GOAL OF COMPETITION:
Combined with the reconstruction after Wenchuan earthquake in Sichuan Province, the competition with a theme of “Sunshine and Hope” is facing the whole world to collect design scheme of rural “Sunshine primary school” and some of awarded submissions will be put into construction in disaster area.
Taking the competition as a platform let’s open out technology of solar building, promulgate the concept of sustainable operation, express our love and responsibility to the children in disaster area and make their life and studying filled with gladness, hope and genial sunshine.
THEMES OF COMPETITION:
1. Rural Sunshine Primary School in Ma Er Kang area;
2. Rural Sunshine Primary School in Mian Yang area.
ORGANIZER:
International Solar Energy Society
Chinese Renewable Energy Society
PARTICIPATION REQUIREMENTS:
2009 Competition Brief .PDf | Website http://www.isbdc.cn
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Création Baumann to award prizes for innovative projects using GECKO
In several years of research and development work, Création Baumann developed a silicon-coated self-adhesive textile that can be attached directly to glass and removed again without leaving any residues: GECKO - a world novelty ensuring privacy and glare protection and an effective room design tool.
Within the scope of this competition, projects involving the exemplary and innovative use of GECKO are to be submitted to Création Baumann for appraisal. On the one hand, we are interested in solutions focusing on the functional aspects of the product; on the other, we are interested in projects based on a particularly creative use of the product. Architects, planers, civil engineers, and interior architects with corresponding degrees in architecture, interior architecture, civil engineering, or urban planning are all eligible for participation.
The total prize money amounts to EURO 22,500.00. The best projects in the three categories Functionality, Innovation, and Aesthetics, will be chosen and granted awards. An expert panel of five jurors will assess the projects to be submitted to Création Baumann by March 31, 2009. The festive award ceremony will be held in the early summer of 2009.
The following are entitled to enter the “GECKO: Think Forward” competition: architects, planners, civil engineers and interior architects with a degree in architecture, interior architecture, civil engineering or urban planning.
All documentation must be submitted to Création Baumann by 31 March 2009 at the latest.
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Enter the 2009 Open Architecture Challenge.
In the United States alone more than 6 million students spend much of their day in “portable” classrooms. Anyone who has spent time in one of these classrooms knows that we can do better.
In 2003, the Modular Building Institute estimated that more than 220,000 K-12 portable classrooms were in use by public school systems. Because school systems cannot readily access capital funding, temporary and makeshift classrooms have become an unintended fixture of many educational campuses.
In Florida alone, 75 percent of a school’s portables are now counted as permanent classroom space.
The Competition:
Each year Architecture for Humanity’s Open Architecture Challenge design competition brings public attention to inequities in the built environment affecting the health, prosperity and well being of under-served communities. In 2009 the Open Architecture Challenge will focus on the issue of portable classrooms.
The Open Architecture Challenge will tackle the health, environmental and performance concerns associated with today’s portable schools. New classroom design solutions will be implemented across the nation. Students and teachers understand best what makes a learning space work. The 2009 Open Architecture Challenge will invite them to partner with architects in their community to design better, greener classrooms for their schools.
Entrants will be required to develop a design for an existing student body and demonstrate student participation throughout the design process. The competition will be promoted throughout the global design community and timed to coincide with the academic calendar to encourage student involvement. A curriculum package will be developed in tandem with the competition. The curriculum will be distributed by mail and delivered digitally to schools across the country through partnerships with educational organizations. An inter-disciplinary team of architects, educators and others will jury the entries. The winning design will be built with funds raised as a result of the competition.
All of the designs entered into the competition will be displayed in classrooms across the country, and made available for download on the Open Architecture Network. By sharing the designs-including CAD files-freely, we aim to give school systems access to hundreds of sustainable alternatives to portable classrooms and to impact decision-making where it matters most-at the local level.
Goals:
The 2009 Open Architecture Challenge aims to use architecture and design as a vehicle for strengthening communities by:
Offering innovative and viable alternatives to traditional portable classrooms, introducing K-12 students to architecture, spatial planning and 3D modeling, teaching students, faculty and parents about how buildings impact the environment, and advocating for greener, healthier, more conducive learning environments.
