Skyscraper Competition

COMPETITION BRIEF

After the great success of the last year competition, eVolo Architecture presents the international architecture competition: 07 SKYSCRAPER. This year competition will close the skyscraper series which main goal is to shape the future of this fascinating architectural genre. Architects, designers and engineers from around the world are encouraged to take part in this new challenge.

eVolo Architecture makes an invitation to the participants to explore, rethink, speculate, and experiment on new ideas that would change the conception and redefine the term skyscraper. A journey into the unknown that defies the logic of the present, formulates new questions, and perhaps gives the society a new type of building. A building for the next generation, for the new type of living that allows nw potencials and perceptions. The project should also investigate on the urban and private space as well as the definition of new programs for a vertical structure. The competition does not have any restrictions on size, program, site or shape.

What is a skyscraper at the beginning of the XXI Century? What are the historical and social contexts of these megastrucutres? What are their responses towards the urban fabric? Is the modern skyscraper a city by itself? Is the human scale lost?

REGISTRATION
all students, architects, engineers, and designers are invited to participate. It is encouraged to have multidisciplinary teams.
register before january 8, 2007
registration fee is US 40 per team
individual entries are accepted
no limit on the number of participants in a team
entrants may pay with major credit cards including: visa, mastercard, american express and doscover via secure payment system.

Each participant must include their e-mail adress with their payment. As soon as we have received the competition entry fee we will send the entrant their participation number (different from paypal transaction number) which will be used later on in the submission boards.

SCHEDULE
august 15, 2006
competition announcement, registration begins, acceptance of questions.
November 19, 2006
acceptance of questions deadline
december 5, 2006
answers on questions will be posted on website
january 8, 2007
registration deadline
january 15, 2007
submission deadline (23:00 hours US Eastern Time. UTC/GMT -5 hours)
february 1, 2007
winners announced

SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS

this is a digital competition and no hardcopies are necessary. Entrants will submit their proposal via email no later than January 15, 2007 (23:00 hours US Eastern Time) to the following email adress: 07skyscraper@evolo-arch.com.

The submission must contain the following files:
1. Two boards with the project information including plans, sections, and perspectives. Participants are encouraged to submit all information they consider necessary to explain their proposal. These boards should be 24´´ X 48´´ in VERTICAL format. The resolution of the boards must be 150 dpi, RGB mode, and saved as JPG file with compression level 3. The upper right corner of each board must contain the participation number. There should not be any marks or any other form of identification. The files must be named as the registration number followed by the board number. For example: 0101-1.jpg and 0101-2.jpg
2.A .doc file containing the entrant personal information, including name, profession, adress, email and telephone number. This file must be named with the participation number followed by word „info“. For example: 0101-info.doc.

JURY

The members of the Jury are the winners of the 06 Skyscraper Competition.
CHANGHAK CHOI
GONZALO PARDO DÍAZ
NERI OXMAN
MITCHEL JOACHIM

AWARDS
1st place – US 2000
2nd place – US 1000
3rd place – US 500

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