Tag Archives: Eco-Friendly

Submission: 23rd September 2024
Registration: Early bird registration until April 2023
Language: English/Spanish/Catalan
Location: Aiguamolls de l’Empordà, Costa Brava, Spain
Prizes: over £10,000
Type: International Architecture Competition

 

Challenge: to design a floating house, which can be incorporated in the Self-Sufficient Eco Village Competition.

A successful design will demonstrate how the specifics of the site have been considered, including the rise and fall of the water and how this will be achieved without stopping the flooding and therefore impacting the ecology of the landscape. Continue reading

Submission: 23rd September 2024
Registration: Early Bird registration until April 2023
Language: English/Spanish/Catalan
Location: Aiguamolls de l’Empordà, Costa Brava, Spain
Prizes: over £10,000
Type: International Architecture Competition

 

Challenge: The Town Hall should contain a communal, multifunctional space, an information/visitor point and a small cafe.

The idea of this competition is to create a unique, site-specific design that responds to this special setting and the natural changes that occur within.

The building will be made up of a communal, multifunctional space capable of hosting markets, school groups, small theatre and music productions and political and cultural gatherings, as well as a variety of other community interest activities.

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Submission: 23rd September 2024
Registration: Early Bird registration until April 2023
Language: English/Spanish/Catalan
Location: Aiguamolls de l’Empordà, Costa Brava, Spain
Prizes: over £10,000
Type: International Architecture Competition

 

Challenge: to design a self-sufficient eco village in the protected wetlands of Empordà.

This design challenge asks for a fully self-sustaining eco village that will sit peacefully within the site and allow both humans and nature to share the same space and revolutionises the way we live – providing a fully independent and minimal impact lifestyle, while retaining the comforts and technologies of modern day life.

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Submission: March 4, 2022
Registration: February 17, 2022
Language: English
Location: Satara, Maharashtra, India
Prizes: 20.5 Lakhs INR
Type: For professionals

 

Health and public building facilities are part of basic infrastructure requirements of any human settlement. In the recent COVID pandemic, the need for good health facilities and administrative set up has become of immense importance all over the world. In this post COVID world which is trying to find a firm bearing to face the future, It is Architect’s who will shoulder the responsibility of producing building design that will not only provide functionally efficient facilities but, go many steps ahead and provide a climatically, socially responsive built form that will heal the inhabitants on both physiological and psychological grounds.

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Prototype Design for Rural Sector

Submission: July 20, 2020
Registration: July 20, 2020
Language: English, Chinese
Location: Lishui City, Zhejiang Province,China
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

As an important birthplace and practical realization of the concept of “Lucid waters and lush mountains are invaluable assets”, Lishui has assumed the responsibility of exploring the construction of contemporary ShanShui cities. With this background in mind, we hope to build upon Lishui’s status as a “traditional Chinese ShanShui city” to organically combine the spirit of Chinese ShanShui together with contemporary waterfront urban development concepts. The goal is to methodically construct a Shanshui city spatial framework in order to set a model image for this city typology, to create a new ShanShui city lifestyle, and to explore contemporary, sustainable urban planning strategies.

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urban design competition

Submission: May 11, 2018
Registration:  May 11, 2018
Language: English
Location: Portland, USA
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Ideas competitions

 

Calling all designers, architects, makers, builders, artists, and creatives: New international design challenge for a public outdoor bench exhibition! Designers, whether individual or in teams, are invited to design a sustainable, outdoor park bench with a focus on reuse, using environmentally-friendly materials and innovative construction methods. Semi-Finalist teams will fabricate their unique bench designs to be featured in an outdoor public design exhibition at the World Trade Center Portland in August of 2018.

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street seats competition