eVolo has announced the winners of the 2010 Skyscraper Competition.
The Jury selected 3 winners and 27 special mentions among 430 entries from 42 countries.
Globalization, sustainability, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution, were some of the multi-layered elements taken into consideration.
Vertical Prison The first place was awarded to a project for a vertical prison designed by architecture students Chow Khoon Toong, Ong Tien Yee, and Beh Ssi Cze, from Malaysia. Their project examines the possibility of creating a prison-city in the sky, where the inmates would live in a “free” and productive community with agricultural fields and factories that would support the host city below.
Water Purification Skyscraper in Jakarta The recipients of the second place are Rezza Rahdian, Erwin Setiawan, Ayu Diah Shanti, and Leonardus Chrisnantyo, from Indonesia, whose project ‘Ciliwung Recovery Program’ aims to purify and repair the Ciliwung River habitat. The building is designed as an ingenious habitable machine that would collect garbage, purify water, and provide housing to thousands of people that live in the slums along the river.
Nested Skyscraper in Tokyo The third place was awarded to Ryohei Koike and Jarod Poenisch, from the United States, for their project ‘Nested Skyscraper’ that explores robotic construction techniques for a novel structure of carbon sleeves and fiber-laced concrete. The building is a system of multiple layers of composite louvers which thicken and rotate according to solar exposure, ventilation, and materials performance.
Among the special mentions there are skyscrapers used as bridges that link different territories, cities in the sky powered by renewable energies, instant deployable buildings for disaster zones, skyscrapers that purify and desalinate sea water, or high-rises that commemorate historic dates. Other proposals create new pedestrian layers for existing cities. Some use the latest building technologies and parametric design to configure environmentally conscious self-sufficient buildings, while others create city-like buildings where different programs are mixed in one structure.
Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the use of new technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organization. The award seeks to discover young talents whose ideas will change the way we understand architecture and its relationship with the natural and built environments.
Architecture Studio 4of7 has developed a project for a pediatric clinic in East Africa. The intent was to create spatial solution which would be able to grow and adapt according to the changing need; or according to varied conditions at different locations. Notionally, if more and more modules were to be added, such configuration could grow infinitely but always confined the circular matrix, defined by three differently sized courtyards.
Responsive solutions in building industry are normally associated with high budgets. In contrast, this is a low-cost application of adaptable architecture. Proposed design is not site specific; it is configured to suite different surroundings and varied demands. For practical reasons, it is based on the use of a single component designed for infinite growth within a recursive geometric pattern.
Proposal for the phase one satellite clinic entails ten modules grouped around two circular courtyards, while phase two configuration will need twenty modules grouped around five circular courtyards.
The goal is to create a short video in the form of a Public Service
Announcement on the topic of genuine design and the problem of
knock-offs.
Use concrete examples to demonstrate why furniture
designers deserve the right to protect their work against unauthorized
copies and counterfeits.
Since 1992, M2L - a furniture importer and distributor specializing in genuine modern design - has been dedicated to finding and sourcing truly iconic pieces that define the classic modern aesthetic. However, the practice of selling “knock-offs” has become widespread in the furniture and interiors industry because designers, manufacturers and consumers are unfamiliar with intellectual property rights. From pieces “inspired” by other designers to actual counterfeits that are marketed illegally, it is important for the next generation of designers to know where the lines are.
Four students will be awarded scholarships of $3,500, $2,500, $1,500 and $1,000 respectively. The winners will be announced at the end of March and honored at an event in M2L’s New York showroom. The winners’ videos will also be featured on the Genuine Design website.
Submission Deadline: March 5 2010 at 6pm UTC.
Genuine Design is an effort to inform consumers and designers about plagerism, and why it presents a threat to our culture and industries. They are dedicated to ethics and authenticity in the designer furniture industry. Their goal is to expose frauds, counterfeits and knockoffs, and educate designers about the importance of respecting the intellectual property of their colleagues.
Last year CreativeRoom challenged some of Vancouver's top architects and designers to reinvision the traditional typology of the gingerbread house. The competition was a candy-filled homage to The Case Study House Program organized by Arts and Architecture Magazine from 1945 to 1964. They asked the entrants to do away with ubiquitous veneer of jujubes and smarties in an effort to re-interpret the gingerbread house within a modern context. The results were outstanding!
