Register July 30, 2018 | Submit July 30, 2018 | Free Student Architecture Competition
A New-tech Led Intelligent Urban Life
BRIEF
The rapid development of technology and popularized digitalization is imperceptibly influencing the evolution of cities.As a new trend and an inevitable choice of this era, the “Intelligent Revolution” led by technology and innovation is sweeping all over the world and transforming looks of and life in the city. Urban public environment, as the ‘common home’ of city dwellers, needs to be built by a collective effort. Public facilities are significant to secure the comfort and safety of people’s daily life. The topic of the competition is “A New-tech Led Intelligent Urban Life”, with a focus on how new technology will improve urban life by taking public facilities as the object of design, aiming at soliciting creative design proposals all over the world.
The Second “Natian” Cup International Design Competition is sponsored by Suqian Municipal People’s Government, organized by Suqian Urban Planning Bureau, CBC (China Building Centre) and Urban Environment Design (UED) Magazine. This competition is open to professional designers and college students from the fields of urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, art design and relevant disciplines at home and abroad, besides, interdisciplinary practitioners, new-tech and new energy research institutes are also welcomed to participate. Participants are encouraged to select the site and do researches on their own will within the city of Suqian. However, the design should be adhere to the current development of the local area. The subject and topic can be self-determined, but the feasibility of the design should be justified. After jury review, winning entries have the possibility to be implemented in compliance with municipal standards.
SCHEDULE
1) Registration starts on 24:00(UTC+8) March 5, 2018. This competition is open to professional designers and college students from the fields of urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, art design and relevant disciplines at home and abroad, besides, interdisciplinary practitioners, new-tech and new energy research institutes are also welcomed to participate.
2) For registration, please log on the competition website: http://natiancompetition.uedmagazine.net, click “Registration” and fill in the information; or follow Facebook page “Urban Environment Design Magazine” for updated information.
3) Registration Deadline: 24:00(UTC+8) June 30, 2018.
2. Submission
All participants are required to submit digital files, including drawings and other information to NaTiancompetition@163.com before 24:00(UTC+8) July 30, 2018. The competition committee does not accept any hardcopy.
3. Selection Procedure
With the aid of the competition committee, the jury reviews the projects and determines the prize winning projects. Prize winning projects will be officially announced by August 18, 2018.
AWARDS
First Prize (1 team): Honor certificate + Bonus 400,000RMB (before tax, around 60,000USD)
Second Prize (3 teams): Honor certificate + Bonus 100,000RMB (before tax, around 15,000USD)
Third Prize (5 teams): Honor certificate + Bonus 40,000RMB (before tax, around 6,000USD)
Honorable Mentions (several teams): Honor certificate and full year UED magazine
One or more prize winning projects might be implemented on site and local government has the final say. The fee of design development and construction are not included in the award.
FEES
FREE
JURY
YANG Baojun
CUI Kai
MENG Jianmin
ZHUANG Weimin
Winka Dubbeldam
LI Zhenyu
Eva Franch i Gilabert
HAN Dongqing
ZHANG Qi
SUN Yimin
Ole Gustavsen
Fernando Menis
HU Yue
CUI Tong
HUANG Jingtao
WANG Zhong
PENG Lixiao
WEBSITE
http://natiancompetition.uedmagazine.net/index.php?r=info/opsu&en=1
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