Ancient Tree Civilization and Residence Future International Architectural Design Competition with 1.5 Million RMB

DesignVerse is offering the Ancient Tree Civilization and Residence Future International Architectural Design Competition. Participate with your project and win 1.5 million RMB.

Competition Theme:-

• Trees are the embrace of the earth. If trees disappear, humans will disappear too. Ancient trees or famous trees are all the precious capital of nature which are witnesses to the evolution of nature. We shall guard these ancient trees or famous trees throughout the world and create a coexistence of sustainability both for humans and trees and forests. Ancient trees and humans will continue to breed in an endless succession.

• The site you will work on is the Kaisen Thousand Year Ancient Trees Garden which is embraced by numerous ancient trees including over two hundred precious famous trees with a diameter at breast height of 1~2 meters and even more than 3 meters.

• The theme of this competition, i.e., protection, return, inheritance, shall be expressed obviously. The relation of ancient trees’ civilization, humans and trees as well as nature is the core exploration and pursuit of this design. Designers shall design on the basis of this theme.

Projects Requirements:-

• A scheme shall be presented in at least four A2 sheets in a clear, vertical way and in readable format (with a 8mm page margin) and include following parts:-

  • Descriptive text on concept within 1200 words, economic and technical indicators.

  • Registration No. shall be put in the bottom right corner of the sheets, in Arial 20pt font.

  • Contents are as following:

    • The drawings should be with caption in English and Chinese, and include site plan, master plan with function analysis, circulation organization relation drawing, function details and evolution diagram, other diagrams, plan, elevation, section, perspective drawing, scene details, etc.

    • Two renderings of aerial view shall fully express an atmosphere of the whole manor via presenting the relation of the landscape and the cluster of buildings. Other buildings which are not listed in the design of units could be expressed by the designers at will to fit the completeness of the whole atmosphere.

    • Descriptive text on architecture design: design idea, general layout and environmental design, unit building concept, function, style, structure scheme, technical and economic indicators, etc.

• Two versions of materials shall be submitted. Sheets of Version A in JPG format (no larger than 10MB for each) can be submitted; Sheets of Version B in PDF format (original high definition for each) can be submitted.

• A scheme title shall be named as simple as possible; the scheme shall be saved in the "registration No. – scheme title – sheet No.1/No.2/No.3/No.4" format.

• A scheme shall be submitted in bilingual (English and Chinese) or English.

• It is best to submit four drawings according to the order of general plan – diagrams –unit – partial. It can be adjusted under certain circumstances.

• The cover must be submitted online which is the key visual of your design work; it must be uploaded in the size of 1045×654 pixels, 72 dpi, less than 2MB.

Awards:-

• The Champion

  • 1,500,000 RMB each (pre-tax).

  • RIBA Trophy.

  • RIBA Certificate of Honor.

• Top 6

  • 200,000 RMB each (pre-tax).

  • RIBA Trophy.

  • RIBA Certificate of Honor.

• Top 30

  • RIBA Trophy.

  • RIBA Certificate of Honor.

  • Work Publication.

• Top 100

  • RIBA.

  • Work Publication.

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