GARS-NEPAL.TEBIT Earthquake Emergency: calling on architects all around the world for reconstruction
Register/Submit Deadline: Thursday, Jul 9, 201512:30 PMEDT
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GARS-NEPAL.TEBIT Earthquake Emergency:
calling on architects all around the world for reconstruction designing projects
Theme
Collecting architects on a global scale, offering a platform for architects with professional competence who have a desire to devote a loving heart for people in the disaster-hit areas to participate actively in the post-disaster reconstruction of Nepal(China Tibet included) to put the architects’ social ideal into practice.
Accumulating experience for post-disaster architectural designs and construction, setting up an open platform which contains various solutions for responding to the natural disasters like earthquake.
Providing a professional communicating platforms for global post-disaster construction, promoting the cultivation of the talent and enlarging the talent pool for reconstruction.
Prizes & Rules
Prizes
Total bonus:100,000 USD.
Two first-prize(one for each type) , 20,000 USD for each bonus with the certificate and medal.
Four second-prize(two for each type),10,000 USD for each bonus with the certificate and medal.
Ten third-prize(five for each type),2,000 USD for each bonus with the certificate and medal.
Twenty-four finalists(twelve for each type) with certificates and prizes.
1. Designing contents
Two types are included: emergency buildings while-in disaster and reconstruction after-disaster.
A. emergency buildings while-in-disaster
GARSA1. Emergency shelters;
GARSAA2. Temporary housing;
GARSAA3. Temporary classrooms (primary schools and middle schools);
GARSAA4. Temporary kindergartens;
GARSAA5. Temporary hospitals. (Choose one or more).
Design requirements
Construction base: not restricted to specific bases,and the construction should be strongly adaptable to the base.
Regional characteristics: Fully consider the regional characteristics of architecture.
Materials,transportation and construction:
Flexibility, modular housing units,suitable for reserve and transportation and is supposed to fit at least one piece of the following requirements:
Easy to obtain local materials within 48 hours.
Suitable for international air aid by small cargo planes in batch.
Proper for emergency airdrop aid by domestic helicopters.
Can be rapidly built and massively reproduced,can be constructed with light machine and small tools by local residents or volunteers.
Make full use of ecological means such as environment-friendly,energy sufficient and new types of materials and renewable resources.
Safety and comfort:
Meet the structure security requirements.
Consider using fireproof materials as much as possible.
Have favorable architectural physics performance including sunlight conditions ,ventilation system , insulation and cooling system.
Possess simple lighting,air fans and temporary power generation.
Guard against insects or snakes.
Collect and recycle rainwater.
Psychological aid and humanistic concern:
Take Psychological counseling and comforting into consideration. Reflect humanitarianism concern.
You may use additional elements like pictures&articles; and music with the themes such as Global Citizen and Boundless Love.
Building height:No more than two storeys (two storeys included)
Additional merits
Construction and operation costing:
Provide cost estimation as clear as possible, consider comprehensive cost and the factual effect of disaster relief.
B. Reconstruction after-disaster(GARSB):
permanent housing.
Design requirements:
Construction base: not restricted to specific bases,and the construction should be strongly adaptable to the base.
Regional characteristics: Fully consider the regional characteristics of architecture.
Materials and construction:
Easy to obtain the materials locally;
Make full use of ecological means such as environment-friendly,energy sufficient and new types of materials and renewable resources.
Safety and comfort
Meet the structure security requirements.
Consider using fireproof materials as much as possible.
Have favorable architectural physics performance including sunlight conditions ,ventilation system , insulation and cooling system.
Possess simple lighting,air fans and temporary power generation. Guard against insects or snakes.
Collect and recycle rainwater.
Psychological aid and humanistic concern:
Take Psychological counseling and comforting into consideration.
Reflect humanitarianism concern.
You may use additional elements like pictures&articles; and music with the themes such as Global Citizen and Boundless Love.
Form and style of architecture
Fully consider the regional characterisitics,the form and style are supposed to have a sense of cultural identity.
Building height:No more than two storeys (two storeys included)
Additional merits
Construction and operation costing:
Provide cost estimation as clear as possible, consider comprehensive cost and the factual effect of disaster relief.
(Notes:candidates can choose any type of Category A or choose Category B,or esle he can take part in one or more types of architectural design. )
2. Documents and Graphic Materials Required
Renderings(model photo included)
Plans,elevations and sectional drawings.