Teachers and Students know what makes a classroom work. Lets let them design the classroom of the future.
Competition Schedule:
1. Program Development and Needs Assessment (complete)
2. Identify Project Partners (on-going)
3. Finalize Competition Brief and Companion Curriculum January 15, 2009
4. Competition Launch January 20, 2009
5. Educational/Design Outreach January – April
6. Early Registration March 31, 2009
7. Submission Deadline May 15, 2009
8. Competition Jury June 1-7, 2009
9. Announcement of winners June 15, 2009
http://www.openarchitecturenetwork.org/challenge2009
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The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design, together with Metropolitan Arts Press, have organized The American Architecture Awards as away in which to honor the best, new significant buildings and landscape and planning projects designed and/or built in the United States and abroad by the most important architects and planners practicing nationally and internationally.
The American Architecture Awards gives an important overview of the current aesthetic direction of today’s commercial, corporate, institutional, and residential work in the United States to the real estate, banking, business, and corporate community, as well as to the press and general public.
The program is one of the Museum’s most important public education outreach initiatives produced throughout the year—to both the Museum’s U.S. and international audience.
The American Architecture Awards are dedicated to the recognition of excellence in architecture and urbanism in the United States.
The program pays tribute to new developments in design and underscores the directions and understanding of current cutting-edge processes consistent with today’s design thinking.
This year’s program honors new (2006-2007) corporate, institutional, commercial, residential architecture, interiors, and urban planning, designed for both built and unbuilt projects alike.
ELIGIBILITY
All submissions must be the work of American architects and architectural firms either working nationally or internationally for projects both in the U.S. and abroad.
International architecture firms headquartered outside the United States are eligible to enter projects built, or to be built, in the U.S. only.
CRITERIA
Criteria for submissions includes any commercial, corporate, institutional, or residential building type or urban planning project, built or unbuilt in the U.S., designed since January 1, 2007.
Unbuilt projects are eligible only when a client is named.
Building types and categories are: corporate headquarters and office facilities, retail, hospitality, institutional, health care, government, transportation, educational, and residential and interiors of any kind, including renovations and restorations, and urban planning projects. Previously awarded buildings by the Museum are not eligible.
JURY FOR AWARDS
A jury of recognized design practitioners, business professionals, educators, and critics will review the submissions and select winning projects for awards. Usually the jury takes place abroad.
Previous juries have been held under the auspicious of the following professional associations: The Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland; The National Association of Finnish Architects; The Lithuanian Society of Architects; and The Norske Arkitekters Landsforbund; and The National Council of Spanish Architects. Each Submission is Juried Anonymously.
RESULTS
Selected and awarded recipients will be required to prepare either framed drawings or photographic panels and models for exhibition.
The Museum will exhibit the awarded projects in an exhibition format and publish the selected winners either on the Museum’s website or in a catalogue by Metropolitan Arts Press or both.
Previous exhibitions have taken place in Thessaloniki, Greece; Milan, Italy; Dublin, Ireland; and Chicago, New York, and Los Angeles.
Architects, associate architects, clients, developers, landscape architects, planners, contractors, and structural engineers are cited for their individual contributions.
APPLICATION: DEADLINE FEBRUARY 1, 2009
On-line application click here
Mailed in submissions must include the folllowing on one CD: Copy of the on-line application form; fee; and one-page description in MicroSoft; three (3) to five (5) photographs, site plans, floor plans, sections, and elevations. All images must be 300 dpi in .jpeg/ .jpg format and no larger than 4-6 MB. Attach list of additional consultants. Application fee is $300 per project. Checks made payable to Metropolitan Arts Press. Call/email for information regarding electronic transfer.
Submit to: The Chicago Athenaeum 601 South Prospect Street, Galena, Illinois 61036 Tel: +815/777-4444 FAX: +815/777-2471. Email: .
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If you have a passion for creative and innovative design, here’s an opportunity to work with one of the most creative organizations in family entertainment. Created and sponsored by Walt Disney Imagineering, the ImagiNations Design Competition offers opportunities for diverse students to showcase their talents. You can win a 10-day all-expense-paid trip to present your project to a panel of Walt Disney Imagineering executives and have the opportunity to compete for the “Best in Show” awards. This incredible opportunity will provide participants with insight into Disney’s creative process, and learn what it takes to succeed in an innovative organization. Additionally, all qualified applicants will be considered for Internship opportunities with Walt Disney Imagineering.
