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PolskiA team of girls won the competition for the best design of a family home made from EUROPANEL
As part of the “EUROPANEL – A Home for Everyone” competition, students from across the Vysočina Region had the opportunity to design a single-family home using the EUROPANEL building system. Ten teams from construction schools in Jihlava and Havlíčkův Brod participated in the competition. Their task was to create a low-energy, low-cost wooden structure in a specific selected location.
VSM, s.r.o., a provider of comprehensive construction services, announced the competition in the middle of this year with the goal of designing a building for an undeveloped area comprising forty-one plots in the Jihlava-South district. “We want to start building wooden structures, and we want to involve young people who can enrich us with their ideas,” explained Stanislav Zikmund, director of VSM’s construction division, some time ago , outlining the purpose of the competition. However, the students’ task was not merely to design a house for a young family. Like true designers, they also had to take into account the urban planning conditions of the site, as well as the natural elements in the surrounding area.
The alternates became the winners
The expert jury selected as the best project one that was created at the last minute. The winning team had been among the alternates until the very end. Ultimately, however, they made it into the competition, though they had two weeks less to work on their project than the other contestants. After the winner was announced, they revealed that they had to spend sleepless nights working on the project shortly before the deadline.
The concept for the winning low-energy wooden house project was conceived by Sarah Rechtigová and Tereza Vopršálová, high school seniors at the Secondary School of Civil Engineering in Havlíčkův Brod. “We conceived the family home as two interconnected cubes, which we really liked as an idea,” the winners told Jihlavské listy. Their project was, in fact, developed to a certain extent separately. Each girl contributed her own vision, and the result is a modern and functional house that meets current energy efficiency standards.
