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RESULTS

Check the winners, the honourable mentions and the finalists of the competition!

Projects will be published daily after the Winners’ announcement, it might take some time until your project will be visible.

AWARDS FOR CATEGORY “PROFESSIONALS”:

BEST PROJECT

31646_Hetero-City

BEST AMSTERDAM SITE

31610_The Productive Loop

BEST SHENZHEN SITE

29876_WORLDLY LIFE ON MAGNETIC RAILS

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

29921_Vibrant self-circulating social-ecosystem

32395_The Hundred Porches

29488_Zero

31785_TECHNOLOGY BLENDED WITH FUTURE URBAN HEALING IN SHENZHEN

32573_Towards a Hyperdiverse Amsterdam-Noord

30244_DREAMfree

EDITORIAL PICKS

30244_freeDAM

30042_Urban Platform

30245_univer(C)ity

29384_Urban Umbilical Cord

32271_The Permeable City

32521_COMMUNITY 2050

 

AWARDS FOR CATEGORY “OPEN”:

BEST PROJECT

32026_Live Together: Towards multi-species coexistence

BEST AMSTERDAM SITE

29931_Sympoiesis of Fragments

BEST SHENZHEN SITE

29697_VSEFI Community

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

32421_“Foreigners” No More

29718_exxxperimentStadt

29523_New Shenzhen: The Re-Imagination of Urban Canteen

29660_Autonomous Civic Space

30141_Polar-IJ 2050

32424_Rebirth of the land

32569_Evergreen

EDITORIAL PICKS

31726_The Garden of Earthly Delights

29169_SHENZHEN PLUS

32028_Think the city as an ecosystem

29650_Way Back to Reality

30223_Urban Alchemy

32082_Parallel Office

32373_Amsterdam Floating 2050

SUMMARY

A free design competition to imagine the future of Urban Communities

 

BRIEF IN SHORT:

Co-organised by the Urban Planning & Design Institute of Shenzhen (UPDIS), the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia (IAAC), the international agency ARQ and curated by Non Architecture, this competition, titled “Community 2050”, aims to gather reflections and design inputs for a more sustainable and equitable progress of cities.

The competition theme proposes to look at communities through the lenses of technology and innovation. What is ahead?

Five overall topics are considered central:

  • Environmental Sustainability
  • Safety and Resilience to Climate Change and Disasters
  • Ecology and Health
  • Urban Regeneration, Densification and Heritage Protection
  • Social Inclusiveness and Community thriving

These five topics can be conjugated into the two competition sites. The sites present common features but also radical differences.

 

TWO SITES:

The two sites selected for this competition are located in Shenzhen High Tech Park (CN) and in Amsterdam Ijplein (NL), one of the first OMA’s projects.

The first is what we define “Innovation Ecosystem”, a complex urban form supporting a community of innovators and corporations in an interconnected system. 

The second was framed as a “Socio-cultural Powerhouse”, for its diverse social composition, value in informality and cultural assets.

Participants can choose the site that better fits their interest and expertise and develop only one proposal, since winners for each site will be awarded separately.

 

TWO PARTICIPATION CATEGORIES:

To take part in the competition, teams must register through the Non Architecture.eu competition website. 

Participation will be allowed in two categories:

OPEN – in the spirit of the Non Architecture Competitions, participants to this category can have any background or level of expertise. They will be asked to develop an idea on one or more of the topics of the competition, without any limitation to scale and site boundary. STUDENTS from ANY LEVEL of education (Bachelor, Master, Phad…) should apply for this category.

PROFESSIONAL – Open only to those practising Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Design professionally, this category will call for a complete urban vision covering the whole extent of the competition site.

Participants in each category will be also awarded separately.

 

ELIGIBILITY:

Non Architecture Competitions are open to all human beings, from every age and cultural background, working in groups or individually. Personal information of all the team members can be uploaded during the submission procedure of the final drawing. Participating to this competition is totally for free.

AWARDS

AWARDS FOR CATEGORY “PROFESSIONALS”:

FINALISTS: 20 SELECTED – All of them are going to be published on the Non Architecture website.

Including:

  • Best Project – regardless of the site (1 prize) – 8.000 euros
  • Best Amsterdam Site (1 prize) – 5.000 euros
  • Best Shenzhen Site (1 prize) – 5.000 euros
  • Honourable Mentions (3 selected) – no money prize

 

AWARDS FOR CATEGORY “OPEN”:

FINALISTS: 15 SELECTED – All of them are going to be published on the Non Architecture website.

Including:

  • Best Project – regardless of the site (1 prize) – 3.000 euros
  • Best Amsterdam Site (1 prize) – 1.500 euros
  • Best Shenzhen Site (1 prize) – 1.500 euros
  • Honourable Mentions (3 selected) – no money prize

JURY & CALENDAR

The jury for this competition is composed of international experts:

  • Sima Xiao – President and Chief Urban Planner of UPDIS
  • Vicente Guallart – Former Chief Architect of Barcelona and Founder of IAAC
  • Steven Smit – Asia Director of MVRDV
  • Astrid Piber – Partner of UNStudio
  • Zhang Yuxing – Founder and chief designer of ARCity Office
  • Alain Chiaradia – Deputy Head, Department of Urban Planning and Design (DUPAD), Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong

1 November 2021 – Registration opens (FREE OF CHARGE)
25 January 2022 – Registration closes
1 January 2022 – Submission opens on our website
25 January 2022 – 23.59 – Submission closes
28 February 2022 – Winners announcement

The timing always refers to Central European Time (CET)

BRIEF & FAQ

DOWNLOAD THE BRIEF HERE (eng)

DOWNLOAD THE BRIEF HERE (chi)

REGISTER TO THE COMPETITION TO GET ADDITIONAL INFO ON THE BRIEF!

Participants to the competition will receive a download link to access a “Key Competition Insights” document, CAD files, and site photos. We recommend carefully reviewing the documents before starting the design. Additionally, we will share competition updates and insights via our newsletter, so we encourage you to subscribe to not miss any.

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REGISTRATION&SUBMISSION

For question about the competition, please do contact us at info@nonarchitecture.eu, specifying the competition you are referring to.

Before submitting your question, please check out the FAQ page.

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