Lifeguard towers competion - Velipoja winning project

The National Agency for the Coastline, aiming to promote public safety and health, and also the identity and culture of the coastline areas, organized the competition among the universities of architecture for the design of the lifeguard towers along the Albanian seaside. This competition aims to integrate as tutors the staff of the departments of planning and architecture in all the universities in Albania in order to engage and develop the young talented students during the construction of this seaside elements in the Albanian territory. In the framework of the student competition, three groups of students from different universities, led by their own tutors, participated in the design of several lifeguard towers along the Velipoja coast. The winning group was comprised of the following students from POLIS University: Arnold Pulaj, Anduena Dragovi, Durim Hoti, Koli Bakiu and Shkëlqim Hoti. The competition required that the proposal made by the students touched and explored all the design phases thus offering a full project proposal as specified by the Blue Flag standards and ready for implementation. The aim of this article was to describe the idea of the winning project with explicative drawings and a short text report.