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Unconference – Beyond the Borders

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While the fourth competition on Moral Borders is still ongoing, we are opening the call for the final event of the annual cycle The Borders. Zagreb Society of Architects is pleased to announce and invite you to First Think Space Unconference – ‛Beyond the Borders’ on 18 – 20. November 2011 in Lauba House, People and Art House, Zagreb, Croatia.
Following the four rounds of the conceptual architectural competitions, the final event will be organized together with an award ceremony and exhibition of projects submitted during the architectural competitions in the Think Space Program. Conceived as a series of highly interactive sessions for 300 participants who will lively discuss the topics from the competitions, the final event is planned in the form of the unconference.

The first Think Space Unconference will enable participants and winners from the four international competitions to meet in Zagreb together with world famous architects, the guest curator and the jurors of the competitions. They will jointly explore the topics and challenges of the each single competition in personal and group encounters.

The unconference entitled Beyond the Borders is planned as the crowning of the entire cycle and serves both as a platform for experimentation and exchange of ideas and as a physical space / place where network of creative thinkers beyond cultural, geographic or institutional borders gather together. At the end of the cycle an annual publication will integrate the competitions’ results and the discussions and conclusions from the unconference.

Beyond the Borders unconference is a forum to talk to peers, learn new things, and build new collaborative networks that will send the participants back to their practices energized and ready to re-think the space.
All the information about the Unconference, the programme and registration are available on the Think Space web site www.think-space.org. Feel free to come up with the proposals or questions on info@think-space.org We look forward to meeting you and welcoming you in Zagreb.

Think Space Team
Drustvo arhitekata Zagreba (DAZ)
Zagreb Society of Architects
Trg bana Jelacica 3/I
HR – 10 000 Zagreb
Croatia
www.think-space.org
tel. +38514816151; fax. +38514816197

Venue & Partner Organization
Lauba House
Baruna Filipovića 23a, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia
www.lauba.hr

Up’s In Down’s is a multidisciplinary group effort to seek and direct the attention of an observer to alternate aspects of current day built interventions. The 6th Street Container in collaboration with local architect Vanessa Estrada, AIA brings UP’s in Down’s to Miami’s art and design community. This exhibition seeks to affirm that an optimistic and constructive outlook can be borne from crises via innovation.
Where: The 6th Street Container, an alternative art space founded by artist Adalberto Delgado and Maria Amores, Leed AP located in Miami’s LiHa – Little Havana – is dedicated to promoting the arts, while keeping the spirit of a neighborhood context. The space has exhibited the work of some of South Florida’s most talented emerging and established artists.
To learn more about the 6th Street Container, visit: www.6thstreetcontainer.com
When: February 17 – March 10, 2012
Submission Requirements: Submissions may be built or un-built projects, research, conceptual work or competitions. The work/idea must be creatively presented on one 11×17
board (landscape orientation) and submitted in PDF (300dpi) to: submissions@6thstreetcontainer.com Submission deadline is December 16, 2011. Selected exhibitors will be notified by January 12, 2011. Each exhibitor is responsible for printing, mounting and shipping of their 11″x17″ board. Mounting must be on ½” black foam board.

http://6thstreetcontainer.com/architecturalexhibition.html

ARQUITECTUM, a company devoted to the organizing of architecture competitions, is interested in invite the world’s architects to the “TIKAL 2011” International Architecture Competition, to be held from October to December 2011.

THE PROJECT: THE ECOLOGICAL HOSTEL

The “Ecological Hostel” to be designed is meant to be a new worldwide prototype model of hostel housing, its main purpose being the enjoyment of the landscape and environment, not the level of comfort it brings.
Within this scheme, the “Ecological Hostel” is more a place to be, rather than a place to be in: of enjoyment of the context before the enjoyment of the infrastructure. In this way the environment is freed of excessive contaminating residues produced by the heavy rotation of visitors. Higher value is placed on the temporary and active experiencing of the event itself (observation of the citadel) rather than on the efficiency and complexity that the installations may offer for a longer term stay.
This “Ecological Hostel” is meant to be a next generation type of lodging, a self sufficient refuge whose service plan is based on contemporary parameters of “zero ecological impact” which will promote a new kind of habitability, such as self service or self generation of energy; of basic maintenance, with a minimal team of employees for cleaning and medical needs; and the virtual elimination of waste residue through communal hygienic facilities, classification of residue according to biodegradability, and use of clean energy sources.
The goal of this shelter is to promote a new model of lodging in which tourists, with a minimum of luggage, can enjoy a clean, safe and economical place where they can spend a night and wake up around of the Citadel as well as enjoy, as part of their permanence- a trip inside the Maya’s Cultures in special museum incorporated inside the own Hostel.
The contest is trying to promote the development of a forward thinking consciousness in as far as lodging; tourism and ecological culture are concerned so the knowledge produced through it may be used at a later for the development of a project initiative.
The “Ecological Hostel” will have a basic plan that will occupy a built area of 1,500 square meters (16,145 square feet).

