UIA-HYP Cup 2020, International Student Competition in Architectural Design, Registration opened

Theme: Architecture in Transformation
Topic: City Puzzle & Puzzle City
Jury Chairman: Wolf D. Prix
Registration Deadline: 24:00(GMT+8) August 30th, 2020
Submission Deadline: 24:00(GMT+8) September 20th, 2020
Jury Review: October 2020

RIZE AND AWARD

1st Prize (1 team)
Certificate and 100,000 RMB (approx.15, 000 USD) (before tax);

2nd Prize (3 teams)
Certificate and 30,000 RMB (approx.4, 500 USD) (before tax);

3rd Prize (8 teams)
Certificate and 10,000 RMB (approx. 1, 500 USD) (before tax);

Honorable Mentions (several teams)
Certificate and 6-month free subscription of UED magazine;
Advisors of prize-winning projects will also be awarded with certificates.

PROCEDURE

1. This is a fair competition open to all architecture and relevant major students around the globe. Full-time on-campus architecture students from accredited institutions (including master and PhD candidates and graduate students of 2020) can participate alone or as a team with team members of no more than four people and advisors of no more than two.

2. Only the team leader will be contacted when necessary if students participate as a team.

3. Log on http://hypcup.uedmagazine.net/?r=site&en=1, click “Online Registration” to fill out the registration form and submit online.

4. After filled in the registration form, participants will get a serial number (please take care to preserve it as each participant/participating team has only one serial number).

5. Please submit the digital version of drawings and related documents to uedcompetition@163.com before the submission deadline, 24:00(GMT+8) September 20th, 2020. The organizing committee accepts no printed version. Entries will be printed and exhibited together in due time.

6. With the assistance of the committee, juries will meet and decide the winners.

7. Inquiries related to the competition will be responded to via e-mail: uedcompetition@163.com.

REGULATION

1. Individual participants and groups must agree with and follow the competition requirements and regulations. The organizing committee reserves its right of final interpretation.

2. Entries with words or pictures relating to the name or department of participants in the digital drawings will be disqualified from the competition.

3. Participants have the copyright, while the organization committee can exercise all other rights except authorship.

4. Entries that have been submitted to other competitions, published on other public occasions or found to be similar to other works in terms of design ideas will be disqualified from the competition.

5. Juries cannot act as advisers to participants; otherwise participants will be disqualified from the competition.

6. Each participant can only register in one team.

7. Each group is only allowed to submit one piece of work. Repeated submission is prohibited. Once discovered, the organizing committee owns the right to choose any one of them.

8. The information of the team is based on the final submission of the TXT file.

Contents: Competition Topic: City Puzzle & Puzzle City

Background

“A century ago only 10% of the people of the planet lived in cities, and, according to the United Nations, this number is set to rise to 75% by 2050.” Besides these macro statistics, the surprising similarities of modern cities across the planet earth deems it increasingly necessary to consider the impacts of growth on people and on the environment. The analysis and understanding of the interaction between city, architecture and inhabitants; and how we chose to shape our cities, buildings and public spaces will indeed determine and relate to many other facts that will help determine our approach to future cities.

Argument

Many cities have increasingly alienating nature; in their density one finds “space” but no sense of “place”. The urban inhabitants constantly arrive “anywhere”, but not “somewhere”. Under such circumstances, what shall be the true concern of man in general, and what shall be the concern in architecture profession in particular?

Analysis

We have four squared plots, each plot 200 meters by 200 meters; we have to design mixed-use buildings for 2.000-8.000 people per plot. The building language is different, should be different, towers, high-density, low-density structures, whatever you want. But then, you have to add to the buildings, 30% green, on top of the buildings, on top of the roofs, courtyards, whatever you like; or, you can increase the greenery percentage in one plot, so that you have 50% – 60% green; or you allocate one plot to low density buildings and the other square to high density building, a city inside the city. In the middle of the four plots there should be a subway station; the program of every plot should be different, meaning one plot has more apartment buildings, the other plot has… etc. But it should be mixed-used within each plot as well, one square may be mainly allocated to shopping, one square to apartment, but each plot should still be mixed-up. The theme of the entire area is of a Media Culture Center, and by extensive, it could be considered as an experimental unit with innovative strategies, which hopefully will contribute as the trigger for the future urban prototypes.

Purpose

To reflect the phenomenon of “pseudo-humanistic care” in the post-media society, we wish to engage the younger architecture professionals as a solutions oriented generation rather than of computer generated generation.

Requirements

The competition participators shall define their design solutions for around 8.000-32.000 inhabits in Yangliuqing, Tianjin, P. R. China. Those inhabits share a core urban spatial area at a size of 4 x 200m x 200m, with relatively high density. The area’s function shall be focused on Median and Culture.

The solution shall be inspired by the appointed city, Yangliuqing, Tianjin, P.R.China, which is selected specifically for this year’s 2020 UIA-HYP Competition; however, its innovative strategies, primitive and futuristic at the same time, shall also be able to contribute as the trigger for the future urban prototypes, sparking further design thinking.

Further Technical Index:

– Energy Self-Sufficiency/Abundancy (creates more energy than the area consumes)
– Solar and Wind Energies as the Driving Factors for the Energy Design
– Food Self-Sufficiency
– Water Supply Self-Sufficiency
– Green Plot Ratio in the Urban Context shall be ≥ 30%
– Sunlight Sufficiency
(Through ingenious vertical and horizontal placement of the buildings)
– An Area of RARES
（RARES: Recreational, Aesthetic, Regional, Emotional and Sustainable）

Registration and all information about the competition on the official website.