Competition Alert! [Architecture]

New one, thanks to Erike De Veyra for passing this one along!

Contact

Dominic Mercier
AIA Associates Committee

215-569-3186

When

Thursday June 30, 2011 at 12:00 AM EDT
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Monday August 8, 2011 at 12:00 AM EDT

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Where

Center for Architecture
1218 Arch Street
Philadelphia, PA 19107

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RIDGE AVE: URBAN BENCH design competition

PREMISE

The RIDGE AVE: URBAN BENCH design competition challenges individuals or teams of architects, designers, builders, or students to design a new urban bench for bus stops along Ridge Avenue – a major off-grid avenue connecting the northwest neighborhoods of Philadelphia to the busy city center. Along with the competition, FNDC has developed an active commercial redevelopment strategy and a comprehensive neighborhood plan (www.francisvillendc.org).

TIMELINE
June 24          Competition Announcement
July 20            Registration Deadline @ 11:59pm EST ($15 fee)
August 8         Submission Deadline for Entries – Digitally & at the Center for Architecture
August 19        Announcement of Winning Entries at Exhibition Opening & Reception
Aug15 – Sept 3       Exhibition of Submitted Entries at the Center for Architecture
September 4    Entry Pick-up

REGISTRATION
All teams must register online by 11:59pm EST on July 20, 2011. This competition has an entry fee of $15 per individual/team that will be contributed to the construction of the RIDGE AVE: URBAN BENCH. An information packet with details will be emailed to each team upon registration. Questions may be emailed to: assocaia.designcompetitions@gmail.com.

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Entries are to be one foam-core board sized at 24 x 36 inches, oriented landscape or portrait, with images and text conveying your design intent. Medium, technique, and vantage point of drawings may be determined by the entrant. Design should take constructability into account and consider a material palette that may withstand daily usage on a public urban street. Teams shall consider a budget of $500 for construction materials for each bench in their design entries. Design considerations may include planters and trash receptacles. These are neither mandatory nor limits for the design.

Models are welcome for inclusion in the exhibition at the Center for Architecture, but space is limited. All pieces must be mobile and easily removed from the space. Models built at  scale are preferred (1” : 4”). If you are submitting a physical model, you must drop off your model at the Center for Architecture at the same time as your physical board.

SUBMISSION PROCESS
Entrants must submit a digital version of their 24” x 36” board in PDF form to assocaia.designcompetitions@gmail.com by August 8, 2011 at 11:59PM EST.

Physical boards must be dropped off to the Center for Architecture (1218 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA 19107) no later than 6:00pm on August 8, 2011. The assigned registration number should be clearly visible in the bottom right corner on the back of the entry board and the underside of the model.
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AWARDS

First Prize:

$500 and the opportunity to construct two benches at prominent locations along Ridge Avenue

Second Prize:

$100 and $50 gift certificate to a local restaurant TBD

Third Prize:

$50 gift certificate to a local restaurant TBD

JURY
Jurors will include members from the PSRC, FNDC, AIA Philadelphia Associate Committee, and local fabricators.

Competition Alert! [Architects/People Who are Into Savvy Fabrication]

Ok…soo…maybe I’m a little bit biased about this one [I AM a huge digi_fab geek], but this is a really stellar competition. I can think of at least twenty people off of the top of my head who would be more than well-suited for this competition [*Cough* Monika Wittig…LAN…Christian Jordan…Skylar Tibbits…*Cough*]… 🙂 Super cool..check it out!

Integrative Materialities: Design & Fabrication Competition

Register/Submit: Wednesday, June 15, 2011

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The Brooklyn-based design and fabrication studio, FLATCUT_, announces the ACADIA 2011 Design + Fabrication Competition, an international call for submissions that challenges academics and designers to push the boundaries of materials, minds, and machines. In a partnership with the Association for Computer Aided Design in Architecture (“ACADIA”), FLATCUT_ is opening up their 100,000 square foot fabrication facility, complete with more than 100 cutting-edge machines, as a laboratory for the competition.

UPDATE: The jury has been announced, and consists of Bjarke Ingels, Tod Williams, Dror Benshetrit of Studio Dror and Tom Wiscombe of Emergent.

Each year ACADIA attracts pioneers in computational design to discuss new discoveries in their respective fields. This year FLATCUT_ is offering them the opportunity to translate their ideas into physical form. “We want them to challenge us and to challenge what our machines can do,” says FLATCUT_ founder Tomer Ben-Gal. “We believe this is a great opportunity for designers to search through our encyclopedia of machines and generate innovative ways of combining materials and creating new forms.”

FLATCUT_ and ACADIA are looking for participants to explore integrative material strategies in three design categories: lighting, partitions, and furniture. The jury will be announced in May. Winning designs will be fabricated by FLATCUT_ and exhibited at the ACADIA Conference in Calgary, Canada in October 2011. In addition to having their designs built, the winning designers will receive a $1000 stipend, free admission to the conference and the opportunity to speak on a panel led by Ben-Gal and other Conference organizers.