AWARDS
These are the awards:
1st PRIZE
• US$ 3,000 (THREE THOUSAND AMERICAN DOLLARS).
• An appearance on the German design magazine “Wettbewerbe Aktuell” (www.wettbewerbe-aktuell.de) on the TIKAL 2011 Contest, and particularly of the winning projects.
• An appearance on the edition of Latin American architecture magazine “ARQ•: procesos”.
• An appearance on the edition of Spanish magazine of architectural “FUTURE (www.arqfuture.com)”.

2nd PRIZE
• US$ 1,000 (ONE THOUSAND AMERICAN DOLLARS).

3rd PRIZE
• US$ 500 (FIVE HUNDRED AMERICAN DOLLARS).

9 HONORABLE MENTIONS
SCHEDULE
START OF COMPETITION October 3rd, 2011
ANSWERING OF QUERIES Replies updated on the website’s FAQ section during the competition
SPECIAL REGISTRATION from October 3rd until October 17th, 2011
EARLY BIRD REGISTRATION from October 18th until November 07th, 2011
LATE REGISTRATION from November 08th until December 05th, 2011
PROPOSAL SUBMISSION DEADLINE December 05th, 2011
WINNERS ANNOUNCED December 19th, 2011

FURTHER INFORMATION:

http://www.arquitectum.com/index.php

Roofs are spaces on the way of desertification.
-Do the rooftops deserve any usage?
This competition requires a functional and architectural consideration of any kind of roofs (flat roofs, sloped, gabled, rooftops… on towers, houses, blocks, urban centers …)
The management of the space, usage, program or other new posibilities, are the main factors.

-What uses are more convenient for a rooftop?
-Which roofs are more interesting?
-Who will be the user?
-Where should it be located?
-How large should it be?

http://www.internationalcontesta.com/

all info at www.arquideas.es

Description:

The purpose of this competition for students of architecture is to provide ideasfor creating a coworking Building (COB), in the city of Madrid, Spain, focusingon collaborative approaches, flexibility, connectivity,accessibility,
sustainability and energy efficiency.

Schedule:

Registration period: October 1st, 2011 to December 16th, 2011
Deadline for Submissions of Proposals: January 20th, 2012
Publication of the Results: March 1st, 2012

Prizes:

4700 euros in cash + Publication of awarded projects in Arquitectura Viva
magazine and WA Wettbewerbe Aktuell magazine + 1 year free subscription to
Arquitectura Viva magazine and WA Wettbewerbe Aktuell magazine + Free
subscription to arquideasnetwork + Exhibition all projects inwww.arquideas.es

Jury:

- Mr. Jordi Ludevid i Anglada, architect
President of the Architect Associations Council of Spain (CSCAE)
- Mrs. Martha Thorne, urbanist
Executive Director of the Pritzker Architecture Prize
- Mr. Juan Antonio González Pérez, architect
Associate Professor of Projects at ETSA Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
- Mrs. Beatriz Matos, architect
Project Professor at Universidad Europea de Madrid (UEM)
- Mrs. Cristina Sánchez Rodríguez, student of architecture
winner’s team representative of the TAP Santorini 2011 academic
competition

More information and Bases inwww.arquideas.es

Thank you for the diffusion of the contest notice.

