COMPETITION
Urban design Trnava – Quarter
COMPETITION
Urban design Trnava – Quarter
Competition type
1. By competition purpose: project-oriented
2. By the scope of participants: open
3. By the subject matter of the competition: urbanism and landscaping
4. By competition process: two-stage
I. Stage: open
II. Stage: 3-5 participants
Competition type
1. By competition purpose: project-oriented
2. By the scope of participants: open
3. By the subject matter of the competition: urbanism and landscaping
4. By competition process: two-stage
I. Stage: open
II. Stage: 3-5 participants
Deadlines
4 May 2023
Date of the first jury meeting
26 May 2023
Announcing the competition
22 September 2023, 3 pm.
Deadline for the submission of designs in stage one
2 - 3 October 2023
Estimated date of the assessment meeting of the jury in stage one
27 October 2023
Estimated date of informing participants of the results of stage one
1 March 2024, 3 pm.
Deadline for the submission of designs in stage two
18 - 22 March 2024
Estimated date of the assessment meeting of the jury in stage two
8 April 2024
Estimated date of announcing the results
22 Apríl 2024
Estimated date of making the designs public
22 May 2024
Estimated date of paying the overhead costs

PrizesPrizes and remuneration
In the competition, after the result has become final within the time limit according to the competition terms and conditions, the inviting party will pay the following prizes and rewards to the awarded participants:
Those Stage 2 participants who are not awarded one of the prizes will be paid remuneration in the amount of € 28,000 per participant.
First prize
€ 60,000
Second prize
€ 48,000
Third prize
€ 36,000
PrizesPrizes and remuneration
In the competition, after the result has become final within the time limit according to the competition terms and conditions, the inviting party will pay the following prizes and rewards to the awarded participants:
Those Stage 2 participants who are not awarded one of the prizes will be paid remuneration in the amount of € 28,000 per participant.
First prize
€ 60,000
Second prize
€ 48,000
Third prize
€ 36,000
Brief
Trnava
Trnava has a unique character that is linked to its scale and compactness. We want Quarter to be a city of short distances and at the same time integrally connected to the existing city and the surrounding landscape. The issue of landscape, green and blue infrastructure was extremely important to us when preparing the brief. For a city on flat land, unprotected against constant winds, surrounded by industrial agriculture, with almost no existing elements of natural landscape, low groundwater levels and the negative acoustic impact of the ring road, a fundamental improvement of ecological stability is a matter of survival for the future.
Mobility
This should go hand in hand with a paradigm shift in the transportation sector. If we want Trnava to be a pleasant city to live in, well-functioning, safe and active, we need to realise that transportation planning based on foundations laid in the middle of the last century is completely unsustainable in the long term. Traffic-collapsing cities around the world have already discovered that unless they focus on promoting sustainable alternative transport, no improvement can be expected on the streets. Only if we can focus significantly more on safe pedestrian transport, seamless fast cycling, a comfortable and flawlessly functioning public transport system, a flexible and scalable logistics system, only then can we prepare the transport package as a whole in a balanced way for the future.
Public spaces
We are all also aware of the high value of land. We should therefore think about how to use it most effectively. What would vast mono-functional, semi-privatised areas of parking lotsstatic transport bring us and what, on the other hand, can a widely-used democratic high-quality public space bring us? Can we make better use of land if we save on extensive paved areas and rather devote them to green spaces, playgrounds, or more efficient development?
Vision
Trnava is fortunate that there are many examples of good practice that can give us answers to many of the questions we are asking ourselves in preparing the future Quarter neighbourhood. It is therefore the city’s task now to set the best possible framework for the decades of development that are coming to the area, and we believe that dozens and dozens of private landowners will be able, in close cooperation with the local government, to gradually build a new high-quality city that will be fully prepared for the 21st century.
Brief
Trnava
Trnava has a unique character that is linked to its scale and compactness. We want Quarter to be a city of short distances and at the same time integrally connected to the existing city and the surrounding landscape. The issue of landscape, green and blue infrastructure was extremely important to us when preparing the brief. For a city on flat land, unprotected against constant winds, surrounded by industrial agriculture, with almost no existing elements of natural landscape, low groundwater levels and the negative acoustic impact of the ring road, a fundamental improvement of ecological stability is a matter of survival for the future.
Mobility
This should go hand in hand with a paradigm shift in the transportation sector. If we want Trnava to be a pleasant city to live in, well-functioning, safe and active, we need to realise that transportation planning based on foundations laid in the middle of the last century is completely unsustainable in the long term. Traffic-collapsing cities around the world have already discovered that unless they focus on promoting sustainable alternative transport, no improvement can be expected on the streets. Only if we can focus significantly more on safe pedestrian transport, seamless fast cycling, a comfortable and flawlessly functioning public transport system, a flexible and scalable logistics system, only then can we prepare the transport package as a whole in a balanced way for the future.
Public spaces
We are all also aware of the high value of land. We should therefore think about how to use it most effectively. What would vast mono-functional, semi-privatised areas of parking lotsstatic transport bring us and what, on the other hand, can a widely-used democratic high-quality public space bring us? Can we make better use of land if we save on extensive paved areas and rather devote them to green spaces, playgrounds, or more efficient development?
Vision
Trnava is fortunate that there are many examples of good practice that can give us answers to many of the questions we are asking ourselves in preparing the future Quarter neighbourhood. It is therefore the city’s task now to set the best possible framework for the decades of development that are coming to the area, and we believe that dozens and dozens of private landowners will be able, in close cooperation with the local government, to gradually build a new high-quality city that will be fully prepared for the 21st century.
WORKSHOPS
Good outcomes are the result of good instructions – therefore, the process of preparation of this competition takes the form of a dialogue from its beginning. The series of four workshops for individual topics has become a rich source of expert inputs for various city-building topics.
The communication between the inviting party and the participant
It shall be carried out in Slovak, Czech or English exclusively in an electronic format through an electronic platform = the Josephine information system.
The communication between the inviting party and the participant
It shall be carried out in Slovak, Czech or English exclusively in an electronic format through an electronic platform = the Josephine information system.
Jury
Jury
Dipl.- Ing. Dr. in Techn.
Nina Svanda
AUSTRIA
Scientist and urbanist working at Technische Universtät Wien for many years as a teacher and researcher at the Institute for Spatial Planning in the research group on regional planning and development. She focuses on spatial planning friendly towards the environment, urban regions, local and regional development planning, tourism development and spatial planning or regional development in developing countries.

