Note: As is our policy, we have not listed a number of ongoing ideas competitions based on several criteria: the participants may be asked to actually create their own program, the disproportionate ratio of entry fee to prize money, and cases where organizers running idea competitions on a frequent basis are doing so without real clients.
RFQ for Design-Build Services for the St. Elizabeth's East Gateway Pavilion
Sponsors: District of Columbia Department of General Services
Type: Open, RfQ, two-phase
Location: Washington, DC
Language: English
Fee: None
Eligibility: Licensed architects
Process: Three firms shortlisted for second stage design competition
Jury: N/A
Timetable:
20 June 2012 - RfQ documents due
2 July 2012 – Shortlist announced
6 August 2012 – Design presentations
27 August – Winner announced
15 May 2013 – Completion of project
Design Challenge:
The District seeks to take a bold first step in realizing its plans for the campus by constructing an innovative and aesthetically unique structure to serve interim uses before the redevelopment of the site is complete and has these additional goals:
• To provide an iconic structure to house food amenities (i.e. lunchtime vendors) to serve Coast Guard employees, community members, and other local employees in the years before the first phase of East Campus construction is completed (approx. 2015).
• To provide a flexible space to host other activities such as farmer’s markets, community, and cultural events.
• To activate the East Campus and begin to brand it as an iconic, unique and active asset and destination to the local community, East of the River, and greater DC area.
Delivery of documents to:
DC Department of General Services
Att’n: JW Lanum
Frank D. Reeves Center
2000 14th Street, NW, 5th Floor
Washington, DC 20009
For more information, go to:
http://dgs.dc.gov/DC/DGS/Opportunities/Solicitations/RFP+for+Design-Build+Services+for+the+St.+Elizabeth%27s+East+Gateway+Pavilion
Notre Dame de l’Assomption
Sponsor: Bishopric, Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Type, Open, international, anonymous, ideas
Languages: English and French
Location Port-au-Prince, Haiti
Eligibility: Licensed architects
Fee: $100 per submission
Awards:
First place, US$12,000
Second Place, US$8,000
Third Place, US$5,000
Timetable:
15 July 2012 – Registration deadline
15 Oct 2012 to 15 November 2012 – Submission deadline
Jury:
• Chair: Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Duany Plater-Zyberk & Co., and Dean, University of Miami School of Architecture / Miami, FL
• Architect: Patrick Delatour / Port-au-Prince, Haiti
• Architect: Michael J. Crosbie, Ph.D., FAIA / Editor-in-Chief, Faith & Form / Essex, CT
• Structural Engineer: Kit Miyamoto / Miyamoto International
• Liturgical Consultant and Designer: Father Richard Vosko / Clifton Park, NY
• Writer: Edwidge Danticat / Miami, FL
Compensation: The purpose of this competition is to identify winning entries that will inform and could be selected as designs for the reconstruction of the new national cathedral in Port-au-Prince. In such cases project contracts would be negotiated and any remuneration would be unrelated to any prize award.
Design Challenge:
The cathedral is to be a technologically advanced structure that takes tradition into account. Its construction will generate considerable economic activity and will stimulate the rebirth of the Capital’s largely destroyed downtown area. This vital structure will put into application national and international building codes to ensure a safe and effective center of worship.
To receive documents and register, go to:
http://competition.ndapap.org/index.php
Architecture at Zero 2012 Challenge
Sponsors: PG&E Zero Net Energy (ZNE) Pilot Program, UC Merced, SFAIA
Type: Open, international for architects, students and designers
Location:
UC Merced is the first new American research university in the 21st century, with a mission of research, teaching and service. The campus opened September 5, 2005, in the Central Valley of California. The university is about an hour north of Fresno, two hours south of Sacramento, two hours southeast of San Francisco and the Silicon Valley, and 90 minutes west of Yosemite National Park.
Fees: (early registration by August 1)
$100 for professionals + $97.75 board printing
$30 for students (no fee for board printing)
Timetable:
■ 1 October 2012 – Submission deadline
Jury:
• Bob Berkebile, FAIA, Principal, BNIM Architects
• Edward Mazria, Architect and author of The Passive Solar Energy Book
• Alison Kwok, Architect, Professor, University of Oregon
• Stephen Selkowitz, Program Head, Building Technologies Dept. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Awards:
■ US$25,000 (total)
Criteria for Judging
Entries are judged on the two presentation boards highlighting the project. Entries are weighed individually, not in competition with others. Jury decisions will be based solely on the materials submitted. Criteria include quality of design, resolution of the program or idea, innovation, thoughtfulness, and technique
Entries are judged on the two presentation boards highlighting the project. Entries are weighed individually, not in competition with others. Jury decisions will be based solely on the materials submitted. Criteria include quality of design, resolution of the program or idea, innovation, thoughtfulness, and technique
Design Challenge:
The design challenge is a zero net energy (ZNE) student housing or administrative office building design for the University of California Merced in Merced, California. As part of the Architecture at Zero 2012 challenge, entrants will also be asked to create a diagrammatic district energy plan for the Bellevue Gateway development. The buildings will be part of the Bellevue Gateway, a new mixed-use development located on the campus that will act as both the primary entrance to the University and as a bustling center of activity with sports facilities, dining, residential spaces, administration, and parking.
For more information, and to register, go to:
http://architectureatzero.com
RockShell – architectural possibilities in the use of wall building systems
Sponsor: innosite (Innosite builds on the idea of open innovation which means that companies involve external players and knowledge in their development processes.)
Type: open, international
Subject:
The RockShell wall system is a newly developed building system for supporting external walls. The RockShell wall system is an innovative modular system meeting future requirements of minimum energy loss and efficient building processes. The system combines the requirements of environmentally sustainable lightweight structures with prime energy performance, efficient assembly, technical support and advantages for the end user.
Fee: None
Timetable:
5 July 2012 – Submission deadline
Design challenge:
According to the sponsor, “We are looking for ideas and proposals that will demonstrate the use of RockShell in a social housing complex with family dwellings. The proposal must be based on the accurately drawn-up construction site,Åmosevej 12 in Hillerød, Denmark. Aerial photo is attached. The proposal submitted should contain a housing project comprising 20-50 dwellings for families, each of maximum 110m2, built as terraced houses, cluster houses or blocks of flats of maximum 2 ½ floors. The areal of the construction site is 7483 m2. The parking and buildings should be disregarded in the proposal.
We are looking for ideas and proposals that challenge the parameters and the limitations of the building system without compromising architectural quality.”
For more information, go to:
HOME – Affordable Housing for $30,000
Sponsor: Building Trust, U.K.
Type: open, international
Eligibility: Professionals, students
Subject: Designing a dwelling in a Developed Country for $30,000 (£20,000)
Fees: None for students; £95 for design professionals
Timetable:
30 June 2012 – Registration deadline
31 July 2012 – Submission deadline
Design challenge:
To find well designed homes for the elderly or homeless within some of the World’s richest countries. The growing rate in single occupancy households has led to increased numbers of young and elderly people affected by poverty being forced to live in substandard living conditions & in the worst cases sleeping rough. Designers, engineers, architects and house builders are being asked to provide a solution to the housing crisis by offering sustainable, affordable small homes that give those that are alienated or marginalised within society a safe place to live. Contestants are asked to site their proposals in an urban area of a developed country, develop single occupant designs that are sensitive to the local context and keep to a budget of £20,000
For more information, go to:
http://www.buildingtrustinternational.org/competition.html
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