Green Room Environmental Pavilion
International, open, student
18 March – Registration/Questions deadline
1st April 2008 – Deadline for submissions
Sponsor: EASA_Ireland_2008
Type: International, open, student
Fee: None
Awards:
The winning entry will be built at the EASA Summer Assembly in Ireland. The wining entrants will not have to pay participation fees (max. 2 people) to the EASA 2008 Assembly in Ireland.
There will also be commendations for the ‘Most Imaginative’ and ‘Most Practical’ entries. A single entrant from each of these will be awarded free participation to the easa 2008 Assembly in Ireland.
Timetable:
18 March – Registration/Questions deadline
1st April 2008 – Deadline for submissions
Eligibility: Entry to the competition is unrestricted. A full brief and full details are available online at www.easa008.ie.
Realization:
The wining project will be given to an architectural office to do construction drawings and prepare it for construction. It is to be built on a site in Letterfrack during the 2008 summer assembly as a high quality built workshop. It may be published in the national and international architecture press.
Background
An adverse effect of the recent explosion of population in Ireland is the inability of the educational system to adapt to new circumstances.
• Currently, 750 schools in Ireland are renting temporary prefab accommodation.
• Most schools have had to use the same prefabs for longer than expected periods, far exceeded their design lives.
• In some cases current teachers are now teaching in the same sub-standard, dilapidated prefabs they were educated in.
• Although 13 new schools built around Dublin will open their doors next September, the construction of new schools is falling long short of the population growth in and around the city.
Design Challenge:
The brief for this competition is to design a transportable pavillion that will function as a learning tool for school children. The aim of this brief is to create a space that embodys a lesson, and successfully explains and de-mystifies ecological and sustainable, architecture and principles.
Competition address:
EASA Ireland Competition Team
EASA Ireland Ltd.,
2 Terminus Mills, Clonskeagh Road,
Dublin 6, Ireland.
Email: competition@easa008.ie
Competition website:
