The 2018 MNPG Arch Competition FREE ARCHITECTURE COMPETITIONS

The 2018 MNPG Arch Competition

BRIEF

MNPG Arch is an international competition working to improve architecture every two years. Awarding a first place prize, as well as honorable mentions in Sustainability, Resourcefullness, Best Practice and Most Innovative.

For the previous MNPG Arch Competitions, the requirements were mostly of landlocked nature. For the 2018, it has been decided to allow a freer sense of design ability to flourish in a very creative and progressive section of the world. This is why an island bridge, connecting whichever functions the architect deems as being fruitful for the existing and future generations of improvement, was made as being the purposeful exponent for architectural entry. Uniting not just the educative and touristic benchmarks of the Great Barrier Island itself, but also the aspirations of other spaces to continue to learn about what really makes up the Island and the ecology that provided for the success of the environmental factors of progression. There are many islands in the region, and not too many bridges connecting them, so the MNPG Arch appeal is to promote both the possibility of the intersectional and also the limitations of such a connection, in spherical sense, where the notion of the island is that of the existential for the architect.

Entry Requirements

• Design an island bridge

• Total structure no longer than 100 kilometers in length

• Less then 25 sq. kilometers in relatable landscape space

• Mathematically natural, in organic form (i.e. oceanic)

• Utilising sustainable technologies

Requirements for structure: The total structure can be a dwelling for city and rural intersections, a transport communal, or other innovative abstractions of what it means to evolve alongside the wonder that are the waterways of the Hauraki Gulf. The magnitude of the formality should be in accordance with the harmony of the New Zealand and Maori people alike. Locally produced, natural resources for building materials is important, but this is not required. Must be economical and use local labor. Technological improvements can be from outside of New Zealand.

The island bridge: Attention to leading architecture, technology, ecology and oceanic evolution is of the most importance. The space that is manifested can serve for a myriad of fusing integrations.

Landscape: The landscape space of the island bridge, should be directly built upon it, as the water that makes up the ethos of the surrounding infrastructure, is the breath for the livability of life that it supports. The competing architect must decide how to use this space.

SCHEDULE

DEADLINE AUG 31, 2018

AWARDS

The winner of the competition will receive a prize of $1,500 NZD for their entry. Honorable mentions will receive $250 NZD. Winner and honorable mentions will appear in numerous publications.