EVALUATION
The core values of the competitions are:
/ Effective communication of the design qualities through the drawing
/ Originality of the design
/ Relevance to the building function addressed by the competition
These values will lead the selection of the finalists’ projects and they will be used by the jury as a guideline in their decision.
This is a competition of ideas, an opportunity to experiment and explore the limits of architecture representation. The jury reserves the right to award any proposal that fails at any of the parameters mentioned in these rules, as long as it justifies the breach of the rule in favour of the value of the proposal.
The voting system to choose the winning projects is as follows:
Non Architecture competitions team, following the main values of the competition, will make an initial selection of finalist projects in response to the above criteria. The amount of pre-selected projects can slightly vary according to the judgment of the pre-selection team.
The members of the jury will study the pre-selected projects privately and give an evaluation for each one of them. Votes will be compared and revised to reach a common agreement on the selection of winners and honourable mentions.
In order to guarantee the authenticity of the awarding process, the prize selection cannot be appealed.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
All the material submitted to the competition will become part of Non Architecture Competitions’ files. Non Architecture will have full rights to publish and promote this material, always making proper mention of their authors.
The material might also be used for the platform’s merchandising and exhibition purposes. For any other purpose, the authors of the projects will keep full rights over their design and will be asked to grant permission.
By submitting a proposal you are giving Non Architecture the right to use the received material in both printed and online publications.
Non Architecture Competitions will also have the right to slightly modify any of the mentioned material in order to better adapt it to the different formats and layouts that different publications might have.
ADDITIONAL NOTES
- Non Architecture Competitions reserves the right to make any changes to the competition announcement (dates, deadlines, requirements, etc.) as long as the changes benefit a majority of the competition participants. Any modifications will be announced on the Non Architecture social media platforms, as well as a special newsletter. It is each team’s responsibility to check the Non Architecture Competitions outlets regularly during the competition process and stay up to date with the shared information.
- The purpose of this competition is an intellectual exercise and will not be built. In order to produce relevant collective research, a minimum amount of 50 registrations has to be submitted. If the registrations are less than 50 by the day of the deadline, Non Architecture Competitions reserves the right to not proceed with the awarding of the monetary prize but we will proceed with the winners’ selections and the book’s publication. In this eventuality, all the subscription fees will be reimbursed to the participants.
- No one has hired Non Architecture to organize this contest. The only purpose of this initiative is to raise questions that could lead to the progress of architecture practice and engage a community of enthusiastic and creative designers in the creation of what could be a new way to represent architecture. The idea and program of this competition have been fully developed by Non Architecture Competitions to serve solely as an academic exercise.
- Non Architecture Competitions is not held responsible for a breach of contract regarding the publications.
- Participants are expected to submit original work. Copying somebody else’s work or using copyrighted photos, images, architectural/art pieces is strictly prohibited and will result in recalling all prizes and removal from the website, social media and the publication.
- This competition as well as all products and brand elements related to Non Architecture are the sole property of Non Architecture s.r.l., VAT 16621271002, located in Via delle Coppelle 3, 00186, Rome, Italy.