Volume Zero invites you to participate in The Dwelling 2023 Architecture Competition challenging the conventions of the present-day Archetype of an Urban Home and call for a sense of living based on community spirit.
Since the start of time, a HOME has continued to be an entity that is intimate to all living beings on the planet. A space that not only provides a physical shelter for humans and everything they hold dear but also shapes their daily lives. A home forms a distinct bond with its users and the environment that it sits in defining both personal and social interactions.
The contest is open to professionals and students from the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, design, and any related field, of legal age from every country in the world, and has two participation options:
The LA+ EXOTIQUE design ideas competition asks entrants to design the forecourt of the Museum of Natural History in Paris. The museum was founded in 1793 during the French Revolution, though the site had been used as a royal garden of medicinal plants since 1635. The site is located on the left bank of the River Seine and sits within the Jardins des Plantes, which are 28-hectare grounds that include exterior gardens and a zoo (Ménagerie), with five galleries in the museum precinct: Gallery of Evolution, Gallery of Mineralogy and Geology, Gallery of Botany, Gallery of Paleontology and Comparative Anatomy, and Large Greenhouses (Grandes Serres). All of these could be considered inspiration for your design. The Museum is not just a collection of fossils, it is an active research institution studying the evolution of life on this planet, and its occupants, both human and nonhuman.
The Glasgow Institute of Architects have launched an ideas competition encouraging the re-use of the existing Cumbernauld megastructure, and opposing the demolition approach proposed by the local authority.
GAD Foundation is pleased to announce the launch of an international architecture competition that calls on young architects from around the world to envision a new natural environment based on living in a scenic and magical landscape. Re-Imagining Cappadocia as an Eco-District competition seeks to extend design insight into architecture embedded and in harmony with the Cappadocian landscape as the focus of Eco-District design.
The Architecture Award for the Smart Marina event is a competition that aims to inspire established architects and architecture students to create waterfront projects that are not only attractive and functional but also sustainable. The objective is to design a space where boaters, tourists, and local communities can enjoy the location while preserving the natural environment. The prize encourages the use of innovative materials, architectural techniques, and energy-efficient technologies to promote sustainability in the marina industry. The competition aims to recognize outstanding architecture that exemplifies the perfect balance between functionality, aesthetics, and environmental conservation.
City of Cantù launchs the challenge to rethink spaces, buildings and routes, to improve quality, livability, attractiveness of the urban center on the occasion the “Fulawim” project that won the New European Bauhaus.
Europan is a competition of ideas followed by implementation processes open to professionals of the architectural, urban and landscape design under 40 years of age.
Create an adaptive reuse project, providing functional use that fits building topology and urban context. At the same time aiming to preserve authenticity; increase the profitability of the property complex; unite the property complex into a single concept; and integrate the territory into the urban context.
On April 6, SPACE10 will introduce a global design competition to reimagine home — using AI. Over the past year, generative AI tools have enhanced imaginative and creative capabilities, allowing millions of people to visualise worlds beyond those we ever thought possible. In a first of its kind competition, SPACE10 challenges participants to apply new AI tools to future homes and cities. Regenerative Futures is part competition, part open-source research, and open to everyone. The competition encourages play and imagination to create visual concepts of future homes, communities, and cities that help address some of the biggest challenges facing everyday life.
Are you working on projects or start-ups that are aligned with the goals of the EU Green Deal? Are you looking for an opportunity to showcase your work and gain exposure across Europe? Then this call is for you!
In 2023, the Center for Architecture will launch an open call and invite up to three lab residents (individuals or organizations) to install work in an exhibition that will open in November 2023 and will remain on view through March 2024. The exhibition will be shown in the Center for Architecture’s lower-level gallery, a central space adjacent to the main lecture hall. The residents will work with a curator (TBA) who will guide them through the exhibition process and consult on content for the show. The residents will also have the opportunity to continue the dialogue around their work through public programs during the length of the exhibition and beyond. Each resident will receive a stipend of $10,000 for the duration of the residency (6 months total).
