A one-stage, open competition for the development of an urban-architectural concept for the development and construction of the market - Grunwaldzki Square, John Paul II Square and Church Street in Janów - was resolved on December 9. The Janów Municipality entrusted the organization of the competition to select the best concept in terms of function, use and composition to the Katowice branch of SARP.
On behalf of the Janów Municipality, the Napraw Sobie Miasto Foundation organized public consultations, which were later used to create the competition guidelines. They showed, among other things, that the rebuilt market square should become, first and foremost, a showcase of the municipality, a recreational place or park, and a place for meetings and integration of residents with food and beverage outlets, a fountain and resting places.
Janów market square
© organizers archive
The Competition Jury, chaired by Jacek Krych (IARP, SARP) and composed of: Joanna Małecka (Deputy Chair; IARP, SARP), Mikołaj Szubert-Tecl (IARP, SARP), Marek Skwara (IARP, SARP), Adam Skrzypczyk (IARP, SARP), Aleksander Krajewski (IARP, SARP), Aleksandra Woźniak-Janeczek (TUP), Marcin Brataniec (IARP, SARP), Edward Moskalik (Mayor of Janów Commune), Jarosław Zasń (Manager of the Investment andDevelopment of the Janów Municipality), Justyna Siemion (Director of the Janów Regional Museum. Z. Krasinski in Zloty Potok), Agnieszka Kuta-Janikowska (Manager of the Funds and Promotion Department), Alfreda Mendakiewicz (Councilwoman of the Janów Municipality), Czeslaw Tarczynski (President of the Czestochowa District ZPAP), Anna Majorczyk (representative of the youth of the Janów Municipality), Kamila Baran (representative of entrepreneurs operating at the market), although not unanimously, awarded three main prizes and three equivalent honorable mentions.
votum separatum
The1st prize was awarded to Michal Stangel and Tomasz Bradecki, who collaborated with Filip Gawin, Marlena Michalska and Natalia Holos on the competition project.
In its verdict, the Competition Jury pointed out elements requiring changes in the project, including re-analysis of individual fragments of the establishment, consideration of the necessity to change the topography of the area, or consideration of the sense of locating small architecture and cubature objects in some parts of the competition area.
1st prize, designed by: Michał Stangel, Tomasz Bradecki
© Michal Stangel, Tomasz Bradecki
The decision of the jury was disagreed with by the SARP Competition Judges (Marcin Brataniec, Danuta Fredowicz, Aleksander Krajewski, Jacek Krych, Joanna Małecka and Mikołaj Szubert-Tecl), who issued a special statement:
As judges of the SARP competition, representatives of the architectural community, we do not agree with the verdict of the Competition Jury awarding 1st prize to work No. 170-232523. The functional, spatial, communication and architectural-building solutions proposed in the work in any scale are inadequate for the space of the market in Janow and do not correctly respond to the contemporary requirements for this type of public space. Our attempts to point out the weaknesses of the work, illustrate the consequences of such a choice for further stages of the public procurement and, consequently, the implementation of the contract on the basis of the work and the recommendations formulated for it, unfortunately did not meet with the understanding of the majority of judges .In view of the above, we decided to express a votum separatum from the verdict of the Competition Jury.
The2nd prize in the competition was won by Paweł Gałeczka for:
a clear proposal for arranging the space of the market, as an open and homogeneous in architectural expression interior with an island of greenery preserving and organizing the existing tree stand. Appreciated the preservation of existing values and an attempt to solve the difficult problem of the road cutting through the square by correcting the geometry and unifying the floor.
2nd prize, proj.: Pawel Galeczka
© Pawel Galeczka
The3rd place was awarded to a team of architects, including designers from NM architects studio Tomasz Marciniewicz, Zuzanna Szpocińska and Jerzy Grochulski.
The jury appreciated the attempt to formulate a comprehensive development of the market space, taking into account the possible future change of the location of the national road. The Competition Jury's attention was also drawn to the decisive separation of the open square from vehicular traffic routes through a green buffer.
3rd prize, proj.: NM architects Tomasz Marciniewicz, Zuzanna Szpocińska, Jerzy Grochulski
© NM architects Tomasz Marciniewicz, Zuzanna Szpocińska, Jerzy Grochulski
honorable mentions
The jury also awarded three equivalent distin ctions to:
the team of architects from Roman Rutkowski Architekci studio for:
uncompromising decision to spatially unify the urban interior creating an iconographic character of the market.
honorable mention, proj.: Roman Rutkowski Architekci
© Roman Rutkowski Architekci
honors
GRID archite cts studio for:
an interesting attempt to introduce elements of small architecture in the form of pergolas.
honorable mention, proj.: GRID architekci
© GRID architekci
And to the designers from 8486 Architekci Henryk Struski office for:
attempting to incorporate the strong graphic element of the triangle into the public space of the square. For the attempt to restore the historical layout of the frontage of the square and for the attempt to expose the church as the most valuable architectural object.
honorable mention, proj.: 8486 Architects Henryk Struski
© 8486 Architects Henryk Struski
