Venice City Vision Competition is the second edition of the international competition series promoted by City Vision Mag.

The purpose of Venice's competition was to give the opportunity to architects, designers and students to activate their creativity to stimulate the contemporary potential of the city and besides wanting to enhance the historic texture of the city, sees on the aquatic identity of the lagoon a fundamental starting point to create new visions about a possible development of this component.

The imagination of the participants, the use of parametric software and eco technology will be the main driver of Venice's visions and the proposals will shown how to create new digital landscape for a city so connected to classicism and tradition.

The Venice ideas will be judged by an international jury which will have as president Bjarke Ingels, founder of the danish office BIG and again Neri Oxman, Elena Manferdini, Maria Ludovica Tramontin and Bostjan Vuga, all of whom are distingueshed by the large experimentation willingness in their work. Inside this issue you will have the opportunity to virtually meet some of them, their ideas and their philosophies and to have a look to their work's images.

The roman edition, Rome CityVision Competition, has attracted more than one hundred participants from all over the world and has amazed us with an upload page completely full of very interesting projects, which were judged by a jury of international architects led by Juergen H. Mayer and members as Francesco Gatti, Francesco Lipari, Felipe Escudero and Michael Caton.

1.1 NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE COMPETITION
Venice CityVision is an ideas competition, which challenges architects, engineers, designers, students and creatives individuals to develop visionary urban proposals with the intention of stimulating and supporting the contemporary city, in this case Venice. Through innovative ideas and methodologies which can improve the connection between the historical, present, and future city. CITYVISION aims to foster a critical evolution of architectural historiography.

The Italian city manifests a consistent absence of Contemporary Urban Planning and relatively ineffective architectural intervention. The objective of the competition is to drive your imagination, by the use of new materials, eco- technologies, parametric software and territorial organizations for a future vision of the city of Venice. Globalization, environmental concerns, the future historiography of the city, adaptability and emerging digital practices are some of the elements that should be taken into consideration.

Venice CityVision Competition focuses on the revealing of the urban context as a newly launched syntax of diverse terms. If one imagines the existing area as the creational canvas then on a mixture of Baroque and Renaissance fragments, one is invited to propose an original dialogue, an advanced element, as if inserting a new exhibit in an ever-existing museum.
Aiming to highlight the intense water border, that divides the vertical body of the city in two parts - above and underneath it - the proposals given should reinterpret the symbiosis, the antithesis or even the collaboration of the three parts: the lower and upper urban segments, as well as the in-between limit.

If the particular case of the city of Venice would be translated verbally as a live microcosm in constant - yet discreet - change, then as focal point of the competition stands the element of a delicate motion. This specific urban example is appointed, one one hand, to represent a moving city - concerning the as-said phenomenon of sinking - but also a city in which the transportations are being executed in a special way.

Architects, engineers and all kind of creational artists are invited to participate in a competition that attempts to answer the following questions: How can a subtle city movement be expressed through a design proposal? And how one may develop his work according to a vertical or horizontal axe?

1.2 PROCEDURE OF PARTECIPATION
Architectural competition in a single phase.
Participation in the competition is open to Architects, engineers, designers, students and creatives world-wide.
Individual or group entries are permitted. The indication of a group leader is required.

1.3 LANGUAGE
The official competition language of the competition is English.
CityVision will provide also a competion brief in Italian language but the final proposal must be submitted only in english.

1.4 REGISTRATION
Architects, engineers, designers, students and creatives are invited to take part in this competition. Temporary groups are allowed especially if they are multi skilled. Being multi skilled is an important characteristic because it can help to understand and to better represent a global vision of the city.

Participants can register at www.cityvision-competition.com

- before the 04th April, 2011 paying via paypal with a fee of 50€ (early registration deadline)
- before the 27th May, 2011 paying via paypal with a fee of 70€ (late registration deadline)

There is an entry limit of one proposal per individual/team and there is no limit to the number of participants per group.

After your registration CITYVISION will provide by email a registration number which must be included on all entry panels.

1.5 QUESTION
Further character references should be sent via email to to the following email address: [email protected] on and before 22.00 hours (Greenwich Time), 21st March, 2011 inclusive.

