Low Tech Solutions for Developing Countries:
The Moving School Project in Burma
by Stanley Collyer
Winning entry by Amadeo Benneta and Daniel LaRossa
Children are often the ones suffering most when they become refugees. Not only do they undergo the physical deprivations common to many of the most serious scenarios affecting refugees, they often miss out on the intellectual stimulation provided in their previous educational environment. Because of the relatively recent flow of those Burmese refugees over the Thai border fleeing persecution in their native Burma, the situation of the children has become increasingly precarious. After visiting the Mae Sot refugee camp on the Tai/Burmese border, Louise McKillop and David Cole of the U.K. non-profit, Building Trust International, decided to make an attempt to rectify this, even though if only on a modest scale: they decided to stage a competition for the design of a low-tech, sustainable school module that could be easily dismantled and moved back to Burma when conditions dictated it was safe to do so.
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Low-tech as High Value
De-Materializing Seattle Center: The Triumph of the Idea
by Clair Enlow
Winning entry by ABF
The most ambitious urban plans often don’t materialize beyond the drawing board. Usually, it’s a funding issue, or local politics, or simply the lack of will on the part of those who are calling the shots to take up a brand new idea. Seattle, no stranger to grand urban schemes, seems to be one of those rare exceptions—the sweeping Olympic Sculpture Park by Weiss/Manfredi being a recent example. A new plan by Field Operations (James Corner) for the Seattle waterfront could well turn out to be a worthy addition. So staging an ideas competition for an underused site near Seattle’s urban core—Seattle Center—would seem like an attention-getter and harbinger of great things. As was the case with this competition, initiating a discussion about a site without imposing strict programmatic limitations can sometimes get the ball rolling. Wasn’t this how New York’s High Line got started, first raising the bar with an ideas competition until it developed into a real project?
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Sponsor: Japan Sport Council
Type: RfQ, open, international
Languages: English, Japanese
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Eligibility requirements:
Laureates for any of the following: Pritzker Prize, AIA Gold Medal, RIBA Gold Medal, UIA Gold Medal, Honor of Prince Takamatsu and
Architects who have shown the ability to design and complete a
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Sponsor: AIAS Students
Type: Open, architecture students
Timetable:
14 October 2012 – Registration deadline
29 November 2012 – Submission deadline
Total Awards: $7,725.00
Challenge:
With the steady advent of new technologies, libraries are becoming more urbanized, collaborative community spaces as well as massive repositories of online data
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Sponsor: Kingspan
Type: Student, open
Fee: None
Language: English
Eligibility: Students presently enrolled in an accredited university program in the U.S. or Canada
Timetable:
31 October 2012 – Submission deadline online
7 November 2012 – Online voting deadline
Awards:
• Judged Winner – selected by the
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Sponsor: Philadelphia Center for Architecture
Type: Open, International
Fee: None for pre-registration; $50 for final entry
Language: English
Eligibility: Open to all college and university students who are matriculating during the competition period. Students may enter as teams or individuals.
Timetable:
Pre-Registration Deadline: 11:59PM, October 4, 2012
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Sponsor: The Battery Conservancy, New York City
Type: Open, but restricted to professionals and students residing in the Americas
Eligibility: Professional designers and students residing in North and South America
Language: English
Fees and timetable:
Early registration – US$50 (individuals); US$75 (teams) to October 1, 2012
Late registration
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Type: Open, international
Location: Armilla (Granada), Spain
Language: Spanish
Fee: None
Eligibility: Licensed architects
Jury: TBD
Timetable:
4 September 2012 – Submission deadline
Design Challenge:
Se pretende la construcción del Centro Granadino del Alzheimer, cuyo objetivo es ser un lugar de referencia asistencial y social,
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Sponsor: Gowanus by Design
Type: Open, ideas, one-stage
Language: English
Location: New York City
Eligibility requirements:
Professionals and students of architecture/landscape architecture
Fees:
$50 for students; $75 for professionals
Timetable:
19 October 2012 – Registration deadline
16 November 2012 – Q & A deadline
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Aging in Place—Kitchens
First Place Preservation through Creation Tony Zhang, Daniel Gehr, Richard May Advisor: Erica Cochran 2nd year students, Carnegie Mellon University
Second Place Staying Young in Old City: Securing Independence through Adaptable Design Jason Klinker, Madeline LaPlante Recent Graduates, Ball State University
Third Place
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