Emerge Competition
Register/Submit Deadline: Sunday, Nov 1, 201510:18 AMEDT
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Emerge is an organisation founded by Zimbabwean architect and Rotarian Ruvimbo Moyo that offers competitions for design students. These competitions promote innovative concepts to re-think the current rural and urban conditions, offering new proposals that are a direct reflection of the continent’s transformative efforts and mobilizing young architects to make vital contributions to their communities and country.
THE COMPETITION GOALS AND VALUES
■ Producing innovative and provocative architectural solutions through critical analysis of the context and challenging the current norm
■ Aid students in building a strong portfolio
■ Offering socially relevant, economically and environmentally sustainable ideas and solutions to the general public
■ Influencing architecture students in Zimbabwe to foster long-term ideals of developing the country
■ Offer a scholarship base to support and encourage students studying architecture and the related fields
THE BRIEF
Architecture students and designers are called to define the home of the future under the theme ‘Living Tomorrow’. This is an idea-based challenge and seeks for conceptually sound proposals. The site can be of any size or form but limited to the Zimbabwean future context. The building(s) proposed can connect with various other issues that interest the participant.
Submissions should however consider (but not limited to):
■ Sustainability
■ Building technology of the future
■ Socio-economic factors
■ Cultural dynamics of the future
■ Environmental and agricultural influences and solutions Spatial configuration
■ Choice of material
■ Human interaction
■ Aesthetics
http://emergecompetition.com/
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