Q City Plan – Qinhuangdao International Student Design Competition

Register MAY 30TH, 2018 | Submit JUNE 16TH, 2018 |

Q City Plan

Qinhuangdao International Student Design Competition

BRIEF

Quality of urban space becomes a vital aspect of urban development. “Q City Plan · Qinhuangdao International Student Design Competition” is a trial to enhance the quality and diversity of micro public space in Qinhuangdao, and also an important approach to achieve effective urban regeneration in the redevelopment process.
“Q City Plan” try to alter the traditional way of urban planning that follows the logic of top-bottom, considering from macro-scale to micro-scale. It adopts a new thought of people-oriented humanistic planning through a ‘trivial-to-grand’ mechanism, which is expected to make a remedy and complement for the traditional urban planning of macroscopic narrative.
“Q City Plan · Qinhuangdao International Student Design Competition” is an event open to all university and university and college students from fields such as urban planning, architecture design, landscape design, artistic design worldwide, providing them a platform to show their talent based on the real built environment of Qinhuangdao as the foundation for their creation and inspiration. It is a global open call for the creative ideas of microscopic renovation, artistic installation, with a hope to find more possible paths for the regeneration of Qinhuangdao in the future. This competition will invite acclaimed urban planners and architects as jury to assess the proposals. Wining projects have possibilities to be implemented on site.
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Q City Plan · Qinhuangdao
In the forthcoming competitions of city branding, the winners will be those providing their residents a better quality of life. “Q City Plan · Qinhuangdao International Student Design Competition” is a new way to make the public space diverse and interesting through directly intervening in the specific built environments instead of huge landscape axis, large scale landscape nodes, to complement the insufficient research and design on micro spaces in cities. It is more like an acupuncture, which insert needles into the body of one city on certain points to heal and invigorate it with a small-scale intervention.
What set the “Q City Plan · Qinhuangdao” different from others are the degree of autonomy that is given to the participants. Types of design are not restrictive and the site of project is supposed to be selected by the participants themselves. Under the most appropriate conditions these projects can be implemented. Participants can be the principals of their own design and construction, who own the right to control all aspects of projects including designs, materials, constructions and costs.

SCHEDULE

Register MAY 30TH, 2018

Submit JUNE 16TH, 2018

AWARDS

First Prize (1 team): Honor certificate + Bonus 100,000RMB (before tax, around 15,000USD)
Second Prize (4 teams): Honor certificate + Bonus 30,000RMB (before tax, around 4,500USD)
Third Prize (10 teams): Honor certificate + Bonus 10,000RMB (before tax, around 1,500USD)
Honorable Mentions (several teams): Honor certificate and full year UED magazine

WEBSITE

http://qcityplan_qhd.uedmagazine.net/en_index.html

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