International street cat house design competition

INTERNATIONAL STREET CAT HOUSE DESIGN COMPETITION

THE BRIEF

Background

Architectural spaces are recognized as one of the important elements of the urban environment since they bring deep impact on social development as well as human behaviors. Architects, as the creators of the spaces, should take strong social responsibility on it. Under the pressures of the rapid urban development, people’s behavior and life patterns have been forming and transforming constantly from every aspect of the society. And those changes on individual life react instantly upon the social progress. Therefore, the mission of architects nowadays is inevitably creating rational and organized urban spaces based on the close research and study of social behaviors. We have been trying to find social problems from every aspects of urban life and by solving them we can create a new order which can affect people’s behavior positively and improve the living environment healthily.
After a series of close and deep observation and research we fixed our competition topic on one of the most common elements in current urban environment – stray cats.
Stray cats, as objective reality in the urban environment, are affecting people’s ordinary life and behavior in many different ways. As a group of social-responsible architects, we are now initiating this international public-welfare design competition. Our vision is to call out people’s attention on social problems and urban life according to the elements as stray cats. We hope that innovative and effective solutions can be provided in terms of all the social problems raised by stray cats. And furthermore, we also hope that people can open their heart to help stray animals around them.

Goal

As an stray animal group which can be sighted almost everywhere in the urban area, stray cats affect people’s life in many ways and therefore cause positive and negative social problems. More and more people are spending their times helping them such aiding, feeding, adopting, and doing sterilization operations. There is also some people they abandon, drive off, hunting and killing them. Whatever individually or organized, these relationships between animals and humans, or even humans with urban spaces inevitably have impacts on people’s life.
Therefore, by this competition we want not only shelters which prevent the stray cats from rain and wind. More importantly we want spaces which can create relationship and solve social problems. We hope this competition can be a catalyst of creating a better urban living environment for humans and animals and can arouse people’s sense of social responsibility. Together we can build a harmonious home.

The competition process

1. The activity will start in October 2014, 8, you can query in the following url:   www.saachn.com,
2. The competition is in the global scope for proposals, you don't need to sign up. Students, architects and other people in the society, all can take part in this competiton with the name of the group or individual
3. The contestants submission deadline is December 08, 2014 -December 10, 2014, works submitted by email: [email protected], [email protected]
4. Participants should provide can fully express the design concept of PDF documents and no more than two panel drawings, design results panel drawings specifications for A1 (840 x 594 mm), vertical layout, any expression; Participants shall submit the electronic works, the organizing committee will not accept any work print, each drawing file accuracy is not less than 300 dpi. If you want, you can provide to the organizing committee of the auxiliary express material such as animation, 3d models
5. Participants shall be provided for profiles and photos to the organizers, photo size uniform for 2000 x2000 pixels
6. The organizing committee will invite famous domestic and foreign scholars, experts, animal protection groups to participate in the selection, released the outstanding works on January 10, 2015, released top three works on January 20, 2015. All the entries will undertake unity binding into a book, and published on web sites and platform and display
7. Questions about the competition to: [email protected], [email protected]   
   contact number：021-31600136

The rules of the contest

1. The electronic drawings shall not be any word or logo on the author name of individual and group, or will be disqualified
2. All entries copyright belongs to the organizers, and shall have the right to use the entries of authorship rights other than copyright
3. Participated in other works of the competition, or has been publicly published work created by others does not allow to participate in the competition, all the consequences caused by plagiarism from individual to assume
4. The competition of individuals and groups must agree and abide by the content of this competition notice and the rules of the contest; All rights and the rules of the contest are reserved to the competition organizing committee.