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proHolz Student Trophy 24
proHolz is hosting an international competition for students on the subject of building with wood for the fifth time. The possibilities and potential uses of contemporary timber construction in urban settings will be examined on the basis of three model construction sites in Vienna's expanding urban structure. proHolz Austria is launching the Student Trophy 24 in cooperation with proHolz Bavaria and with the support of the Building Construction and Design Research Department of the Institute of Architecture and Design at the Vienna University of Technology. Participants must be civil engineering and architecture students. Prize money totalling euro 15,000 is awarded for the proHolz Student Trophy 24.
Dates
Kick-off event
at the Vienna University of Technology. The event will take place in German and will be recorded. The video will be available on proholz.at/student-trophy in German and English.
Program kick-off proHolz Student Trophy 24
Deadline for submission of design work
Work has to be submitted digitally by uploading on proholz.at.
Registration of the project teams and upload of the project work is possible from 01.02.2024.
Award ceremony
at the Vienna University of Technology
Taking part in the competition
All students of architecture and civil engineering who are registered at a university or university of applied sciences in the winter semester 2023/24 are invited to participate in the proHolz Student Trophy 24. The competition entry should be submitted in teams of at least two students – interdisciplinary collaboration is recommended.
Price money
The proHolz Student Trophy 24 competition is endowed with euro 15,000 in total. In a two-stage process, the international jury will name three winning projects and six recognitions. The following prizes will be awarded: For each of the three building sites, one winning project, endowed with euro 3,000, and two recognitions, endowed with euro 1,000.
Design task - Urban extension
The potential for inner-city expansion and consolidation using wood as a building material is the topic of the proHolz Student Trophy 24. The responsibilities related to design are concentrated on coping with existing structures. Urban areas are augmented and extended upon through contact with already-existing structures. The goal is to expand the urban fabric while preserving resources and generating new space.
Three typical construction sites in Vienna's developed structure serve as the foundation for implementing the competition challenge and pose some intriguing issues for urban discourse. The territory is bordered to the west by the area of the Favoriten Clinic and is situated in Vienna's 10th district south of Matzleinsdorfer Platz.
With a few notable exceptions, like Harry Glück's terrace house from 1974 or Rüdiger Lainer's "house with verandas" from 2008, the urban area is primarily typified by perimeter block buildings.
A school building expansion, an addition to a block edge and the vertical extension of a factory building built at the turn of the 20th century are among the design tasks for the three building sites. For urban redensification in these highly populated areas, creative solutions must work closely with the existing structures and the urban surroundings.
