Exploration of natural systems from the microscopic to the universal unearths vast design potential for overlaying cultural, ecological, and life cycle flows toward determining new architectonic strategies.

The d3 Natural Systems Competition for 2010 invites architects, designers, engineers, and students to collectively explore the potential of analyzing, documenting, and deploying nature-based influences in architecture, interiors, and designed objects.  The competition calls for innovative proposals that advance sustainable thought and performance through the study of intrinsic environmental geometries, behaviors, and flows.  By identifying, examining, and applying their structural order on form and function- -bottom-up, performance-based solutions for limitless building typologies, functional programs, and material conditions may be realized.

The d3 Natural Systems Competition allows designers freedom to approach their creative process in a scale-appropriate manner- -from large-scale master planning endeavors, to individual building concepts, to notions of interior detail.  Accordingly, there are no restrictions on site, scale, program, or building typology.

$1,750 in prizes will be awarded along with Special Mentions.

Top designs will be exhibited by d3 in New York and featured in traveling exhibitions worldwide.  Previous d3 competition winners and select projects have been exhibited in New York, Cleveland, Savannah, and Monterrey, Mexico.  Selected submissions will be featured on www.d3space.org and published in forthcoming d3 publications.  d3 competitions and top projects have been published in several worldwide media sources.

For further information, please visit the competition website:
www.d3space.org/competitions