On September 09, we closed our list
of applicants for the 14th Membrane Design Competition.Winners will be announced
on November 1999.
THEME
Shoreline Membranes
The shoreline is a good place for lightweight designs.
Lakes and oceans sometimes show a face as smooth as a mirror, but then the@wind starts to blow and waves begin to rise. Rivers start out quietly, with pure water filtering into little creeks. The creeks flow into rushing streams, and the streams come together into majestic floods that roll into the ocean. Water flows from high to low. It may be agitated on the surface, but the depths are a world of languid movement. This is an expression of the laws of nature. By way of comparison, membranes have zero resistance to compression. Together with the supporting materials that deal with compression, membranes take form according to the laws of tension. Unlike conventional fixed structures, they are flexible and change their shape according to changes in wind patterns and variations in the supporting materials. This ingenuous response to natural dynamics has something in common with the behavior of water. In this competition, we would like to see entries that illustrate this kind of relation to water
The shoreline could be an ocean, a lake, or a river. It could also be an oasis in a desert. Membranes could be used in various types of facilities on the urban waterfront. They could lend interest to a landscape of warehouses on the shore. Other applications could include zestful surprises in shoreline leisure facilities, or original shapes that heighten the sense of anticipation on piers where passenger ships depart for trips to faraway places. Membranes could function as symbolic landmarks in picnic grounds by lakes or oceans, or as sites for refreshment in desert oases.@20@Entrants are free to imagine any type of shoreline and any type of membrane. The installed facility should serve its intended purpose and also contribute to enhancing the environment through its appearance and landscape design.
We look forward to proposals for shoreline membranes that give full expression to the functional and aesthetic potentials of the material.
JURY
Chairman of the jury panel:
Yoshiro Ikehara (Architect, Professor emeritus of Waseda University)
Members of the panel:
Atsushi Katagi (Architect, Professor of Nagoya University)
Shozo Baba (Architectural Communication Consultant)
PRIZE
1st prize
1:
JPN Yen
1,500,000
2nd prize
1:
JPN Yen
500,000
3rd prize
1:
JPN Yen
300,000
Honorable mentions 7: JPN Yen 100,000each
(Prize winners outside of Japan will be paid U.S.dollars.)
DESIGN PRESENTATION
Layout drawings, plan drawings, sections, detailed drawings (any scale), perspective drawings, CAD or model photographs, of any other visual material along with written explanations if necessary all should be provided on a single A1-size (841x594mm) paper.
Ink, pencil, blueprints, color paint or any other design materials desired can be used.
Languages to be used in your work for explanation and /or as a method of expression are confined to Japanese and English only.
DEADLINE FOR DESIGN SUBMISSION
On September 09 1999. Design send from oversease should arrive at office by this date, no later than 5:00P.M. Tokyo time.
ADDRESS FOR DELIVERY OF DESIGN WORK
Shinkenchiku-sha Co., Ltd.
Membrane Design Competition '99 Office
2-31-2, Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0043, Japan Telephone: 81-3-3811-7101
ANNOUNCEMENT OF CONTEST WINNERS
Winners will be announced in the monthly magazine "Shinkenchiku" November 1999 edition. Prize winners will be informed directly. Results and winning works will appear in the "Membrane News" mailed after the competition.
CONTEST FEE
There is no fee for submitting design works. However, all expenses for submission, such as packing and mailing charges, are the responsibility of the applicant.
LIABILITY
The competition office accepts no liability for accidents, damage or any other problems affecting the work prior to receiving the submission.
After receiving the design works, all reasonable precautions will be taken in handling, mailing and transporting them, but the office accepts no liability for accidents, damage or any other problem affecting them as a result of natural disasters or other unavoidable circumstances
RIGHTS
All rights to the works will revert to the applicants. Thus, all measures that may be required to protect industrial property rights are the responsibility of the applicants.
For the 1st, 2nd and 3rd-prize design works, and other recognized work, the sponsor reserves the right of first refusal to use the design in an actual construction project. The sponsor will hold all rights concerning printing, advertising, publication, exhibition and so on for 1st, 2nd and 3rd prize design works and all other recognized work. Copyright on submitted design works will revert to the applicant, but the sponsor will hold the rights to announcements of the recognized design work.
OTHER
Submitted design works shall not have been announced previously in any media or location whatsoever.
Decisions on all matters falling outside the range of these specifications are left to the applicants. Submitted design work will not be returned, so copies should be kept if necessary.
Design work to which any or all of the following conditions apply will be excluded from the judging, or the prizes may be canceled after announcement of results.
1. Designs that cleary violate the copyrights, industrial property rights or various rights of others.
2. Designs that have already been announced elsewhere.
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