Evaluation Tool for Architectural Design Competitions focused on Ukraine | ARCH-E in Cooperation with UREHERIT

Evaluate an Architectural Design Competitoin (ADC)
Get an overview of the ADC's procedural strengths and weaknesses as well as its potentials and risks for architects
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Based on your assessments of a selection of elements of the ADC the tool helps to evaluate procedural strengths and weaknesses as well as its potentials and risks for architects. The evaluation system takes into account ARCH-E’s research, experience and expertise of the project consortium and ACE’s 9 rules for ADCs. The Ukraine-specific iteration of ARCH-E’s evaluation tool is taking into consideration the country’s legal framework and ADC culture. The tool was developed in a cooperation between ARCH-E and UREHERIT.

At the end of the questionnaire, the evaluation of your ADC based on your answers is visualized in a diagram providing explanations.

Please provide us with some basic information before answering a short questionnaire (approximately 5 min), so we can provide you with an individualized analysis diagram by sending you a link to the results via email.

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UREHERIT: Architects for heritage in Ukraine. Recreating identity and memory is a project co-funded by the European Union under a dedicated Creative Europe funding call for proposals to support Ukrainian Cultural and Creative Sectors. The project was a cooperation between the consortium of 11 organizations: Architects Association of Lithuania (LT), Architects Sweden (SE), Federal Chamber of Architects and Chartered Engineers BKZT (AT), Royal Danish Academy (DK), The Institute of Technology and Architecture IBT (DK), Romanian Order of Architects OAR (RO), The National Council of Architects, Planners, Landscapers and Conservationists CNAPPC (IT), Federal Chamber of German Architects BAK (DE), Estonian Association of Architects (EE), The National Union of Architects of Ukraine (UA), Ro3kvit: Urban Coalition for Ukraine (UA), Kharkiv School of Architecture (UA) with the Architects’ Council of Europe (EU) as associated partner.

The project addressed the topics of evaluation, preservation, and restoration of the urban and architectural heritage in Ukraine during and after the war, treating it as a resource for sustainable cultural, social, environmental, and economic recovery, while solving challenges of preservation, re-definition and highlighting the national and local cultural identity and reflect the memory in the rebuilding. Interdisciplinary teams of Ukrainian and European heritage specialists, architects, planners, engineers, other professionals, officers of local authorities and communities of Ukrainian cities in various forms - professional workshops, seminars, public events, research etc. - shared their knowledge and experience, and experimented with the aim to build competence on the heritage protection, regeneration of culturally meaningful plans and projects and empowering of local communities as a tool for rebuilding democratic and sustainable Ukraine with a unique yet European cultural DNA.

The Architectural Design Competition is a very effective way of gathering a considerable number of innovative sustainable and ethical solutions based on the broad participation of affected citizens and stakeholders. They result in contributions from many different architects that give different perspective on the situation which contributes to a better understanding of the values at stake in the local community. It thus can be a helpful tool to achieve sustainable heritage preservation and recovery in the context of Ukraine. On the basis of international expert exchange the project explore the potential of high-quality Architectural design competition (ADC) as a tool to achieve sustainable heritage preservation and recovery in the context of Ukraine.

The UREHERIT ADC evaluation tool is based on an evaluation tool that was developed in another Creative Europe project on Architectural Design Competitions in Europe (ARCH-E) and was complemented by additional Ukraine relevant questions based on the topics, that were identified during the UREHERIT project workshops.

The UREHERIT ADC evaluation tool aims at supporting procuring authorities and planners that want to use the ADC as a tool to gather innovative sustainable and ethical planning solutions based on a broad participation.

It consists of two sets of questions providing quality checks for individual ADCs and can be used by ADC organizers, clients and planners, who are preparing an ADC. They have to answer the checklist questions and analysis texts according to their answers will give recommendations on how to meet the standards of a fair and accessible ADC, to find a quality based architectural solution. The evaluation system takes into account ARCH-E findings and recommendations formulated in the ARCH-E Whitepaper and the Architects Council of Europe’s 9 rules for ADCs and other ADC guidelines. Fair and transparent competition rules and organisation form the basis for a process resulting in concepts with high architectural quality.

The UREHERIT ADC evaluation tool incorporates 23 questions. It’s structure is flexible and allows for changes in the future if necessary due to changing legal frameworks and/or newly identified problems.