The association BauKultur Steiermark honours the new winners of the GerambRose in an exhibition whose aims are primarily educational. The GerambRose, a kind of "thank-you for good building", is awarded every two years and is always devoted to one of three alternating themes. In 2010 the theme was "public spaces", in 2013 "community spaces", by which is meant spaces that have to do with work, education, culture or social matters. In 2014 it will be the turn of "private spaces". The association BauKultur, which organises the award, uses the intervening period to introduce the winning projects to a wider public by means of a travelling exhibition.This is in accordance with one of the association's guiding principles, as regional conservation societies have always focussed less on dealing with intellectual problem areas and more on adult education and consultation about building projects. The fact that the exhibition venues always relate to the thematic area addressed in the particular competition could prove somewhat tricky in 2014. This year the communal spaces were ideal in terms of achieving the intended didactic effect. Four of a total of nine prizewinningrnprojects are schools, hence it is hardly surprising that most of the venues for the travelling exhibition were Styrian school buildings. The issue is not just to provide a temporary home for the posters and exhibits that are presented on stands made of corrugated board. Projects for school children are organized parallel and the results of these are integrated in the travelling exhibition. "Through this collaboration with schools something is added at each stop made by the exhibition. This is a good thing in itself and also hasrnthe 'educational' effect that the participating school classes get very involved in the theme", explains Guenter Koberg, manager of the association BauKultur. For instance pupils of the secondary school in Hartberg provided a number of the models exhibited. They made a careful replica of the primary school in Moenichwald (dreiplus Architekten) and of the Zehnerhaus in Bad Radkersburg (Gangoly & Kristiner Architekten) and plausibly presented the way the buildings engage their surroundings which, alongside social aspects, is an important criterion for the jury. And theyrnran a photo project that produced spontaneous insights into the prize-winning primary school in Moenichwald or a poetically coloured view of the addition to and remodeling of Schloss Hartberg (Eiden-boeck Architekten). Visitors can take the photos with them in the form of postcards. The exhibition's educational aims can be read from the way the projects are presented or from the pithy formulations, intended as food for thought, on the posters and the little cards. "Swimming pool as a machine"rnis the heading for the highly permeable sport- and wellness baths in Graz/Eggen-berg (fasch&fuchs. Architekten), while the kindergarten in St. Johann-Koeppling (reit-mayr architekten), with its externally archetypical form, stands for "village development in a heterogeneous neighbourhood". This should not necessarily be taken to mean that BauKultur is a staunch advocate of the pitched roof used in this project.
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