The Architect · 2024「TEAMZERO Award」International Architecture Design Competition for College Students

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2024-5-22 18:26

The Architect · 2024「TEAMZERO Award」International Architecture Design Competition for College Students

【TOPIC】

Shrink Street

【TOPIC MAKER】

Yung Ho Chang

Fellow of the American Institute of Architects（FAIA）

Founding Partner and Principal Architect of Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ)

MIT Emeritus Professor

【SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS】

【SHRINK STREET】

DIRECTOR OF THE JURY

WANG Jianguo

Director of National Supervision Board of Architectural Education (China)

Professor of School of Architecture, Southeast University

Director of The Architect Editorial Board

JURY MEMBERS

Xing RUAN

Dean of School of Design & Guangqi Chair Professor of Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Curator of the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia – China Pavilion

Curator of the Architectural Curator of the 2019 Shanghai Urban Space Art Season Biennale

XIAO Yiqiang

Professor of school of Architecture, Dean of the School of Design, South China University of Technology

Deputy Editor-in-chief of South Architecture

SONG Yehao

Professor of School of Architecture, Tsinghua University

Deputy Chief Architect of THAD

LI Li

Professor of Architecture College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University

Founder and Principal Architect, Rurban Studio

MENG Fanhao

Co-Founder & Chief Architect, line+

RIBA Chartered Architect

AWARDS

Submission Materials

1. Design Drawings: One A0 (1189mm×841mm) board in JPG format, the information, such as manuscripts, model photos, and the results of site survey and investigation analysis, which is necessary to explain the design is encouraged to submit. Content may include but not limited to site plan, location plan，architectural plan elevation and section.

You are free to express your design, but the expression of space should be faithful to, and the excessive and exaggerated rendering should be avoided. The resolution of the board must be no less than 300dpi, no more than 50Mb(CMYK Mode). Personal and school information is not allowed to appear on the drawing. The drawing must be added with the [Reference Number] in a unified format, which is available for download on the web site.

The competition is free but entrants need to pay the cost of printing drawing. After the payment, the entrant would get a [Reference Number] with three or four numbers and this number would be used whensubmitting the works. The payment and [Reference Number] will be opened in mid-September 2024, please pay attention to the follow-up notice (Official WeChat, ID: thearchitect1979). Please remember to get the [Reference Number].

6. Entry Fee:

Please submit all the materials in a compressed format as a zip file to E-mail: thearchitect1979@cabp.com.cn.

Name Format of e-mail and attachment: [Reference Number] Name of Entrant’s University, Name of Entrant, Telephone Number. The design drawing and other materials should be named separately with [ Reference Number + file content ].

"Streets are the most basic public products of cities. It is where public activities are held and where relationships among urban residents the closest...”

——From City of Shanghai Street Design Guidelines

Five years from now, the dramatic decline in population growth and the booming development of urban rail transit, along with the subsequent shrinking demand for private vehicles and the rising of standards for pedestrian systems, may become a trend. That is likely to bring about a restructuring of urban public spaces. Land is the scarcest resource in the city, and how to transform the streets that could be too wide in the future or how to use the land that will be vacated after the reduction of traffic lanes is a challenge that must be faced.

Therefore, I hope that each student participating in this competition will choose an existing wide two-way street in her / his own city, with more than three lanes in each direction, and make as many site visits as needed to observe and analyze.

1. The uses and interfaces of the buildings on both sides of the street (whether there is a positive spatial and visual connection with the sidewalk);

2. Continuity and inclusiveness of sidewalks (whether there is the possibility of leisure, interaction, fitness, entertainment, and small business activities);

3. Distribution of urban furniture;

4. Parking of motor vehicles and bicycles.

Based on this research, within the length of one block, make a design that narrows the street by at least a third of its existing width. In essence, this exercise is about quality of urban life, and questions to consider include:

1. Reorganize traffic (for example, make separate vehicular ways and pedestrian walkways);

2. Plan street life;

3. What is the appropriate size of building volume for this street?

4. What might be the new building programs? Need to be specific: business (what kind of stores, eateries, and / or coffee shops); public facilities, including: sports, culture, education, parks; and / or housing (what type)?

