Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition 2020 Sustainability and Urbanism ── Housing and Life in the Future
Theme Sustainability and Urbanism ── Housing and Life in the Future
What should 21st century architecture do? The world’s population will rise to 9.3 billion by 2050. Most of them, if we can believe the prognoses, will live in big cities. Some will live in megacities with up to 100 million inhabitants. At the same time, cities are responsible for 80% of carbon dioxide emissions. In the future, we will require an urban building culture that allows for incredibly dense living. Tokyo, Shanghai or New York are well-functioning contemporary examples. Or do we require a new mode of thinking in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis and the social distancing that ensued? Current events illustrate the vulnerability of such megacities.
There is one certainty, however. We must create buildings and dwellings that allow for us to live in harmony with this planet’s resources again. 50% of the world’s waste and a large part of its energy consumption are caused by constructing and operating buildings. As architects, we can make a decisive difference.
In our efforts to build sustainably, we have focused on purely technical issues for a long time. Today, we must embrace a holistic view. I coined the term "supergreen", denoting projects where the highest sustainability rating are self-evident, and, where aspects are promoted that indirectly count as "green". In ever denser cities, public spaces – or more abstractly formulated – social questions are of essential importance to me. Think about how good architecture can find new answers! The time has come to question the status quo. I am looking forward to unconvential competition entries.
Christoph Ingenhoven
Prize
- WinnerMultiple1,000,000¥
The number of winners and the amount of prize will be determined by the judges.
Schedule
- 2020.06.01 (月)Registration opens
- 2020.09.30 (水)Registration closed
- 2021.01.01 (金)Announcement of the Winner
Guidelines
Entry and Application
To enter the competition, please first register on the competition website. A registration number will be issued by email after the registration form is properly completed. Each applicant should keep a record of this registration number, as it will be needed for submitting your proposal. If there is any change in the registered personal information, re-registration is required. Also, if the applicant wishes to submit multiple proposals, it is necessary to obtain a registration number for each proposal.
• No inquiries regarding the registration number will be accepted once the number has been issued.
• Registration is only available through the competition website.
• Use of mobile phone email address is not recommended since there might be problems in receiving the registration number.Submission Requirements
Contents: Site plan, floor plan, elevation, section, perspective drawing and axonometric drawing at any scale. You are free to include photograph of a model, detailed drawing, other chart. Your submission should include a descriptive text of your design in less than 250 words in English, which must be in 12 point type or larger. Paste this same text in your submission email. All drawings, illustrations, and texts should be laid out on two sheets of A2 (420×594 mm / 16.5×23.5 inches).
• File format: PDF
• File size should not exceed 10 MB (please combine two sheets in one file)
• The registration number must be used as the name of the PDF file of each design entry (e.g., skc0000.pdf).Submission Procedure
Use your pre-registered email address and adhere to the format described below.
1) Email subject line should read: “0000 (your registration number) / Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition 2020”.
2) Attach your submission file. Be mindful of the file size. Files that do not meet the specified requirements will not be considered.
3) Your email should include the following information: the registration number / full name, age, and profession of all the team members / team leader’s home address, telephone number, fax number (if available), and email address / a descriptive text of the design in less than 250 words.
Note: The amount of emails right before the deadline may overwhelm our internet server, so please do not wait until the last minute to submit your entry. The competition hosts will take no responsibility for submissions that arrive late due to technical issues and will not judge such submissions.Announcement of the Winner
Winner(s) will be announced in the 2021 January issue of SHINKENCHIKU (published on Jan 1, 2020) and a+u (published on Dec 27, 2020) magazines, their digital issues and on the competition website.
Notice
• Copyright of the proposal belongs to the applicant, while the publishing right belongs to Shinkenchiku-sha Co., Ltd..
• Submitted proposals, regardless of the result, may be published on the competition website.
• Questions regarding the competition regulations will not be answered by the hosts. All matters not covered in the regulations listed above are left to the discretion of the entrants.
• Proposals must not have been made public previously in any form. The work must not (in total or in part) infringe on anybody’s copyrights. Do not use images copied from magazines, books, or websites. If a copyright infringement is discovered, the prize may be taken back at the host’s discretion.
• The winning entrants will be requested to submit high-resolution digital data for publication.
• All fees associated with submissions must be borne by entrants.
• Please double-check the contents of your submission. You will not be allowed to replace your proposal after submission.
• Please avoid corrupted texts and broken links. Please embed all the linked files.
• Entries will only be accepted if they adhere to all the regulations.
