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6.5.1 FuturArc Prize
(http://www.futurarcprize.com)
(http://www.futurarc.com/index.cfm/competitions/)
“FuturArc Journal” (The Voice of Green Architecture in Asia) is gathered by contributing researchers working in BCI (Building and Construction Industry) Asia’s offices, brilliant minds in architecture and related professions in Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. The journal headquarters also organized the Asia's leading Green building design competition “FuturArc Prize”. The competition seeks forward-thinking, innovative design ideas for Asia, offering a platform to professionals and students who are passionate about the environment. Through the force of their imagination it aspires to capture visions of a sustainable future.
The brief of the competition in 2017 is Envisage Architecture for the Common Good. The goal of Green is to create more responsible buildings, but a Green building, no matter how well intentioned, typically looks inwards within the boundaries of project site and building shell. The search for sustainable solutions, we now know, cannot be confined to the scale of standalone buildings. In Asia, these past decades, we have seen neighborhoods and public space replaced by private enclaves. There has been a systemic degradation of parks, rivers and water bodies. These transformations affect the well-being of all citizens, especially those with less income. The search for a sustainable Asia calls for a new way of seeing buildings and their relation to cities. Buildings are embedded within wider urban systems such as energy and water grids, biodiversity and habitat networks, public and social space. The health of each system is affected by every insertion, every new development. When systems are degraded, as a result of rampant or thoughtless development, the city and its inhabitants suffer. But what if buildings – even ones that are privately owned or profit making – were designed to connect or repair the systems in which they are embedded? What if a shopping center becomes a part of a biodiversity network? What if a condominium is also a community farm, shared by the neighborhood? What if an office building is part of an urban flood protection system? The question before us is ‘how’. How do we integrate architectural design and engineering with landscape design and urban planning? How do we create new social contracts between building owners and the community? How might governments craft policy so that all developers, even the ones who seek to make a quick profit, have an obligation to facilitate common good?
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The goal of this competition is to craft a vision for a new kind of urban development, one that is generous, restorative and net-positive. Can each project – if it engages systems in a positive way – turn the Asian city around, restoring natural and social capital that has been eroded in recent decades? Each entry shall make a case for how the proposal, through replicability, represents a strategic idea for a sustainable Asian city. Site selection is at the entrant’s discretion and should be explained clearly in the submission. Only sites in Asia or Australia will be accepted.
There is no fee for registration. Any undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral student of any recognized institution of architecture, engineering, planning, urban design, landscape design, environmental design, etc. may enter the FuturArc Prize Competition. The Individual Entrant is regarded as the author of the project he/she submits and will be acknowledged as such in all announcements, displays, exhibitions and publications associated with the Competition. Each Individual Entrant is his/her own representative in all liaisons with the Competition Registrar. The Team Entrant may comprise up to five members. All members of a Team Entrant must be an undergraduate, post graduate, doctoral student at any recognized institution of architecture, engineering, planning, urban design, landscape design, environmental design, etc. One member of a Team Entrant must also be designated as leader and identified as such on the Team’s Entrant profile page. S/he is the Team’s sole representative in all liaisons with the Competition Registrar. All members of a Team Entrant are regarded as co-authors of the project they submitted together and will be acknowledged as such in all announcements, displays, exhibitions and publications associated with the Competition, in the order with which their details are listed on the Team’s Entrant profile page. Entrants must complete an entry form on the Competition website. In the case of a Team Entrant, the leader of the team will undertake registration formalities. A unique user identity number (ID) and password will then be sent to the Entrant’s email address indicated on the entry form. With these, s/he can log in onto the Competition website, access Entrant profile and upload submission materials. Entrants must register more than once if they intend to make multiple submissions. Each user ID can be used for making one submission only. The use of a single user ID to submit more than one submission is forbidden and may lead, at the Jury’s discretion, to the disqualification of all submissions marked with this user ID.
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The jury is looking for solutions that are plausible and rooted in local conditions. Judging will be based on these equally weighted (20% each) criteria, such as:
1. Embeddedness: Explain which systems are engaged and how this development, on this site, connects with the flows and networks around it. For e.g., energy and materials; water and hydrology; biodiversity and habitats; food and nutrient cycles; public and social space, etc. The selection of systems must be explained with relevant analyses of site and context.
2. Impact: Explain how the development contributes to the wider good. This cannot be at the expense of the project’s own programmatic goals, i.e., it must successfully function as a residential or commercial development.
3. Innovation: Explore new ways to engage systems. How does architectural form and typology affect the potential to engage systems? How might the mechanical systems inside a building connect with the natural systems outside? How does site planning alter the relationship of a development to the community around it?
4. Replicability: Show what it would mean to the city if more buildings were designed this way.
Show how these ideas, translated to policy, might alter the city over time.
Awards will be given based on quality of entry, regardless of the country of origin. The competition has two categories: professionals and students. Student prizes are: 1st prizeSGD10,000 plus 2-year subscription to FuturArc, 2nd prize: SGD5,000 plus 1-year subscription to FuturArc, 3rd prize: SGD2,000 plus 1-year subscription to FuturArc. Awards given to Team Entrants will be presented to the Team representative and are to be shared at the discretion of the Team Members. In addition to the awards, all projects from winning entrants and citation recipients may be published on the FuturArc Prize Competition website and in an upcoming edition of FuturArc Journal. The Jury shall have full freedom to decide on the Awards and Citations. The Jury decision shall be final and binding on all Entrants. The Competition Registrar reserves the right to not award any prize where the Jurors agree that submissions are of insufficient quality.