Imagineers are challenged to build on the Disney legacy of great storytelling to pioneer new forms of entertainment through technical innovation and creativity. The ImagiNations competition encourages you to do the same! Past winners of the competition have gone on to serve internships at Imagineering and some have become full-time Imagineers.
http://disney.go.com/disneycareers/imaginations/index.html
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The annual Skyscraper Competition organized by eVolo has become an important architectural prize with high media attention.
The 2008 edition was published by more than ten architecture and design magazines and by several news, fashion, and art publications.
The eVolo Book with the best projects of the first three years has received excellent reviews and has been included in the catalog for the Book Expo America, Frankfurt Book Fair, and Beijing Book Fair.
For the 2009 edition eVolo invites architects, engineers, and designers to continue exploring on new ideas and concepts for vertical density.
Skyscrapers have been springing up in fast-developing countries without careful consideration of the urban fabric, environmental effects, and quality of life.
The 2009 competition calls for innovative designs for the XXI Century which takes into consideration the historical and social context, the existing urban fabric, the human scale, and the environment.
There is no restriction on site, height or shape.
The idea is to give the designers enough freedom to address the challenge in the most creative and innovative way.
Designs must be technologically feasible and environmentally responsible.
The projects should also investigate on the urban and private space as well as the definition of new programmes for a vertical structure.
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A preselection jury of internationally renowned experts will select a “shortlist” (consisting of 300 entries) from the total pool of entries. Last year, more than 2,100 entries were received for the iF concept award, submitted by 1,350 contestants from 37 different nations. Respected specialists will then choose the “Best 100”, the award winners of the iF concept award, during the final Adjudication publicly on the first day of the CeBIT show (03.03.2009) in Hannover, Germany. They will also establish, who of the winners will be awarded a share of the prize purse. This will be announced during the awards ceremony only days later (07.03.2009). In the evening all participants of the ceremony will celebrate in the iF lounge.
The exhibition of the iF concept award 2009 during the CeBIT show is not only for winners. Newcomers will have the option to promote themselves through their work and the public will be able to experience and discover the newcomers and the iF concept award in all its shades. Seeing that, all exactable entries will be shown in a special exhibition during the CeBIT.
We look forward to many extraordinary entries and new trends. Good luck in the iF concept award 2009.
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For the first time all Entries will be evaluated by a representative cross-section of the population consisting of 100 test persons. The survey will be conducted using an evaluation questionnaire developed by ud GmbH with emphasis on the criteria of universal design.
A point system will be used to determine the winners of a “universal design consumer favorite 09” award. An approval rating of at least 75% is necessary.
Participation
The following groups are eligible to compete for a universal design award 09:
Registration of competition entries: Final deadline: December 15, 2008
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The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design in conjunction with Metropolitan Arts Press and the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design, and Urban Studies, invite entries for The International Architecture Awards®— an Exhibition and Distinguished Building Awards Program for the Best New World Architecture for 2009.
The International Architecture Awards® gives an important overview of the current direction of today’s global commercial, corporate, institutional, and residential work to the real estate, banking, business, and corporate community, as well as to the international press and general public.
The International Architecture Awards® Exhibition and Distinguished Awards Program is dedicated to the recognition of Design Excellence in architecture produced around the world. The emphasis is on design innovation, engineering, use of new materials, and a sensitivity to the environment. We look forward to honoring the broad range of quality projects submitted this year.
ELIGIBILITY
All submissions must be the work of architects and architectural firms either working nationally or internationally for both projects in their own countries or abroad.
CRITERIA
The criteria for submissions includes any commercial, corporate, institutional, or residential interior, built or unbuilt, and designed, completed, or under construction as of January 1, 2005 to 2008.
Unbuilt projects are eligible only when a client is named. Building types and categories are: skyscrapers; corporate headquarters and office facilities; single and multi-family housing; retail, hospitality, institutional, health care, governmental, transportation, educational, and residential projects; as well as, interiors of any kind; including renovations and restoration; and urban planning projects. Buildings already awarded with “The International Architecture Award” are not eligible.
