eVolo Magazine will positively value the projects that take into account the advances in technology, sustainable systems and the establishment of new urban and architectural methods to solve economic, social and cultural problems of the contemporary city, such as shortages in infrastructure and natural resources and the exponential increase in population, pollution, economic inequality and unplanned urban sprawl.
The competition is an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of a dynamic and adaptive vertical community. It is also a response to the exploration and adaptation of new habitats and territories based on a dynamic equilibrium between man and nature – a new kind of responsive and adaptive design capable of intelligent growth through the self-regulation of its own systems.
There are no restrictions in regards to site, program or size. The objective is to provide maximum freedom to the participants to engage the project without constraints in the most creative way. What is a skyscraper in the 21st century? What are the historical, contextual, social, urban, and environmental responsibilities of these mega-structures?
eVolo Magazine is committed to continue stimulating the imagination of designers around the world – thinkers that initiate a new architectural discourse of economic, environmental, intellectual, and perceptual responsibility that could ultimately modify what we understand as a contemporary skyscraper, its impact on urban planning and on the improvement of our way of life.
Schedule.-
Early Registration Deadline.- November 17, 2015
Late Registration Deadline.- January 19, 2016
Submission Deadline.- January 26, 2016
Jury.-
Matias del Campo [principal SPAN].
Thom Faulders [principal Faulders Studio].
Greg Lynn [principal Greg Lynn Form].
Marcelo Spina [principal PATTERNS].
Skylar Tibbits [principal SJET].
Awards.-
1st place.- US $5000.
2nd place.- US $2000.
3rd place.- US $1000.
Winners and special mentions will be published in the book eVolo Skyscrapers 3 and several international print publications.