Construction analysis diagrams.
Design specification(design concept,construction directions, technical and economic indicators and construction estimation tables are included)
Note:
All texts are in Chinese or English.The organizer encourages all forms of representation which helps the better explaining of proposals. even videos can be include.
If you submit a video,Please submit a 1 minute (maximun) video. Please use subtitles even if you are speaking English or Chinese. (It is not mandatory to speak in the video, you may also use text, images, animation etc).
To submit the video: First upload the video to YouTube(English) or YouKu(Chinese), then login in to your ikuku.cn ucenter->my compettion page, click on "update" of any proposal, it will jump to the propsal editting page. In this page you can paste the YouTube or YouKu link to the "extr.links" section.
3. Register now
Eligibility
The competition is opened to architects,students,
individuals and groups who are dedicated to architectural design of reconstruction after-disaster and full of sense of social responsibility.
Professional architects, architecture teachers and enrolled students (undergraduates, postgraduates and Ph.D students)share equal qualifications in this competition.
How to register
Login to ikuku user center(if you are not an ikuku user you need register first).
After clicking the'apply now' or 'apply more' button in 'user center->my competition', you will get a registration number of qualification for competition.
Participants need to fill in personal profile in ikuku user center.
4. Submission
Electronic documentaries are required(in duplicate).
ikuku proposal format
In "user center -> My competition", the user can click on "update"to submit or update each proposal. If you are in a team you need to click on "participants" or "team"to fill in the related information.
pdfformat
300dpi, The results typesetting in no more than five A3 horizontal composition of drawings, and on the top right corner of every drawing, the registration number is supposed to be clearly indicated in 40×10mm.
Please send the outcome of proposal to [email protected] with a title in this format:GARS- registration number.
5. selection rules
All will be completed online.
The selection rules:
Online ranking: Based on the popularity which is related to the number of clicks, shares, favorites and comments, 20 projects from each type will come into the finalists, and the ranking comes out at the same time.
Experts selection:All experts will vote on the finalists online to select one first-prize,two second-prize,five third -prize from type A and type B respectively.
6. Awards Ceremony
We will invite world-famous post-disaster reconstruction experts to present the awards at the live webcast ceremony, and winners deliver their acceptance speech by video.
Other consultants’ fee,awards and certificates will be provided by the organizers and sponsors.
Designers of the finalists will all get awards and certificates
All the authors can get a medal of “GCRS Hope Design”.
Organizers will select the “National Award” and “Institution Award” who are supportive to our activity.
(The time of ceremony is to be determined).
7. Intellectual property rights
Intellectual property rights belong to the author of the works.
Authors authorize the organizers and sponsors to use the rights of promoting ,remaking ,modifying, publishing, exhibition free of charge by using images and texts of the works and to use other related rights publicly without any other payment or premium.
The author need to declare the contents of the related documents and materials of the registered project do not infringe the copyright of others. If there are any disputes involving copyright works in the future that makes damage to the reputation of the organizer , the author (team) will bear legal responsibility, and return the bonuses and awards.
During the process of the use of works for global public good free of charge, brief introdution of the author and the designing background need to be marked at a proper place of the building. In the process of commercialization, GERS can purchase the right to use the work of intellectual property rights, and the fees will be negotiated additionally.
8. Construction
Further adjustment and perfections will be made to the projects that come from award-winning works(both from network and expert evaluation)which are emphatically recommended by the judges ,and these projects will have the opportunity to be built in disaster-hit areas, the construction fee of which is responsible by the organizers.
9. Exhibition
The awarded projects confirmed by GCRS committee of experts will be exhibited at the exhibition mansion of cloud computing of GCRS permanently. The fee will be responsible by the organizer.
Online exhibition: permanent exhibition on www.ikuku.cn , and other online co-media will be reporting as well.
Location of offline exhibition: the exhibition mansion of cloud computing of GCRS(mansion of COFCO,NO.29, Chengnan Road,Wuxi,China).