JURIED EXHIBITION/AWARDS
A jury of recognized business professionals, educators, and critics will review the submissions and select winning projects for Awards and for Exhibition. In Spring 2009, a public announcement of the Awards will be made officially to the press and to the public.
In addition to the Distinguished Building Awards, the Museum will mount an exhibition to honor the projects selected for their Design Excellence. Selected recipients will be required to prepare framed originals and models for the Exhibition. Architects, clients, developers, contractors, and structural engineers will be cited for their individual contributions.
DEADLINE
The deadline for submissions is December 1, 2008.
Apply on line at http://www.chi-athenaeum.org.
Mailed submission requirements include the following:
the enclosed application form fully completed; fee; and one-page description (letter-format). On CD-ROM, four (4) to eight (8) photographs, site plans, floor plans, sections, and elevations.
All images must be 300 dpi in JPEG and TIFF formats and no larger than 4-6 MB. Include a copy of the project description in MicroSoft Word.
Send these materials to: The European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies. 28 Butlers Court, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland. TEL/FAX: +353/(0)1 6708781.
EMAIL: .
For information contact: The Chicago Athenaeum. TEL: +1/815-777-4444. FAX: +1/815-777-2471.
EMAIL:
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Four Square House Design Problem: Homage to John Hejduk
John Hejduk introduced us to the Nine Square Grid design problem and we, his audience, enjoyed and learned from his variations on the theme. I would like to make this proposal honouring his memory.
I will call it the Four Square House design problem. In a hypothetical Garden City grid of 36m by 36m, the assignment is to design four houses in any configuration, having as its only restriction that they should not exceed 162m2 and that each possess a garage and garden, “technique and nature” combined in the given 9m2 outlines. This requires a consideration of issues such as orientation, contiguity, privacy, construction, spatial structure: a series of issues that ultimately engage the neglected notion of typology . Obviously the extension of the single block to a larger area should be taken into account and in addition a certain hint about the materiality and the character of the ideal Garden City that comes as a result of the appearance of this new type.
Application and Entry
Contents
Site Plan, floor plan,elevation, section, perspective drawings and axonometric drawings in any scale. Photographs of models may be used. You are free to append detailed drawings and other charts or descriptive texts should be in English.
Submission Guideline
* Complete all drawings, illustrative materials, and texts on two sheets of A1 size (594mm×841mm). Do not use a panel.
* As well as the two A1 sheet papers, the entrant is requested to submit digital data of the two separate sheets. (PDF or JPEG format ×2—2,500pixel×3,000pixel, 72dpi)Digital data are to be compiled and burned onto CD-R or DVD-R.
* Also, all texts appeared in the two A1 sheets should be attached as text files with the digital data.
Identification
Entrants must fill in the following information for entry.
* your name
* occupation name
* age
* address (home and office)
* telephone and facsimile number
* e-mail address
Above information must be;
attached to the back of your two sheets of paper.
compiles as a text file and burned onto the CD-R or DVD-R written down on the cover of your CD-R or DVD-R
Deadline
All entries must reach the competition office no later than November 28th(Friday), 2008.
Announcement of Winner
Winners will be announced in the 2009 March issue of “SHINKENCHIKU” and vol. 73 issue (2009 Spring) of “THE JAPAN ARCHITECT”.
Prize
The prize (total: 1,500,000 yen) will be distributed at the discretion of the Judge.
Notice
No registration is necessary for entry in this competition.
Entries must never have been made public in any form previously. Nor can they be submitted simultaneously to any other competition.
The hosts reserve publication rights with regard to all entries.
Questions will not be answered by the hosts. All matters not covered in the regulations listed above are left to the discretion of the entrants.
The work must not (in total or in part) infringe on a copyright. Do not use images copied from magazines, books or websites. If a copyright infringement is discovered in the winning entry, the award may be taken back at the hosts’ discretion.
No entries will be returned.
Entries will only be accepted if they adhere to all the rules appropriately.
All necessary costs for submission (airmail charge, air courier charge, tax, insurance, etc.) must be fully paid by entrants.
