Hyperloop Desert Campus , Nevada / Vereinigte Staaten

Hyperloop Desert Campus

Organizers
YAC Srl
Via Borgonuovo, 5
40125 Bologna
www.youngarchitectscompetitions.com

Competition assignment
Immense and dusty expanses surrounded by reddish rocks and swept by fierce winds: in a world that seems to have domesticated all mysticism, the deserts represents the last place where fragments of mystery are preserved.

As a matter of fact, there is an insane fascination in what is hidden, a hint of sweetness in what is fatal for us; but if the desert represents the inaccessible and fatal place par excellence, it is to the desert that we must look to see the dawn of a new chapter in the history of mankind.

In the heart of the Nevada desert, a few kilometers away from Las Vegas, the first test center of Hyperloop - the futuristic means of transport that will connect cities and nations at a much-higher speed than planes - has been created.

This technology has needed the desert’s spaces and isolation to grow and consolidate, but has advanced to the point that it requires a more-advanced testing and study center, where the brightest minds on the planet can collaborate to define practices and methodologies that can transform today‘s visions into tomorrow‘s reality.

For this reason, Hyperloop needs to expand its test center: this is why YAC is pleased to present Hyperloop Desert Campus.

Lost in the American desert, among the salt basins and millenial desolations where the steam of the ancient locomotives were first hosted, architects will be asked to shape the most recent dreams of innovation and speed through an iconic building located in one of the most majestic and suggestive contexts on the planet.

This will be the place where the history of mankind will be written; the new Hyperloop campus will not be a mere building, but rather a real sanctuary of science, a place where the impossible becomes possible, where it will be possible to celebrate the ancient and always-renewed race towards the most heartfelt and irredeemable ambition of our species: progress.

YAC thanks the designers who will take on this challenge.

Competition type
Open ideas competition

Admission area
International

Participants
Architects, Designers

Schedule
Early Bird Registration (60 €/ team*): 15 June – 12 July 2020
Standard Registration (80 €/ team*): 13 July – 09 August 2020
Late Registration (110 €/ team*): 10 August – 20 September 2020
Material Submission Deadline: 23 September 2020
Jury Summoning: 28 September 2020
Results Announcement: 02 November 2020

*+22% VAT. Fulfilling an “Early bird”, “Standard” or “Late” registration does not affect submission deadline.

Jury
Ben van Berkel, UNstudio
Winy Maas, MVRDV
Paolo Cresci, ARUP
Kazuyo Sejima, SANAA
Fedele Canosa, MECANOO ARCHITECTEN
Linna Choi, OUALALOU + CHOI
Chad Oppenheim, OPPENHEIM ARCHITECTURE + DESIGN
Italo Rota, STUDIO ITALO ROTA
Hasan Çalışlar, ERGINOUĞLU & ÇALIŞLAR ARCHITECTS
Carlo Ratti, CARLO RATTI ARCHITECTS
Nicola Scaranaro, FOSTER + PARTNERS

More information and documents at
www.youngarchitectscompetitions.com/competition/hyperloop-desert-campus