From exclusive apartments to communal housing! The City of Warsaw, in cooperation with A2P2 architecture & planning, has announced an architectural and urban planning competition to develop a concept for the development of the property at 100 Sobieskiego Street in Warsaw, known as "Spygowo".

The subject of the competition is the development of a plot of land in Warsaw's Mokotów district, where a conservation-protected property built in the late 1970s, commonly known as "Szpiegowo", formerly serving the employees of the offices of the Commercial Counselor and the USSR Embassy, is located. The plot includes a multi-family building for redevelopment and modernization, as well as two one-story service buildings to be replaced with new construction.

As the organizers emphasize, "the adaptation of the existing building, which in the past housed exclusive apartments, together with the development of new communal housing at 100 Sobieskiego Street, is an opportunity to significantly improve the quality of the district' s communal housing stock and change the image of the place. For many, the complex was a symbol of Poland's former dependence on the Soviet Union and the continuation of Russian influence after 1989. Located in the heart of the capital, but taken out of the control of the Polish state, it was perceived as a manifestation of a foreign presence. The complex is intended to serve the residents of Warsaw in the future. The attractive, perfectly communicated location, the unusual architecture of the complex, comfortable apartments with huge balconies, the overgrown greenery to which the view from the windows spreads and the neighborhood of Sieleckie Lake are an excellent basis for providing public housing that provides quality living conditions."

The complex was designed by Piotr Sembrat and Janusz Nowak. Andrzej Krawczyk was responsible for the construction.

The competition is an implementation competition, limited, two-stage.

The scope of the competition includes three related parts:
1) development of a concept for the reconstruction of an existing building, included in the Municipal Register of Monuments;
2) development of a concept for a new building (or buildings);
3) a concept for the development of the site.

The priorities set by the competition organizers are:

• aiming for the highest possible number of apartments (in total, in the existing and new building(s)), recommended to provide in the balance for the entire establishment: M-1: 42% of the units, M-2: about 40% of the units, M-3, M-4 and larger: the remaining units, with a minimum of one and a maximum of three apartments of about 120 m² for foster families;
• proposing solutions that are as versatile, flexible, practical and energy-efficient as possible (low maintenance costs are key to investment);
• seeking, given the different conditions of the existing building and the new one, solutions that are optimized on the scale of the entire investment;
• earmarking some apartments with large floor space for adaptation to units accessible to people with disabilities;
• meeting architectural accessibility requirements.

For more information, see the competition regulations

prizes

• First Prize - PLN 80,000 gross and an invitation to negotiate a negotiated contract for the detailed development of the competition concept.
• II Prize - 65,000 PLN gross
• Third Prize - PLN 50,000 gross
• Two distinctions - PLN 30,000 gross

Participants whose studies are qualified for the second stage of the competition and submit a competition work meeting the terms and conditions of the regulations by the deadline, but whose works are not awarded, will receive a refund of PLN 15,000 gross.

calendar

• Recommended deadline for submitting requests for clarification of the competition regulations: no later than 14 days before the deadline for submission of applications
• Deadline for submission of applications for admission to the competition: January 9, 026, 2:00 pm
• Deadlinefor informing participants of the results of the evaluation of applications for admission and invitation to submit studies: a minimum of three weeks after the deadline for submission of applications
• Recommended deadline for submitting requests for clarification of the competition rules for the preparation and submission of study papers: no later than 14 days before the deadline for submission of study papers
• Deadline for submission of study papers: 8 weeks from the date of invitation to submit study papers, 2:00 pm
• Deadline for notification of the results of the evaluation of the study papers and invitation to submit the competition works: a minimum of 14 days after the submission of the study papers
• Deadline for submission of competition works: 8 weeks from the date of the invitation to submit the competition works, 2:00 pm
• Competition settlement date: a minimum of 21 days after the deadline for submission of the competition works

the competition court

• Grzegorz Kaczmarowski - architect, chairman of the competition court
• Katarzyna Rokicka-Müller - architect, judge referee
• Karolina Bober - director coordinator for real estate management
• Jaroslaw Wegrzyn - Director of the City Property and Treasury Office
• Aneta Wardzińska-Siczek - architect, Deputy Director of the Bureau of Architecture and Spatial Planning
  
• Jacek Kisiel - Deputy Director of the Bureau of Air Protection and Climate Policy
• Tomasz Pniewski - architect, chief specialist in the Department of Municipal Architectural Investments of the Bureau of Architecture and Spatial Planning
• Beata Marczak-Wacławek - architect, Head of the Residential Investment Preparation and Analysis Team of the Housing Policy Bureau
• Sylwia Eymontt - architect, Specialist in the Department of Real Estate Management in the Mokotow District of Warsaw
• Tomasz Urbański - architect
• Rafał Sawicki - Head of the Construction and Investment Department of the Property Management Board of the City of Warsaw.
• Agnieszka Rybka - landscape architect, deputy head of the Construction and Investment Department for projects and analyses of the Management Board of the City of Warsaw.
• Małgorzata Borys - architect, reserve judge
• Monika Arczyńska - secretary of the competition
• Natalia Pawelec - assistant secretary of the competition
• Karol Drobniewski - assistant to the secretaries of the competition

non-voting experts:

• Ewa Grzesiak - Office of Assistance and Social Projects, for architectural accessibility
• Michal Krasucki - Capital City Monument Conservator, in the field of monument protection