Yarışmalar-Competitions

Yarışma Özeti(Summary):
The 13-acres international design competition challenges designers to explore the schoolyard as a site for ecological rejuvenation, expression and education. The competition is for the design of a combined park and schoolyard site as a place for "site knowledge", exploration, play, and learning for children, teachers, and the surrounding community. Here, the complexities of park landscape, educational programming, poetics, and ecological design come together in a powerful way to provide inspiration for creative propositions.

Tip (Type):
Açık  (Open)

Kimler katılabilir (Open to):
Herkes (All) 

Katılım ücreti (Entry Fee):
50 CAN$ (CAN$ 50)

Ödüller (Awards):
50.000 CAN$ (CAN$ 50.000)

Juri (Jury):
Peter Latz, Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, Gina Crandell, Mark Francis, Irene Cinq-Mars, Mark Dudek and Susan Herrington

İletişim Bilgileri (Contact):
13-acres Design Competition
Landscape Architecture Program
2357 Main Mall
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC
Canada V6T 1Z4
Email: [email protected]
Web: http://www.13-acres.org

The competition sites are two elementary schoolyard/park spaces located in East Clayton, a sustainability demonstration site in Surrey, British Columbia. Designers will choose one of these sites in East Clayton. Located between Vancouver and the U.S. border, East Clayton is a sustainable community planned for 13,000 people, with 13 acres dedicated to combined school and park use. East Clayton is known to many through the Surrey Charrette orchestrated by the University of British Columbia Landscape Architecture Program James Taylor Chair in Landscape & Liveable Environments.

The 13-acres competition builds upon the mission of this demonstration site by extending further to the park and schoolyard the plan's sustainable mission. The Design program specifies that designers explore and envision designs that use constructed natural systems as both poetic devices and educational materials. Design entries should layer wetland ideas, classroom use, play space, parkland, and community programs in one site.

Why are we designing schoolyards that could barely entertain a chimpanzee? In this age of ecological awareness and land art, schoolyards rarely exhibit any sensitivity to the site's conditions, the school's cultural setting, or the children and neighbors who use it on a daily basis. Currently, schoolyards are typified by expanses of  pavement, pre-fabricated play structures, and chain-link fence.  However, these spaces can provide key learning experiences for children and adults. In this past decade there has been a rising concern among landscape architects, environmental designers, parents and educators, and others to reinterpret the schoolyard to address broader needs.

This competition asks designers to step outside conventional thinking and combine two paradigm shifts emerging in the development of landscapes. The first shift is from schoolyards that are designed primarily to serve organized sports and provide play equipment to schoolyards that are layered sites for diverse play and environmental learning. The second shift is from the design and planning of communities that are detrimental to the ecological environment to communitites that are planned to employ green infrastructure and sustainable design strategies. Join us in exploring the landscape as a material text for our newly planned school and park sites in East Clayton.