Yarışmalar-Competitions

House of Multiple Dimensions
Einstein’s discoveries (over eighty years ago) overthrew Newtonian ideas, and yet most of us still see space and time in absolute terms, while the passage of time depends on our state of motion. In ‘The Elegant Universe,’ Brian Greene seeks to resolve the incompatibles of General Relativity and Quantum Mechanics through String Theory, requiring that we drastically change our understanding of space, matter, and time....

A small house of 250m2 could act as an experimental probe into an architecture of more than four dimensions; the experiential phenomena of the house will be a crucial factor. The house should also be inhabitable. Materials, from molecular aspects to geometric properties will be important as will space and time. The house will act like a “thought experiment.”
Steven Holl

Data for application and entry;
Contents: Site plan, floor plan, elevation, section, projections, or perspective drawings, and an axonometric drawing. If you like, you may add a brief verbal explanation of your intentions, but this must fit on the specified pieces of paper. Representational scales are left to the discretion of the entrant.

Paper: Two sheets of any kind of paper each measuring 594 by 841 millimeters. Do not use panels.

Media: Pencil, ink, blueprints, photostats, photographs, colored drawings, and so on are acceptable.

Identification: The rear side of each of the two sheets of paper, must show the entrant’s name, occupation, age, address (or business address), telephone and facsimile number (home or office) and E-mail address. All of these should be typed for the sake of legibility. Cover this information with a strip of opaque paper that may be easily removed later.
form
(it is good not to be this form) (PDF:78KB)

Deadlines: Entries must reach address no later than September 3 (Friday) 2004.

Mail entries to the following address:
attn.: Entries committee, The Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition 2004.
Shinkenchiku-sha Co., Ltd.
2-31-2, Yushima, Bunkyo-ku,
Tokyo 113-8501, Japan

All necessary cost for submission (airmail charge, air courier charge, tax, insurance, etc.) must be fully paid by entrants.

Announcement of Winners: Winners will be announced in the vol.56, 2005, quarterly issue of JA.

Miscellaneous: Entries must never have been made public in any form previously. Shinkenchiku-sha Co.,Ltd. reserves publication rights on all entries.
Questions will not be answered by the sponsor. All matters not covered in these regulations are left to the discretion of the entrant.

No entries will be returned. Consequently, designers should make copies or other records before submitting their entries.

A part of the work or all must not infringe a copyright. Do not use the images copied from the magazines, books and Web sites. When there is the infringement of the copyright, winning will taken back in the sponsor’s judgment.

Prizes: The prize money (total 1,500,000yen) will be apportioned by the discretion of the judge.

Steven Holl
Born in Washington, USA in 1947. Studied architecture at the University of Washington, Seattle and continued his studies in Rome, Italy in 1970, and at the Architectural Association, London in 1976. Established Steven Holl Architects in New York City in 1976. Has taught at a number of schools of architecture, including Columbia University (since 1981), the University of Washington, and Pratt Institute. Major works include the office of D.E. Shaw & Co., New York, “Void Space, Hinged Space” housing and shops in Fukuoka, Japan, the Texas Stretto House in Dallas, Texas. His current projects include Expansion of the Nelson Atkins Museum in Kansas City, the Whitney Waterworks Park and Water Treatment Facility in Hamden and Simmons Hall MIT Undergraduate Residence in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Received the Alvar Aalto Medal in 1998, the Grande Medailles D’Or, Academie D’Architecture in 2001, and the 2003 AIA Design Award for Simmons Hall MIT Undergraduate Residence.

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