Gaudi Competition - A Minimum House for Leisure in the 21st century
Program meanings
At the XXI century, the space mutation due to human activity entails new meanings.
Depletion of fossil energies and pollution consequences lead him to reconsider his way of wasting space and raw material for building, organizing urban economy and for inhabiting territories.
The project of a multifunctional space, for leisure, work, living puts its creator into the heart of these aims then dramatizes them because it just places its reliance on the contradiction between preservation and development. Today this entails new resolutions in technique, spatial and social fields.
Nowadays imagining a sustainable minimum house equals to provide a teaching and prospective experience to its future inhabitants in which occupying a site as well as its wealth is linked to a new sense of responsibility, in which the technical invention supports a new economy of inhabited space.
First, students will have to determinate, according to their experience of young European, their definition of leisure in a contemporary society and to justify their choice of a relevant site.
Then they will have to get their project into a view of the territory/urban network 1:1000.
Schedule
The competition is open to all European students but its organisation relies specifically on a network of architecture schools with a leadership in teaching sustainable urbanism and architecture. The entry fee to subscribe to the competition is 15 euros, to be paied on line
February
- online implementation of the resources database ;
- online implementation of the competition’s programme, terms and conditions.
THE COMPETITION IS OFFICIALLY LAUNCHED SINCE THE 28th OF FEBRUARY 2007
THE DEADLINE TO REGISTER ON LINE IS THE 31st OF JULY 2007
September- online submission of projects in identity-sheet format.
THE OFFICIAL DEADLINE TO GIVE BACK THE PROJECTS ON LINE IS THE 30th OF SEPTEMBER 2007
October - technical commission.
November - international jury.
After the competition: 2008 Exhibition
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It’s unique and beautiful. It has a sort of futuristic beauty and simplicity that makes me think that I won’t mind if buildings would look like this in the future.