DOM3 Prize 2016- II International Architecture Award

The Asociación de Empresarios para la Vivienda de Alta Calidad (DOM3) brings together entrepreneurs and professionals with expertise in various sectors whose objective is to promote actions to preserve and promote the business of design, development and construction of high quality housing in Marbella and its area of influence.

DOM3 believes in the exchange of information, in mutual cooperation and combined action as a vector for the development of the sector and for the Marbella brand of tourism.

In its pursuit of excellence DOM3 is pleased to announce the second edition of the Architecture Award DOM 3 PRIZE for the design of world class housing developments.

World-class housing, villas and apartments, are the characteristics of excellence in this area, the flagship of urban planning in Marbella and its influential surroundings.

In this second edition of the DOM3 PRIZE the Promoter Urbania International, through its Urbania society Santa Clara Development IV company, is making available to contestants three plots for the development of a harmonized architectural complex of detached villas and apartments in the privileged setting of the Santa Clara de Marbella urbanisation.

The purpose of this award is to promote development within the up market developments sector in Marbella and its surrounding influential area, whilst at the same time strengthening and consolidating the Marbella trademark on an international level as a destination for residential tourism.

The proposal is to reflect on prestigious housing whilst at the same time striving for excellence in design, opening a debate on this type of beautiful, sustainable and modern architecture. On that basis, participants will be able to develop projects of special interest. The intention therefore, apart from this privileged and perfect setting ( in this second edition, three plots of Santa Clara urbanization), is to inspire the creation of a harmonized architectural project of semi-detached villas and apartments where contestants manage to unify architecture, landscaping and interior design.

In this second edition of DOM3 PRIZE all architects, Spanish or not, and legally qualified to practice within the Spanish territory may participate. It is not necessary to be licensed as an architect in Spain to participate in the contest.

A new category has been created for this edition devoted to architecture students who can prove their enrolment in a school of architecture, either in Spain or abroad. Works submitted in this category will be governed by the same requirements contained in the general rules, and although they will not be eligible for the prizes described in paragraph 10, a special mention will be included in the awards ceremony.

Architects may participate individually or as multidisciplinary teams, as well as any legal persons whose social objectives correspond with the objective of the competition, as long as the project to be submitted has been signed by an architect who meets the provisions of the preceding paragraph. Each participant is free to submit as many proposals as necessary.

All administrative correspondence concerning this Award, will be provided to participants by computer transmission, through the Secretariat of the competition whose contact details are:

Website: www.dome3.es

Email: secretaria@dome3.es

Proposals must be submitted in a timely manner to the secretariat of DOM3 Prize.

The deadline for the submission of projects for this edition of the DOM3 PRIZE will be 16 May 2016 at 18.00 p.m.

The documentation may be delivered by hand to the Prize Office, by mail or by courier, provided it is received within the deadline set i.e. the 16th of May, 2016 at 18.00 p.m. Contestants have sole responsibility to justify and secure the delivery of their works and to organize transportation. The address for delivery of the works will be the Office of the Notary - MRS MARTA PASCUA PONCE, located at Avenida Ricardo Soriano No. 34 (Edificio Portillo), Offices 1-1, Marbella 29601 (Malaga, Spain). Contact number: 00 34 952 90 10 45.

The contest cannot be declared void under any circumstances.

The prizes shall consist of:

1. A first prize awarded to the winning architect in the amount of 40,000 Euros.
2. An award to the architect whose work has been chosen in second place in the amount of 20,000 Euros.
3. An award to the architect whose work has been chosen in third place in the amount of 10,000 Euros.