Winning Design for Revitalization of Studentski Grad in Belgrade Selected (PHOTO)

The Turkish architectural studio Nous Architecture has won first prize of USD 28,000 at the international single-round architectural-urban planning contest for the development of the complex, construction of new accommodation capacities and reconstruction of the existing ones at the complex “Studentski Grad” (“Student City”) in New Belgrade.

The authors of the winning design are the architects Cihan Sevindik and Siddik Guvendi, with the assistants Emirhan Ayata, Tetiana Markova and Ekrem Zengin.

Their design is based on construction without demolition, that is, on the principle of making sustainable what already exists.

– The reuse of the existing structure through the adding of what’s missing, instead of tearing down and rebuilding, quite clearly leads to a reduced spending of materials, money and uses the space that already exist. These are ecological issues which are present worldwide and which, surprisingly, are not frequently implemented – say the authors of the winning design.

According to the decision of the jury, second prize was not awarded, whereas two equally valuable third prizes of USD 7,000 each were awarded, to the authors Andrej Berić and Milena Vukmirović with associates on the project: Boris Horošavin, Suzana Gavrilović, Aleksa Jovanović and Letisha Moody.

Third prize was also awarded to the work of the authors Dalia Dukanac and Stefan Đorđević with the associates Maja Savić and Kristina Žilić.

In addition to these awards, the submitted works, of which there were 21, were rated by an expert jury consisting of: jury president Dr Grozdana Šišović, architect, jury members: Lazar Kuzmanov, architect, Dr Đorđe Alfirević, architect, Matija Bevk, architect, Milutin Đurović, Ministry of Education, deputy jury member Goran Minić, Studentski centar Beograd, and reporters Marija Pjevač, architect and Dr Milena Grbić, architect.

They also unanimously decided to award five equal augmented buyouts in the net amount of USD 28,000 each, to the following authors and their associates/coauthors:

– authors: Jelena Miletić and Dejan Miletić;
– authors: Dr Dušan Stojanović, BSc Architectural Engineering, and Dr Pavle Stamenović, BSc Architectural Engineering, and coauthors: Đorđe Jovanović, B.Arch.; Anja Ljujić, B.Arch. and Aleksa Rašić, B.Arch.;
– author Vlada Lukić and associates: Aleksandar Tepavčević, Miloš Krstić and Vukašin Nikolić;
– authors: Milan Ivanović, Filip Vasić, Milica Božović, Boris Ivanović, Danica Vićanović and Ivana Mitrović;
– the work done within the studio AKVS arhitektura Beograd, authors: Anđela Karabašević Sudžum and Vladislav Sudžum, designers: Marija Matijević, Teodora Stevanović, Mina Vujović and Jelena Smiljanić and associate - Sara Jevtić.

Let us remind that, this July, the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Government of the Republic of Serbia, in cooperation with the Union of Architects of Serbia, and with the support of the UNDP, opened the public international single-round architectural-urban planning contest for the development of the complex, construction of new accommodation capacities and reconstruction of the existing ones at the complex “Studentski Grad” (“Student City”) in New Belgrade.

As defined by the contest proposition, the plan is for the facility of the students’ home within Studentski Grad in Belgrade, for which a public international architectural-urban planning contest was opened, to have an area of close to 24,000 square meters, with a total of 1,000 new spaces for the accommodation of students.

The then first deputy prime minister and minister of education, science and technological development, Branko Ruzic, stated at the time that the construction of new capacities at Studentski Grad was part of the efforts of the ministry to improve the students’ standards in the Republic of Serbia. Ruzic said that, within the “Student Housing” project, which was realized with the support of the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB), EUR 48,500,000 was secured for the construction of new students’ homes and the reconstruction and extension of the existing ones.

S. T.