Designs should demonstrate an experimental approach to the problem of digitally fabricating multiple part assemblies that address both themes of the conference: integrative trajectories- the areas of overlap between design and other disciplines such as computer science, material science, mathematics, and biology – and the performance criteria of the category in which they are situated. Contestants are encouraged to minimize waste and fully engage the performance of their selected materials, to be creative and inventive with their choice of materials and take risks in their material pairings.

“We want to promote design that engages the latent potentials of multiple materials simultaneously in a way that is innovative and takes advantage of the growing range of technologies becoming embedded into the design process.”, said Jason S. Johnson, ACADIA 2011 Co-Chair.

For full competition details or to enter go to:
www.acadia.org/acadia2011/competition.html

Entry Fee: $100

FLATCUT_ is a fabrication studio with a design sensibility that is committed to expanding the creative horizons of designers and architects by exposing them to working models that transcend the traditional, and introducing them to new computational and material capabilities. While they maintain a comprehensive machine shop with state of the art technology and can operate in the traditional sense of “fabricator,” they are excited to be at the forefront of a new design era that integrates the cerebral, creative and material processes. Their design studio in DUMBO, Brooklyn in conjunction with their 100,000 square foot fabrication house in Passaic, NJ is dedicated to pushing the limits of architecture and design through machinery.

The ACADIA 2011 Annual Conference will explore integrative trajectories and areas of overlap that have emerged through computation between design, its allied disciplines of engineering and construction, and other fields, such as computer science, material science, mathematics and biology. The conference will highlight experimental projects in which methods, processes, and techniques are discovered, appropriated, adapted, and altered from elsewhere, and digitally pursued.

Competition Alert! [Architects, Designers, Planners, Landscape Architects, Engineers]

Hey Quirklusters!

There’s a new competition out there for Architects, Designers, Engineers, Urban Planners, Landscape Archies, etc. –Sounds really amazing and there’s some big bucks to be had for the winner! Check it out below.

Lust on!

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Close the Gap invites architects, landscape architects, urban designers, engineers, and students worldwide to broaden the dialogue of alternative solutions for sustainable urban living.

The competition focuses on the Midtown sector of New York City’s East River Greenway – a critical missing link in Manhattan’s alternative transportation infrastructure.

Close the Gap requests urban design solutions that complete the missing link between East 38th and East 60th streets, integrating alternative means of transportation including walking, jogging, biking, etc., as well as leisure and recreation space.

Close the Gap calls for proposals that fundamentally transform how people move through Manhattan. The competition offers a platform for exploring emerging ethics and aesthetics in urban design, as well trans-disciplinary underpinnings that link ecology with architecture, landscape architecture, planning, and urbanism. Close the Gap welcomes submissions that propose diverse, multi-layered, and nuanced understandings reconnecting people with cities, waterfronts, and alternative transportation systems. Entrants are encouraged to craft the fullest possible definition of alternative transportation that offers the potential to flexibly adapt and grow over time.

Eligibility

Individual or group entries worldwide are accepted. No limit on the number of participants per team.

Prize

Top concepts, designs, and images will be selected as finalists by a diverse jury of distinguished academics and professionals.

• First Prize: $3000 cash prize
• Second Prize: $2000 cash prize
• Third Prize: $1000 cash prize
• Special Mention Categories

Winning and top projects will be publicized in a broad media campaign in Fall 2011. An exhibition of competition winners will be shown at the Center for Architecture in NYC, Center Gallery at Fordham University, as well as other venues. A permanent gallery of all projects submitted to the competition will be published on-line. A print publication of winning and top design proposals is anticipated.

Competition Alert!

Hey Quirklusters!

There’s a new competition out there waiting to be had–this one is for all of your architects/interior designers/urban planners/landscape archies, etc! It’s through SuckerPUNCH, which is one of my favorite places to seek out competitions. They’re always really interesting, and typically involve great cash prizes or some stellar publication. I’ve copied the details below. I think it would be fun if there was a Quirkust team created…just saying…

Lust on!

center for urban farming
///theCOMPETITION

As the interest and demand rises in New York City for locally grown food and the appreciation for a wealth of vegetables and plants deepens, there exists an opportunity to develop an urban agriculture for the city. Urban farming has the potential to raise city dwellers’ awareness of their food sources and increase their appreciation for agriculture and sustainable practices. In addition to providing fresh nutrient rich food, the farms will provide a wealth of new employment opportunities in the city as well as potential revenue from urban farm markets. Waste incurred by shipping food into the city will also be reduced and will allow for even fresher farm to table opportunities at the markets and restaurants.