Mail entries to the following address:
attn.: Entries Committee, Shinkenchiku Residential Competition 2008
Shinkenchiku-sha, Co., Ltd.
2-31-2, Yushima, Bunkyo-ku,
Tokyo 113-8501, Japan
Hosts
Shinkenchiku-sha Co., Ltd
tel. +81.3.3811.7101
fax.+81.3.3812.8229
URL http://www.japan-architect.co.jp/
Yoshioka Foundation
http://www.japan-architect.co.jp/english/1all/top_frame.html
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Socio Design is a foundation that strives to encourage social change through design-based dialog, a dialog fostered by an annual international student architecture competition.
Prisoned, this year’s competition, scrutinizes the role of prison architecture in today’s world. What effect do their designs have on their employees, their occupants, their adjacent societies?
Prisoned asks that all students design a philosophy on what imprisonment is or should be, and create an architectural design to express that philosophy. Students from all backgrounds are welcome to participate.
http://www.sociodesignfoundation.org/
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A – SITE AND CONTEXT
The Municipality of Faro enjoys a privileged relation with ‘Ria Formosa’ – a local river branch.
The ‘ Ria Formosa’ increases Faro’s potential but also brings a large complexity of environment, landscape and touristic relations.
Almost one third of the Municipality of Faro is the natural park of ‘Ria Formosa’ – the river branch constitutes swamps, canals and barrier islands.
The beach of Faro, located in the ‘Ancão Península’ is the south limit of the lagoon system of the natural park of ‘Ria Formosa’.
There are several reports of previous settlements of fisherman and tuna facilities but the most intense of this area began after 1975 – since then, that area has been a summer destination, an area for the construction of popular summer houses.
The original plan for built-up of the Faro’s Island is, today, unsuited and enable to meet the natural, environmental and landscape values.
During the summer period is quite obvious that Faro’s Island infrastructures are no longer suitable and is highly urgent the recover and renewal of this area.
A qualified touristic offer is one of the vectors of the competition.
The understanding of the importance of the renewal of this area is reinforced by a protocol established by several government departments, Secretariats of State, Municipality Association of the Algarve and the Municipality of Faro.
B – CHALLENGES OF THE COMPETITION
“ Faro’s Island – an open international design competition of urban planning” - is an open design competition for renewal Faro’s Island.
The design proposals must establish a whole definition of the intentions for the area as well as establish the design environments proposed.
After the results of the international competition there will be further plans to develop by local authorities. These future plans, to develop in a short and medium term, set a fundamental strategy for this first plan: the development goals are to be done in several stages/ by sectors in a way that it will be possible to make a plan and to progressively to fulfil it.
It is supposed to be an integrated progress of the intervention, in space and time.
The solution must give a special care to the accessibilities (on foot, by bicycle, by private cars, by public transport) and must reinforce the natural connection between the built facilities/construction and the beach.
In short, the competition intends to:
-establish an outline-proposal of interventions of urban renewal landscape integration and sustainable resources;
-set-up the guideline for future detailed plans;
-develop a qualified touristic offer;
-connect with the existing fishing facilities and its renewal;
-renew the site area by recovering the necessary construction;
-restructure the sea front attending the vulnerability of the dune system;
-maintain the fisherman communities site, even dough, they’re renewed;
-create conditioned parking areas for private vehicles and commercial suppliers;
-creation of a parking area in the north urban perimeter, near the airport – the number of parking spaces must be compatible with the average number suitable for the local area;
-promote alternative access(es) to the area through public transport (bus, ferries) and bicycles;
-restructure the access to the Faro Island but observing the circulation of the river branch water;
-promote sea sports and the set-up of facilities suitable for the beach and the urban construction (the renewal of existing structures is considered a plus);
-define the zoning of the area considered as touristic equipment and provide them special connection with the rest of existing structures as well as the one’s that will be proposed;
-rethink the access and the traffic ways;
-consider alternatives of rehousing in case of demolition of existing structures;
-give special care to endogenous vegetation.
