Q&A
Important notice for all participants:
The deadline for submitting competition designs has been moved to September 4, 2022. until 23:59 (GMT +1).
The results of the Competition shall be published by 15.09.2022 until 23:59 (GMT +1).
QUESTION 1
Which buildings should be demolished, and which should be retained?
REPLY:
All existing facilities within the competition scope within the space intended for the sub-units Archaeological Site, Visitor Center and Neolithic Research Center are planned for removal, except for the existing old school building within the Neolithic Research Center sub-unit, for which the competition solution can anticipate reconstruction i.e. the implementation of the existing physical structure into the newly formed structure of the Scientific Research Center.
All existing facilities within the area intended for the Danube coastal sub-unit - bank fortification, promenade and pier, both on the water and in the coastal zone, are also planned for removal, except for the existing pontoon and access bridge that connects the pontoon with the coast, which comprise the infrastructure of the planned pier for smaller tourist boats and excursion boats.
There are no existing built structures within the space intended for the sub-unit Archeo Park and the main parking complex.
All of the above is given in the Competition Program within the Chapter 7. AREA CHARACTERISTICS – COMPETITION SCOPE and 8. TERMS OF REFERENCE.
QUESTION 2
Are the existing, mostly individual residential buildings on the site being retained or demolished?
REPLY:
The reply is given in the reply to QUESTION 1.
QUESTION 3
Should participants retain the existing residential buildings or should all residential buildings in protection zones (I and II) be removed?
REPLY:
The reply is given in the reply to QUESTION 1.
QUESTION 4
Can you upload Auto CAD files for download in a lower version, since the currently stored files are the most recent version 2021. To most participants are unable to access the documentation, and thus are unable to participate. I kindly ask for understanding and uploading the Auto CAD files version 2015. Thank you.
REPLY:
Documentation - dwg attachments in the "AutoCad 2013" version are posted on the competition website in the DOWNLOAD section.
QUESTION 5
Can you accurately define the positions of facilities that can be removed or were been built illegally?
REPLY:
The reply is given in the reply to QUESTION 1.
QUESTION 6
In addition to the scientific research center and the visitor center, is it necessary to plan additional restaurant facilities. If required, you can indicate the capacity and position, or we can suggest it ourselves. Thank you.
REPLY:
All required program contents within each of the subunits, including restaurant contents, are defined by the competition task, within Chapter 8. TERMS OF REFERENCE, with the possibility that within certain subunits, primarily the Archaeological Park with the main parking lot and the Danube coastal, which include multifunctional / transformable elements, some of them may be designed in a way that can support the needs of restaurant facilities, in accordance with all the criteria defined by the competition task.
QUESTION 7
Can you submit a leveling plan?
REPLY:
The leveling of the entire competition scope of the Belo Brdo Archaeological Park is the subject of the competition solution, and in accordance with the criteria and restrictions given in the competition task - leveling of existing and planned roads (to the extent in which the leveling is given within the competition basis), criteria for the protection of the archaeological site from floods, as well as the existing morphology of the terrain and built structures in the zones along the competition scope.
QUESTION 8
Would you consider extending the deadline for submitting designs to September 1, 2022?
Thank you!
REPLY:
The deadline for submitting competition designs has been moved to September 4, 2022. until 23:59 (GMT +1).
The results of the competition shall be published by 15.09.2022 until 23:59 (GMT +1).
QUESTION 9
The file you posted for download in the cad cannot be opened again because it is the latest version of the Auto Cad that most do not have. And the other is an empty file.
REPLY:
Documentation - dwg attachments in the "AutoCad 2013" version are posted on the competition website in the DOWNLOAD section.
QUESTION 10
Within the existing archeological site and the future Belo Brdo Archeological Park there are facilities for documentation, for curators, various research laboratories, kitchen... etc. Are these facilities to be removed and grouped within the newly designed research center or should they be retained; i.e. should we keep the original ones?
REPLY:
All existing facilities within the competition scope, intended for the sub-units Archaeological Site, are planned for removal.
The above can also be find in the Competition Programme within Chapter 7. AREA CHARACTERISTICS – COMPETITION SCOPE and 8. TERMS OF REFERENCE.
