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Competition rules

GENERAL TERMS

Legal and regulatory framework:

The competition will be carried out in accordance with Part 2. of the Public Pocurement Act of the Republic of Croatia (published in Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia 90/11, hereinafter referred to as the Public Procurement Act) and the Rulebook on competitions in architecture and urban planning (published in Official Gazette of the Republic of Croatia 112/06) of the Association of Croatian Architects and the Croatian Chamber of Architects, if they are not in contradiction with the law. Competition registration number given by the Competitions Committee is  165-13-RI-UA.

Competition Promoter is:

Port of Rijeka authority, as the Main Promoter, with registered seat at  Riva 1 in Rijeka, represented by the executive director PhD.Vlado Mezak and

City of Rijeka, with registered sead at Korzo 16 in Rijeka, tel +385 51 209333, represented by the mayor mr. sc. Vojko Obersnel

Competition organizer is:

Rijeka Architects Association (DAR), with registered office at Ivana Dežmana 2a in  Rijeka, represented by the president Igor Rožić, d.i.a.

Competition Custodian is  Maja Čukelj, d.i.a., tel: +385 91 672 5371, email:natjecaj@d-a-r.hr

Type of competition

The Competition shall be public, international, open, single-stage, anonymous, ideas.

Number of public procurement procedure:VV-07/13 L.U.

Based on Article 13 of the Public Procurement Act (Official Gazette no. 90/11), there are no economic operators with whom the Port of Rijeka Authority and City of Rijeka may not execute the public procurement contracts (in the capacity of the tenderers, member of a group of tenderers or subcontractors to the elected tenderer).

This competition is carried as procedure preceeding the procedure of award of concession for the areas of Delta and Porto Baroš.

The estimated value of the procurement is based on the total value of the procurement, including awards and payments to the participants and it amounts to HRK 1.300.000,00.

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Competition purpose and goal

Is to obtain urban design proposals for the Delta area which will introduce an innovative model of viable development, in which qualitative values (the environment), identity values (the history, contemporary urban life) and inclusive values (the society and social expectations) will define the guidelines for the Delta site, triggering the renewal process for of the other suitable waterfront areas in Rijeka as well as the city and the country at large.

The awarded competition entries will serve as an expert basis to produce documents of urban planning.

The right to participate

The right to participate as authors have all professional individuals and legal persons regardless of the place of residence/seat. The expertize is satisfied if at least one author holds a master or bachelor in the field of architecture and urbanism. Individual authors or a group of authors must include at least one licensed architect registered in the Directory of Licensed Architects in Croatia – HKA.

Members of the Competition jury, their Substitutes, Expert Consultants, Rapporteurs, Competition Custodian, author of the competition brief, their close relatives and collaborators are not allowed to submit their entries in the competition.

Each competitor, either an individual or a team, may only submit one entry in the competition.

The invitation to competition and competition results will be announced in Electronic Public Procurement Classifieds of the Republic of Croatia, and in the Official Journal of the European Union.The invitation to competition and competition results will also be published in the printed media “Novi list”, on the web site of Port of Rijeka authority, www.portauthority.hr, www.mojadelta.com, on web site of the City of Rijeka www.rijeka.hr, the DAR web pages www.d-a-r.hr and international web-portals.

AWARDS

On condition that a minimum of ten (10) entries meet both professional requirements and the competition terms and conditions, the Competition jury will award the following prizes three (3) equal first prizes in the net amount of 26.800,00€

In case a smaller number of entries are submitted than specified under 3.1., the prize number and amounts will be reduced in proportion to the number of entries submitted

The Competition jury may award written recognition to specific entries.

