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TOTEM ::: Competition for students

[ XXIII UIA World Congress of Architecture TORINO 2008 ]

The Jury of the Competition TOTEM, composed of Magda Hosam Eldin Mostafa (Egypt), Wolf Tochterman (Germany), Jose Luis Cortes (Mexico) and Yang Yi (China), has met on 11-12 April in Torino and examined 435 projects (105 for info-ecology, 231 for info-metropolis and 99 for info-poverty), coming from 34 countries, and awarded the prizes. View the full list of winners and participants.

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This ideas competition, in a single stage, is organised in the framework of the UIA Congress Turin 2008. Based on the congress theme, Transmitting architecture, competitors are invited to design a TOTEM, an architectural object for communication, information and exchange to be located in one of the following three types of environment: a social context: poverty; a natural context: ecology; an urban context: metropolis.

The competition procedure will be run entirely on internet (see the Calendar on the right for the opening and closing dates). Students of architecture worldwide attending a school recognised by the UIA member section in their country are invited to take part by submitting a proposal online. The competition documents, programme and regulations may be downloaded in the Documents section of this site.

Registration takes place at the same time as the electronic transmission of the project, one file in pdf format on the competition web site (see the Calendar on the right for the opening and closing dates). In order to reduce the possibility of system congestion, participant are requested, in so far as possible, to activate the procedure for registration and transmission of documents in advance to the deadline.

The competition language is English. There is no registration fee.

 

 

Official date and hour
04/07/2009 - 

Calendar
25 January 2008
::: Deadline for sending inquires

01 February 2008
::: Deadline for replies to the inquires

31 March 2008 – 16:00 UTC
::: Opening of the period for activation, by the participants, of the telematic procedure for registration and simultaneous transmission of the documents
 
08 April 2008 – 16:00 UTC
::: Closing of the period for the activation by the participants of the telematic procedure for registration and simultaneous transmission of the documents
 
12 April 2008
::: Adjudication

25 April 2008
::: Announcement of the results

29 Jun – 6 July 2008
::: Exhibition of the projects in Torino


2 July 2008 during the XXIII UIA WCA Torino 2008
::: Prize giving ceremony

Announcements

Further prizes for the winners of TOTEM competition:
1.  Space Group, with the support of UNESCO Prize: 10 000 euro

2.  Japan Institute of Architects (JIA) Prize: 5000 US$

3.  Patrick Nelli Prize, awarded by the CIAF -  UIA French Section: 2000 euro. This prize will recompense one of the best entries in the framework of  "A natural context: sustainability": Info ecology.

4.  Louise Cox Prize: 1 500 US$

5.  Wolf Tochtermann Prize: 1000 euro

6.  Union of Architects of Russia Prize: 10 day trip to Moscow and St. Petersburg - all expenses covered, incl. return air tickets.

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The technical specifications of the competition are available on the Documents section of the Web site.
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IMPORTANT: The "Instructions for PDF creation" refer to a software tool that requires a Windows PC, and is not compliant with MAC Os
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The CIAF, UIA French Section, offers the Patrick Nelli Prize, worth 2000 euros, to be assigned to one of the best projects in the framework of  "a natural context: sustainability".
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Due to the large amount of questions received by the Organizers and the following delay in publishing the answers, the registration and submission time has been postponed from 20-27 March to 31th March - 8th April 2008.