Comment of the Holcim Awards 2005 Jury for Europe
The project displays innovative spirit in terms of "thinking" sustainable construction, particularly with the imaginative reuse of materials. A high level of integration is achieved by synthesizing materials, products, and existing structures.
Also credited is the effort to link decentralized locations as meeting and supply stations within a given urban fabric, a proposal that suggests an intelligent method for conserving resources. Of equal ecological significance is the sensibility concerning land use and environmental impact.
Although a speculative proposal, the work nevertheless provides an economically viable model for generating new social ties and communal exchange, while at the same time offers lessons in self-sustaining facilities and waste reduction. A high degree of sensibility is also exercised relative to land and electricity consumption, thereby showing again acute concern for the ecological impact of the interventions.
Of significant merit are the spatial quality and contextual response, all achieved through a sophistication of design that yields a tectonically accomplished effect.