BeBold and Think Beyond competition for young designers by Studio Fuksas
PHASE 01 – FEBRUARY/MARCH 2021
On February 2021 Studio Fuksas launched a competition open to young designers and recent graduates.
COMPETITION BRIEF
The Competition aimed to promote the research in relation of the coming environment that will take place in 50 years from now.
Beyond digital, beyond the urban, which spatial experiences, places, materials, solutions and process will be implemented integrating technology, nature, mobility, work-living environments or units.
How is the city in 2070? Focusing in health and wellbeing as the core to all human activities.
The aim of the competition was to wonder which is the next leap of technology, materials, work-living devices, units or Architecture that will define the new urban and new living experience.
AWARDS
Compensation for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places and opportunity to participate directly with Studio Fuksas Research Lab for a 4 months intership.
JURY AND CRITERIA
The project-ideas were selected by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas. Proposals with innovative approach to the core theme of envisioning future solutions for the years to come, showing domain of 3D skills, graphics-diagrams consistency narrative and content in Illustrations.
Results were announced on March 18th, 2021
Registration free of charge
PHASE 02 – APRIL/JULY 2021
The second phase of the competition was completed by the three winners Felipe Rey Velez, Idrees Kanchwala and Omer Ittah.
The three young designers have been attending a four-months internship within Studio Fuksas Research Lab through workshops, presentations and research sessions exploring new architectural forms of living and inhabiting the cities. At the end of the internship, which has entirely been held remotely, the participants have produced three Researches which investigate new spatial experiences, places, materials, solutions and process that can be implemented integrating technology, nature, mobility, work-living environments or units.
The young architects, all based in different parts of the world, had the ability to develop three autonomous projects, all characterized by a deep understanding of the concept and context, described by animations, diagrams, plans and beyond.
“Dichotomy – architecture generating machine” by Felipe Rey, “Movement influencing architecture” by Idrees Kanchwala and “Redefine the community in dense existing environments” by Omer Ittah are the titles of the three projects developed during the internship.
“Dichotomy – architecture generating machine” by Felipe Rey, Argentina
The research is located between the natural and the artificial, moving from one to the other. It generates a system of opposites, private public, work life, natural environment, artificial environment. Felipe’s hypothesis works with the idea of the limit between the natural and the artificial. Studying a natural context, he extract formal and organizational logics to hybridize artificial conditions. The work aims at the construction of an architectural system that changes the way we live. The life of the future points to a dense community that demands open and natural spaces. The construction of natural spaces and microclimates inherits logic and behaviors from the context studied.
Dichotomy proposes the construction of an architectural hybrid model. The research builds a work methodology based on systems of variables. From a natural context, ranges of maximum and minimum values are defined to regulate the capabilities of the model.
“Movement influencing architecture” by Idrees Kanchwala, India
Architecture is mostly perceived as a static entity. Spaces are of a fixed size and create the same or similar experience. Modern technology has however allowed architecture to find certain form of movement. Although limited and still in the infancy of its exploration, the practice of responsive/adaptive architecture has begun to break the static nature of architecture. Be it in the form of moving facades or floating structures, they are but an initial step opening a dimension of architecture that has not been explored. Movement is what I believe will be that one major component which will significantly impact architectural practice of the future. Thinking of Future Living and Working, moving forms will allow for flexibility which will constantly transform spaces, communities and the urban fabric of the city. Idrees’s research intent was to establish such a mechanism where movement of a single entity would create different special conditions exploring the forms generated by water riplle and oscillation.
“Redefine the community in dense existing environments” by Omer Ittah, Israel
Our lives in central cities become less and less accessible in several terms as we humans have the need to concentrate in main cities as a result of work, family and common activities.
That need effect cites and expressed as -high density, high cost, bad walkability, high anonymity, and the lack of opportunity to choose. In this research, Omer Ittah tried to understand these parameters that affect mostly on high-density cities by testing a dense matrix, and how e a new community can be created by working-living and public spaces that engage with the old one by using the existing infrastructures.
The test-subject chosen by Omer is Jerusalem, the capital city of Israel, and focuses on the area of the old city.
