Arquine Competition No.24 | MEXTRÓPOLI 2021 Pavilion

The MEXTRÓPOLI Pavilion is the benchmark of the Festival of Architecture and City.

The architecture competition Arquine calls to design and build a pavilion that temporarily insert in the city, will be able to generate from its own discourse a sustainable approach, which contemplates an open public program, and build a place for interaction between architecture and citizenship. Participants must design a structure that complies with the requirements that specify the rules of this competition in terms of time, cost and characteristics. The MEXTRÓPOLI Pavilion will become the benchmark per se of each edition of the Festival of Architecture and City.

Objectives

• Convene, a universal basis, to submit ideas for the development and construction of a social pavilion, recyclable and reusable, which constitutes an element that announce and report the current state of architecture, complying with the requirements established in these rules.

• Build the Pavilion as part of the International Festival of Architecture and City MEXTRÓPOLI, with the aim of becoming the benchmark, in each edition able to contribute to the festival themes for reflection and discussion on the architecture and the city.

Prizes

First Place:

• Construction of the MEXTRÓPOLI2022 Pavilion*

• $100,000.00 Mexican Pesos.

• MEXTROPASE VIP for the team members (2**) and pack of books from Arquine. 

Second Place:

• $50,000.00 Mexican Pesos.

• MEXTROPASE VIP for the team members (2**) and pack of books from Arquine.

Third Place:

• $25,000.00 Mexican Pesos.

• MEXTROPASE VIP for the team members (2**) and pack of books from Arquine.

Mentions:

The Jury can choose as many Mention projects as they consider.

• Pack of books from Arquine

 *The winning team will have to follow the progress of the work, providing Arquine the plans of the executive project for the construction of MEXTRÓPOLI Pavilion and following up on its construction, through the channels agreed with the team Arquine.

Jury

Ricardo Azócar | Concepción

Rozana Montiel | Mexico City

Javier Peña - Ibáñez | Logroño

Anna Puigjaner | Barcelona/ New York

Elena Tudela Rivadeneyra | Mexico City/ Madrid

Calendar

October 1^st, 2021 - Announcement

October 4^th, 2021 - Registration process start

November 15^th, 2021 - Jury members announcement

November 30^th, 2021 - End of first registration stage

December 10^th, 2021 - End of FAQ period

December 13^th, 2021 - FAQ publication

January 31^st, 2022 - End of registration process

February 4^th, 2022 - Proposal upload deadline

February 10^th, 2022 - Jury’s verdict

February 17^th, 2022 - Announcement of results

February 28^th, 2022  - Executive development of the project

June 2022 - Construction process begins

September 2022 - Installation and inauguration