International VELUX Award 2020

ABOUT THE AWARD 

The International VELUX Award for Students of Architecture is a global competition for students of architecture and their teachers organized every second year since 2004 in collaboration with the International Union of Architects (UIA) and the World Architecture Festival (WAF). It has since grown into what is the largest competition of its kind for the architects who will shape the buildings of our future. Since the first award, some 5,000 students from more than 80 countries have submitted more than 4, 500 projects on the award theme “Light of Tomorrow”. 

CATEGORIES

The award seeks to challenge the students to explore the role of daylight in architecture and inspire new thinking. The aim of the award is to engage with students of architecture about how to use sunlight and daylight as main sources of energy and light and how to ensure health and well-being of the people who live and work in buildings.

Students may choose between two focus areas:

1. Daylight in buildings

Projects that demonstrate applicable principles for providing daylight and sunlight into buildings – including the effects of building construction and context of the site, shape and dimensions, window openings, screens, shadings, interior divisions, materials and external conditions. Specific focus on architecture for health and well-being and projects that address challenges faced by cities, communities and modern societies, and where daylight and architecture can help create change through better and healthier living environments.

2. Daylight investigations

Projects that look at the physical properties of light, basics of optics and materials, as well as technological developments, new materials, storage or transportation of daylight. The use of daylight in public space for functional, recreational, cultural or spiritual use and the effect of daylight on state of mind, health and well-being as well as the dynamics and temporal quality of daylight and its effects on behaviour and spaces over time and seasons.

The award is not restricted to the use of VELUX products. Innovative thinking and use of specific VELUX components as daylight providers will however be within the scope of the award and the jury will be allowed to give special prizes to the best projects.

REGIONAL/GLOBAL

The Awards are organised globally in two stages: in the first phase, regional prizes will be awarded to projects from the UIA member regions 1) Western Europe, 2) Eastern Europe and the Middle East, 3) the Americas, 4) Asia + Oceania and 5) Africa. In the second phase, regional prize winners will be invited to The World Architecture Festival in Lisbon, Portugal, in December 2020 where prizes will be awarded to overall winners after a live presentation to the jury.

ELIGIBILITY

Participation is open to any registered student of architecture – individual or team – all over the world. We encourage multi-disciplinary teams including e.g. engineering, design and landscaping. Every student or student team must be backed and granted submission by a teacher from a school of architecture.

The award welcomes projects from individuals or groups of students, who are students during the study year 2019/20.  

PRIZES

• A Grand Prize of €5,000 per category will be awarded (€4,000 to the student and €1,000 to the teacher)
• 10 Regional Winners will be awarded €1,250 per category (€1,000 to the student and €250 to the teacher)
• Additionally, the jury will be allowed to award a number of special prizes, including prizes for the innovative use of VELUX products 

JURY

The jury consists of Odile Decq (France), Sebastián Adamo (Argentina), Nóra Demeter (Hungary), Juri Troy (Austria) and Martin Pors Jepsen (Denmark). 

TIMELINE

• April 15, 2020 – Registration Deadline
• June 15, 2020 – Submission Deadline
• July 2020 – Regional Winners Announced
• December 2-4, 2020 – Regional Winners Present at the World Architecture Festival and 2 Teams Win the Grand Prize

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International VELUX Award 2020 is arranged in close collaboration with the International Union of Architects (UIA) and acknowledged by the following educational organizations: The European Association for Architectural Education, The American Institute of Architecture Students, the Architectural Research Centers Consortium, and the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture.