Call | The Arctic Perspective – Third Culture competition
Commission | Arctic Perspective Initiative Open Architecture Design Competition
Deadline and details | 23:59:59 UTC | July 1st 2009 | download call pdf
Prize | First Prize: 5000 EUR | Second Prize: 2500 EUR | Third Prize: 1500 EUR
The Arctic Perspective Initiative Mobile Media-Centric Habitation and Work Unit open architecture design competition is open to the submission of proposals for the design of a mobile media-centric facility, life support habitation and work module with a renewable energy supply, waste recycling, and communications systems. We invite proposals from architects, designers, engineers, artists, students, and engineering teams.
The design should be an open source mobile architecture/system/machine capable of functioning in extreme as well as temperate climates and containing mass/industrial and amateur production/manufacturing potential.
The unit is to serve as a model for mobile research in extreme cold environments, incorporating high tech solutions while utilizing sustainable resources.
Submitted entries are intended for the competition only. The selection of prizewinners does not guarantee the intent of API to award a commission for the actual building of the project. However, API does reserve the right to consult and negotiate on the continuation of the development with selected entrants pending the confirmation of the development budgets in 2009 and 2010. If realisation is to continue, the first prototype will be tested in the field in the March/April/May 2010 time frame.
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