Alternative Designs for Sport Facilities

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The aim of the “Training” competition is to develop a design proposal for the sport facility typology, intended as a place where physical activity and/or sports entertainment can occur. Participants are asked to create innovative and unconventional projects on this theme, questioning the very basis of the notion of sport facility. After the recent closure of the European football cup and the Olympic games, you are asked to reinvent the way sports can be practiced, and how they can be used to entertain. 

Many architecture and design projects have already proposed new ways to empower the social value of sports and innovative solutions to implement them in order to promote a healthy lifestyle. With similar creative attitude the participants are urged to create an artefact, merging considerable programmatic innovation and valuable design tools. The proposal can be a device, a piece of furniture, an interior design project, a pavilion, a building or a urban plan. Scale of intervention, program dimensions and location are not given and they can be arranged by the participants to better suit their project.

Non architecture competitions wants to be unconventional also in the way it rewards its participants. The winners will be in fact three, all equally important. In addition 12 honourable mentions will be awarded. Each one of the 3 jury members will select one winner and four honourable mentions. The prizes are the following:

WINNERS (3 Prizes):

• EUR1000
• Publication in the Non Architecture Competitions books
• Publication on the Non Architecture Competitions website
• Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs

HONOURABLE MENTIONS (9 Prizes)

• Publication in the Non Architecture Competitions books
• Reviews in digital magazines and several architecture blogs

FINALISTS

• Publication in the Non Architecture Competitions books

JURY

• STEPHANE HOF / Founding partner at Hoffice, Previous: Architect at Zaha Hadid Architects
• MASSIMO ALVISI / Co-founding partner at Alvisi Kirimoto, Previous: Architect at Renzo Piano Building Workshop, Architect at Fuksas Associati
• MATUS NEDECKY / Founder of FlyingArchitecture

CALENDAR

• 1-15 October 2016 – Special Registration (30 €) period
• 16 October-15 November 2016 – Early Registration (45 €) period
• 16 November-15 December 2016 – Regular Registration (60 €) period
• 15 December 2016 – Submission opened on our website
• 16 December-27 December 2016 – Late Registration (75 €) period
• 30 December 2016 – Submission Deadline (23.59 GMT+0)
• 30 December 2016 – The “Making – Alternative designs for factories” book available
• 19-24 January 2017 – Winners announcement
• 19 January-19 February 2017 – Call for Papers for the “Training- Non Architectural Sport Facilities” book starts
• 1 May 2017 – The “Training – Non Architectural sport facilities” book available

Download the information related to this competition here.

• Title

  Alternative Designs for Sport Facilities

• Type

  Competition Announcement (Ideas)

• Organizers

  Non Architecture Competitions

• Registration Deadline

  December 27, 2016 11:30 PM

• Submission Deadline

  December 30, 2016 11:30 PM

• Price

  1-15 October 2016 – Special Registration (30 €) period; 16 October-15 November 2016 – Early Registration (45 €) period; 16 November-15 December 2016 – Regular Registration (60 €) period; 16 December-27 December 2016 – Late Registration (75 €) period