Held for 23 years, the KOŁO competition for the design of a public toilet, organized by GEBERIT, is an opportunity for young architects to test their skills, confront their way of thinking with the visions of other participants, as well as a chance for a high cash prize, an internship at a well-known design office, media exposure - and above all - a ticket to a career. This year's edition is fast approaching - the deadline for sending in applications is October 11.
KOŁO's "Bathroom Design 2021" competition was launched at the end of May this year. The task in this year's edition is to design a public toilet for the Tatra National Park. This is the last moment to register on the competition website and upload your design. The deadline for submitting entries is October 11.
The entries will be judged by a distinguished jury, which includes: dr. hab. inż. arch. Ewa Kuryłowicz - head of the Department of Design and Theory of Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture at the Warsaw University of Technology, vice president at the author's architecture studio Kuryłowicz & Associates, judgeSARP Warsaw, Robert Konieczny - architect, founder of the KWK Promes studio, Magdalena Federowicz-Boule - president and creative director of the Tremend studio, secretary of the Warsaw Branch of SARP, judgeSARP, prof. Jan Sikora - lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, founder of the Sikora Wnętrza design studio, Przemo Łukasik - architect, co-founder of the Medousagroup studio, Aleksandra Kozłowska - winner of the "2018 Bathroom Design" competition, currently associated with the KWK Promes studio, Przemysław Powalacz - CEO of Geberit sp. z o. o, Filip Zięba - deputy director of the Tatra National Park, Ewa Holek-Krzysztof from the Department of Communications and Publications of the Tatra National Park, Agnieszka Grzegorczyk - representative of the Municipality of Koscielisko, Jan Karpiel-Bułecka senior - architect, popularizer of highland folklore, Marcin Rząsa - sculptor artist from Zakopane. The total prize pool is 50 thousand zlotys.
Jury of the competition
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The design of a public toilet is quite a challenge for architects. This year's location - Chocholowska Valley - is a special place in the Tatra Mountains. Beautiful, popular with tourists, difficult due to ownership conditions, valuable in terms of nature and culture. In few valleys in the Tatras can you find such a strong emphasis on the culture and tradition of the highlanders as here. Few also contain so many buildings. The erection of new buildings in the Park, especially deep in the valleys, is rare. This underscores the uniqueness of this Competition and project.
A survey conducted in connection with the contest among tourists visiting the Polish mountains shows that the sanitary condition on the trails leaves much to be desired. Every participant in the competition should read the Report, which was created on the basis of respondents' answers - there is a lot of information in it about what is missing from toilets along the trails, what should be in them, what is particularly problematic for users, etc.
The full Report is available on the website.
All information about the competition - regulations, maps, guidelines on the project, schedule, etc. can be found on the site.
We also encourage you to check out the interesting additional materials posted on the site: videos of jurors' statements, blog texts, information on the Podhale style, etc.
For more information, visit the company's KOŁO page on the A&B portal.
