Hlubuček (STAN): We are proud of another successful revitalization of the landscape in Prague
Four projects from Prague are heading to the finals of the prestigious Adapterra Awards competitions
The finalists of the Adapterra Awards compete for the votes of the public for the best adaptation measures in the face of climate change.
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From eighteen inspiring projects, people can choose until Friday, October 15, 2021, when the Sympathy Award poll ends. Four projects made it one of the best Czech ideas: the Lítožnice Landscape Park, eco-friendly agriculture in Prague 12, the green Mosaic House Design Hotel and the new Pavilion of Tropical Agriculture of the Czech University of Life Sciences.
In the competition organized by the Partnership Foundation, the public can choose from a total of eighteen finalists and vote for them on the website www.adapterraawards.cz, and until October 15, 2021. The winner of the public vote and the most successful finalists selected by the expert jury will excursions. In addition, the winners of the selected experts will receive a financial award, specifically in the Free Landscape category it will be 100,000 crowns from the main partner of the Nestlé Czech competition.
We will also receive a special award for the best project implemented in the capital city of Prague. The results will be announced by representatives of the Partnership Foundation on November 4, 2021 as part of a professional conference on adaptation measures in the city, which will take place in the HubHub center in Prague at the Ara Palace.
The Lítožnice landscape park, which is located between Prague’s Běchovice and Dubčí, has become unrecognizable in recent years under the care of the capital city of Prague. Instead of the upright Říčany riverbed, a naturally meandering shallow stream with waterlogged meadows and a number of ponds was restored. Instead of three fish ponds in a state of disrepair, there is one large 10-hectare Lítožnický pond with extensive fish farming, islands and extensive coastal wetlands. The suburban landscape has thus been given a new popular dimension, which combines measures against such and flood protection as well as recreational potential with the support of biodiversity.
“The projects in this competition are entirely in the spirit of our climate commitment, specifically its section on adaptation measures to climate change. We are proud of another successful revitalization of the landscape in Prague. This project is a strong synergy between the capital as an investor and a design office. During the demanding design, there was a common and positive improvement of ideas, which led to the ideal goal. The project thus perfectly fulfilled the potential of the area of interest with many societal functions, “says Petr Hlubuček, Deputy Mayor for the Environment.
The city district of Prague 12, in turn, bet on environmentally friendly agriculture on its land. The conventional way of farming a large agricultural cooperative has been replaced by community permaculture orchards, biocorridors, meadows and alleys along the roads. Some plots of land were leased by the city district to new farmers with the condition of careful management of the landscape, others are taken care of by the citizens themselves with the participation of citizens. Prague 12 thus followed the example of the capital city of Prague, which introduced the condition of ecological management for tenants on its land and the division of large blocks of land into smaller ones in 2020.
The Mosaic House Design Hotel opened in an older functionalist building in 2010 as the first Czech green hotel ever. It boasts the use of gray waters, including heat recovery, and the use of renewable energy sources. Thanks to modern measures, you will save around 93 thousand crowns a year on water consumption, and you will save approximately half a million crowns on gas consumption per year.
The campus of the Czech University of Agriculture in Prague has again expanded with the new Pavilion of Tropical Agriculture. The project was created with regard to environmental challenges so that the operation of buildings will be sustainable in the future in terms of costs and the impact of human activities on nature. The faculty used heat pumps for heating, rainwater retention tanks, photovoltaic panels or a green roof, but also worked with, for example, refraction of sunlight so that the building did not overheat.
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author: PV