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Reviving the Silk Route – A Cultural Center for All

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

The integration of architectural features, forms, and materials help imbibe the past as an active part of the future.

Register: JUL/30/2021, Submit: JUL/31/2021, Eligibility: Architects, engineers, students; individually, teams up to 3 members, Fee: Indian participants: 1,800 INR (Indian rupee), foreign participants: 60 EUR (MAY/01 – JUN/30/2021); Indian participants: 2,100 INR, foreign participants: 80 EUR (JUL/01 – JUL/30/2021); +tax, discount for a minimum of 5 teams from one architecture school or university, Awards: 1st Prize: 1,200 EUR, 2nd Prize: 800 EUR, 3rd Prize: 500 EUR, 10 Editors’ Choices

As one of the most important trade exchange channels, the Silk Road was also a “cultural bridge” between Asia and Europe. The system has existed for over 2,000 years. The Silk Road represented a form of the global economy and spanned the Asian continent with widespread transmission of knowledge and ideas which had a profound impact on the culture. A network of mostly land but also sea trading routes, the Silk Road stretched from China to Korea and Japan in the east, Turkey and Italy in the west and linked China through Central Asia to India in the south.

Competition 2021 a House for…

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

Design a house for a client that you propose.

Register: SEP/21/2021, Submit: SEP/28/2021, Eligibility: Architects, architecture students, designers; individually, teams up to 5 members, Fee: 35 EUR (MAY/07 – JUN/02/2021), 60 EUR (JUN/03 – JUL/06/2021), 90 EUR (JUL/07 – AUG/18/2021), 110 EUR (AUG/19 – SEP/21/2021); +21% VAT, Awards: 1st Prize: 2,000 EUR, 2nd Prize: 1,000 EUR, 3rd Prize: 500 EUR, Mentions

The competition seeks for innovative ideas in the design of a house, focusing in the relationship of the project with a specific client, as well as with the site where it is located. Opengap invites participants to explore the boundaries and paradigms of house designing. To work in innovative and visionary proposals which can both, think in a basic housing program and the relation of identity between the customer and the project.

The Cliff Hut

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

The Cliff Hut is a minimal survival unit, the choice of location is freely, as well as the way to relate to the cliff.

Register: JUL/21/2021, Submit: JUL/29/2021, Eligibility: Architecture students, architects, engineers, sociologists, photographers, hobbyists; individually, teams up to 4 members, Fee: 38 USD (APR/08 – APR/28/2021), 45 USD (APR/29 – MAY/24/2021), 55 USD (MAY/25 – JUN/24/2021), 70 USD (JUN/25 – JUL/15/2021), 90 USD (JUL/16 – JUL/21/2021); +IVA, Awards: 1st Prize: 1,500 USD, 2nd Prize: Gold Honorable Mention, 3rd Prize: Silver Honorable Mention, 4 Honorable Mentions

A landform, a steep slope, or just vertical. A refuge in apparent imbalance. Cities are in crisis, we are far from winning the battle against climate change. The Cliff Hut symbolizes that delicate balance that we have to discover. Participants will need to access their toolbox to solve the project, reaching new, creative places. With that same creative approach that The Cliff Hut requires, we will all have to face the challenges that the coming years will bring. The Cliff Hut is a minimal survival unit, the choice of location is free, as well as the way to relate The Cliff Hut to the cliff.

Development Concept for the Area on the Right Bank of the Kazanka River, Kazan, Russia

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION
Elaboration of the architectural-urban concept of the area with the river promenade.

Register: JUN/01/2021, Submit: JUN/24/2021, Eligibility: Professionals and professional bodies in the field of area integrated development, master planning, urban planning, architecture, and design; Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Place: 3,000,000 RUB (Russian ruble) (approx. 33,312 EUR); 2nd Place (two prizes): 1,500,000 RUB (approx. 16,656 EUR) each; 3rd Place (three prizes): 700,000 RUB (approx. 7,773 EUR) each; tax included

The Competition subject consists in elaborating an architectural concept for development of the area confined by Sibgat Khakim St., the Riviera Hotel Complex, the water of the Kazanka River and the park. The architectural concept shall include:

Preliminary master plan of the Designed Area with all its functional areas (zones), infrastructure and capital construction object;
General city-planning, layout, transport, space-planning, architectural, landscaping, engineering and other solutions.