Thank you very much,
Arquideas Team
www.arquideas.es
concursos@arquideas.es

THINK SPACE – Moral Borders just opened

Imperfect Duty: Affordable utopias

The fourth international architectural competition within Think Space programme
Brief devised by Mr. Hrvoje Njiric

The Zagreb Society of Architects is launching the fourth and the last competition for this year’s Think Space cycle – Moral Borders. For this year’s annual cycle, the main theme connecting all four competitions is Borders

Devised by Hrvoje Njirić, founder of Zagreb based njiric+ arhitekti, the architectural studio of international fame and visiting professor at architectural schools worldwide, Moral borders competition challenges contestants to radically examine the present day conditions by going beyond the stereotypes, patterns and typologies that have proven their inoperability, while exercising their own imperfect duties of civic agents in search of morally diverse frameworks of affordable utopias.

The higher the buildings, the lower the morals.
Noel Coward, English playwright (1899-1973)

The escalation of the market economy in the recent decades has resulted with a complete exclusion of architects as credible civic agents. „The Faustian bargain“, as Koolhaas puts it, accepted widely by the architects themselves, has promoted them into the members of the star-system and their work has gained the media presence indeed, but it’s creators became more and more eliminated from the decision-making and their public role significantly diminished.

If we want to think about architecture as the social project today, it requires some support, more than ever. If we tend to believe it is possible to reinstall it, there are some questions to be answered. How to recreate any form of idealism as a necessary prerequisite, even if it is provisional, simulated or temporary? What forces can we mobilize to improve the weak impact on the public sector? How to regain the trust of the society? How to treat vague moral borders of our discipline? And finally, how to articulate the first utopias of the 21st century and how plausible can they be?
Hrvoje Njiric

Submission deadline for Moral Borders is
28 October 2011 (Fri), 12:00, CET – Central European Time.

There is an early participation fee of 220 HRK / 30 EUR until 4 October 2011.
From 5 to 28 October 2011 participation fee will be 330 HRK / 45 EUR.

Prizes
1. prize: 1000 EUR
2. prize: 700 EUR
3. prize: 350 EUR

All winners will be granted with ORIS pack:
Annual subscription to ORIS Magazine – for Culture and Architecture
Free Admission to Days of ORIS
International Architectural Symposium
Last weekend of October 2011 in Zagreb
Participant’s Kit includes all the necessary information about this particular contest.

All the entries form the previous competition Ecological Borders have been published in our gallery. Please take a look at award winning works, and read the juror’s comments!
We look forward to your submissions!

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Think Space
a cycle of concept degree architectural competitions

a platform for spatial experimentation and exchange of conceptual ideas

a network of progressive thinkers, beyond cultural, geographic or institutional borders

Ms Eva Franch i Gilabert
Guest Curator
Storefront for Art and Architecture

Mr. Hrvoje Njirić
Juror
Moral Borders
njiric+ arhitekti

An Exercise on Imperfect Duty:
Affordable utopias
About the Think Space programme

The Think Space program aims to bring together world renown and established figures with emerging voices (students and professionals) within the fields of architecture, landscape, design, the arts and the humanities.

The guest curator in the very first cycle – Ms Eva Franch i Gilabert, director of the Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York prepared the annual theme Borders. The main theme is observed through four different scenarios [geopolitical, ecological, urban and moral] in order to establish an overarching line of inquiry that highlights the concerns of contemporary society. Simultaneously allowing different degrees of exploration, this competition goes back to the conceptual space for the establishment of difference: the Border.

The four competitions developed under the theme of Borders, aim to produce a catalogue of contemporary conditions in social, political and cultural spheres in need of architectural alternatives. The international jurors define the competition briefs for participants:
Urban Borders: Shohei Shigematsu
Geopolitical Borders: Teddy Cruz
Ecological Borders: François Roche
Moral Borders: Hrvoje Njiric
All the entries form the previous competition Urban Borders, Geopolitical and Ecological Borders have been published in our gallery. Please take a look at award winning works, and read the juror’s comments!

http://www.think-space.org/competitions/

YAF-2011 —Student competition
ID: :YAF-11-SC-1

Individual/ Group entries are invited from bonafide students of architecture for :

1) Conceptual designs/ sketches for an eleven storied building (named as PTT Building) in sector 17 chandigarh on the proposed site of post and telegraph building as designed by the Legendry Le Corbusier.