5. Design the spatial, functional, and perceptual relationship between building content and sidewalks, bicycle lanes, and vehicular lanes;

6. If the street building is proposed to have mixed functions, design the relationship between functions;

7. Basic considerations of architectural design such as material, structure, construction and form.

Encourage collaboration between architecture and planning students.

Academician at Chinese Academy of Engineering

Yung Ho CHANG

Fellow of the American Institute of Architects（FAIA）

Founding Partner and Principal Architect, Atelier Feichang Jianzhu (FCJZ)

MIT Emeritus Professor

LI Shaoyun

General Manager and Design Director of TEAMZERO

Distinguished Professor of School of Architecture, Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)

LI Ge

Editor-in-Chief of The Architect, China Architecture Publishing & Media Co., Ltd.

The 1st Prize (One Winner) :

Certificate + ¥ 80,000 ( tax included )

The 2nd Prize (Two Winners) :

Certificate + ¥ 40,000 ( tax included )

The 3rd Prize (Seven Winners) :

Certificate + ¥ 10,000 ( tax included )

The Excellence Prize (Several Winners) :

Certificate + 6 issues of The Architect magazine in a year

( http://thearchitect.cabp.com.cn)

2. Design Note: It should be in DOC format and controlled in 300 words.

3. Author Information: The information collection table is available for download on the web site. (http://thearchitect.cabp.com.cn)

4. Declaration of the Originality: The commitment is available for download on the web site. (http://thearchitect.cabp.com.cn)

5. Statement of Student’s Status: The competition is only open to in-school students from China and overseas. A certification with college seal is needed to confirm identity.

Date of Submission:

Please submit all the materials to E-mail before 17：00, Dec 30, 2024 (China Standard Time). And you will receive our mail as a response.

Contestants:

This competition is only open to in-school students from China and overseas, including the students who will finish the study in 2024.

Selection Process:

The entries will be selected at School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University during March to May, 2025. And the results will be displayed to public online for a week at the same time.

Publication：

The final results will be known until the selection process is completed.

The award-winning works and critics will be published in The Architect.

REGULATIONS:

1. There are not more than three participants and at most two tutors per group. The competition is only open to in-school students from China and overseas, and tutors must be in-school teacher.

2. Each participant (including team collaboration) is allowed to submit no more than two entries, and only one entry is allowed as the first author.

3. No registration is required. The competition is free but entrants need to pay the cost of printing drawings.

4. No specific location site is required and no extra tasks are given. Entrants could choose those stuffs by yourselves. (PS: Entries will not be reviewed if any of the rules or submission requirements are not considered. Content may include but not limited to site plan, location plan，architectural plan elevation and section.)

5. Participants are not allowed to submit a project that was also submitted for a different competition which ends before the results of TEAMZERO Award Architecture Students Design Competition are announced.

6. The copyright of the entry belongs to the author and the publishing right belongs to the Architect. The organizer has the right to exercise the right of multi-terminal information network dissemination of the entries.

7. Entries should be originated; Plagiarism is prohibited.

8. The organizer has the final right to interpret the competition rules.

Competition Consultation: Scan the following QR code to join our QQ group（ID:680984989）.

【Secretary-General of Competition】

LI Ge

Editor-in-Chief of The Architect

【Contact】

CHEN Haijiao；LIU Chuan；LIU Ran

010—58337043 / 7115 / 7029

【Sponsors】

The Architect, China Architecture Publishing & Media Co., Ltd.

TEAMZERO Architecture and Planning Co., Ltd., Guangzhou

TEAMZERO Singapore Design Company

School of Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

【Advising Institution】

Teaching Guidance Subcommittee for Architecture Major in Higher Education Institutions of the Ministry of Education

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