Yorkshire & Humber is an attractive business location, and a magnet for ambitious and enterprising organisations, including 5 of the world’s top 10 companies. The region’s GDP exceeds 81 billion Pounds and ranks amongst the top third of the world’s national economies. Yorkshire Forward was set up by Government to promote sustainable economic Development throughout the Yorkshire and Humber region. We are an economic development and business focused organisation that aims to help improve the region’s economic performance and balance the many competing social, economic and environmental demands to help achieve a lower carbon economy.
Eligibility
The competition is open to (but not limited to) architects, designers, artists, product designers, portable space designers and / or any other disciplines. Given the importance of demountable building technology in the project, Yorkshire Forward actively encourages designers to collaborate with both engineers and manufacturers
Competition Aim
The Renaissance Pavilion is a demountable building for Yorkshire Forward to promote, showcase and host events to celebrate the continuing Renaissance of Yorkshire’s great places and to demonstrate the Renaissance Commitment to Great Places. The Renaissance programme has invested considerable sums in delivering high quality public realm and new public spaces across the region, and the Pavilion is conceived as a viable approach to encourage local authority ownership and programming of these new places for events throughout the year. This is a competition to find a design team for this pavilion.
Yorkshire Forward invites participants to suggest inspiring, deliverable ideas for this new demountable building which will provide a unique event space. The Renaissance Pavilion will open at a yet-to-be-confirmed location in Yorkshire, as part of the Renaissance Festival. Once open, it will travel throughout the region. The Pavilion must also be capable of creating its own sustainable lifetime beyond this Festival.
The budget for the fabrication of the building is 650.000 Pounds.
Competition Process
The competition will be an open anonymous competition, following which a shortlist of 3 teams will make presentations and be interviewed by members of the jury and technical advisory group.
Awards
Three shortlisted teams will be invited to attend an interview with the jury panel and will each receive an equal honorarium of 3.000 Pounds + VAT to cover associated expenditure with attending the interview and making a presentation to the judges included in this.
Registration
There is no registration fee. Registration will be handled by RIBA Competitions Office.
Submission Requirements
Entrants are asked to submit minimum four A3 lightweight boards, an accompanying report on not more than two A4 sheets, and a CD with all submitted information (see Digital Material).
The A3 boards must illustrate the design proposal and contain the following:
- name of Pavilion: a suitable name for the Pavilion that reflects the Renaissance programme's aspirations, as set out in the Introduction and the Competition Aim
- The pavilion's use in a number of different potential environments eg Leeds Millennium Square, Scarborough Beach, Yorkshire Sculpture Park
- The pavilion's external appearance as both an independent entity and when part of an assembly of structures, showing how it would retain its identity in different groupings
- The pavilion's internal experience in a number of different scenarios e.g. conference, exhibition, debate
- Relevant drawings - plans, sections, elevations
- Relevant reference images
- Indicative costings of fabrication and operation
Jury
- Trustee / Chairman / Equiv. Yorkshire Forward
- Elizabeth Motley (Head of Renaissance Towns and Cities Team, Yorkshire Forward)
- Simon Harrison (Architect Urbanist, Yorkshire Forward)
- Graham Halliday (Project Manager, Yorkshire Forward)
- Richard Motley (Integreat Yorkshire)
- Emma England (Regional Director, RIBA Yorkshire)
- Geoff Shearcroft (Design advisor and Director, AOC)
- RIBA Competition Officer (Non-voting)
Technical Advisory Panel (Non-voting)
- Structural Engineer
- Quantity Surveyor
- Touring Contractor
Competition Schedule
15 September 2008: Competition begins
16 October 2008, 14:00: Deadline for submissions
21 October 2008: Shortlist announced
31 October 2008: Shortlist interviews
04 November 2008: Winning design team announced