2) Brief:
The site is an approx. 1.6 acre piece of land in the heart of Sec 17,Chandigarh.
See site plan at annexure “A”
Location, surroundings and concept of Le-Corbusier at annexure “B”
Maximum Ground cov. 25%.
Two level Basement to be used for parking only
Block A- double storied: ht 29’1” max.
Block B: Eleven storied : ht 157’4” max.
Ht of parapet (4’6”), mumty, lift machine room will be extra.
The Building shall conform to NBCC norms.
Site:
A site between the Jagat Cinema and the General Post Office is ear-marked for the high-rise complex comprising two blocks including a double-storeyed shopping. The building could be a financial hub and would act as a focal point for Chandigarh and in the context of scarce office space in Sector 17, it would offer facilities like office, commercial and shopping space, super departmental stores, medical halls, cyber cafes, games plaza and other entertainment halls, exhibition halls and cinema complexes with multiple screens, apart from conference and seminar rooms. Penthouse-offices would occupy the top floor and the basement would be used as parking space. The complex would provide at least 1200 office units and 13,000 square metres of shopping space.

Theme: Synthesis of Green architecture and ideology of Le Corbusier

Last date of registration: 20TH SEPT.2011

Last date for submission: Till 1700 , 30th of sept 2011.

Mode of Submission:

The entries shall be submitted on max 5 nos of A-3 size sheets, duly
authenticated by the school authorities, scanned and submitted electronically to
yaf11.students@gmail.com. However the originals shall be brought in person at YAF-2011 for presentation.

Architectural documentation

• Panel size: A3
• Ink: Only black,

Free hand sketches / hand drawings
 Axonometric / Isometric drawings are preferred.
 Black and white (i.e. pencil, graphite, pastels, ink-wash, charcoal, printed,plotted etc.)
 All photographs, sketches and perspectives shall be in support of the document and not be stand alone and desirably in black and white
 The drawings should be self explanatory with little text.

o Scope of competition: The scope of competition is purely academic.
• Jury:
The Leading professionals and academicians from the architect fraternity will be part of the jury to be appointed by YAF Committee.

• Prizes:
As judged by the jury, the following prizes will be given

First price: Rs. 10000/-

Second Price: Rs. 7500/-

Third Price: Rs. 5000/-

Apart from the above , all the bonafide entries will be duly acknowledged in the form of participation certificates/ citations.

Please feel free to contact for any further queries:

Ar. GAGAN GHAI
In Charge student competition
Young architects festival- 2011

Yaf11.students@gmail.com
Mobile : 09876122949(sms only)

ANNEXURE “A”

ANNEXURE “B”

The Un-Competition Project: Invent it, Design it, Build it
Co-Sponsored by the Chicago Architectural Club

Un-Competition Website: http://www.blackspectacles.com/?p=847
Download the official Un-Competition Poster, and post in your school or office.

http://www.blackspectacles.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/The-Un-Competition-Project-Poster.pdf

Competitions serve an important purpose in the design community- they give designers a framework for exploring their own ideas and a way to refine their skills. But, most competitions are wasteful. Rarely does anything useful or truly meaningful come out of them. There is generally a good reason for this- it takes a lot of hard, gutsy work to bring something to reality.

That’s where we come in. We want to inspire you to bring your ideas to reality. You need a framework to explore your own ideas. You need to get something built. Your community needs the design ideas you have spent so much time and money developing, and you want to make a name for yourself.

So Black Spectacles has created The Un-Competition Project. Invent a project, design it, and post your design on our Facebook page, with a 60 second video. We want to hear how you came up with your project, what your design is, and how you are going to get it built. So, no, there is no competition brief, and no, we’re not going to get your project built. You make the project up yourself- big or small- you sell it and you figure out how to get it built. Then document it in a video, and we’ll show it to the world.

Then, after all of the results are in, Black Spectacles has teamed up with the Chicago Architectural Club who will host an event that expands the dialogue about design entrepreneurship that the Un-Competition Project initiates. The winners will be presented, and the event will explore alternate methods of getting work, getting it built, and establishing yourself in the profession. If you don’t happen to be in Chicago at the time of the event, you can watch live as we stream the event on our website: http://www.blackspectacles.com.

Submission Details

Your 60 second video should include the following:
1. How you came up with your project, and why you think it needs to be realized.
2. Explanation of your design idea, (include 3D and orthographic drawings/models).
3. Explanation of how you intend to get (or already have gotten) the project realized.

