New Taipei City Museum of Art Conceptual Design

International Competition

Invitation
The New Taipei City Government plans to build a world-class museum of art in its Yingge District. In a call for proposal through a conceptual design international competition, creative and visionary schemes are sought in order to give the New Taipei City Museum of Art a fresh look and versatile art exhibition space. We cordially invite design teams from all over the world to challenge their imagination, pursue new possibilities for modern art museums and help New Taipei City create an artistic icon for the new century!
Awards

a. Stage One: (Semi-final)
    Three Shortlists: NT$ 1,000,000 for each (Approximately US$ 33,333)
    (Awarded right to enter Stage Two Competition)
    Five Honorable Mentions: NT$ 100,000 for each (Approximately US$ 3,333)
    Ten Merit Awards: Certificate of Award

b. Stage Two: (Final)
    One First Prize: NT$ 3,000,000 (Approximately US$ 100,000)
    One Second Prize: NT$ 1,500,000 (Approximately US$ 50,000)
    One Third Prize: NT$ 1,000,000 (Approximately US$ 33,333)

Qualifications for Participation

    1. Any licensed architect or licensed architect firm of R.O.C. (Taiwan) or foreign country, alone or in teams.
    2. Any design-related company of R.O.C. (Taiwan) or foreign country, alone or in teams.
    3. Any student recommended by design-related department of university of R.O.C. (Taiwan) or foreign country, alone or in teams.
    For more information, please visit our website.

Timetable    Registration Acceptance Period      2011/05/24 ~ 2011/08/05
    Material Submission Deadline         2011/08/16
    Stage One Jury Session                   2011/08/18 ~ 2011/08/19
    Announcement of the Shortlists        2011/08/19
    Stage Two Jury Session                   2011/10/13 ~ 2011/10/14
    Announcement of the Winners         2011/10/14

For more information, please visit:    www.NTCArt.com.tw 

Host Organization
    New Taipei City Government

PARCO SOLAR SOUTH COMPETITION / DOSSIER

VERTICAL VILLAGES FOR EUROPEAN SNOWBIRDS
OFF architecture associated with PR architect ( Philippe RIZZOTTI) and Samuel NAGEOTTE

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Concept
The viaducts’ morphology and especially its piles inspired us to develop vertical villages. The deck therefore should be reinforced by a display of commercial spaces, equipments, medical centres and leisure spaces. We can only imagine how much time these viaducts have needed to impose themselves upon the landscape where they finally have become a significant part of. This project does not intend to impose a new architectural form as it could fracture the existing one and hence become inadequate.

Consequently we intend to reinforce the viaduct’ existing architectural form in order to keep the impact upon the landscape itself to minimum. This project aims to participate to the evolution of the original viaducts in order to consolidate their original identity.

The project will appear as a contemporary archaeological contribution discordant with its double; it will wrap around the existing one and restructures it in order to give it a new breath.

A harmonious combination of viaduct’ morphology and common pavilion typology, taking place in a new dimension which combines the isolating qualities of a pavilion as well as the advantages of a condominium (proximity, mutualisation etc…). The upper part of one of the viaducts deck will inhabit a pedestrian “promenade” nonetheless for the others the deck will remain as traffic road in order to respect the existing paths of the city. The communion of the infrastructure within its landscape should be sufficient to establish a first-class quality of life along with a responsible response to the environment.

PROJECT TEAM:

ARCHITECTS 

Philippe RIZZOTTI, Samuel NAGEOTTE,

OFF Architecture (Tanguy VERMET, Manal RACHDI)

168 rue St Denis - 75002 PARIS (FR)

+33 (0)9 81 98 21 47

ENGINEERS

Anton SAWICKI, Director

Structural Engineering, Buildings & Design, RAMBOLL UK

60 Newman Street - LONDON W1T3DA (UK)

+44 (0)20 7631 5291

www.ramboll.co.uk - anton.sawacki@ramboll.co.uk

Barcelona 2011 Bohemian Hostel for Backpackers international competition

Image courtesy of UGO architecture&design

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Project created for Barcelona 2011 Bohemian Hostel for Backpackers international competition. For this competition consisted of designing a 100 tall tower -hostel that  includes relaxation areas, stores, cafe and at the same time creates a new landmark in the city of Barcelona.

Image courtesy of UGO architecture&design

Barcelona Rock hostel is supposed to be a unique place. It is supposed to become a new symbol of Barcelona.  In search for inspiration we were trying to find something common for the city’s architectural marks such as Sagrada Familia, Torre Agbar or the nearby Museum of Modern Art. We found it in Montserrat – in a mountain range near Barcelona (the highest elevation in Catalonia, you can see it from Barcelona). The stone from that mountain range was used for the buildings of the old city.

Image courtesy of UGO architecture&design

The form of the building is a part of a mountain. The stone elevation introduces life to the building, which is covered with greenery and provides shelter to birds, and which becomes a natural feature of historic importance in the centre of the metropolis. In the hostel there are 50 rooms with a window, a swimming pool (jumping from the rock into the water), spa, gym, cinema, pub, shops and climbing walls for beginners. The outer elevation of the hotel forms climbing walls for more advanced climbers, who can spend the night there using special equipment.  We hope the hostel will become a symbol of the city as Ayers Rock is for Australia.

The elevation is made of stone blocks (stone slabs 4 meters high) mounted on stilts of reinforced concrete. These blocks are mounted in some distance from one another to ensure the air penetrates into the building. The advantage of using stone in this climate is that it radiates heat at night and cools the air during the day.

www.ugo.com.pl

Cathedral Fold

Strasbourg, France

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(New York, NY) April  21, 2011 – Axis Mundi was invited to submit a proposal for a new cathedral for the city of Strasbourg, France.  The design is composed of a series of unfolded arches which rest on a submerged “Latin Cross” floor plan.  A bas-relief of an abstracted Gothic cathedral will emerge on the eastern facade when the sun rises, and will gradually disappear during the course of the day.

Site
Strasbourg is the capital and principal city of the Alsace region in north-eastern France and is the official seat of the European Parliament. Located close to the border with Germany, it is the capital of the Bas-Rhin department. Strasbourg's is the ninth largest metropolitan area in France.

Strasbourg is fused into the Franco-German culture and although violently disputed throughout history, has been a bridge of unity between France and Germany for centuries, especially through the University of Strasbourg, currently the largest in France, and the co-existence of Catholic and Protestant culture.

Concept
A series of unfolded (ogival) concrete arches were designed to create majestic volumes of light for the interior spaces.

Invisible Cathedral
The design of the front façade consists of a bas-relief of a digitized abstraction of a Gothic cathedral. As the sun rises in the east, it will cast shadows on the facade, and the bas-relief will become visible. It will gradually disappear during the course of the day.
The floor plan is an abstraction of Gothic Cathedral, and is composed of a Latin cross (or "cruciform") plan, with a long nave making the body of the church, a transverse arm called the transept and, beyond it, called the choir, chancel or presbytery.

Hidden Cross
The “Latin Cross” plan is submerged, or sunken below the ground plane. The interior below grade is entirely clad in limestone slabs, and has been reduced to the barest minimum of decoration. The pulpit was inspired by the Giants Causeway in Northern Ireland, and is composed of a cluster of hexagonal shaped columns. A simple bronze cross rises from behind.

Design Team:  John Beckmann, Masaru Ogasawara and Viviane Liao
Renderings and Diagram:  Viviane Liao and Masaru Ogasawara

Total sq. ft.: 25,000
Materials: Structurally reinforced concrete, limestone, seamed structural glass, bronze, and oak.

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