SUMMARY | PRIZES | JURY&CALENDAR | BRIEF&FAQ | REGISTRATION&SUBMISSION

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.

WINNER

24143_The Evapo-sweaty Building

HONOURABLE MENTIONS

24724_City Quarry

24159_Fluid Strata

23663_Hydrocommunes

24440_Quarteto de agua – The impermeable island

24468_Infrastructures of Dust

23519_SLOW,STORE+RE-USE

23580_Water miner-Johannesburg 2050

EDITORIAL PICKS

23294_OIL PLATFORM REEF

23507_DUST

24444_STEAMPUNK

24709_Water Infrastructure

23505_Oasis

23608_t-H2O

24441_Xylematic Terrains

FINALISTS

23340_UltraMarina – Pollution of the Past, Potential for the Future

23360_Halophytic City

23417_2100+ Community

23429_fabRIG

23451_NoWater

23498_Harvest, Connect and Protect: An Adaptive City Story

23506_The Independant House

23508_Water Plant

23534_Wai (Water) Pavilion

23535_River Monument

23546_Polder Oasis Engine

23573_CITYSKIN

23577_NEITHER WATER NOR MASTER, Jack the dog remembers

23584_The NbS Propaganda

23611_Blue Oasis

23613_Soft Infra(structures)

23617_Check & Balance of Two Waterless Worlds

23631_Only WATERISM

23633_Living on roots

23677_Hydrotopia New-Delhi

23700_Critias. The tail of the future: an underwater world

23709_Water Everywhere

23840_Multix

23891_Tokyo Green Pole

23971_Skeleton Coast City

24144_Flowing Through a Waterless World

24203_Antardyka

24221_DE.SAL.AR.

24341_Hydro-Hats

24368_Hydro-Pass

24394_Borrow from the Clouds

24405_NeuXylem

24438_Cycles

24452_Waterfull mindset

24471_Hsocio2o

24482_Floating Island

24723_Architectural Skin

25089_sweat tank

SUMMARY

Our world is changing fast, while ambitions and challenges match in importance. In this context, design can play a huge role. How do we imagine the world to be? What range of possibilities we haven’t discovered yet? What’s a Non Architecture for a World in crisis? In 2020 we started the second phase of competitions to address the issues of tomorrow.

In line with our style we propose 9+1 themes – ten critical topics to work on, but this time they come with a framework to make sure that each theme is explored from different design angles. Rather than a program, a research ecosystem composed of various competitions running in parallel and exploring the same theme from different perspectives.

Our exploration journey will continue the theme two: H2O.

BRIEF IN SHORT:

In this competition, we encourage participants to come up with visionary concepts for life in a scenario of extreme water scarcity – Only 2 drawings, absolute freedom of scale, site, or program. You are asked to reimagine urban life through a variety of creative design concepts and ideas.

Our water resources are at risk due to a series of human-related issues: water pollution, intensive runoff in urbanized areas, climate change, saltwater intrusion, freshwater waste. Freshwater scarcity might soon be an outcome of all these processes. Participants are asked to propose conceptual ideas to mitigate and cope with the effects of a water crisis in our cities, landscapes, and rural areas.

Waterless World is part of the “Cities of Tomorrow” competition series, developed to reimagine life through a variety of creative design concepts and ideas. What kind of role can we play as designers in reimagining urban life? How can we produce new inspiring visions to trigger a discussion around alternative models of living?

Waterless World aims to answer those questions with a particular focus on the water crisis as a result of a global water shortage.

ELIGIBILITY:

Non Architecture Competitions are open to all human beings, from every age and cultural background, working in groups or individually. The registration fee is paid per team, regardless of how many members form it. Personal information of all the team members can be uploaded during the submission procedure of the final drawing.

WHY PARTICIPATE:

Gain experience and recognition, request a participation certificate, and post it on your Linkedin or CV!
Design a new puzzle piece to be added to your Portfolio or Behance page, keep developing your assets!
Give space to your creativity by solving a given challenge, it is satisfying!
Get to know better your team or your own design-thinking skills, it is fun!

PRIZES

WINNER (1 PRIZE)
- 1.000 euros.
- Publication in the Non Architecture Competitions books and website.
- Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs.
- 3 Books by DOM Publisher
HONORABLE MENTIONS (7 Prizes)
- Publication in the Non Architecture Competitions book and website.
- Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs.

EDITORIAL PICK (Maximum 6 Prizes)
- Publication in the Non Architecture Competitions book and website.

FINALISTS (Up to 36 Prizes)
- Publication in the Non Architecture Competitions Journal.

SPECIAL PRIZE
- The organization might establish additional special prizes and awards during the competition development and in the evaluation phase.

Note: The appearence on the involved architectural platforms are subject to the agenda and availability of the external platforms.

JURY & CALENDAR

The jury members are the following:

Joyce Van Den Berg – Chief Designer for Sustainability & Public Space, Urban Planning department Amsterdam Municipality
Karoline Liedtke – Head of Landscape at Cobe
Ad Kil – Founder of Ro&AD Architecten
Rens Wijnakker – Senior Landscape Architect at FABRICations
Megan Born – Senior Associate at James Corner Field Operations

2 – 14 January 2021 -Special registration period (40 €).
15 January – 14 February – Early registration period (55 €).
15 – 28 February – Regular registration period (70 €).
1 – 15 March – Late registration period (85 €).
5 March – Submission opens on our website.
15 March – 23.59 PM – Submission closes.
3 – 7 April – Winner announcement.

The timing always refers to Central European Time (CET)

Registration Bundles:
x2 Competitions: Second competition with 50% discount
x3 Competitions: Third competition for free

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.

THE MAXIMUM NUMBER OF PARTICIPANTS IN A TEAM IS 4 PEOPLE.

COMPETITION DEADLINES:

AXO BATTLE – FEBRUARY 21ST
WATERLESS WORLD – MARCH 15TH
AMSTERDAM CYCLING BRIDGE – APRIL 15TH

SUBMISSIONS CLOSED

ONE COMPETITION

€70

TWO COMPETITIONS

€105

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