1.6 AWARDS
1st place. € 2.000
2nd place. € 1.000
and 6 Honorable Mentions.

1.7 SUBMISSION OF BOARDS
This is a digital competition and hard copy proposals will not be accepted. All entries are to be submitted via e-mail on and before the 6th June, 2011 (hours 22:00 Greenwich Time) to the following email address: [email protected].

The attachment, packed in a ZIP file, should include 2 boards of project in A2 horizontal format, a technical/written report in A4 format and partecipation data in A4 format.

BOARD 1: in A2 horizontal format with the principal image of the entry useful in showing in its entirety the planning idea saved as follows: (xxxxx_01.jpg).

BOARD 2: in A2 horizontal format which describes the project in detail with proposed sections, elevations, planimetries, schemes and images which will be useful for the understanding of the project saved as follows: (xxxxx_02.jpg)

TECHNICAL/WRITTEN REPORT: in A4 vertical format maximum 2 pages of useful text to explain the planning proposal saved as follows (xxxxx_description. doc)

PARTICIPANTS DATA: 1 file doc containing the names of the participants with profession, address and email saved as follows: (xxxxx_info. doc)

Entry ID numbers must be positioned in the upper right corner with required dimensions 1cm X 5cm.

Entries are encouraged to inclued all necessary information to clearly explain the proposal. Board resolution should not be less than 300 dpi, RGB color mode in JPEG format. The entry ID number must be included on the top right hand side of all layouts, which is issued by CITYVISION at registration. No other form of identification permitted.

The file names should quote the entry ID number followed by an underscore and number of the board as follows: xxxxx_01.jpeg and xxxxx_02.jpeg. The same system is to be used for the technical report (xxxxx_description. doc) and the participants data (xxxxx_info. doc)

All files should be packed in a ZIP file labeled with your Registration Number, as follows: xxxxx.zip

The choice of the graphic representation is completely open to the entry team. Refusal of any entry may occur if the mentioned guidelines and methods are not met.

1.8 METHODS OF EVALUATION
The entries will be judged based on the following criteria:
1. Visionary potential; On the base of which the jury will concentrate on originality, sustainability, and the innovative character of the proposal.
2. Architectural integrity; Formal composition, integration with the urban environment, design sensibility, in the context of which the jury will review the coherence of the proposal.
3. Ecological sustainability.

1.9 ANNOUNCEMENT AND SCHEDULE
16th February 2011 Announcement of the competition
04th April 2011 Early registration deadline
27th May 2011 Late registration deadline
06th June 2011 Submission deadline
June 2011 Announcement of results
September 2011 Projects exhibition, Awards Ceremony and Conference

1.10 RULES AND REGULATION OF THE COMPETITION
The participants (however, without any limitation) irrevocably accept the royalty-free publication, in particular of their respective names.

To take part in this competition, all applicants must accept the rules. Every infringement of the rules will be noted and subject to the evaluation by the panel of judges. This is an anonymous competition and the Registration Number is the only means of identification.

The files containing the personal information are confidential and known only to the Organizer Responsible and will not be revealed to the Panel until the final winners have been selected.

1. The official language of the competition is English.
2. The enrolment fee is not tax deductable.
3. Applicants who try to contact members of the jury will be disqualified.
4. Participation requires that all the above rules are adhered to.

1.11 APPLICANTS AND THEIR PROPERTY RIGHTS
USE and PROPERTY: All enrolments in the competition will remain in the care of the Organizer, who has the right to publish or exhibit the material presented according to the formal procedure indicated in the present program, without obligation of remuneration to the applicant. During the period in which the projects are in the care of the Organizer, the organizer has the right to use the material for educational purposes, without obligation of remuneration to the applicant.

DISAGREEMENTS: Any disagreements that rise between the organizer, Operating Body of the panel, including disagreements with one of the above conditions will be resolved by arbitration

IN CLOSING: This competition is subject to the terms of this program. The program of the competition is the definitive declaration of the terms and conditions of this competition. The conditions are binding for the Organizer and the panel of judges. By presenting a design, the participant declares that he / she is aware of and accepts the terms and conditions of the competition.