What could a School of Architecture be? Ideas for a new school in Northern Ontario.
Register/Submit Deadline: Sunday, Oct 11, 20096:59 AMEDT
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The Steering Committee for the Northern Ontario School of Architecture (NOSOA) is pleased to announce an Ideas competition:
What could a School of Architecture be? Ideas for a new school in Northern Ontario.
Led by the NOSOA Steering Committee in partnership with the City of Greater Sudbury and WoodWORKS! (CWC), this competition challenges entrants to consider:
How can a new school of architecture collaborate and contribute to a culturally diverse community while providing an innovative and globally competitive education?
This competition is intended to generate ideas which push the envelope, questioning the roles of schools of architecture. What are the physical characteristics? What are the more abstract, theoretical ones? How can this new school satisfy the unique nature of Northern Ontario?
There are two distinct aspects proposed for NOSOA that should be carefully considered. First, it will be providing a dual-stream education – students can study in either English or in French. The second is that NOSOA will deeply engage with, and learn from, the First Nation communities which comprise a large portion of Northern Ontario. Beyond those two stipulations, this competition has purposefully ignored setting strict design guidelines in order to allow entrants the complete freedom to generate their own, unique ideas. It is up to each team to interpret their response.
Teams can consist of 1 to 4 people. Non-architecture students are welcome to enter the competition but each team must contain at least one person either currently enrolled in, or have graduated from an accredited school of architecture (proof of enrolment or graduation will be required).
The top three projects will be awarded the following:
Top Team $5,000 1st Runner-up $3,000 2nd Runner-up $2,000
The jury will be comprised of prominent academics and professionals in the field of design, architecture, architectural theory, and urban design.
Anne Cormier / Director, School of Architecture Université de Montréal
Craig Dykers / Senior Partner, Snøhetta AS
Dominic Giroux / President, Laurentian University
Douglas Cardinal / Douglas Cardinal Architect Inc.
Proposals will be exhibited in the downtown of the Greater Sudbury and online at www.nosoa.ca. Entrants will have the option of presenting and discussing their work as part of a symposium hosted by the Northern Ontario School of Architecture which will be taking place at the end of October, 2009.
Entering
Those participating should email the following information (for each team member) to [email protected]:
Full Name, Email, Daytime Phone Number, University, and Program of Study
A reply will be sent containing a Team Code, which is to be included on all submitted material.
Download
All required documents (including the full competition brief) can be found at www.nosoa.ca.
Questions?
Contact: Kate Bowman, NOSOA Project Manager
Email: [email protected]
Phone: +1 (705) 674 4455 x4413
Toll-free: +1 (800) 708 2505
Fax: +1 (705) 671 6767
Mailing Address:
ATTN: Kate Bowman
Greater Sudbury Development Corporation
PO Box 5000 Stn A
200 Brady Street
Sudbury ON P3A 5P3
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