The right to participate in the Competition, in the capacity of the author of Competition Design, in accordance with the Article 28. of the Rulebook on the Manner and Procedure for Announcing and Conducting an Urban and Architectural Competition (Official Gazette of RS, No. 31/15), have natural persons with a university degree in architecture or landscape architecture, or legal persons appointed by such person(s) with a university degree, regardless of their territorial affiliation and their personal characteristics.
Competitors are free to include experts from other professions into their teams who would with their professional views and knowledge contribute to improvement of Competition Solutions, as well as students. Competitor may not be a person who is directly engaged in preparing and conducting the Competition or who is a relative of or directly cooperates with such person, nor it can be a person who is a member of management or is employed with the institution announcing the Competition.
Each competitor, either an individual or a group, is entitled to participate in this Competition with only one Competition Design and only within one team.
Mandatory requirements for participation in the Competition:
- Competition Design must be submitted in a timely manner and in the way specified in the Competition Announcement.
- Technical processing and formatting of the Competition Design must be made in the manner specified in the Competition Announcement and it must contain all parts specified therein.
The Competition is announced in accordance with the Rulebook on the Manner and Procedure for Announcing and Conducting an Urban and Architectural Competition (Official Gazette of RS, No. 31/15).
Each competitor who downloaded the Competition Documentation acquires the right to participate in the Competition.
By submitting Competition Design each competitor accepts Competition requirements.
Competitors are required to submit their Competition Design in electronic form, and detailed instructions for naming the documents and how to mark Competition attachments are given below.
All files are submitted in .pdf format and the Booklet textual attachments also in .doc format for more efficient publication.
Content of the Competition Design incudes:
- Booklet with textual explanation and reduced graphic attachments
- 2D Graphic attachments
- 3D Graphic Attachments
- 3D Animation
- Material for electronic exhibition
Competition Design and all attachments submitted with it must be in Serbian or English.
Within textual explanation of the Competition Design (Booklet), each competitor is requested to submit also a short textual explanation of his/her Competition Design with maximum 500 characters in English for the needs of international publication of all Competition Designs or in Serbian if the Competition Design is in English.
All competitors are required to submit following documentation within Competition Entry Package:
Booklet with textual explanation and graphic attachments
The Booklet is submitted in .pdf format, dimensions 42×29.7 cm (A3, horizontally oriented pages with illustrations in 150 PPI resolution.
The Booklet should contain:
- Description and explanation of the solution.
Explanation should be clearly structured, in accordance with the objectives of the Competition and the obligations, guidelines and recommendations provided in the Competition Brief and it must contain:
- Description and explanation of the basic idea of development of the square area with a detailed description of solution concept;
- Description of spatial & program and functional solution of the square, including description of land zoning, movement diagram, relation between non-porous (covered) and porous (greened) surfaces;
- Description of layout of the contents, functional units and created interconnections;
- Description of traffic solution (access to the square and the surrounding buildings, user movement flows, etc.);
- Description of technical systems and applied materials;
- Provisional specification of planting material;
- All graphic attachments reduced to A3 format.
Graphic attachments 2D and 3D
- Competition area in the context of immediate surrounding S=1:500
(conceptual plan – site view of basic characteristics of the planned development, relations and connections with the surrounding, movements, views, with regulation and levelling elements)
- Site plan of the square with regulation and levelling elements 1:500
- Landscaping composition plan 1:500
- Architectural & urban and landscaping solution of open public areas R=1:333 (plan of ground-level area with all landscaping characteristics)
- Characteristic sections/elevations of the square S=1:333
Characteristic details – a paving detail and a detail at the competitor’s option (paths, stairs, planters, green roof, green wall, water features, urban furniture, a detail of planting hole with horizontal plant protection, etc.) in a proper scale
- 3D views at the competitor’s option and 1 mandatory view from the direction of the street SAO 4 (Kraljice Drage Obrenović)
Graphic attachments are submitted as files in .pdf format with dimensions 100×70 cm (format B1), in resolution 300 PPI.
3D Animation
- Animation not longer than 1 minute
Material for electronic exhibition
This material should be submitted in .jpg format, a total of 5 attachments, 2000px-width-horizontally oriented in RGB system, in resolution 150 PPI. Competition Design code should be indicated on each attachment. These attachments must also be anonymous with a unique code, as defined in Chapter 8.4.
All above mentioned elements of and attachments to the Competition Entry Package, textual and graphic attachments to the said contents, represent mandatory parts of the Competition Design. Competition Designs not containing above mentioned and requested elements and attachments will not be taken into consideration.