QUESTION 11
As a team of international Architects from Italy, Germany and Hungary, we ask you kindly to consider that the deadline for submission of proposal design falls in the month of collective annual leave (August, 08). Therefore, can you please approve the postponement of the submission date to the beginning of September. Thank you very much in advance.
REPLY:
The deadline for submitting competition designs has been moved to September 4, 2022. until 23:59 (GMT +1).
The results of the competition shall be published by 15.09.2022 until 23:59 (GMT +1).
QUESTION 12
In a photo gallery there is no even one drone photos with complete site from the air...could you provide it as additional photos
REPLY:
The complete photo documentation provided for the purposes of the competition is available on the website. Additional photos cannot be obtained.
QUESTION 13
Program that you have upload as pdf is non readable because of the poor quality if the Fig.- images inside, could you upload a new one with better images
REPLY:
The Competition Programme, PDF, has been replaced and uploaded, with a better resolution.
QUESTION 14
The Acheo Park zone missing topographic data – isohypse.
REPLY:
The Party Ordering the Competition does not dispose of specific data related to topographic data – isohypse.
QUESTION 15
Dear Sirs, streets in the close vicinity of competition area are of irregular boundaries and widths, without sidewalks, probably because it is unplanned construction. Is it allowed to propose widening of some of the streets in order to enable better flow to location, taking into account that amendments of Special Purpose Area Spatial Plan are in the procedure for this area (related to traffic routes)?
REPLY:
Dear Sir/Madam, in the Competition Documentation Attachment 03 - BASEMAP FOR PLANS FOR ALL ANTICIPATED SCALES within part II GRAPHICAL DIGITAL BASEMAPS AND TABLES of roads (streets) in the environment of the competition scope are given according to Special Purpose Area Spatial Plan (not according to the existing state) and they are all planned in a profile width of 9.0 up to 11.5m with sidewalks on both sides. The possibility of proposals for expansion and improvement (in terms of content) of the planned traffic profiles in the context of the tender scope is not excluded. It is necessary that any proposals be rational, in accordance with the anticipated capacities and expected dynamics of traffic movements, and adequately argued.
QUESTION 16
Dear Sirs, are all the determinations from the basemap 03 - RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPETITION AREA binding for the competition solution? For example, a bicycle lane along the left bank of Bolečica, an embankment along Bolečica is drawn, which should be part of the competition solution... Thank you!
REPLY:
Dear Sir or Madam, regarding the route of the bicycle lane within the attachment 03 - RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMPETITION AREA, in the legend, for the bicycle lane it is stated - BICYCLE LANE (ROUTE NOT OBLIGATORY), which, we believe, is clear enough. All restrictions regarding flood control, safety and technological needs, as well as restrictions regarding the protection of the archaeological site, are certainly binding.
QUESTION 17
Is it considered regular to send an envelope with the AUTHOR data on 04/09 as well, or the mail has to arrive before 04/09?
REPLY:
Yes, the final deadline for sending the envelope is 04/09/2022.
QUESTION 18
At the Program text there is a sentence about bicycle path along the river Bolecica but at the graphic teher is a notice that it is communal road. Is that a bicycle path or not?
REPLY:
Yes, it is currently a communal road, but a bycicle path is planned to be constructed alongside the Bolecica river. The participants might propose only the bycicle path to be built on the river bank or both - the bycicle path and the communal road.
QUESTION 19
Dear Sirs / Madam, We will upload our material on 4.09. but it is impossible to send paper material at sunday 4.09.2022. Could you accept it if we we send it at least on monday 5.09.2022 until 12AM ?
REPLY:
Dear Sir or Madam, the reply is given in the reply to QUESTION 17. The author’s envelope - Contents of the competitors’ statement, is to be sent to the following address: Union of Architects of Serbia, Kneza Miloša 7/III, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia and the deadline for sending the envelope is September 4, 2022. until 23:59 (GMT +1). Exceptionally, if you are sending an envelope from a country where postal services are not available on the weekend, we allow you to send the envelope as you suggested.
QUESTIONREPLY:
Dear Sir/Madam, we will accept envelopes on 05.09.