2009 Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition

//THEME//
Residence - From Our Having Lived the Movie Century

A little more than a century ago, the first motion picture was shown before an audience. Thereafter, “the movie” grew with tremendous vitality as a medium. In the course of the 20th century, countless movies were filmed in virtually every nation in the world, and countless people attended theaters to see them. Today, the movie has become an integral part of our everyday reality. Since the advent of the movie, we have changed in the way we see and think about things.
This change in our perceptions, nevertheless, is not yet sufficiently reflected in the character of our architecture. Even today, a static image—the photograph—is the primary medium used for showing buildings and communicating architectural design. Even buildings essentially born from sensibilities and modes of thought fostered by movies and dynamic images are disseminated using static images. This reliance on photography may be one obstacle to needful change.
In truth, that obstacle is currently dissipating, owing to the Internet’s growing capacity for video transmission. This being the case, architecture suiting our perceptions and ways of thinking as people who have lived and fully digested the movie century may soon hereafter begin to appear. Architecture that can only be seen from a moving perspective? Architecture that transcends the architectural diagrams? Architecture as story? What are the possibilities from our perspective as people who have lived the movie century? This competition seeks residential design proposals that respond to that question.

//JUDGE//
Jun Aoki
* 1956 Born in Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
* 1980 Graduated from Department of Architecture, Faculty of Engineering, the University of Tokyo
* 1982 Completed the Master Course, the University of Tokyo
* 1983-90 Worked at Arata Isozaki & Associates
* 1991 Established Jun Aoki & Associates

//PRIZE//
Prize: total: 1,500,000 yen
The prize will be distributed at the discretion of the Judge.

//ENTRY & APPLICATION//
To enter this competition, persons must first register on the conpetition website. A registration number will be issued by e-mail after the registration form has been properly completed. Each applicant should keep a record of this registration number, as it will be needed for entering the competition. If there is any changes in the registered personal details, re-registration is required, and the new registration needs to be issued. Also, if applicants wish to submit multiple number of competition proposals, it is necessary for him/her to obtain registration number for each proposal.
* No inquiries regarding the registration number will be accepted once the number has been issued.
* Registration is only possible through the competition website.
* The Use of mobile phones’ email address is not recommended since there might be problems in receiving the resgistoration number.

//SUBMISSTION GUIDELINE//
////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, other charts or descriptive texts written either in English or Japanese.
////Format:
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. Digital data are to be compiled and burned onto CD-R or DVD-R. ( PDF 72dpi or JPEG format —1,680pixel × 2,380pixel, 72dpi )
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 written on the back of your two sheets of paper.
compiled as a text file and burned onto the CD-R or DVD-R and written down on the face of your CD-R or DVD-R

//// Registration Open: April 20th (Mon), 2009

//// Registration and Submission Deadline: September 16th ( wed ), 2009
All entries must reach the competition office before the deadline.

//// Announcement of Winner
Winners will be announced in the 2009 December issue of “SHINKENCHIKU” , Vol. 76 ( 2009 Winter ) of “THE JAPAN ARCHITECT” and on this website.

//// Notice
* 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 host’s discretion.
* No entries will be returned.
* Entries will only be accepted if they adhere to all the rules appropriately.

////Shipment GuidEline
All necessary costs for submission ( mail / airmail / air courier / EMS charge, tax, insurance, etc. ) must be fully paid by entrants. In addition, Entrants must name “Shinkenchiku-sha” as the importer/consignee in the commercial invoice. The hosts reserve publication rights with regard to all entries.
//////UPS:
Entries sent by UPS must be specified the recipient as below.
Recipient Name: Entries Committee Shinkenchiku Competition 2009
Account No. : 9F4908

//////Other methods:
Entries sent by other mail, air courier or EMS services must be specified “DDP ( Delivery Duty Paid )” on a space of the payment condition of the waybill.
Mail entries to the following address:
Entries Committee Shinkenchiku Competition 2009
2-31-2, Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8501, Japan

//COMPETITION WEBSITE//
http://www.japan-architect.co.jp/skc9