Calendar
Start-up:June 1,2015
Q&A: June 1-10,2015
Deadline:July 10,2015
Reviewing time : July 11, 2015 –July 20,2015
Releasing time:July 25,2015
Jury
Hsieh Ying-chun:
Architect, graduated from The Architecture Department of Taiwan Tamkang University, founder of the concept of “Sustainable Architecture, Solidary Construction”. Some major awards Mr.Xie received are as follows: The third Far East Outstanding Architectural Design Merit Award; Contribution Award of Reconstruction of Taiwan,China 9.21 Reconstruction Committee; Contribution Award of Taiwan-Social Service;Taiwan China Architecture Award,2002;Finalists of the Habitat Scroll of Honor Award,2004;Distinguished Honor Award of Natural Protection,The Hou Jindui Foundation ,2005;The 10th Contribution Award of Public Services of Distinguished Architects; Special Award of Chinese Media Architecture Committee;The12th Taipei Culture Award;The 2nd Life Award of the Monthly Magazine The Sound of Man; Curry Stone Design Prize —2011 Grand Prize. Representative work:The series of Rural Architecture.
Zhu Jingxiang:
Architect, scholar, Doctor of Southeast University, associate professor of The Chinese University of Hong Kong, expert of Light building system. Some major awards he received: Excellent Award of the Annual WA Award,2004;The highest award of the Annual WA award,2010;Special Mention Award of the 2nd Chinese Media Architecture Committee; “Chinese Innovator of the year 2012 ” of the Chinese edition of the Wall Street Journal. Representative works: Library of Yancheng Health School; the series of light buildings.
Wen-Chieh Chiu:
Architect, graduated from The Architecture Department of Taiwan Tamkang University at 1985,earned the degree of the Master of Architecture and Urban Planning of Havard University. The principle responsible person of Qiu Wenjie architect business office, design director of A+B design group. Some major awards he received: Taiwan Architecture Award for 3 times; Far East Architecture Award for twice; Global Chinese Young Architects Award,2007. Representative works: The Education Park of Taiwan 921 earthquake; the highest award of the third annual WA Award; Finalists of the Best Architecture Award of the 1st Chinese Media Architecture Award.
Yuan Ye:
Architect, Doctor of the Department of Architecture of Tsinghua University, deputy chief architect of China Construction Engineering Design Group Corporation Limited.(headquarter),postgraduate supervisor, who received the 10th Young Architect Award of Architectural Society of China. Representative works:The Memorial Park of Tangshan Earthquake Ruins,the gold winner in 2013’s Architectural design (Landscape architecture) of Architectural Society of China; Finalist of WA Achievement Award ,WAACA Chinese Architectural award,2013.
Fei Bigang:
Expert of the secure and identification of structural engineering, Doctor of the Department of Civil Engineering, Tsinghua University; professor;director of GUOZHI (Beijing) Construction Engineering Detection and Identification Center. Member of the Standardization Technology Committee of Construction Quality,Building Maintenance and Reinforcement ,Real Estate etc, which all belongs to the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development of China. Mr. Fei took part in the emergency identification operation of post-earthquake housing of Wenchuan 5.12 Earthquake as a member of expert group of MOHURD.
Sun Yu:
Doctor of Sociology Department of Tsinghua University. The main research direction is community self-organization and social networks. Executive consultant at Research Center of the Lutheran community in Tsinghua University School of Social Sciences. After 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake deeply involved in rural reconstruction. Long-term observation of Taiwan and the mainland areas of community building experience. Worked in the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Documentation Publishing House of Politics and Law Society branch. Co-author, "Yunchun village reconstruction Chronicle - a community self-organizing field recording experiments".
Sujet:President of China-Nepal Economy and Trade Promotion Association
Lamo thpa : well-known native architect from Nepal.
Organizers
GCRS Global-Building Love disaster-aid material trade center.
Online hosting platform
www.ikuku.cn/competition
Social organizations support
China Foundation of Poverty Alleviation, Chinese Red Cross Foundation-Public Foundation for resisting earthquake.
Architectural co-media
solomo.xinmedia.com, gooood.hk, World Architecture(WA);Urban Environment Design(UED);Architecture Technique(AT);The Architect;Archicreation;Architectural Knowledge;Designer&Designing;,etc.
Location for Exhibition of the results
The exhibition mansion of cloud computing of GCRS.
initiator
Bao Qianshi:Founder and CEO of GCRS .
Yuan Ye: Doctor of the Department of Architecture, Tsinghua University,;designer of The Memorial Park of Tangshan Earthquake Ruins.
ma haidong ikuku.cn founder
Sujet: President of China-Nepal Economic and Trade Promotion Association.
spokesman for this event
Bao Qianshi
contacts & QA
email: [email protected]
weixin ID: ikukucn (Customer Service)
Q&A: wenda.ikuku.cn
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