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Comp: Building A Sustainable World
RIBA-USA Competitions
Building A Sustainable World: Life in the Balance
The Royal Institute of British Architects - USA announces a new international competition Building A Sustainable World: Life in the Balance. First Prize $10,000. Main Sponsor Autodesk, Special prize for best use of Autodesk BIM software although entries may use any appropriate medium including freehand and collage.
Panel of Judges:
Includes Thom Mayne of Morphosis, Ken Yeang of Lewellyn-Davies Yeang, AIA President Elect RK Stewart, RIBA President-Elect Sunand Prasad and a delegate from each of our sponsors, Autodesk and our publisher Gibbs Smith.
The Competition:
An open competition to develop a concept for a maximum capacity sustainable community or an urban subdivision to address shifts in global climate, that have been so vividly demonstrated by increasing numbers of flooding and drought catastrophes. The community must be off the grid, in other words as autonomous and self-sustaining as possible. And, beyond this, we would like to invite you to propose ways of making the community a positive contributor to the natural ecology. Alternative energy solutions need to be fully researched and integrated to identify advantages and to be realistic about risks and disadvantages. Our premise is that the sustainable community should start to reverse environmental damage and not add to it.
Registration for Building A Sustainable World is open until December 31, 2006. Last
entries will be accepted no later than 6 pm PDT (Pacific Daylight Time), February 1,
2007.
Entrance Fee: $US100.00
For details and official entry form visit http://www.riba-usa.org/Competitions/index.htm
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