New school LOŠBATES

  • Winning Design

    PELLETIER DE FONTENAY / Hubert Pelletier, Yves de Fontenay, Valerio Sartori / Montréal, Canada

  • Contracting Authority

    LOŠBATES, voluntary association of municipalities

  • Competition type

    Open Design Contest, One Phase

  • Results

    April 2018

  • Prices and Sketch Fees

    800 000 CZK – 550 000 CZK – 300 000 CZK – honorble mention 100 000 CZK

108 teams from 38 countries around the world competed to design the best new primary school. Behind this number are at least 450 architects, urban planners, engineers and other professionals who together put in 145,000 hours of work on this task.

Jury

Kateřina Vídenová

She studied architecture at the Czech Technical University in Prague, graduating in 1997 in the atelier of Ivan Kroupa. She also studied photography for several years at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. During 2009–2011 she was the assistant of the Raumlabor Berlin atelier at the Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design in Prague. She and Adam Wlazel make up Atelier MAK!.

Dorte Kristensen

She studied at the Faculty of Architecture in Delft, worked in London and, since 1989, in Atelier PRO, which she now manages. She is oriented on the social aspect of architecture, which is reflected in the multifunctional typology of her projects, such as city halls, cultural and health-care facilities and numerous schools for various levels of education.

David Hlouch

Jury Chair

He established his own practice in 2005, oriented primarily on commercial and residential construction, while studying architecture. After his recent return from a two-year stay in the USA, he joined the Czech Chamber of Architects and also started actively contributing to the events in the town of Tehov, where he has been the mayor since 2014.

Adam Halíř

Alternate

After graduating from the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University in Prague, he established the atelier Projektil architekti in 2001 together with Roman Brychta and Petr Lešek, being joined in 2004 by Ondřej Hofmeister. He led the project for the Líbeznice Pavilion of the first level of the elementary school and elementary school of arts in 2015.

Josef Řehák

He is the mayor of Louňovice and the chairman of the voluntary union of LOŠBATES, without political affiliation. He graduated from the Forestry Faculty of the Agricultural University in Brno, field of forest engineering. For many years he worked as a director of forest management and economist in a private company. He has been in the municipal council since 1994, he has been mayor since 2010. He has been a long-term chairman of the building commission, has a special expertise in decisionmaking in the area of land-use permit procedure, building code and expropriation. He is the spiritual father of the idea of establishing a new primary school.

Eva Šmoldasová

Jury Vice-Chair

She is the mayor of Tehovec, Vice- Chairwoman of the LOŠBATES union, without political affiliation. She graduated from the field of Business Finance and Trade at the University of Technology in Brno and also worked primarily in the area of banking and credit cards. She has experience working in organizations in the non-profit sector oriented on women’s rights and the development of schools. In Tehovec she has focused on the controlled development of the municipality, the improvement of the infrastructure and the modernization of the town hall’s agenda.

Ivana Dubská

Alternate

She is the mayor of Svojetice and the Vice-Chairwoman of the LOŠBATES union, without political affiliation. After graduating from the Middle School of Economics, she worked as a secretary of the General Director of ZSE (electric utility) and subsequently gained extensive experience in foreign trade. She was a founding member of TIESSE Prague, the exclusive representative of a supplier of industrial robots and robotized workplaces of the Japanese company KAWASAKI, where she worked until 2015 when she retired. In December 2015 she was elected mayor of Svojetice.

Tomáš Rychta

Alternate

He is the mayor of Štíhlice since 2010, without political affiliation. Over the past twenty years, he has been a successful entrepreneur, and in the past seven years has specialized in waste management. Thanks to his profession, he is in constant contact with his fellow citizens and surrounding communities. His priority is the transparent handling of public money, the construction of technical infrastructure and, last but not least, the provision of amenities.

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