Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition 2005

for the The 2005 World Sustainable Building Conference in Tokyo

Theme
ACTION for SUSTAINABILITY

Competition Purpose
The 2005 World Sustainable Building Conference (SB05Tokyo) will be held from September 27th to 29th, 2005. To mark this event, The SB05Tokyo National Conference Board, Shinkenchiku-sha, Co., Ltd., and Yoshioka Foundation will jointly sponsor The Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition 2005. Each year since 1965, The Shinkenchiku Residential Design Competition has called for entries that explore new potential in architecture through the design of the residence, a place for human dwelling,” asking an architect of international standing to serve as a judge in selecting the winning submission. This time, in a departure from past competitions, two architects, Tadao Ando and Richard Rogers, will serve as judges. Shuzo Murakami (The Chief of the National Conference Board and Professor of Keio University) will serve as coordinator. The judging will be done in two stages, with the second-stage public jury to be held at the SB05 Tokyo conference.

Theme Description
In the 20th century, mankind attained prosperity by creating a culture of mass production and mass consumption. For that prosperity we must pay a terrible price, however, for we now confront a crisis of global proportions—our destruction of the earth’s ecosystem. The signs of impending catastrophe are numerous. They include global warming, ozone destruction, receding glaciers, and the depletion of mining, farming, and marine resources.
Since 1987, when the Brundtland Commission of the United Nations popularized the concept of “sustainable development,” sustainability has become a paradigm for an age of environmental awareness. Numerous hopes are confided in this word, among them a desire for intergenerational ethics, for preservation of the ecosystem, and for historical and cultural continuance. Under pressure from accelerating global population growth, however, sustainability is growing increasingly difficult to maintain.
Beginning with the Club of Rome, organizations of authorities, in all sectors, have issued warnings. If mankind maintains his present economic and industrial systems, it is believed, catastrophic change will occur in the earth’s ecosystem within 50 to 60 years. We have little time remaining. We must act for the sake of sustainability. This is the purport of our theme this time: Action for Sustainability.
The building sector consumes 30 to 50% of the earth’s resources and energy. As such, the building sector bears a great responsibility to advance the cause of sustainability, and expectations are high that it can do so. SB05Tokyo, a global conference on sustainable building, will be held in Tokyo next autumn. Opinion leaders in such fields as industry, government, education, and business, from around the world, will gather at the conference to discuss sustainable building from wide-ranging perspectives. We plan to hold the second-stage public jury for this design competition at SBO5 Tokyo. Through the residential design proposals submitted to this competition, we seek to send a strong message to the conference, one that will stimulate thoughtful discussion among the experts in sustainable building who gather here from many nations. (Shuzo Murakami)

Application and Entry

Contents
Site plan, floor plan, elevation, section, perspective drawings and axonometric drawings in any scale. Photographs of models may be used. You are free to append detailed drawings and other charts or descriptive texts that make your design clearer. Descriptive texts should be in either English or Japanese.

Complete all drawings, illustrative materials, and texts on ONE sheet of A1 size (594mm~841mm). Include two copies with the original. DO NOT USE A PANEL.

Media
You may use blueprints, pencil, ink, color, or photographs. NO ELECTRONIC MEDIA

Identification
On the back side of the original and each of the two copies, the entrant must show his or her name, occupation, age, address (home and office), telephone and facsimile number and e-mail address. All of these items should be typed for sake of legibility. Cover this information with a strip of opaque paper that may be easily removed later

Deadline
All entries must reach the competition office no later than June 13th (Monday), 2005. Mail entries to the following address

attn. Entries Committee, The Shinkenchiku Residential Competition 2005
Shinkenchiku-sha, Co., Ltd.
2-31-2, Yushima, Bunkyo-ku,
Tokyo 113-8501, Japan

Judging Method
Judges will each select three finalists. First stage finalists (6 teams or less) will be notified of their selection by the end of July.

The finalists will present their proposals at the SB05Tokyo conference (September 29th, 2005) and the Jury will choose the winner before the public. The finalists will be invited to the SB05Tokyo conference. (One person from each finalist team. A part of his or her traveling and accommodation expenses will be paid by the hosts).

Announcement of Winners
Winners will be announced in the 2005 December issue of SHINKENCHIKU and vol. 60 issue of THE JAPAN ARCHITECT.

Prize
The prize (total: 1,500,000 yen will be distributed at the discretion of the Juries.
Notice

* No registration is necessary for entry in this competition.
* Entries must never have been made public in any form previously. Nor can they be submitted simultaneously to any other competition.
* The hosts reserve publication rights with regard to all entries.
* Questions will not be answered by the hosts. All matters not covered in the regulations listed above are left to the discretion of the entrants.
* The work must not (in total or in part) infringe on a copyright. Do not use images copied from magazines, books or Web sites. If a copyright infringement is discovered in the winning entry, the award may be taken back at the hosts’ discretion.
*No entries will be returned.
* Entries will only be accepted if they adhere to all the rules appropriately.
* All necessary costs for submission (airmail charge, air courier charge, tax, insurance, etc.) must be fully paid by entrants.

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