Registration & Submission

The registration fee is $50. Early registration is $35 and closes on October 3. There are two steps to enter:
1. Submit your registration fee here:

http://www.blackspectacles.com/?p=847

2. Submit your 60 second video via our Facebook page:

http://www.facebook.com/blackspectacles

Schedule

September 6 – Un-Competition Opens
October 3- Early Registration Closes (midnight CST)
January 9- Registration/Submissions due (midnight CST)
January 11- Public Voting Closes (midnight CST)
January 13- Winners Announced
January 19- Chicago Architectural Club Event

Awards

A distinguished jury will award up to $1,500 (at its discretion) to first, second, third place and People’s Choice winners. The People’s Choice Award will be determined by the proposal with the most votes on Facebook. The winning projects will also be the subject of a featured interview on our website, as well as featured participants in an event led by the Chicago Architectural Club.

Jury

To be announced at a later date.

Questions

Submit your questions to the discussion on our Facebook page. http://www.facebook.com/blackspectacles

Rules & Eligibility

*This is an International Un-Competition. Designers from any country may participate.
*You must be 18 years or older to submit.
*The Un-Competition language is English. All audio and text in the video shall be in English.
*Black Spectacles reserves the right to modify the Un-Competition rules and requirements.
*The registration fee is not refundable.
*Contacting members of the jury is prohibited.
*You may submit a project as a team.
*You may submit multiple projects, but you must pay a registration fee for each project submitted.
*You may submit a project that has either already been built, or that you are working to get built.
*The project must have been conceived (invented) by the designer. Projects for which clients solicited designs will be disqualified.
*In submitting an entry, entrants warrant that the material is their original work, that it does not infringe upon copyright law, and that they have permission to publish the material.

Resources & Sources of Inspiration

*Having a hard time coming up with an idea for a design project? Create a “bug list.” Keep a list of things that “bug” you as you go out into the world every day. You have a critical, well-trained mind, and you encounter many things everyday that could turn into your next design project. Write them down in your bug list, and you can mine that list for your Un-Competition project.

*Having a hard time figuring out how you are going to execute your idea? Check out Scott Belsky’s book: Making Ideas Happen.

*Having a hard time figuring out how to get your idea built? Maybe you should give your local AIA Chapter a call. They have many resources that will get you on your way to getting this thing built!

Some people that have done this themselves

“Up Up and Away” Architect Magazine, Mark Lamster
“Ingels, to his credit, is not one to sit around and wait for the phone to ring. Yes Is More finds him, time and again, generating audacious ideas and finding a place for them. In one episode from 2005, for example, Ingels approaches a newly elected Copenhagen mayor—who had promised an influx of affordable housing—with a plan to ring the perimeter of an old airfield with an enormous, undulating megastructure. In one fell swoop, it would satisfy nearly half the mayor’s housing goal while dramatically upgrading the sports fields occupying the site.”

The 99 percent has a great video library of people telling stories about how they challenged the status quo and executed an idea that they had. http://the99percent.com/videos

Have a great resource you want to share? Add it in the comments of our blog: http://www.blackspectacles.com or tweet it via our hashtag: #uncomp via @blackspectacles

The Dow Chemical Company Solar Design Competition will seek new discoveries that can lead to economical, energy sustainable homes that are viable and culturally adaptable to multiple regions.

Specifically, the competition calls for the design of a building comprising three connected dwellings, which must utilize active and solar technologies in addition to other innovative energy solutions to achieve near-zero energy consumption.

The Dow Chemical Company Solar Design Competition will live online, allowing participants to interact via competition web sites and social media. Winners will be determined via a peer-based evaluation process.

http://www.dow.com/competition

We’ve got a client with your name on it.

Ceramics of Italy (CI) is looking for an architect. Do you have what it takes to design an Italian tile pavilion to be built at Coverings 2012?

CI – the trademark for Italian ceramic tile manufacturers that are members of Confindustria Ceramica, the Italian Association of Ceramics – has a long-standing commitment to innovative architectural design, be it through their amazing array of products or their influential pavilions by architects like Aldo Rossi and Bernard Tschumi.

The CI Exhibit Design Challenge asks architects to design the next Ceramics of Italy tile exhibit that will open on April 17, 2012.

At stake? A $10,000 Design Fee and an additional $15,000 to project manage the execution of the design.

Find out more information on Architizer:

http://www.architizer.com/en_us/competitions/ceramics-of-italy/