Bicentennial House Competition 2011 – UPDATE: EXTENDED SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE!Sponsor: Historic New Harmony, New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, National Endowment for the Arts
Type: Open, two stage Location: New Harmony, Indiana
Language: English Fee: $50 Eligibility: Students and professionals in the following fields: (i) architecture, (ii) architectural drafting, (iii) landscape architecture, (iv) building design, (v) interior design, (vi) urban planning, (vii) construction, (viii) construction management, (ix) engineering, (x)studio art, or (xi) affordable housing. Must be 18 years of age or older at the time of entry.
Timetable: August 1, 2011 – Registration and submissions deadline (extended)
August 10, 2011 – Round 1 winners notified August 20-September 24, 2011 – Bicentennial House Competition Exhibition/Public Vote October 1, 2011 – Round 2 winners notified Awards: 1st Place – $2,000 2nd Place – $1,000 3rd Place – $500 The winning design will be advanced to construction documents and become the property of the town of New Harmony. It will be given free of charge to anyone seeking to build within the town limits or immediate environs. Jury: Bernhard Karpf – Associate Partner, Richard Meier & Partners Charles Durret – Co-owner of The CoHousing Company Kathryn McCamant – CoOwner of The CoHousing Company
Design Challenge:
In celebration of New Harmony’s bicentennial in 2014, Historic New Harmony and the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, are sponsoring a 2011 Bicentennial House Design Competition. Individuals or teams are invited to submit designs inspired by the traditional Harmonist Construction with emphasis on sustainable, energy efficient and affordable housing.
A. Objectives:
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Contribute sustainable, affordable, contemporary design to unique architecture of New Harmony
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Create healthy, comfortable homes
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Minimize monthly gas and electric expenditures by conserving energy Reduce New Harmony’s impact on natural resources
B. Contest Focus:
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Single family housing
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Design living space that is attractive, functional and affordable
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Living space that is a minimum of 1,200 square feet
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Minimum space utility needs: kitchen, dining area, living area, 2-3 bedrooms, 1 bathroom, storage for bedrooms, bathroom(s,) kitchen and entry area, laundry room /mechanical rooms.
Submission Requirements:
1. Presentation boards should be confined to two, un-mounted 24”x 36” sheets of paper. Presentation boards should be 4,800 pixels by 7,200 pixels (24inx 36in @ 200 dpi) in JPG, PNG or GIF format. Please label all files with last name of designer/team leader and description: i.e. smith_presentationboard1.jpg.
2. Secondary images include building plan(s), building elevation, building sections and additional images. All image files should be at least 3000 x 2000 pixels (15x10in @200 dpi) Please label all files with last name of designer/team leader and description: i.e. smith_buildingelevation1. jpg. Secondary images must be limited to 10 (ten) images
3. A DVD of all project materials must accompany the entry.
4. Project description should not exceed three 8 1/2” x 11” pages and include information about materials, budget strategies, design intent and objectives.
5. Completed cost estimation based on 2011 construction start must include Life Cycle Costing or comparisons with conventional construction costs or both.
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Young Architects in Competitions When Competitions and a New Generation of Ideas Elevate Architectural Quality 
by Jean-Pierre Chupin and G. Stanley Collyer
published by Potential Architecture Books, Montreal, Canada 2020
271 illustrations in color and black & white
Available in PDF and eBook formats
ISBN 9781988962047
What do the Vietnam Memorial, the St. Louis Arch, and the Sydney Opera House have in common? These world renowned landmarks were all designed by architects under the age of 40, and in each case they were selected through open competitions. At their best, design competitions can provide a singular opportunity for young and unknown architects to make their mark on the built environment and launch productive, fruitful careers. But what happens when design competitions are engineered to favor the established and experienced practitioners from the very outset? This comprehensive new book written by Jean-Pierre Chupin (Canadian Competitions Catalogue) and Stanley Collyer (COMPETITIONS) highlights for the crucial role competitions have played in fostering the careers of young architects, and makes an argument against the trend of invited competitions and RFQs. The authors take an in-depth look at past competitions won by young architects and planners, and survey the state of competitions through the world on a region by region basis. The end result is a compelling argument for an inclusive approach to conducting international design competitions. Download Young Architects in Competitions for free at the following link: https://crc.umontreal.ca/en/publications-libre-acces/ Hangang District Urban Design International Master Competition
1st place entry by Dominique Perrault Architecture (image ©Dominique Perrault Architect)
China’s planning priorities for their urban areas experienced a sharp turn after the post-Mao reforms took place. During the early post-WWII period, when Soviet influence in the early urbanization of China dominated, industrial development took precedence over all other issues, with heritage, conservation, residential planning, and the amenities associated with it, being almost entirely neglected. Read more…
Winning design by ©Moreau Kusunoki /Genton
Although one might normally assume that local firms participating in a competition might have a clear advantage over foreign competitors, this has seldom been the case: just see Sydney’s Opera House, won by a Danish architect, and Toronto’s City Hall, won by a Finn—as evidence that well devised competition briefs as adequate documentation can create a level playing field for potential competitors, regardless of their location.
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Jensen Architects – Winning entry (Honor Award) Beginning in 2011, Architecture at Zero, a collaboration between the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and the California chapter of the American Institute of Architects (AIACA), was established to investigate the role architecture might play in reducing energy consumption in the built environment. Since then, every year has seen a new site and building type selected as a design challenge in what has become one of the world’s most interesting international competitions.
As a sign of its mounting popularity, the competition received 237 registrations from 49 countries and, according to the professional adviser, about 150 entries— all this during the Covid-19 virus pandemic, when all were compelled to work from home. Read more… An Ideas Competition in Opposition to a Concrete Design
Entry by TheeAe (Image © TheeAe)
In early 2020, a group advocating a new approach to the design of the Los Angeles Museum of Art (LACMA)—The Citizens’ Brigade to Save LACMA—organized a competition to counter an existing design by the Swiss Architect Peter Zumthor. Already commissioned by the LACMA administration, the project is slated to begin almost immediately with the demolition of four LACMA buildings—three existing and one new. Moreover, the existing plan to incorporate all of the existing collections under one roof isn’t covered by the Zumthor plan. This obvious lack of exhibit space was the focus of a query by the Ahmanson Foundation, a major donor of artworks to LACMA in the past. Upon not receiving assurances from LACMA that those donated works would be exhibited, but possibly held in storage and hidden from public view, the Foundation cut all ties with LACMA. Finally, the plan by Zumthor foresees the new structure not only occupying much of the new space created by demolition, but extends part of the new building over Wiltshire Boulevard. As one might anticipate from Zumthor, the construction of the structure is also primarily of concrete, thereby raising the cost per SF. So no matter how highly finished this material turns out to be, it does in essence represent a brutalist structure replacing an eclectic ensemble. Read more… National Railway Museum Central Hall (U.K.)
Winning entry by Feilden Fowles (image © Fielden Fowles)
If one were to search for a railway museum in the U.K., London would seem to be an obvious choice. But, as it happens, its location is in the northeastern city of York, far from the major cultural and economic centers of the country. But despite its distance from the major metropolitan areas to the south and west, York has managed to become the focal point of research into the history of rail in the U.K., supplemented by a major museum. Here we are not just talking about some posters, but sheds replete with a large collection of vintage trains. Read more… |
