Piotr Person, Olga Czeranowska-Panufnik, Władysława Kijewska and Aleksander Sojka from the Doctoral School No. 5 of the Warsaw University of Technology (PW) won an architectural and urban planning competition for the development of post-industrial areas in the Czech city of Nachod. The new district is to be a showcase of Czech urban planning.

The district designed by WUT PhD students will be built on the site of the old Tepna textile factory. Local authorities want the three-hectare area around the castle to become a showcase of a city with a population of 20,000, located on the border with Poland.

The jury chaired by architect Jaroslav Wertig from Prague’s A69 – Architects studio emphasized in the project justification that “the main idea of ​​this proposal is to create a comfortable, inclusive and renewable environment that would fit the existing urban and cultural context.”

In jury’s opinion it deserves first place in all respects as its authors best understood the relations with the environment and introduced them to the proposed solutions.