The Second Natian Cup International Design Competition: A New-tech Led Intelligent Urban Life , Suqian / China

The Second Natian Cup International Design Competition: A New-tech Led Intelligent Urban Life

Organiser
ARGE Suqian Urban Planning Bureau |
CBC (China Building Centre) |
Urban Environment Design (UED) Magazine
China

Sponsor: Suqian Municipal Government, China

Competition Contact
Julie (for inquiries from China Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan and overseas countries)
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E-Mail: tangjingxian@uedmagazine.net

Competition Assignment
The rapid development of technology and popularized digitalization is imperceptibly influencing the evolution of cities. As a new trend and an inevitable choice of this era, the “Intelligent Revolution” led by technology and innovation is sweeping all over the world and transforming looks of and life in the city. Urban public environment, as the ‘common home’ of city dwellers, needs to be built by a collective effort. Public facilities are significant to secure the comfort and safety of people‘s daily life. The topic of the competition is “A New-tech Led Intelligent Urban Life”, with a focus on how new technology will improve urban life by taking public facilities as the object of design, aiming at soliciting creative design proposals all over the world.

The Second “Natian” Cup International Design Competition is sponsored by Suqian Municipal People’s Government, organized by Suqian Urban Planning Bureau, CBC (China Building Centre) and Urban Environment Design (UED) Magazine. This competition is open to professional designers and college students from the fields of urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, art design and relevant disciplines at home and abroad, besides, interdisciplinary practitioners, new-tech and new energy research institutes are also welcomed to participate. Participants are encouraged to select the site and do researches on their own will within the city of Suqian. However, the design should be adhere to the current development of the local area. The subject and topic can be self-determined, but the feasibility of the design should be justified. After jury review, winning entries have the possibility to be implemented in compliance with municipal standards.

A New-tech Led Intelligent Urban Life
The competition aims to discuss the merging point between various new technologies, city infrastructureand citizens’ daily life, with the trans-boundary model of “New-tech +” to stimulate more practicable and unique designs. Public spaces, facilities and citizens’daily life will be the main focus of this competition. Through the transformation of the mundane object in daily life, it is to effectively improve the convenience and safety of the city, enhance people’s sense ofidentity and reduce the cost of city’s operation and maintenance. The ultimategoal of this competition is to offer citizens with a better living environment and artistic experience.

1. Design Principles
1) Creativity: Create diverse and interesting places for Suqian citizens and tourists. Design must be original.
2) Locality: Project should be designed with a comprehensive consideration of local history, culture, and natural environment.
3) Sustainability: The sustainability of design, materials and operation should be considered.
4) Feasibility: This is not only a conceptual competition. The selection of material, the form of construction and the requirement of craftsmanship should all be feasible.
5) The application of new technology and new materials: In the design, new technology and new material are expected to play a leading and innovating role in the development and implementation of public facilities.
6) Originality: Participants should ensure the originality of the proposal and make sure it hasn’t been submitted to other competitions.
7) The design should beable to enhance the identity and design quality of the area, and add new functions.

2. Design Categories
It is free for participants to select the site of the project and the category of design in Suqiancity. Design should be public facilities but the category is not restrained, such as an intelligent pedestrian, smart public toilet, newsstand, bus station, public bench, intelligent rubbish bin, and intelligent street lamp etc. Newmaterials and the creativity of design should be considered, as well as thefeasibility.

3. Site
Participants are free todecide design boundary and subject, and they are encouraged to organize fieldsurvey within the Suqian city by themselves. The site should be real and imagessuch as photos and satellite images of the site are required in submission materials. Participants can also select one of the recommended sites that areprovided by the organizing committee to design; Whether the participants choosethe provided site will not be the consideration of the jury review. (The information of the provided site can be downloaded from the official website)

Competition Type
Open Competition

Admission Area
International

Participants
Professional designers and college students from the fields of urban planning, architecture, landscape architecture, art design and relevant disciplines at home and abroad, besides, interdisciplinary practitioners, new-tech and new energy research institutes are also welcomed to participate.

Schedule
Registration Deadline: 24:00(UTC+8) June 30, 2018
Submission Deadline: 24:00(UTC+8) July 30, 2018
Result release: August 18, 2018

Awards
First Prize (1 team): Honor certificate + Bonus 400,000RMB (before tax, around 60,000USD)
Second Prize (3 teams): Honor certificate + Bonus 100,000RMB (before tax, around 15,000USD)
Third Prize (5 teams): Honor certificate + Bonus 40,000RMB (before tax, around 6,000USD)
Honorable Mentions (several teams): Honor certificate and full year UED magazine

Detailed information and documents at
natiancompetition.uedmagazine.net/index.php?r=info/opsu&en=1