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The Puppet Theatre in Stara Zagora encourages those with a flair for the novel, distinctive and unorthodox. We are prepared to take risks in the name of artistic process and the quest of true meaning.
The STATE PUPPET THEATRE in Stara Zagora and the Ministry of Culture, supported by Stara Zagora Municipality are delighted to launch an international Open Architectural Competition for a conceptual design of the EPAC - Experimental Puppetry Arts Centre at State Puppet Theatre – Stara Zagora. The Puppet Theatre in Stara Zagora encourages those with a flair for the novel, distinctive and unorthodox. The theatre is prepared to take risks in the name of artistic process and the quest of true meaning. The EPAC - Experimental Puppetry Arts Centre will be an incubator for live theatre – syncretic, originally incepted, unconventional, interactive and bold. A meeting point for people of deliberate creative motivation and potential, dynamic, unique and diverse creators. The new centre will aspire to offer opportunities to contemporary artists to grow their talent and create a wholesome space for the development of theatre across the breadth of the art of puppetry. The competition is open to designers from across the world who are passionate about contemporary art and theatre and want to contribute to the design of an unorthodox, out-of-the-box building to be the home of the magic of theatre.
Let your imaginations take you places with PIX Moving Space! Experience a hands-free journey to the ideal cafe, bookstore, lounge or cinema that fits perfectly into your life’s scenario. Enjoy coffee in an on-the-go café; kick back and relax while reading a book in the moving bookstore - why not grab some shuteye in our cosy lounges? Even work out during rush hour at the mini gym – all this is now possible with PIX's Moving Space, an autonomous robo-vehicle with no steering wheel or driver's seat.
At Moving Space Hackathon, we need you to design based on our Moving Space 3D model and we provide you with the Alpha version of our self-developed AI-driven design platform - PAM (PIX Algorithm Modeling) ™ for efficiency improvement on the workflow from design to manufacturing. By simply inputting text and images into the PAM™ platform, participants can generate designs for not only Moving Spaces but more daily-to-life things like furniture, decorations and more.
TerraViva Competitions launches HYBRID COWORKING, a new interior design competition that puts the focus on the transformation of existing bars and cafés all over the world. Prizes up to 7.000 € will be awarded to the winners selected by an international jury panel composed by, among others, Fabrizio Vizzi (Rosan Bosch Studio), Jesica B. Orizi (Maris Interiors), Giulio Ubini (Tuc Studio), Nadica Filipovic (ARR&D Interiors);
We are delighted to invite architects, artists, and designers to express their interest in working on a new site-responsive public art project in Somers Town, Central London.
Volume Zero invites you to re-imagine the idea of Library as a 21st-century self-learning and educational incubation space that not only is a center for knowledge but also encourages its users to interact, share ideas and grow together.
As the world is continuously transforming and expanding, the amount of data and information created every day is also increasing constantly. Human intellect today is expected to evolve at the same rate as our world to continue our journey into the future. Despite all the information, reading and self-learning remain the most powerful tools available to mankind to consume knowledge. Learning bolsters awareness, exposure, and productivity, which in turn results in development.
The Open Ideas National Competition 2022 on Improving Liveability of Small Houses organised by Habitat Forum INHAF in partnership with CREDAI Pune Metro seeks to engage practising architects, interior designers, planners, engineers and senior students of these faculties; related Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs); Government agencies; Professionals working on slum-upgrading and slum rehabilitation, and others with innovative ideas in developing proposals on Improving the Liveability of Small Low-cost Housing being constructed by public agencies and private builders under the PMAY (Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana) and other affordable housing schemes and projects.
Overview Architecture defines human’s relationship with the environment. Early dwellings sheltered human from dangers and discomforts and provided a place for tools, livestock, and even intangible entities such as spirits.
