A8 Competition | Come and Win the Prize for Seating Design!

What is your ideal city public seating?

For this special "quarantine" new year,

join A8 Design Center for the public seating competition

Explore more possibilities of public seating with design

Stimulate the new vitality of diverse, interactive and innovative cities

Development of Public Seating

Public space is one of the most common places for people's activities in life, so appropriate public facilities play a vital role in the quality of public space and urban life. As a common facility in public space, public seating greatly affects the quality of outdoor activities. The quality and creativity of the design will directly affect how public spaces impress us.

A large number of public seating throughout history has affected the nature of outdoor activities, the quality of social interaction, and the closeness of people to their environment in unique ways. When better public seating forms are designed, more and more people can spend time outdoors, thus increasing the closeness of the community, as well as the comfort and vitality of the city.

No matter the 14th century for "dramatic or judicial purposes", or the carved wooden and iron garden chairs that emerged in the 19th century, were extremely low in comfort. Even for a time in the 20th century, public seating was designed with deliberately uncomfortable elements to remind "people to maintain their posture and not lean back on the chair."

In today's society, more and more public seating appears in the public view, and the production demand increases accordingly. In order to shorten production time and improve work efficiency, most of the public seating is designed in the same and boarding way, which cannot meet the needs of increasingly diversified social activities and the use of space functions.

But do these kinds of seating satisfy you as a designer?

In order to pursue a higher quality of life while satisfying the physical needs

but also to meet psychological needs, and express personality

the public seating with more diverse functions appeared.

Create Communication with Seating

Represent Street Color by Seating

Respond to Technological Development with Design

Make the City More Interesting with Public Seating

Of course, it can be whatever you want it to be~

 After the Spring Festival

Looking forward to public seating 

designed by you as a designer for the city

Work Submission

1. One page of A1 longitudinal drawing and one copy of design text (PDF format, Chinese and English) shall be submitted. If there is a video showing the final design effect, it can be provided as bonus points;

2. The submission shall be legible and include:

(1) Brief description: no more than 200 words in English or Chinese (except annotation), including basic introduction of the work and necessary technical information;

(2) Design drawing: including but not limited to: description of design concept intention, concept sketch and concept analysis drawing, seat design effect drawing, necessary profile drawing (1:100 or 1:50), axonometric or perspective drawing, necessary description and analysis drawing of design material selection and process;

3. Profile and portfolio should be included together with the submitted works;

4. The deadline for submission is 23:59 on February 21, 2021; The selection date is February 22—March 2;

5. All the documents shall be submitted to [email protected], with the email name indicating: Public Seating Design Competition + author/firm name;

6.Inquiry: [email protected] or add A8 Wechat: 187 2846 5309

Awards

This public seating competition aims to provide cities with more friendly design and a more diverse rest space. We are looking forward to getting interesting works that can be realized through this competition. At the same time, we have also specially increased the number of winning works and the amount of prize bonus in this competition. We expect more designers to join us and pay attention to our urban public space together:

1 First Prize: RMB 30,000 each (before tax)

4 Second Prizes: RMB 8,000 each (before tax)

16 Third Prizes: RMB 1,600 each (before tax)

So, come to get lucky money from A8 Design Center~

Sponsor

Park City Construction Bureau of Sichuan Tianfu New Area Chengdu Management Committee

Organizer

Chengdu Tianfu New Area Investment Group

China Southwest Architectural Design And Research Institute Corp. Ltd

Tianfu Park City Research Institute

A8 Design Center

Plan and Execution

A8 Design Center