Ten delicious submissions from some of Vancouver's finest architecture and design firms, a week long bidding battle, and a gala event (complete with studio critique) allowed them to exceed their fundraising expectations.
This holiday season they challenged again the creative class to put their aprons on, get out their poured in place gingerbread panels, and attempt to redefine the gingerbread typology once again.
On August 28 2009 Danish Minister of Culture Carina Christensen presented the Time to design – new talent award 2009 at the National Workshops for Arts and Crafts.
Corian PING PONG table, design by Hunn Wai - Photo credit: Daniel Peh
The jury selected two talented young designers: Hunn Wai and Francesca Lanzavecchia, as winners of the talent award from more than 35 different countries all over the world.
Corian 'PING PONG table' design by Hunn Wai - Photo credit: Daniel Peh
The two will meet in Scandinavia to take on the challenging task: their winning project "Spaziale Series: New expressions of skin and structure". The project that is based on voids, skin and structure. Taking inspiration from fashion, architecture and human behaviours, they will amalgamate those inputs, according to their vision, into a new breed of interior objects that will question our perception on the rituals of possessions storage and ecology-awareness within furniture manufacture, distribution and construction.
'Tre di Una chairs' design by Hunn Wai - Photo credit: Myoung Won Suh
'Skin Shelf' prototype /sketch
The designer-duo will work with flexibility and susceptibility in different types of materials. The key is the potential changes; the mean is the mystery emerged out of the imagination of what is hiding behind the wrapped items. By adding the concept to a series of products the duo will let new possibilities and perspectives grow in relation to the function of furniture, aesthetic, interaction and purpose.
Wai & Lanzavecchia began the cooperation at the Design Academy Eindhoven, where both studied IM Master (Interior / Industrial / Identity Design) under the management of Gijs Bakker, co-founder of Droog Design.
DESIGN 21: Social Design Network is happy to announce that Swedish furniture designer, Charlie Davidson, is the winner of its Going With the Grain Challenge for his ingenious "Uni Table" design.
Developed by The Nature Conservancy and the U.S. Chapter of the Forest Stewardship Council to promote conscientious consumerism through responsible design, Going With the Grain called on designers to conceptualize an object using a single sheet of FSC-certified plywood without the use of hardware or glue. As the overall winner, Davidson will receive a one-year membership to Material Connexion and a manufactured sample of his design. A prototype will also be auctioned to support The Nature Conservancy's sustainable forestry work.
Uni Table by Charlie Davidson
"My initial response to reading the brief was quite simply to design a table. The nature of the plywood and its dimensions, particularly its thickness, would best suit such a design. Though a set of shelves or a number of stools could also be produced, the thickness of the material I felt would lead to an over-structured and possibly clumsy design. The challenge would be to maximize the table surface area whilst leaving enough material for the legs and supporting structure. The choice of using the Alpha system or a traditional would cut style joint would solely depend on either methods suitability taking into account structural loading, re-assembly and ease of manufacture.
To minimize the usage of the plywood I came up with a solution where a pair of legs could be cut from two smaller pieces of ply and creating a jigsaw-like connection to key the leg components together. The two pairs of legs are then joined together with two side rails held in place by 4 pairs of the Alpha system. The table top locks in the side rails.
The top is cut from the underside using a standard 3 degree tapered cutter normally used in machining wooden moulds requiring a draft angle. This produces the tapered edges around the tabletop’s edge and cuts the angled holes into which the legs locate and friction lock into place. The beauty of the round cut maple is maximized by the large table surface with its curved sides flowing with the grain of the veneer.
The completed design can easily be taken apart and reassembled."
The final jury of the 'Prix Emile Hermes' has selected 17 projects from the contest theme 'la légèreté au quotidien / everyday lightness', a contest that was launched in 2008 in all the countries in Europe where Hermès has a commercial base.
The aim was to create an object for everyday life - Simplify use - Optimise function - Give material a spirit - Innovate to make everyday life easier - Create intelligent and user-friendly objects.
The jury unanimously decided not to award a first or second prize for this first edition of the Prix Émile Hermès, but rather to award three third-place prizes.
