First Place: Grzegorz Witold Woronowicz
Second Place: Mario Cottone
Third Place: Giuseppe Iodice
Project B
First Place: Yana Radeva
Second Place: Maarten Scheurwater
Third Place: Nuno Rosado
Designing in Teheran is an international contest open to creatives, designers and architects, who are called upon to develop a design for two multistorey buildings, hereafter A and B, set in the Iranian city of Teheran.
The aim of the contest is to bring together ideas and identify solutions that will provide the best and most coherent integration of the structures in the local urban and commercial setting, with projects that take into account cultural and technical aspects, in order to enhance the buildings, making them recognisable, with a clear sense of identity. The spaces in question will be used for commercial premises and offices, and crucial in these designs will be the ability to convey the sense that these spaces are interpreted with contemporary sensitivity.
The Contest will select three designs for A and three for B, before going on to proclaim one winner for A and one for B.
Teheran in Persian means "going downwards". Indeed, the ancient city was first established on an upland plateau before gradually developing downhill in subsequent years to become the metropolis it is today. Expansion of the city was rapid and uncontrolled, but unlike in other cases of massive development, the wealthy population moved out of the old town, whilst the poorer classes remained there. The city now has over 11 million inhabitants and is the country's main industrial, political and socio-cultural centre.
The quality of the spaces in the modern city is seen in its architecture and monuments, and in its environmental fabric as a whole. Large buildings, monuments and streets, together with modern communication and information systems, combine to give the city a sense of modernity, and to enable it to renew itself over time, in order to meet changing functional, creative and artistic needs. Thus we should consider these buildings as modern communication tools that take into account the commercial requirements of different types of activities. One of these activities has to do with the big names in the fashion world and the competition between them, which manifests itself in the innovative environmental quality of their retail spaces, rich in new messages and cultural ideas.
The Designing in Teheran contest seeks to stimulate innovative ideas that will convey these messages of modernity and attention to the architectural and environmental quality of the retail spaces in a constantly evolving metropolis.
Object of The Contest
The object of the contest is to design, in the senses and terms of these regulations:
a multistorey building A located in Teheran, at No. 1742, corner of Salmak St., Vali Asr Ave., Tajrish Sq., in about 1500 m² lot, comprising twelve floors (including four below ground level). The gross floor areas and intended use of each floor are as follows:
- Underground levels from -4 to -2, 1200 m² each, for use as car parking space;
- Underground level -1, 1200 m² for use as car parking and storage space (in equal proportions);
- Ground level and first floor, 1200 m² each, subdivided into 3 commercial units, each spanning both floors;
- Floors second to fourth, 900 m² each, for use as office space;
- Floors fifth to sixth, 675 m² each, for use as office space;
- Seventh floor, 675 m², for use as apartments.
A multistorey building B located in Teheran, at Vali Asr Ave., 800 metres to the south of Vanak Square, in about 1500 m² lot, comprising twelve floors (including four below ground level). The gross floor areas and intended use of each floor are as follows:
- Underground levels from -4 to -2, 1200 m² each, for use as car parking space;
- Underground level -1, 1200 m² for use as car parking and storage space (in equal proportions);
- Ground level and first floor, 1200 m² each, subdivided into 3 commercial units, each spanning both floors;
- Floors second to fourth, 900 m² each, for use as office space;
- Floors fifth to sixth, 675 m² each, for use as office space;
- Seventh floor, 675 m², for use as apartments.
As one can deduce from the plans, at the moment the land plot consists of a front of 50 linear metres and a width of 30 linear metres.
Candidates are free to choose the architectural elements in their plans, working from the reference volume indices provided. They must provide the volumetric plans of the chosen building and area, with a more detailed plan of a sample floor for office use.
Specifically, they should provide the following planning documents both for building A and for building B:
- Rendering of the building,
- Distributional layout of vertical circulation and access from the ground floor to the office areas,
- Internal rendering of office areas,
- Layout of a sample office floor subdivided into 3 or 4 offices per floor, with precise indications of the type of partition structures to be used.
Participation
Entry and participation in the contest are possible exclusively by registering on the website www.benettongroup.com/designinginteheran, filling out the entry form (building A, building B or both) and uploading the required planning documents, following the technical instructions provided. The candidate will then receive an e-mail to confirm that the entry has been accepted and the planning documents received.
Awards
The total prize money is Euro 30.000 for each building.
The winner for A and the winner for B will be awarded Euro 20.000 each.
The remaining two finalists for each building (four finalists), will be awarded Euro 5,000.00 each.
Should the contest, for any reason, end without a classification of merit or without winners, the Jury will divide the total prize money between the designs considered worthy of recognition. If the same person wins for both A and B, the prize money will be combined.
Jury
Odile Decq (President)
Cino Zucchi
Makio Hasuike
Tobia Scarpa
Luis Pereira Miguel
Tatiana Sambo
Michele Zanella
Schedule
The opening date for entry is 15 December 2008.
All planning documents must be delivered strictly by midday (C.E.T.), 27 March 2009. Entries arriving after this time will not be accepted.
The winners will be announced by 20 April 2009.