CITY-SENSE

Shaping our environment with real-time data
4th Advanced Architecture Contest

Deadline for Questions: 01 August 2011
Deadline for Submission: 26 September 2011

The Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia and HP announced the 4th Advanced Architecture Contest, on the theme of CITY-SENSE: Shaping our environment with real-time data.

The aim of the competition is to promote discussion and research through which to generate insights and visions, ideas and proposals that help us envisage what the city and the habitat of the 21st century will be like.

The competition is open to students as well as architects, engineers, planners, designers and artists who want to contribute to progress in making the world more habitable by developing a proposal capable of responding to emerging challenges in areas such as ecology, information technology, architecture, and urban planning, with the purpose of balancing the impact real-time data collection might have on sensor-driven cities. There is no age limit; the projects may be carried out be individually or in groups, with no restriction on the number of members of the team. The Registration is free.

Topic: CITY-SENSE: Shaping our environment with real-time data.
The programme challenges the participants to design one of these 2 options:
A- Self-sufficient building
B- Self-sufficient city
The participants will be free to decide on the size and location of the Project, which must be clearly detailed and justified.
Any time projection short (10 years), medium (50years) or long-term within the duration of the 21st century is allowed.
The competition entries should be submitted digitally in PDF files via the Internet.

The competition jury, which is composed of architects, professionals in a wide range of fields and directors of some of the world's foremost architecture schools, is looking for outstanding proposals at any scale, for any city in the world on Smart Cities, Eco neighborhoods, Selfsufficient buildings, Intelligent homes or any other proposal that analyzes the phenomena of sensor-driven cities and intelligent behavioural systems.

The prize (Total value: 60.000, 00 EUR) will be distributed at the discretion of the Juries following the bases scheme. The three teams leaders will receive cash prizes (3,000 €, 2,000 €, 1,000 €), and a one-year grant to take the Master in Advanced Architecture at IAAC and research in greater depth the manufacture of self-sufficient architecture..
The selected projects will go on show in a major exhibition, due to open in Barcelona in May 2012, which will then travel to key cities around the world. The best projects will also be featured in a book to be published by Actar-Birkhauser publishing house like in the three previous editions: SELF-SUFFICIENT HOUSING, SELF-FAB HOUSE and SELF-SUFFICIENT CITY.

Calendar:
Questions:
Registered participants may submit questions, by e-mail only, to the address: contact@advancedarchitecturecontest.org .
The deadline for questions is 1 August 2011.
Grouped replies will be posted on the Web site before August 15th 2011

Closing date for registration and submission:
Monday 26 September 2011; 5:00 pm (GMT)
Selection of projects by the Jury: October-November 2011
Announcement of results: 5 December 2011
International presentation of results: November 2011
Book Release: May 2012
International Exhibition: May 2012 - January 2013

Further Information:
www.advancedarchitecturecontest.org

IaaC
IaaC is a latest-generation education and research centre with a focus on defining new models of habitat for the 21st century. IaaC acts as a network within which specialists from a variety of disciplines (ecologists, anthropologists, engineers, computer programmers, artists, sociologists and others) interact with architects in the attaining of knowledge and skills with which to develop advanced architecture. The Institute uses cutting-edge technologies to design and produce prototypes of self-sufficient habitats and works closely with other nodes of knowledge in various cities around the world, as well as participating in the Fab Lab network, effectively furthering our understanding of different realities and acting globally.

HP
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