6.5.2 ITAD competition
(http://itadcompetition.sg)
Jointly organized by the Building and Construction Authority (BCA), Singapore Institute of Architects (SIA) and Singapore Green Building Council (SGBC), the ITAD Competition is part of the annual Singapore Green Building Week and co-located with the International Green Building Conference (IGBC) in Singapore. With a focus on tropical green architecture and sustainable building design solutions, the ITAD Competition is open to all students matriculated into university, polytechnic and institutes of higher learning students in the architectural, building design, engineering fields.
To understand the essence of this competition, here a little bit of information about its host city – Singapore, which has set a national target to green 80% of all buildings, including existing building stock, by 2030. The Singapore green building journey began in 2005 with the launch of BCA Green Mark Scheme, a green building rating system that evaluates buildings for their environmental impact and performance, with the objective of raising awareness of sustainable developments. Through the years, Singapore developed Green Building Masterplans to chart the way for our green building journey. Emphasis was placed on the greening of New Buildings in the 1st Green Building Masterplan launched in 2006, the subsequent 2nd Green Building Masterplan in 2009 focused more on Existing Buildings. In 2014, the 3rd Masterplan was released, with the progressive shift of focus towards occupant behaviors to achieve sustainable and highly energy efficient buildings. Today, Singapore has close to 3,000 Green Mark building projects, covering about 88 million square meters of built-up space. This represents about 33% of the entire building stock in Singapore (as of January 2017), which makes Singapore one of the leading cities in the world in terms of per capita green building space. Singapore’s efforts in greening the built environment over the past 10 years have also gained recognition regionally and internationally, with various awards and accolades including the 2010 Energy and Environment Award (Government Category) awarded by the Aspen Institute in US, the Regional Leadership Award in 2011 from the World Green Building Council, and the International Star for Energy Efficiency Award (I-Star) in 2013 awarded by the Alliance to Save Energy in US [8].
The theme for the 2017 competition is BUILDING URBAN RESILIENCE THROUGH ZERO ENERGY LIVING. 80 percent of the largest cities are vulnerable to severe impacts from natural disasters and all cities face new impacts caused by climate change. Over the last decade, natural disasters affected more than 220 million people and caused economic damage of USD $100 million per year. As climate continues to change and the adverse impacts of disasters increase in cities, there is an imminent need for urban cities to be resilient. Urban resilience is the capacity of individuals, communities, institutions, businesses and systems within a city to survive, adapt, and grow no matter what kind of chronic stresses and acute shocks they experience. Urban cities are complex with highly interdependent systems, where its people and enterprises are dependent on infrastructure networks, communication systems etc. for their well-being. Investing in building up cities’ resilience contributes to long-term sustainability for future generations [8].
In a built-up urban environment where land space is limited, green buildings are vital to sustainability. According to United Nations Environment Program (UNEP), buildings use about 40% of global energy, 25% of global water, 40% of global resources, and they emit approximately 1/3 of Green House Gases (GHG) emissions. Through effective design and incorporation of technology, developments such as Zero Energy buildings have great potential to reduce its carbon footprint for greater climate resilience. They produce enough energy to run by itself, thereby reducing its reliance on limited resources [9].
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ITAD Competition 2017 seeks innovative, impactful and practical design solutions to integrate Zero Energy buildings in an urban city of participant’s choice, with due consideration to combat global challenges in areas such as energy resilience, environmental sustainability and rapid urbanization. The buildings and the communities, which they house, should promote sustainability and urban resilience in times of natural disasters and socio-economic challenges. Considerations should be given to the cohesive integration of the building in the community and how occupants/users can be influenced/engaged to play an active role towards the sustainability of the building. There is no restriction on building typology, but it has to be a medium—rise (between 6-12 story) or a high-rise (above 13 story) building.
Multidisciplinary teams are strongly encouraged. Students can submit as an individual or as a team of 5 (maximum). Only one single project can be submitted by any one individual/team. Students are not allowed to submit projects that have been registered or submitted for other competitions. This will lead to immediate disqualification. Individuals cannot participate in more than one team.
There is no registration fee. Participation is free. Registration deadline: June 9, 2017. Submission (via www.dropbox upload, see Chapter 7 for Dropbox details) is by 7 July 2017, 23:59 Singapore time (GMT+8). All entries must be in English
Here are the Design Requirements of the ITAD Competition 2017.
Entries should:
· Be applicable for the tropical/sub-tropical climate.
· Identify a city for the design of the building to be based on.
· Incorporate both active and passive design strategies, energy efficient features and other green building features.
· Be based on BCA Green Mark assessment tool 16 to validate their sustainable design concepts.
· Justify how the features and strategies contribute to the sustainability of the building.
· Include the engineering feasibility of the design solutions proposed, where possible.
· Other than the exterior building design, considerations should also be given to the building interior on how user-centric sustainable features and practices can be incorporated, including an evaluation of the effect on the overall well-being of building residents/ users.
· Design should also show how the proposed building could integrate with the surrounding
environment and landscape.
· Incorporate design concepts/elements that will encourage/guide residents/ end-users to
cultivate green behaviors or practices in the tropical climate.
· Present a practical, feasible direction for future buildings, based on resources available in present day.
· Design board should include site plans and cross-sections perspectives.
The entries will be judged based on the below criteria:
| 1 | Design Concept & Creativity | 20% |
| 2 | Relevance to tropical context | 20% |
| 3 | Relevance to theme | 20% |
| 4 | Feasibility in current context | 15% |
| 5 | Design for behavioral change and social capital | 15% |
| 6 | Presentation | 5% |
| 7 | Reference to green rating | 5% |
The judging panel will select 5 finalist entries. Finalists will be awarded cash prizes and invited to Singapore to present their works at the Final Judging and attend the International Green Building Conference (07-09 September, 2017). The prizes are: 1st prize: SGD $5,000, 2nd prize: SGD $3,000, 3rd prize: SGD $2,000, Merit Prize (X2) prize: SGD $800, Special mention: N.A.
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