#IdeaVault | Concept competition for the development of the former Bulgarian National Bank building , Plovdiv / Bulgarien

 

Plovdiv Municipality

 

The current concept competition for the reuse of the former bank building aims to restore the importance of the building as an urban landmark by implanting a new function in accordance with the city development. A rethinking of functions and unused spaces is needed. The opening of the iconic for Plovdiv building to the general public is of key importance for its socialization and preservation.

 

The aim of the current initiative is to identify and select appropriate functions for future development, which will serve as a basis for the building’s resocialization as a recognizable and valuable element of Plovdiv‘s cultural infrastructure.

 

The expected result is the discovery of an opportunity for the building to be reborn as the focus of the surrounding territory by creating a semantic connection (physical/virtual/conceptual/artistic) not only with the adjacent territory, but also with the entire urban organism. The current competition is a case study for a systematic strategy to provide a basis for the sustainable preservation of immovable cultural values.

 

Participants should study and clarify the various parameters for the possible implementation of the proposed idea, justifying the functional necessity and expediency of the proposed idea; to determine the functional structure and the required spaces, as well as to make an economic justification.

 

Within their proposals, the participants should focus on determining the functional structure of the building, the adequate synthesis between the planned function and the existing building and the integration of the building into the current social and cultural infrastructure. Within the economic justification the Participant should propose both a management model and proposed timeframe for the procedures, the planning and the overall implementation of the proposal.

 

Individuals over the age of 18 and legal entities can participate in the competition.

Acceptable languages for submitting proposals are Bulgarian and English.

 

Announcement of the competition: 26.02.2024

Open day for on-site visits: 15.03.2024; 22.03.2024 and 29.03.2024

Deadline for submitting proposals: 30.04.2024

Announcement of the results: аfter 20.05.2024

 

Three of the best ideas will receive a BGN 3,000 prize each. The awarded proposals will be presented to the general public in the form of an exhibition in the open urban spaces in front of the former bank building.

 

The competition is for ideas and it does not include a subsequent investment project within the meaning of the Law on Territorial Planning and the Ordinance on Conducting Competitions in Spatial Planning and Investment Design.

 

Sending proposals and/or awarding within the framework of this competition does not constitute any kind of professional commitment between the Participant and the Municipality of Plovdiv. The Municipality of Plovdiv reserves the right to use freely, publish and present the submitted proposals when the authors of the idea are mentioned.