Comment of the Holcim Awards 2005 Jury for Europe
This work presents a successful integration of tectonic research and practice related experience.
The project is commended for its ambitious effort to establish a common research platform between nations of the European Union, thus emphasizing the urgency of encouraging sustainable construction on a continental scale.
Also important is the systematic approach to developing ecologically aware architecture and therefore can be transferred to a wide range of environmental challenges.
Displaying a high degree of technical sophistication, the systems are oriented to yielding optimal air purification and treatment - through the use of inter-programmatic buffers - as well as with energy production - through the use of wind turbines. Both measures are skillfully and intricately integrated into the architectural proposal instead of being applied externally.
The prototype makes an aesthetically convincing contribution to the proposed context while also serving as a daring catalyst for similar future endeavors.