Architectural innovation linked to bio-inspiration and sustainable development are the key words of this project.
Register: SEP/15/2021, Submit: SEP/15/2021, Eligibility: Students, professionals, architects, designers, engineers, artists; individually, multidisciplinary teams (with inventors, biologists, oceanographers, geographers, planetologists, astrophysicists, ergonomists, psychologists, doctors), Fee: Free, Awards: In each category: “Architecture and Innovation for the Sea”, “Architecture and Innovation related to the Sea level rise”, “Architecture and Innovation for Space”: Grand Prix: 5,000 EUR, Focus Award: 5,000 EUR
As a visionary you are passionate and daring, fully committed to tackling today’s and tomorrow’s immense environmental and social challenges on the planet. You commit to act providing solutions creating meaningful new living environments and developing innovative biomimetic architectural projects for the sea, the coastlines and for space. You want to drive change towards a resilient, sustainable and human centered future. Call on your imagination and build the worlds of tomorrow in a different way, respecting biodiversity and integrating the new way of living of our societies for the common good of all.
In 2021, the Jacques Rougerie Foundation invites you to imagine daring, visionary projects, addressing the major challenges that humanity is facing. The projects will be based on biomimicry, an endless source of inspiration. Nature has always designed and manufactured the best patterns, the most beautiful shapes, the most elegant curves and produced the best materials. Your work, carried out in a transversal and multidisciplinary reflection, will be even more appreciated. Your bio-inspired project will link together form, usage and environment.
Today, more than ever, we must find new forms of habitat and mobility, new ways of life that have to be inventive and efficient for the 10 billion people who will be living on earth in 2050, 75% of whom will live near coastlines and will be therefore particularly concerned by the challenges of the sea level rise. As for the inhabited exploration of space, its development is inevitable and must be part of an approach that respects the environment and its own humanity.
PURPOSE OF THE COMPETITION
The Jacques Rougerie – Institut de France Foundation Awards give architects, designers, engineers and inventors a unique opportunity to propose innovative, daring and disruptive projects. They reward biomimetic, multidisciplinary architectural projects in 3 categories:
Category “Architecture and Innovation for the Sea”
- Grand Prix, free expression (you choose your subject)
- Focus Award among one of the following themes: “The underwater Village ” or “A Sea Centre”
Category “Architecture and Innovation related to the Sea level rise”
- Grand Prix, free expression (you choose your subject)
- Focus Prize among one of the following themes: “The African Coastline”, or “Submersions, erosion” or “Living according to the tidal rhythm”
Category “Architecture and Innovation for Space”
- Grand Prix, free expression (you choose your subject)
- Focus Award among one of the following themes: “The Lunar or Martian Village” or “An orbital or on a star space port ” or “A Research Station on the satellite of Jupiter Europe”
RECOMMENDATIONS
Architectural innovation linked to bio-inspiration and sustainable development are the key words of this call for project. Whatever your subject, you must imperatively place humans and their environment at the heart of your reflection and implement engineering dedicated to the specific environment you have chosen.
Base you project on the specific lifestyles of human beings, exploiting as much as possible the intrinsic characteristics of the environment, possibly extreme one, taking into account the impact of gravity on the architecture, the modifications of the gestures in everyday life, the notion of surface/volume in which your project is located, whether it is:
- Oceanic on the surface or under the sea (marine dynamics, Archimedean thrust, pressure, life in saturation or in atmospheric pressure, etc.)
- Coastline (swells, tides, currents, sea level rise, etc.)
- In space or on a star (vacuum, radiation, temperatures, reduced or absence of gravity, time and distance scales, micro meteorites, energy requirements, etc.).
Making your project successful will be depend on your ability to:
- Build multidisciplinary teams (science, arts and technology, etc.)
- Meet experts and specialists to build on transversal skills consistent with your subject, for example engineers, biologists, oceanographers, geographers, planetologists, astrophysicists, ergonomists, psychologists, doctors, artists, etc.
- Seek out, collect and provide the information supporting your description and testifying its innovative and tangible reality, even if this should be effective in a distant future that today’s technologies do not yet enable.
- Take into account the preservation of the environment and to contribute to the integration of the sea and space in the development of our society: innovative materials, techniques and fundamental advances in terms of design and development, economy in terms of energy or natural resources, circular economy, etc.
- Use the constraints of the environment so that they become a creative force, shaping your project as a unique one.
NOTE
All the documents must be uploaded latest:
- Phase 1: until September 15, 2021.
- Phase 2: until October 7, 2021.
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