MSc. Land Arch./Arch.
Darius Reznek
NETHERLANDS
Architect/landscape architect working at the Karres en Brands office, where he is also a partner. He led his team in many urban competitions and strategic visions of urban development. His team is responsible for the winning design of the Oberbillwerder neighbourhood in Hamburg. The master plan for this neighbourhood is currently the largest and most ambitious urban project in Germany.
MSc. Eng.Arch.
Monika Konrad
POLAND
Chairwoman of the jury. Deputy director of the City of Warsaw Architecture and Spatial Planning Department. She acquired her professional background in offices like OMA and Claus en Laan Architecten in the Netherlands and in Moscow as the project director of the Strelka KB consulting company. She is the author of many urban standards, strategic projects on the scale of the whole city, urban and architectural projects.

Ing.
Štepánka Endrle
CZECH REPUBLIC
Landscape architect, founder of the Czech office L&SCAPE, which deals with solutions for urban spaces, historical landscape objects and landscaping projects with the focus on ecology. She sees landscape architecture in an interdisciplinary context with an emphasis on long-term sustainability and functionality.
Ing. arch.
Filip Tittl, PhD.
CZECH REPUBLIC
Architect and urbanist, co-founder of UNIT architekti. The main theme of the office is urbanism in different scales starting from specific housing forms like senior or community housing, through the usual housing projects all the way to the designs of residential areas. He also works as a researcher and teacher at the Faculty of Architecture of the Czech Technical University.
MA Arch. ARB
Igor Marko
SLOVAKIA
Architect and urbanist, co-founder and creative director of Marko&Placemakers working in London. As architect and urbanist, he has long been working on projects extending the traditional boundaries of architecture with a focus on public space. For several years he has been an active facilitator and mediator between the city, the private sector and civic initiatives in Bratislava.
Ing. arch.
Ondrej Horváth
Architect, Head of the Department of Spatial Development and Concepts of the City of Trnava.
Ing. arch.
Mária Dida
Architect working at the Department of Spatial Development and Concepts of the City of Trnava.