COMPETITION JURY

To evaluate the entries submitted, the organizer and the promoter appointed as follows:

Members of the Competition jury:

  1. Elia Zenghelis, architect, Greece,
  2. Srđan Škunca, architect, The City of Rijeka
  3. Vedran Mimica, architect, Croatia/USA,
  4. Pippo Ciorra, architect, Italy
  5. Vasa Perović, architect, Slovenia
  6. dr.sc.Vlado Mezak, executive director, Port of Rijeka authority
  7. Maroje Mrduljaš, architect, Croatia

Substitutes of the Members of the Competition jury:

  1. Miroslav Gudelj, architect, Croatia
  2. Siniša Glušica, architect, Croatia

Expert consultants:

  1. Ivana Šoljan, consultant for development, Croatia
  2. Rene Lustig, civil engineering, consultant for hydrodynamics, Croatia

Rapporteurs:

  1. Jana Rozman, architect, Croatia
  2. Oliver Čikeš, architect, Croatia
  3. Bojan Linardić, architect, Croatia

Competition Custodian

  1. Maja Čukelj, architect, Croatia

COMPETITION ENTRY CONTENT

A competitor is required to follow the Competition Rules and conditions when preparing a conceptual urban and architectural entry with the following appendices:

I  THE TEXTUAL PART

1. Description and explanation of the overall concept (maximum 9000 characters)

2.  Graphic drawings scaled to A3 format

3.  Ispunjena Tablica u prilogu natječajnog programa s iskazom postignutih površina

The textual part must be enclosed in A3 format folders. All graphic drawings scaled to A3 format sheets must be enclosed as supplements to the written part. The written part may contain drawings, schemes, photographs, photomontages and other presentations to ensure that the competition solution is explained and argued effectively. The textual part must also contain a specification of spatial indicators according to the tabel enclosed in competition assignment.

II  GRAPHICS

1.  Spatial arrangement of the entire area, scale 1:1000
2.  Typical sections and views/facades of the intervention, one transverse and one longitudinal section are required, sale 1:1000
3. Conceptual designs of buildings typologies with typical plans, sections and facades, scale1:500
4. Photo-montages using two given photographs, additional spatial presentations per segment are at the discretion of each competitor
5.  Solutions of characteristic public space (square, coast, etc.), scale 1:200/500
6.  Schemes, diagrams, analysis chosen by the competitor

The graphic presentations must be submitted on three (3) coated paper boards, with a format of 1189/841mm (A0). A3 format folders with the textual part and graphic part, scaled to A3, must be enclosed in seven (7) copies.

The Competition Entries (textual part) must be drawn up in English or bilingual in Croatian and English, while the graphic parts of the entry must be described in English.

EVALUATION CRITERIA

The Evaluation Committee shall evaluate the individual Competition Entries solutions in accordance with the following criteria:

Formal criteria:

The competition entries will not be considered if:

a) they are submitted after the date specified under 2.2,

b) they do not contain appendices listed under  6.,

c) the equipment of the competition work is not in accordance with section 8.

The criteria:

–      compliance with the spatial planning documentation and competition assignment

–      the extent to which the project responds to the aesthetic, social, and economic context of the surrounding community

–      the economic feasibility, constructability, and development timeline of the project proposal

–      the responsiveness of the project to issues of energy use, water & resource management, and healthy   indoor & outdoor living environments

–      accessibility and traffic solutions

Based on Article 82, Para 2 of the Public Procurement Act, the criteria are listed from the most to the least important. The relative value of the criteria has not been indicated due to the fact that all the criteria are interrelated and that they are not suitable for numeric valuation.

COMPETITION ENTRY FORMAT

All the constituent components of the Competition Entry must be labelled with the same entry code. The code is made up of five Arabic numbers. It must be placed in the right-hand upper corner and have maximum dimensions of 2.0 cm (length) X 0.5 cm (height). The code number must be indicated on each graphic sheet, sealed envelope and on the cover page of the textual part (it must not be placed on the inside pages!). All entry codes shall be re-coded at opening, and all the constituent components of each Competition Entry shall be allocated a single working code.

All graphic and textual parts are also submitted on CD-ROM. CD-ROM must contain the following:

Graphic posters in (al three posters in all three formats):

  1. pdf  (original format A0);
  2. jpg of tiff 800×1142 piksela
  3. jpg or tiff  70×100 piksela.

The textual part must be in u Word DOC or DOCX format.

The Competition Entry must be submitted anonymously in a tightly sealed envelope. With the Competition Entry competitor is required to submit three (3) sealed, envelopes marked “AUTHOR”, “ADDRESS FOR NOTICE” and ” AUTHORIZED DESIGNER “, containing the information which you can download in section DOWNLOADS.

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