/ international Climate Adaptation Design (iCAD) Ideas Competition 2014 / hosted by Chinese Culture University (CCU), Taiwan

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Aim

Climate change is one of the most important and complex environmental issues encountered by humankind this century. This competition aims to explore adaptive built environment design ideas for coastal community Wangliao of Taiwan faced with storm surge in a changing climate. It is noted that increasing occurrence of storm surge will cause higher possibility and duration of inundation, and aggravate coastal erosion as illustrated by the Adaptation Strategy to Climate Change in Taiwan.

The jury underlines technical potential for future development and the introduction of new ideas form the architectural and product development perspective, it is just as much about developing strategies that could be applied to low-lying coastal communities elsewhere. It is also thought that a ideas competition would be the best way to bring innovative thinking on climate adaptation from different aspects of climate change and past experience of a familiar climate; here is 'climate' described as weather average over 30 years.

Site / Built environment

/ incl. village, salt field, fish farm, fishing port and dike

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above/ dike, village; below/ salt field, fishing port, oyster farm; source


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Submission

/ Participants

This competition is open to all architects, engineers, ecologists, urban planners, designers, and particularly students involved in those expertise around the world; competitors could subscribe individually or as a team of maximum of 5 people.

/ Topics

The proposals can be for real or speculative projects, at one or more actual sites. Projects can be located either in Taiwan or abroad, but should be applicable to Taiwan and address the following topics:
  • Can coastal community restore its social infrastructure through public space?
  • Can the community change its design to accept storm surge without losing character?
  • Can coastal ecosystems be enhanced to prevent flooding?
  • Can vital coastal resources be protected against the unforeseen?
  • Can storm proofing be seen as an opportunity to rethink the future of the community?

/ Requirements
  • Format: each proposal should include two 594 mm by 841 mm color boards (A1 paper size) in horizontal format presented as a single digital file in PDF format, not bigger than 15MB each;
  • Content: these boards must include site plan, building floor plans, sections, elevations, construction details, and before and after photos (perspective) and/or rendering;
  • Annotations: adequate annotations to guide viewers through the visualization; 
  • Abstract: an abstract statement of no more than 150 words.
  • Submission: the proposal or its link in e.g. Google Drive, should be sent to crtadp@dep.pccu.edu.tw before June 15, 2014.

/ Notes
  • No identifying information should be included, as proposals will be presented and judged anonymously; the presence of identifying information will be grounds for automatic disqualification.
  • Upon receiving registration applications, we will issue each registrant a registration number. To identify submissions, each applicant will receive a registration number that must appear on the upper right corner of each board. The files must be named after the registration number. For example: 2014-0001.pdf.
  • This is an open international competition to generate progressive contemporary design ideas; there are no plans for the adaptive building for future climate to be built.

Dates

  • February 1, 2014: Registration opens; Question period opens
  • March 31, 2014: Answers to questions posted on website
  • June 20, 2014: Registration Deadline
  • June 20, 2014: Submission Due
  • June 30, 2014 (extended to July 18): Winners announced

Jury

A jury of leaders, academics, practitioners, and thinkers from a wide spectrum of human endeavor are invited to select the winner of the design competition. It is an honor and privilege to have them on board and we are very thankful for their involvement and contribution.

Prizes

Winning participants will receive prizes totaling 2,600 USD with the distribution as follows:
  • 1st Prize: 1,600 USD
  • 2nd Prize: 700 USD
  • 3rd Prize: 300 USD
There will also be 2 honorable mentions.

Publication

All accepted works will be published on the website abdc2014.blogspot.tw. The organisers are negotiating a special issue in an international journal for selected works from the competition.
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