OPEN ARCHITECTURE DESIGN COMPETITION

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The ARCTIC PERSPECTIVE INITIATIVE MOBILE MEDIA-CENTRIC HABITATION AND WORK UNIT open architecture design competition is open to the submission of proposals for the design of a mobile, media-centric facility, life support habitation and work module with a renewable energy supply, waste recycling, and communications systems. We invite proposals from architects, designers, engineers, artists, students, and engineering teams.
The design should be an open source mobile architecture/system/machine capable of functioning in extreme as well as temperate climates and containing mass/industrial and amateur production/manufacturing potential. 
The unit is to serve as a model for mobile research in extreme cold environments, designed to incorporate high tech solutions while utilizing sustainable resources.

Submitted entries are intended for the competition only. The selection of prizewinners does not guarantee the intent of API to award a commission for the actual building of the project. However, API does reserve the right to consult and negotiate on the continuation of the development with selected entrants pending the confirmation of the development budgets in 2009 and 2010. If realization is to continue, the first prototype will be tested in the field in the March/April/May 2010 time frame.

• First Prize: 5000 EUR
• Second Prize: 2500 EUR
• Third Prize: 1500 EUR

All winners and honorable mentions will be published in the API Cahier #2 “Architecture” which will be edited in the Fall/Winter 2009. All winners and honorable mentions will be included in exhibitions and presentations in the framework of European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 as well as the international media-art conference ISEA 2010 RUHR, with additional exhibitions and presentations to be confirmed.
All submissions selected for exhibition and publishing will be notified in advance.

Program and Characteristics

The ARCTIC PERSPECTIVE INITIATIVE “MOBILE MEDIA CENTRIC HABITATION AND WORK SYSTEM” shall at minimum accommodate the following program:

• 1200-1500 kg maximum mass
• 500km minimum radius of operation
• 5kW min power generation
• life support for 3 people for up to 15 days
• towable/drivable
• Operation between 10 °C and -40 °C
• galley
• toilet/shower
• first aid facility
• communications facilities
• workspaces/rest spaces
• Stable operation with winds up to 85km / hr

ADDITIONAL DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS:

• rest bunks
• buoyancy
• natural light source use
• provision for modularity of systems on site
• snow smelter
• sauna
• grey and black water recycling
• ability to support 19-inch frame technologies

ANONIMITY
Jurors will not be informed of any entrant’s identity.  Final submitted material should include no name or other information that could lead to identification of the entrant. Competition coordinators will review the applications and assign a random code to each entrant, which the jurors will use to identify the submitted entry.

QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
To maintain an environment of fairness, selected questions and answers will be made available to all registered entrants. 
The API will answer questions from entrants prior to the entry submission deadline.  All questions must be submitted via email to design2009ATarcticperspective.org

RIGHTS
The API Team plans to exhibit and publish the winning entries and honorable mention submissions following the jury’s selection. All entrants will be notified of the exhibition and publishing details. 
Each entrant must be the sole owner of 100% of all rights and interests in the submitted entry at the time of submission. Upon submission, the entrant enters the submitted entry into Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License. Please see: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ for information. Please check http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/licensing for more in depth information.

In accordance with the Creative Commons license Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, API shall be granted (and thereby assumes) unrestricted license to exercise all rights to the submitted entry without limitation or recourse for purposes including but not limited to, reproduction, distribution of copies of submitted entries, as well as the right to authorize use of said submitted entries or any part thereof by others as deemed appropriate by API in order to promote the Arctic Perspective Initiative.

DISCLAIMER: Upon submission, all entrants agree to waive any and all claims against API as a result of the Open Architecture Exhibition and publication. 

CONTACT
Arctic Perspective Initiative
c/o Hartware MedienKunstVerein (HMKV)
Güntherstraße 65
D - 44143 Dortmund
GERMANY

Tel: +49 (0)231-82 31 06 (Office)
Fax: +49 (0)231-88 20 240

Website:

http://www.arcticperspective.org

For Additional information please contact:

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The ARCTIC PERSPECTIVE – THIRD CULTURE project is supported by the European Commission Culture 2007-2013 grant and by the Ministry of Culture, Republic of Slovenia. Other funding is pending.