'Bronco' Rocking stool - Simon Lécureux, Switzerland - third-place prize
A team of ASU College of Design students and faculty were recognized this spring for their transgenerational toilet design concept, Go With the Flo™ by the Northwest Design Invitational (NDI). Five excellence criteria were exercised at the NDI biennial competition to recognize outstanding design: appropriate aesthetics, design innovation, ecological responsibility and market and user benefits. Design team members honored with the NDI’s Breaking the Rules Silver Award include John Takamura and Dosun Shin, College of Design faculty members, and Tamara Christensen and Dean Bacalzo, Master of Science in Design students.
“We hope our design will alter the toilet archetype by the year 2030,” says John Takamura, design team leader and assistant professor of industrial design in the ASU College of Design.
The Flo™ toilet is an ergonomic, sustainable design concept for baby boomers that functions like a squat toilet. Designers maintain that using the Flo™ toilet is akin to yoga – by building and strengthening abdominal and back muscles. Only one-half to one gallon of water is used for flushing and The Flo™ reuses water from hand washing. To flush water from the tanks to the toilet, the Flo™ employs an electromagnetic ball valve that uses electromagnets. Go With the Flo™ also is free of mechanical parts. The toilet is fully self-sustaining and independent of electric power.
Takamura and his design team not only have changed the concept of a typical bathroom experience with their Go With the Flo™ design, but they also shut out the competition. According to NDI event organizers, this year they received more than 80 entries from 25 different design organizations and universities.
The Sustainable Furnishings Council and World Market Center Las Vegas are once again bringing you One Good Chair Design Competition.
All sustainability is local, the saying goes. But how can manufactured, transportable products such as furniture become “local”? In a global market, can there be a truly regional product? Historically, many chairs evolved out of the subtle relationships between culture and climate, people and place. How we sit relates more to culture than anatomy, and many cultures are chair-free.
CHALLENGE Design an original chair that embodies and enhances a particular place, anywhere in the world but one you know and love, even if you don’t live there. Your concept might reinterpret local customs or start from scratch, but either way it should stimulate a tangible sense of belonging to its cultural and natural context. Demonstrate visually and verbally how your design springs from local conditions:
• Identity of place • Regional ecology • Indigenous materials • Conservation of resources through form • Culturally determined notions of comfort • Social history How does your design fit—right here? How does it create a good fit between people and place, a good fit for the body, a good fit for the ecosystem?
Time to design – new talent award is a design award with focus on the needs of young talents. The price includes three months residency at the National Workshops for Arts and Crafts, 50.000 DKK * donated by The Danish Ministry of Culture and two weeks exhibition at the Normann Copenhagen Flagship Store. This year the winner is also granted career coaching as part of the award. Danish as well as foreign candidates can apply. * more or less 6700 euros or 9000 US dollars
Time to design - new talent award is a cooperation between the National Workshops for Arts and Crafts, Normann Copenhagen and Link UP and was launched for the first time in 2008. The winner in 2008 was the young architect Anne Romme, who won with her project 'Saturated Porosity – freestanding Screen.'
First declared on June 29, 2007 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design, World Industrial Design Day has been established to mark the development and evolution of industrial design throughout the course of its history.
To celebrate World Industrial Design Day 2009, design students from Icsid Member Schools are put to the challenge to design a poster that illustrates the importance of industrial design to humankind. The poster can be a creative illustration or an illustration of the design of a product that captures the theme "Industrial Design – The product of human creativity".
This poster was designed by Uwe Loesch for last year's World Industrial Design Day
One winner will be selected. The winner will be announced on 19 May 2009.
The winning entry will be used by Icsid and distributed in digital format (PDF) to its network of members for promotional initiatives relating to World Industrial Design Day 2009.
In addition to having his/her poster utilised as the official World Industrial Design Day 2009 poster, the selected winner will be awarded with one free registration to attend the Icsid World Design Congress in Singapore 23-25 November 2009 (including participation at the educational conference on 22 November 2009). This prize includes a round-trip ticket from his/her city to Singapore and hotel accommodations for five nights.
4 May - Deadline for submissions 16 May - Jury deliberations 19 May - Announcement of winner
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