The work is one of the best of a total of seven award-winning submissions in the categories "Built Space" and "Social Policy in Analysis and Process".
For the seventh time, the FIVE Stuttgart chamber groups of the Chamber of Architects organised the 0711 Contest. All of the designs dealt with Stuttgart's architecture, urban and landscape planning.
Kevin Spina's final project "Ornaments of a Defensive City" in the Master's degree programme in Interior Architecture was supervised by Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Andreas Kretzer with Prof. Dr.-Ing. Philipp Dechow.
The award-winning and selected works will be on display at Stuttgart City Hall until 31 July 2025.
We congratulate Kevin Spina on his successful participation in the competition!
"The students at the colleges, academies and universities and their teachers are digging into the bowels of the city, into the sewage, the subsoil, the vacancies, in vulnerable neighbourhoods, in animal territories; they are searching for the core areas of transformation, all working on a resilient, liveable city. [...] The approaches are creative and inventive. Studying means forcing critical thinking, means discovering and researching. The turnaround in construction has arrived in the topics and the way they are dealt with - the job profile is changing."
"Ornaments of a Defensive City" by Kevin Spina
The filmic immersion in dark or brightly lit, slippery, impersonal, unfriendly urban spaces frightened us, almost disgusted us; the depiction of computer-animated people and spaces and the accompaniment by a professionally trained American advertising film voice increased this rejection. The work has thus achieved its goal. It draws attention to the inhospitality of the city in defence in a playful, dystopian way. The title: "Ornaments of a Defensive City" even insinuates that this endeavour for security has the will to design. The analysis of the fields of action - lighting, acoustics, materiality, furnishings - is well-founded, the power of reality is exposed.
The jury recognises this powerful shake-up: The focus is not on alternative options, but on the realisation of advanced spatial realities - in times of peace. Analysis and play reinforce the motivation to work towards an inclusive, resilient city for all.
Further information on the project:
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Quote: Website AKBW | 0711 Contest
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