Judge
Christoph IngenhovengJury Member
Born in Düsseldorf in 1960. He studied architecture 1978–1984 at the RWTH University in Aachen and 1980–1981 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Prof. Hans Hollein. He has received his Diploma in 1984 under Prof. Wolfgang Döring. Christoph Ingenhoven is one of the leading international architects committed to sustainable architecture. He is a founding member of architecture societies and federations including but not limited to the German Society for Sustainable Building (DGNB) and the Federal Foundation for Building Culture. Since 1985, Christoph Ingenhoven leads the Düsseldorf architectural office Ingenhoven Architects which has won numerous prizes in national and international competitions. Besides his conceptual work, Christoph Ingenhoven acts as jury member and expert in various competitions and give lectures worldwide.
Comments
コンペティション 2020 総評：サステイナビリティと都市──これからの住宅と暮らし
クリストフ・インゲンホーフェン 審査委員
21世紀の建築がすべきこととは？世界人口は2050年までに93億人に達すると推測されています．その予測を信じるとすれば，人口の大部分が大都市に集中し，中には人口1億人にもなる巨大都市も現れると考えられます．同時に，二酸化炭素排出量の80％は都市部が占めているという事実があります．そこで将来的に必要になってくるのが，超高密度の中での暮らしを可能にする新しい都市型建築です．東京，上海，ニューヨークは上手く機能している例と言えるでしょう．
しかし最近の出来事の中で，巨大都市の脆弱性が浮き彫りとなっています．コロナ危機やそれに伴うソーシャルディスタンス（社会的距離）を受けて，都市についての新しい考え方も求められるでしょう．これらが，このコンペティションに参加した78名の応募者への問い掛けです．
私はこの危機によって生じた重大な社会問題に対応し，それに対する答えや解決策をもたらす優れたアプローチを持つ作品を選出しました．最初の審査で主に3つのコンセプト，未来の住宅，未来の都市，そしてユートピア／SFに取り組む12作品を候補作としました．複数の応募作品が，サステイナビリティあるいは社会的利益に能動的に寄与するデザイン要素を取り入れていました．受賞作に選ばれたすべての応募作品が問い掛けに対する独自のアプローチと異なる答えをもっていたことから，5つの作品には序列をつけることなく，等しく入選とすることにしました．応募作品に込められた素晴らしいアイデアと努力のすべてに心から感謝しています．そして未来への問い掛けに対する答えを創造していくために，共にこのコンセプトに取り組み続けることを希望しています．
［124］Ark the shelter for living + working + supply（箱舟 生活と仕事と供給のシェルター）は，コロナの感染爆発やそのほかの疾病が流行した際に遭遇する，複雑な問題に取り組んでいます．この提案は高密度の都市のネットワークの一部なのですが，同時に必要があれば広域のコミュニティから独立して機能する，複合的な多目的のマイクロ・コミュニティを提供しています．人の集中によって引き起こされる潜在的な公衆衛生上の問題に対応する，人口密度の高い都市における新しい生活＋労働＋供給のあり方についての的確な構成を評価しました．
［204］House with Growth（成長と共にある家）は，膨張する人口に対する空想上の未来の答えです．応募者は自律的に成長する住宅という問題に取り組んでいます．プロジェクトは，公共空間と住宅が建てられた区画をコミュニティに還元するプラットフォーム化された農場を，モデュラー・システムに組み込んでいます．
［146］Artificial invasion of nature（自然の人為的な侵略）は，建築の緑化は必須であり，都市の再緑化というかたちで既存の建物にも緑を付加できることを明らかにしています．
未来を見据えた［220］Urban Resource House（都市資源住宅）は，所定の区域の居住者に彼らのための物資を生産する，アーバン・リソース・ハウス（都市資源住宅）を提案しています．彼らは自然環境を損なうことなく，高密度化する都市の人びとにどのように物資を供給するかという困難な問題に答えています．そのコンセプトを通じて彼らは，気候変動とサステイナビリティに大きなインパクトをもたらす，コミュニティと交通のあり方に一石を投じています．
［111］Vertical Urban Village（垂直の都市集落）の独創的な住宅ユニットは，活動的なコミュニティとサステイナビリティの相互作用です．ユニットのモデュラー・システムは４つの重要なコンセプト，構造，生活，栽培，公共空間で組み立てられています．このコンセプトは資源の再利用とエネルギーの効率化を促すことでしょう．それは仕事の空間を統合することでさらに拡張することができる，優れた提案です．
［241］Void-Volume（虚と実──ごみのダイナミズムから都市のサステイナビリティを再考する──）は，私たちが抱える問題（その源は私たちの消費です）と共に社会に向き合う創造的なアイデアのゆえに，特に取り上げておきたい提案です．興味深く目を引くこの作品は問い掛けに対する答えではありませんが，その発想とアイデアは評価されるべきものです．
（本頁，48頁，51〜52頁 翻訳：中田雅章）