C – SUBMISSION REQUIERMENTS
The following elements must be included:
C1 - Identification must be submitted in a sealed, non-transparent envelope, with only the title ‘DOCUMENTOS’ on the envelope:
• Identification form;
• Certification of approved university / college education;
• 1 CD/DVD containing:
- one powerpoint file with no more than 35 slides;
- one PDF file of the 4 presentation boards.
C2 - BOX with only the title ‘PROJECTO’
Written elements:
• approach to the preliminary briefing paper;
• description of the concepts and solutions of the submission proposal.
Graphic elements:
• plans at scale 1:5000 or a larger scale;
• Perspective sketches, 3D-sketches or photomontages.
C3 - 4 (four) A1 horizontal presentation boards, numbered (1-4 ;2-4 ; 3-4 ; 4-4), used single sided;
[ C1+C2+C3 ] must be packed in a non-transparent paper and identified with the full name of the competition:
‘CONCURSO PÚBLICO DE IDEIAS PARA A REQUALIFICAÇÃO E ORDENAMENTO DA FRENTE DE MAR DA PRAIA DE FARO ‘
Models should not be submitted
D – COMPETITORS
The competition is open to all Portuguese registered architects with approved university/college education, and all foreign architects and landscape architects that meet the educational requirements, according with Directive 2005/36/EC of 7th September 2005 / Chapter III.
The design team must forcibly include an architect, a landscape architect, a structures engineer, a geologist and a biologist.
Portuguese is the official language of the competition.
E – JURY PANEL
Entries will be judged by the folowing jury:
-Jury leader nominated by ‘Secretaria de Estado do Turismo’;
-One architect and a landscape architect nominated by ‘Comissão de Coordenação e Desenvolvimento Regional do Algarve’;
- One member nominated by ‘Direcção Regional da Economia do Algarve’;
-One architect nominated by ‘Câmara Municipal de Faro’ – the Municipality of Faro;
- One member nominated by ‘Associação de Munícipios do Algarve’;
- One member nominated by ‘Turismo de Portugal;
- One member nominated by ‘Instituto de Conservação da Natureza’;
- One architect nominated by ‘Ordem dos Arquitectos’ (OA) – Portuguese Architect’s Guild.
F – HOW TO REGISTER
Registration and digital attachments can be ordered by mail, fax or e-mail to the hereunder address, AFTER, PREVIOUSLY, FILLING REGISTRATION FORM (A) and COMMITMENT FORM (B); Request these elements to:
Ordem dos Arquitectos - Secção Regional do Sul (OA-SRS)
Serviços de Concursos
Travessa do Carvalho, 23-1º
1249-003 Lisbon - PORTUGAL
Tel: +351 21 324 11 64 | Fax: + 351 21 324 11 65 | E-mail :
G – ENQUIERIES / COMPETITION ADDRESS
Questions regarding the competition can be sent to the jury panel, in Portuguese, by mail, fax or via e-mail to:
Direcção Regional da Economia do Algarve
Direcção de Serviços do Comércio dos Serviços e Turismo
Rua Professor António Pinheiro e Rosa
8005-546 FARO
PORTUGAL
Tel: + 351 289 896600 | Fax: + 351 289 896690 | E-mail: | http://www.dre-algarve.min-economia.pt
All questions, with answers from the jury will be sent by mail to the address given on the Registration Form (A).
H – DELIVERY
Submissions must be delivered to the competition address given in ‘G’.
The deadline for the delivery of entries is defined in ‘I’ – COMPETITION TIMETABLE.
Submissions sent by mail:
It is not the date stamped on the Entries that is valid.
Entries, sent by mail, must be delivered to the ‘Competition address’ till the established deadline.
I - COMPETITION TIMETABLE
The competition timetable, which may be subject to change, is as follows:
Competition Launched……………………………. 15 / 07/ 2008
Site visit……………………………………………. 20 and 21/ 08/ 2008
Questions deadline……………………………….. till 25 / 08 / 2008
Replies to questions……………………………… 19 /09 / 2008
Registration deadline…………………………….. 12 / 11 / 2008
Submission deadline…………………………….. 12 / 11 / 2008 (17h00)
Submissions opening……………………………. 13 / 11 / 2008
J – DISQUALIFICATION
Any design shall be excluded from the competition:
-If received after the latest
