Konkursy architektoniczne

Maj 20, 2013

Skin

Data końca rejestracji: 30/06/2013

Termin składania prac: 30/06/2013

Miasto: konkurs międzynarodowy

SKIN, as a digital fabrication competition, asks architects, designers and researchers to speculate, or if they so choose present existing research, on its role – by exploring new methods to enable the performative qualities of a façade.

The building envelope and the transition between what is outside and what is inside presents the most complex and fundamentally linguistic element of architecture today. The form and performative capacity of what we might call the activated envelope is foundational and presents a dialogue the building has with itself and that of its context. A building’s skin has the potential to synchronize form and illustrates the totality of the project, while driving how the building responds to its context, its role and ultimately its utility. Fundamental to this is an explicit or implicit adaptability found in its performance – how it functions and meets the needs of the building. In the preceding 100 years since the beginning of the 21st century the transformation from a static, heavy and obfuscating series of load bearing walls, to its current role of a communicative skin, dynamical and exploratory, sets the stage for what we believe is the most important area of research in architecture. SKIN, as a digital fabrication competition, asks architects, designers and researchers to speculate, or if they so choose present existing research, on its role – by exploring new methods to enable the performative qualities of a façade.

Design submissions may develop any context they choose, real or virtual, at any scale and on any building type so to present a complete thesis. Integrating structure, dynamical cladding or other system whether static and active may be submitted. We encourage the boldest visions and challenging technologies in the development of your proposal. The competition will select four of the most robust and intriguing projects, that best rethink the envelope, supporting those selections through prototypes developed to illustrate the potential of the competition submission.

CONTEXT + MATERIALS

SKIN is a two-stage international design competition established to foster the deeper developments within the field of computational fabrication. We are soliciting design proposals that further existing research, by enabling prototyping at a larger scale or full scale, and proposals to jumpstart new research and design concepts into a first prototype. Choice of project location, contextual constraints, programmatic and functional requirements are open and should be freely interpreted to further the proposal’s thesis.

SKIN seeks proposals that leverage the advancement of metal fabrication systems; however, we are open to hybridized material assemblies. As such it is not expected that metal is the only material system utilized in the design research, though we are seeking to collect and promote a concentrated body of work that can focus not only on its application but also the methodology. You must propose a specific fabrication method based on your research, thus the competition entry needs to specify techniques and materials.

IMPORTANT DATES

June 30, 2013 - Submissions due (Midnight) 23:59 PM EST
July 14, 2013 - Jury Finalists announcement – First Round
October 24, 2013 - Opening reception for First Round Finalist exhibition
October 25, 2013 - Jury review and Announcement of Winner
February, 2014 - Installation and opening reception for exhibition in Austin, Texas at TEX-FAB 5

More: http://tex-fab.net/skin-competition/

Dodano: 20/05/2013

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