This open international ideas competition is for a Center for Urban Farming. This center will experiment with a small farm within New York City while also developing programs and serving as an educational hub for the promotion of urban agriculture. The facilities will house testing centers for developing means of safely and efficiently farming in the city as well as offices for staff working to develop land in the city and promote the cause.  There will also be exhibition space and lecture space for events and symposia. While farming is a fundamental part of our history, to make urban agriculture succeed, technology and science will play an important role. The celebration of progress and technology should be explored in the architecture for this project. The notion of a farm should be reconsidered as its placement in a dense metropolis is quite different than its historically rural setting in the same way that the use of hydro/aeroponics and other soil remediation techniques rethink the relationship of food to the ground. There also exist important variables such as the decision to grow indoors versus outdoors or on ground level versus rooftop. In any case the land around the center’s planning and use is vital to the project as well as its relationship to the building. The farm will recycle its black water to take advantage of rainwater harvesting. The center and farm spaces should strive for an exuberance to match the exciting potential and serve as a visual landmark in the city.

///theSITE

The site for the project is located adjacent to the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This area was used to build ships for the US Navy, starting in 1801. The Brooklyn Navy Yard has historically embraced new and innovative technologies. Many of the early American steam ships were constructed and worked on at this yard. The site was the first place in the US that a steam powered pile driver was implemented and was also one of the first dry docks. The Niagara was the first ship to lay trans-atlantic telegraph cable from the dock of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. The first song broadcast over wireless radio went out form the Dolphin when it was docked at the Yard. In 1966 the dock was closed and then bought by the city of New York to be transitioned into an industrial park. The Navy Yard currently houses diverse businesses such as movie studios, furniture manufacturers, ship repairers, architectural designers, electronics distributors and jewelers. The site is rich with history including two decades of the celebration of progressive technology and urban employment. Currently the site is used by a tow company as a place to store impounded cars, for this ideas competition the pound will be relocated leaving the site vacant. Site is zoned as M1-2. See http://www.nyc.gov/html/dcp/html/zone/zh_m1.shtml for more details.

///PROGRAM

Lobby 3000 sq ft
Exhibition gallery 10000 sq ft
2-Lecture halls 2500 sq ft each
3-classrooms 1000 sq ft each
Cafe serving food grown on site 10000 sq ft
Offices 3000 sq ft
Restrooms [8] 100 sq ft min each
Conference room 1000 sq ft
Laboratories [4] 2500 sq ft each
Delivery Dock for receiving and shipping 2500 sq ft
Storage 3000 sq ft
Parking – One Space / 2000SF
Farm space and type defined by entrant
This is an open international ideas competition hosted by suckerPUNCH to generate progressive contemporary design ideas. There are no plans for the Urban Farm to be built at this time. The site is not owned by or affiliated with suckerPUNCH.

///jury/AWARDS

robertBRACKETT (ffflourish)
lonnCOMBS (EASTON + COMBS)
abigail COOVER (hume coover studio, suckerPUNCH)
annaDYSON (Center for Architecture Science & Ecology)
jose GONZALEZ (SOFTlab)
nathan HUME (hume coover studio, suckerPUNCH)
seanLALLY (WEATHERS)
ronniePARSONS (studioMODE)
mike SZIVOS (SOFTlab)
keith VANDERSYS (PEG office of landscape + architecture)
This competition is blind peer reviewed.
$2500 in prizes will be awarded and the winning designs will be published on suckerPUNCH.

///entryREQUIREMENTS

this is an open ideas competition. entrants will be required to digitally submit two [2] boards at 18” high x 24”wide and 150dpi in tiff format with the provided 5 digit code in a 1”x1” square in the lower right hand corner of each board. image requirements are as follows: plans all necessary site and floor plans to describe the project including at the minimum a ground level plan describing the form, integration of program and relationship to the site
*scale is at the discretion of the entrant

sections
one [1] north/south section
one [1] east/west section
*scale is at the discretion of the entrant
renderings
one [1] aerial view
one [1] exterior view of the farm
one [1] interior view
*one rendering best describing the formal and atmospheric intent of the project must be rendered at 10” high x
13” wide and 150dpi in tiff format. this image is to be included on the boards as one of the above views.
///competitionSCHEDULE
04 April 2011 competition launch
13 May 2011 deadline for questions may
16 May 2011 answers to questions will be posted on suckerPUNCH
23 May 2011 early registration deadline
15 August 2011 registration deadline
22 August 2011 project submission deadline
12 September 2011 winners will be posted on suckerPUNCH

///registration/FEES

entrants may register by submitting payment to suckerPUNCH via paypal and contact info to competitions@ suckerPUNCHdaily.com. once payment and contact info is received, an email will be sent containing all project documentation (including dimensioned cad plan, 3d model, aerial photo, site photos, and zoning information) and a 5 digit identification number to be placed in a 1”x1” square on the bottom right corner of each board. the
submission procedure will also be outlined in this email.
early registration fee – $35
registration fee – $65
please email any questions to competitions@suckerPUNCHdaily.com

//links

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/a/agriculture/urban_agriculture/index.
html?scp=1-spot&sq=urban%20agriculture&st=cse

The Problem

http://www.greenthumbnyc.org/
http://www.justfood.org/
http://www.urbanfarming.org/

Homepage

http://www.added-value.org/
http://aerofarms.com/