- Other graphic attachments – at author’s option
All graphic attachments, each sheet in the Booklet and posters must be labelled with a unique code in the upper right corner of each sheet (Arial font, Bold, size 50pt for graphic attachments, or 24pt for the Booklet). The unique code must consist of two letters and five Arabic numbers, selected by the author. Sheets should be labelled in the bottom right corner using ordinal numbers. Font of the texts in the Booklet is Arial, size 11pt. Language of the Competition is Serbian (Latin) or English.
Competition Design is submitted:
- in a packed/compressed folder (electronically .zip, not larger than 100 MB), named exclusively by the selected code consisting of two letters and five Arabic numbers, (e.g.: AB12345). If the content of the Competition Design is larger than 100 MB, form another zipped folder, which must be named using ordinal number after the selected code and then zipped folders are named, e.g. AB12345_1 and AB12345_2.
Packed (“zipped”) folder(s), not larger than 100 MB, should contain:
- Booklet with textual explanation and graphic attachments, dimensions 42×29.7 cm (A3), (as defined in the previous chapter) in .pdf format,
- Graphic attachments (as defined in the previous chapter) in .pdf format,
- Material for electronic exhibition (as defined in the previous chapter) in .jpg format.
A separate packed (“zipped“) folder, not larger than 100 MB, is delivered separately with the designation of the selected code with addition of the word ”animation” (e.g. “AB12345_animation”) and it should contain:
- 3D animation in duration not longer than 1 minute
Competitor submits Competition Design electronically to the link.
The final deadline for submission of Competition Designs is 06.08.2026. until 23:59 (GMT +1), as the moment when submission of documentation to the server (upload) is finished.
Any Competition Design not received by the Announcer within the deadline for submission of Competition Designs, i.e. received after expiration of the date and hour determined for submission of Competition Designs, will be deemed untimely and will not be taken into consideration. Each competitor is allowed to submit only one Competition Design without any variant solutions. Upon expiry of the deadline for submission of Competition Designs, competitors may neither withdraw nor change their Competition Designs.
Technical processing and formatting of the Competition Entry Package according to the specified description and requirements and dimension is a mandatory content of Competition Design. Competition Designs not containing above mentioned and requested elements and attachments will not be taken into consideration.
In addition to electronic submission of Competition Design, competitor is required to send by mail:
- sealed non-transparent envelope bearing the mark “AUTHOR” which is on its back side marked with the selected Competition Design code consisting of two letters and five Arabic numbers, font Arial, Bold, 24pt.
- sealed non-transparent envelope bearing the mark “CONTACT” which is on its back side marked with the selected Competition Design code consisting of two letters and five Arabic numbers, font Arial, Bold, 24pt.
Both envelopes are sent to the address: Urbanistički zavod Beograda JUP (za konkurs), Bulevar despota Stefana 56, 11 000 Belgrade, Republic of Serbia. The name of the author may not be written on the envelope, so as not to violate his/her anonymity.
The “AUTHOR” envelope should contain:
- Textual document in A4 format containing:
- Used selected code of two letter and five Arabic numbers;
- Name(s) of the author(s) with signature(s);
- Statement of acceptance of Competition requirements with reference to the website on which Competition requirements are published;
- Name and surname of the person authorized for representation (may or need not be one of the authors). If the author of the Competition Design is a legal entity, full name of legal entity with the name, surname and signature of legal representative will be specified in the author’s envelope;
- E-mail address for notification of Jury’s decision;
- Statement in which the author or team of authors declares whether he(it) wants his (its) Competition Design to be displayed in the public exhibition under the code (anonymously) or under the name of its author(s);
- Statement in which the author or team of authors declares about the method of distribution of the award in percentages, with payment data and instructions for all named persons. Payment data and instructions for payment of the award to foreign competitors should contain: address of author-legal entity, full name and address of the bank, IBAN and SWIFT. Foreign competitor should also submit the tax residency certificate valid on the day of compensation payment, i.e. for the current year;
- Copy of identity card or passport for natural persons;
- Certificate proving that natural persons have social insurance on another basis (e.g. from employment).
- One printed poster for electronic exhibition reduced to the dimension 29.7x21cm (A4), horizontally oriented (any of 5 posters for the electronic exhibition, reduced to A4)
The “CONTACT” envelope should contain:
- the textual document in A4 format which contains the address and contact phone of the author.
Final deadline for sending the envelope is 06.08.2026. until 23:59 hours (GMT +1).
Ensuring anonymity when sending the “AUTHOR” envelope by mail is possible to achieve by:
- sending by ordinary mail without return receipt with the appropriate postage stamps (depending on the country of the sender);
- opening a mailbox for receiving the return receipt;
- sending via express mail service (DHL, Fed Ex,…) with a note that sending is anonymous (“AUTHOR” envelope inside the envelope for sending, on which there is no indication of AUTHOR code).
