens differences between impressions during contemplation.” – Jury feedback

2^nd PRIZE

Project no. 103 – BN2732 – NBC ARHITECT SRL

Main authors: arch. Bogdan-Constantin Neagu
Architecture collaborators: Alexandru Radut, Daniela Stanciucu, Victor Spinu, Florian Marinescu, George Barbu, Cristian Mititelu
Specialties collaborators: eng. peisag. Cristina Vainer

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” The landscape design envisions a green corridor connecting areas on the northern Dâmbovița waterway with the Marin Preda park, inside the neighbourhood, and with the Crângași park, as a seamless extension of the park and a connection with the commercial and transport hub.

The consistent ecological connection is shaped as a linear urban forest, concealing the lake and dike, while revealing the surprisingly diversified areas and activities in the park. The park itself is shaped as a string bundle – forest, dike, promenade – the system of diagonal alleys guides the visitor through a great variety of habitats from city tree alignments to the interior of forestry bodies, going up to the level of the tree corona and finally culminating with the opening to the lake horizon.” – Jury feedback

3^rd PRIZE

Project no. 105 – TE0303 – TERA DESIGN STUDIO SRL

Main authors: joint venture TERA DESIGN STUDIO SRL – TERA ARHITECTURA SRL: Tamara Roseti, Tamara–Maria Popovici, Andrada Eftime, Traianus Popovici, Gabriela Vlăsceanu, Cristina Irimia, Elena – Delia Rusu, Daniela Măuță

Co-authors: Amalia Anastasia Gîscă – Chițac

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” The design proposal delivers a project with great formal consistency, as the logical continuity of the pathways crosses spaces of various atmospheres that flow one into the next. The organic design language of the spatial frames is in harmony with the landscape elements and the spatial distribution of greenery, planted pockets, and tree groups. The sensitive and integrative attitude regarding the existing vegetation is highly appreciated.” – Jury feedback

HONORABLE MENTION

Project no. 106 – LM2022 – OFFICE OF ADRIAN PHIFFER

Main authors: Adrian Phiffer
Co-authors: Angela Cho, David Verbeek, Tudor Vlăsceanu
Architecture collaborators: Ben Chang, Nur Nuri
Specialties collaborators: Tommaso Bitossi, Jonathon Brearley (Transsolar Klimaengineering)

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”The proposal is extremely interesting, approaching the area as a territory with depth and mass, not only a surface. The solution and the suggested technologies are taking into consideration the body of water from the perspective of climatic engineering.

The project stands out by the way of coherently integrating technology to manipulate micro-climates and ecological construction methods in the design; the proposed interventions are meant to diversify the climatic systems, fauna, and flora of the area, generating ecological diversity and beneficial local micro-climates.” – Jury feedback

The exhibition of all the projects participating in the competition can be visited at the headquarters of the Romanian Order of Architects, House Mincu, in the Peretz Wing, Arthur Verona Street, no. 19, Bucharest, CP 010312.

The Contracting Authority is The City Hall of Sector 6, Bucharest, the owner and administrator of the public spaces that are the investment object, and which shall become the beneficiary of the contract resulted from this competition.

The Competition was organized by the Order of Architects of Romania (OAR), with the support of the OAR Bucharest Territorial Branch in accordance with the provisions of the Guide of good practice in organizing OAR design competitions, published in 2018, in compliance with the legal provisions in force regarding the award of public procurement contracts. The Design Competition was a public, single-stage competition, open to Romania, all countries of the European Union, of the European Economic Area and to the Swiss Confederation. The design competition was organized as an independent procedure, in accordance with art. 105 letter a) of Law no. 98/2016 regarding public procurement, and subsequently, pursuant to provisions under art. 104 para. (7) of the same law, the design services contract is to be awarded to the winner of the competition, following a negotiation procedure without prior publication of a participation announcement.

COMPETION JURY

Full members:

• landscape arch. Dimitra Teochari (Grecia/Germania)
• andscape arch. João Nunes (Portugalia/Elveția)
• arch. urb. Benjamin Kohl (Germania/România)
• arch. Mihai Munteanu – Reprezentant al Autorității Contractante
• arch. Rudolf Gräf (România)
• arch. Sorin Istudor (România)
• arch. Radu Ponta (România)

Deputy members:

• biologist Ioana Mihaela Georgescu (România)
• arch. Răzvan Vasiu (România)  

Apart from the jury, the following persons were present without voting rights:

• arch. urb. Mihaela Hărmănescu, arch. urb. Sorin Vasile Manea – Consilieri profesionali
• arch. Mirona Crăciun – Consilier concursuri OAR, Coordonator concurs
• arch. Raisa Parpală – Referent concursuri OAR, Secretar jurizare
• arch. Ilinca Pop – Referent concursuri OAR
• urb. Louisiana Stoica – Referent concursuri OAR

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