Tag Archives: Vernacular

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: December 20, 2021
Registration: December 20, 2021
Language: English, Catalan, Spanish
Location: Catalonia, Spain
Prizes: Please see details below
Type: Open

 

El Pantà de Sau is one of the most prominent features of its kind across the whole of Spain. The valley in which it lies was home to the small village of Sant Romà de Sau which is now submerged beneath the reservoir, apart from the Church steeple, which is still visible when the water level is low. The reservoir is one of many that provides water for Catalonia’s Capital city, Barcelona and is therefore of huge importance to the area. Continue reading

el panta de sau

Submission: August 31, 2017
Registration: August 31, 2017
Language: English, Spanish
Location: Costa del Sol, Malaga, Spain
Prizes: Exhibition + more TBA
Type: Ideas Competition

 

For a second year the Costa del Sprawl ideas competition seeks creative solutions to improve the social, urban, and architectural situation in some of Costa del Sol’s sprawling neighbourhoods. This year’s competition is focused on the theme of ‘identity’ and invites participants to imagine a piece of architecture, whether building or space, which could be adopted as a model of contemporary vernacular architecture specific to the area of Riviera del Sol, and act as a precedent for the future planning and development of the neighbourhood. Continue reading

costa del sprawl competition