Archi-Now Competition 2022 , Jaunde / Kamerun

 

CIPCA (Centre International pour le Patrimoine Culturel et Artistique)

 

What is Archi-now?

 

The sustainability first steppers contest. ARCHI-NOW competition is for the” best “thesis in architecture” personal graduation or academic research work “on themes and issues related to resilience and innovation in the built environment” economics, cultural, environmental and energy sustainability “. All eco-approaches and innovative design, contextual or projected solutions are awaited.

 

The competition focuses on the evaluation of the personal end-of-study project, possibly accompanied by his studies or research dissertation, depending on the option chosen by the student. This award is by nature individual. However, teams can present a collective project if this is the working format chosen by their establishment. Exceptionally, projects or design works from other schools or research than thesis projects can be presented for this edition.

 

Taken as heritage, vestige, or building material of the future. When it comes to using cultural heritage for the construction of the future, the field of possibilities becomes vast and the options plural and diverse.

 

However, and more than ever, architectural production must show sensitivity and anchor itself locally for a coherent and resolutely resilient global impact…

 

Whether it is the development of new expertise or the enhancement of the existing in a specific context; this edition of the Archi-Now / Sustainability first steppers competition, on the theme LOCAL 2.0, is aimed at students and young professionals who have developed or highlighted in their end-of-study or end-of-cycle project. A holistic approach that exploits or develops from or in parallel with local heritage (material or immaterial) a solution or a sustainable concept to a situation, a problem in the field of architecture, mobility, or urban planning…

 

Drawing on or referring to the old is not a new trend, but the current climatic context and the unattractive prospect of its consequences offer us the possibility of revisiting and analyzing the past with more precision and less speculation…

 

Extreme globalization with standardization of well-being and housing can now be questioned by a multi-scale and multidisciplinary analysis of the environments in which built or space structuring artifacts of our civilization are inserted…

 

LOCAL 2.0, or how to see or represent in the present the different possible “futures” opens up for the enhancement of research and the promotion of social, technical, technological, and cultural solutions for the resilient habitat of today and tomorrow on earth as elsewhere.

 

All approaches and or concepts are accepted from low to high tech, “in or out of the box”… 

 

The competition is open for architects that graduated from the years 2017 – to 2022 from all architecture schools all around the world. It is also exceptionally open for research from previous year’s graduates Under 35. Applications are individual or a team.

 

Registration: 11 April – 31 July 2022

Pre-Selection: 01 August – 14 August 2022

Project deposit:  15 August – 04 September 2022

The jury, Final selection: 05 September – 12 September 2022

Announcement of the winners: 01 October 2022

Exposition of the finalist projects at CIPCA and people choice selection: 01 – 31 October 2022