BeBold and Think Beyond competition for young designers by Studio Fuksas
PHASE 01 – FEBRUARY/MARCH 2021
On February 2021 Studio Fuksas launched a competition open to young designers and recent graduates.
COMPETITION BRIEF
The Competition aimed to promote the research in relation of the coming environment that will take place in 50 years from now.
Beyond digital, beyond the urban, which spatial experiences, places, materials, solutions and process will be implemented integrating technology, nature, mobility, work-living environments or units.
How is the city in 2070? Focusing in health and wellbeing as the core to all human activities.
The aim of the competition was to wonder which is the next leap of technology, materials, work-living devices, units or Architecture that will define the new urban and new living experience.
AWARDS
Compensation for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd places and opportunity to participate directly with Studio Fuksas Research Lab for a 4 months intership.
JURY AND CRITERIA
The project-ideas were selected by Massimiliano and Doriana Fuksas. Proposals with innovative approach to the core theme of envisioning future solutions for the years to come, showing domain of 3D skills, graphics-diagrams consistency narrative and content in Illustrations.
Results were announced on March 18th, 2021
Registration free of charge
PHASE 02 – APRIL/JULY 2021
The second phase of the competition was completed by the three winners Felipe Rey Velez, Idrees Kanchwala and Omer Ittah.
The three young designers have been attending a four-months internship within Studio Fuksas Research Lab through workshops, presentations and research sessions exploring new architectural forms of living and inhabiting the cities. At the end of the internship, which has entirely been held remotely, the participants have produced three Researches which investigate new spatial experiences, places, materials, solutions and process that can be implemented integrating technology, nature, mobility, work-living environments or units.
The young architects, all based in different parts of the world, had the ability to develop three autonomous projects, all characterized by a deep understanding of the concept and context, described by animations, diagrams, plans and beyond.
“Dichotomy – architecture generating machine” by Felipe Rey, “Movement influencing architecture” by Idrees Kanchwala and “Redefine the community in dense existing environments” by Omer Ittah are the titles of the three projects developed during the internship.
“Dichotomy – architecture generating machine” by Felipe Rey, Argentina
The research is located between the natural and the artificial, moving from one to the other. It generates a system of opposites, private public, work life, natural environment, artificial environment. Felipe’s hypothesis works with the idea of the limit between the natural and the artificial. Studying a natural context, he extract formal and organizational logics to hybridize artificial conditions. The work aims at the construction of an architectural system that changes the way we live. The life of the future points to a dense community that demands open and natural spaces. The construction of natural spaces and microclimates inherits logic and behaviors from the context studied.
Dichotomy proposes the construction of an architectural hybrid model. The research builds a work methodology based on systems of variables. From a natural context, ranges of maximum and minimum values are defined to regulate the capabilities of the model.
“Movement influencing architecture” by Idrees Kanchwala, India
Architecture is mostly perceived as a static entity. Spaces are of a fixed size and create the same or similar experience. Modern technology has however allowed architecture to find certain form of movement. Although limited and still in the infancy of its exploration, the practice of responsive/adaptive architecture has begun to break the static nature of architecture. Be it in the form of moving facades or floating structures, they are but an initial step opening a dimension of architecture that has not been explored. Movement is what I believe will be that one major component which will significantly impact architectural practice of the future. Thinking of Future Living and Working, moving forms will allow for flexibility which will constantly transform spaces, communities and the urban fabric of the city. Idrees’s research intent was to establish such a mechanism where movement of a single entity would create different special conditions exploring the forms generated by water riplle and oscillation.
“Redefine the community in dense existing environments” by Omer Ittah, Israel
Our lives in central cities become less and less accessible in several terms as we humans have the need to concentrate in main cities as a result of work, family and common activities.
That need effect cites and expressed as -high density, high cost, bad walkability, high anonymity, and the lack of opportunity to choose. In this research, Omer Ittah tried to understand these parameters that affect mostly on high-density cities by testing a dense matrix, and how e a new community can be created by working-living and public spaces that engage with the old one by using the existing infrastructures.
The test-subject chosen by Omer is Jerusalem, the capital city of Israel, and focuses on the area of the old city.