The Home of Man

ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION

The proposals could be facilities from our surroundings, ideal city plans, or institutional.

Register: OCT/01/2021, Submit: OCT/05/2021, Eligibility: Everyone, Fee: Free, Awards: 1st Prize: 1,000,000 JPY (Japanese yen) (approx. 9,174 USD), 2nd Prize: 500,000 JPY (approx. 4,587 USD), 3rd Prize: 300,000 JPY (approx. 2,752 USD), 8 Merit Prizes: 100,000 JPY (approx. 917 USD) each; tax included

Since last year living in a COVID-19 calamity, the maximum priority in our society now is preventing and spreading of infectious disease, which is giving us many constraints in our daily actions. It is well understandable for our daily lives to be supervised but at the same time quite suppressing. Under a situation which is unusual, diversity is declined and many subjects which had been questioned has shadowed below as it has fallen into oblivion. In The Home of Man (1977), by Le Corbusier and Francois de Pierrefeu, shows aspirational plans to reconstruct the city of Paris vandalized by the Nazis during evacuation in World War II.

Caseta de les Brugueres Refurbishment

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: El Priorato, Spain, Architects: GMO Arquitectura, Photographs: Del Rio Bani

“Caseta de las Brugueras” refurbishment is a Project to rehabilitate a listed small Catalan country house or “Mas”, to turn it into a small refuge for short-term vacation breaks. The “Mas” is located in Priorat, an area of volcanic origin, a region with a rough and wild appearance, with landscapes of impressive luminosity. The building, settled in this same environment, retains the essence of the region; the silence and tranquility with maximum respect for the pre-existing construction and in close contact with the environment.

G House

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: Tel Aviv, Israel, Architects: Axelrod Architects, Pitsou Kedem Architect, Photographs: Amit Geron

Appearing to effortlessly float above the ground, the G House advances the firm’s residential design beyond a purely minimalist approach. The G House is horizontally expressed but uses vertical space and light in surprising ways. The simply shaped residence on a small half of a dunam lot is organized along a horizontal framework which contains two living levels and a basement. The main level features copious glazing which opens to a private yard and pool; it is the entire wall of glass that creates the illusion of a floating building. The roof itself hovers above the house, separated by a slim glass window line.

Chesa Futura

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: St. Moritz, Switzerland, Architects: Foster + Partners, Kuchel Architects (collaborating architect), Photographs: Nigel Young

Chesa Futura (‘house of the future’ in Romansch) fuses state-of-the-art computer design tools with centuries-old construction techniques to create an environmentally sensitive apartment building. Although its form is novel, it is framed and clad in timber – one of the oldest and most sustainable building materials. In Switzerland, building in timber is particularly appropriate in that it follows traditions developed and refined over centuries. The building’s larch shingles respond naturally to exposure to the elements, changing colour over time to a silver-grey, and should last for a hundred years without the need for maintenance.

Floating Home

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: Amsterdam, Netherlands, Architects: i29, Photographs: Ewout Huibers

Floating home by i29 architects is part of Schoonschip, a new floating village of 46 households that aims to create Europe’s most sustainable floating community. Based on an urban plan by Space&Matter, over 100 residents moved into and revitalized a disused canal and established themselves a living on the water. The location has a strong industrial past but today it is one of the most rapidly changing city parts of Amsterdam transforming into a more multi-functional living area. The new floating neighborhood is intended to be an urban ecosystem embedded within the fabric of the city: making full use of ambient energy and water for use and re-use, cycling nutrients and minimizing waste, plus creating space for natural biodiversity.

Shift House

ARCHITECTURE PROJECT

Location: Tokyo, Japan, Architects: APOLLO Architects & Associates, Photographs: Masao Nishikawa

Surrounding the site in the outskirts of Tokyo is lush green and a slow-paced environment. The building was commissioned by a family composed of the husband who manages an insurance company, the wife who works as a patternmaker and their two children. It was planned as a SOHO, with a space for the yoga classes run by the wife added to the house. The distinguishing exterior consists of a wooden volume covered with a luminescent wall sitting on top of a base made of exposed concrete engrained with the texture of Japanese cedar.