Current Czech House: Through the Eyes of Young Architects

The competition is announced in close cooperation with Czech faculties of architecture in Brno, Liberec, Ostrava, and Prague. Promised to participate in the national jury, which will meet in April 2012 at CTU in Prague, are Markéta Cajthamlová, Jakub Kynčl, Pavel Nasadil, Alexandr Skalický. The judges will select the winning design or designs, the creators of which will be awarded books on architectural topics, participation in a 5-day international workshop in Debrecen in May 2012 and at a conference in Brussels in May 2013, including covered travel expenses, accommodation, and per diems.

All Czech competition entries will be presented after the jury meeting in April at CTU in Prague, where there will also be a ceremonial announcement of the winners and the opening of the exhibition. In the fall of 2012, the exhibition will also be presented at the locations of the other universities.
Selected competition projects will also be presented to the widest public through the website GreatVillas.org, where the winning works will be in the form of interactive 3D models. Finalists will also be publicly presented at a joint conference and exhibition of villa architecture from the Visegrád countries in Brussels in 2013.

Finalists from all national rounds of the competition will participate in a workshop in Hungary in May 2012.
For organizing the workshop this year, we have chosen Debrecen, which is home to Prof. Antal Puhl, DLA. Under his leadership, discussions and lectures by other instructors will take place here along with accompanying programs. The winners of the competition will jointly evaluate the history of residential architecture, attempt to further develop their competition designs based on these stimuli, and create a vision and model of a joint “European” villa, which will be further presented at an exhibition in Brussels in 2013.



Competition Conditions
1. The Contemporary House through the Eyes of Young Architects is an international competition aimed at architecture students, whose Czech part in the academic year 2011/12 is announced by the Faculty of Architecture CTU in Prague and Foibos Bohemia o.p.s., in cooperation with the FA VUT Brno, FA TU Liberec, and FAST VSB-TU Ostrava. The competition also takes place simultaneously in Slovakia, Poland, and Hungary.

The guarantor of the competition at CTU in Prague is Ing. arch. Ján Stempel
At FA VUT in Brno, Doc. Ing. Arch. Iva Poslušná Ph.D., coordinator of the competition Ing. Arch. Ondřej Chybík
At FAST VSB –TU Ostrava, Ing. arch. Aleš Student, coordinator of the competition Ing. Arch. Tomáš Bindr
At FA TUL in Liberec, Ing. arch. Radek Suchánek Ph.D., coordinator of the competition Ing. Arch. Petr Šmídek

2. A decisive condition for participation is an original creative concept. Individuals and teams of students may participate, but each team will be presented by one author.
 
3. The results of the competition will be decided by a professional jury appointed by the organizers. As 3 jurors and one alternate for the 2011/12 competition year, Markéta Cajthamlová, Jakub Kynčl, Pavel Nasadil, and Alexandr Skalický were invited. The results will be announced in April 2012.
 
4. The subject of the competition is the development of a competitive design for a family house for a family of 4. The goal is to find an architectural solution to current demands that reflects the national specifics of historical and modern residential architecture. The organizers deliberately do not announce any additional thematic restrictions on the competition projects.



Project content:

• site plan M = 1:1000

• floor plans, sections M = 1:100

• visualizations of the exterior and interior

• author's report max. 1000 characters

• texts and descriptions in Czech and English

• exhibition panel (Kappa board) format: B1 700x1000 vertical

• 3D model - three-dimensional model M = 1:50 base 700x500 (the model is not a condition for application to participate in the competition, the winner/s will be informed of their nomination no later than April 20, 2012, and will provide the organizers with the model of the house no later than April 30, 2012, i.e., before leaving for the workshop in Debrecen)

5. The participant is obliged to properly fill out the application on the prescribed form (see attachment), sign it and submit it personally along with the exhibition panel and required documentation (in printed and electronic version on CD/DVD) at the designated submission point

• On April 11, 2012 at the Faculty of Architecture CTU in Prague, New Building, room 864, from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM.

Alternatively, send it by mail so that the shipment is delivered to the FA CTU no later than April 11, 2011 by 3:00 PM.
Or submit it at the submission point of one of the other faculties (Brno, Liberec, Ostrava) according to the information at www.GreatVillas.org.

• On April 3, 2012 by 12:00 at the Faculty of Art and Architecture TU in Liberec (dean's office FA with assistant secretary Eva Hejtmánková, Studentská 1402/2, Liberec)
• On April 3, 2012 at the Faculty of Architecture VŠB TU Ostrava (office of the secretary of the architecture department, Mrs. Markéta Teslíková, room H606/2, L. Podéště 1875/17, 708 33 Ostrava-Poruba)
• On April 3, 2012 at VUT Brno, Faculty of Architecture (study department of the architecture department, room A107, Poříčí 273/5, 639 00 Brno, contact person Ing. Arch. Ondřej Chybík)
  

6. Competition designs will be presented at a public exhibition at CTU in Prague, selected works will be published online in the form of interactive 3D models, and presented as part of international exhibitions in Debrecen and Brussels. Depending on the interest of the participating universities, the competition works will also be exhibited at their locations.

7. The reward for the author of the winning project is participation in a five-day international workshop in Debrecen (May 7 – 11, 2012), where the winners of all national rounds of the competition will meet under the guidance of Prof. Antal Puhl, DLA. The winner will also personally attend the "Via Villas" exhibition and conference in Brussels in spring 2013. The invitation to both events includes covered travel expenses, accommodation, and per diems.
The authors of the top three awarded projects will also be rewarded with a book edition "Famous Villas of Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia."
 
8. The project includes traveling exhibitions showcasing the work of Czech students both in the Czech Republic and abroad. The exhibition models and panels therefore remain the property of Foibos Bohemia o.p.s.



Competition Schedule:
•    December 2011 - January 2012 Preparation of the competition and contacting partners (Prague - CTU FA, Brno - VUT FA, Liberec - TU FA, Ostrava – VSB TUO FA)       
•    January 2012 Announcement of the competition at architecture faculties in the Czech Republic
•    April 3, 2012 Possibility to submit a competition entry at the submission point (Brno, Liberec, Ostrava) by 12:00 at the Faculty of Art and Architecture TU in Liberec (dean's office FA with assistant secretary Eva Hejtmánková, Studentská 1402/2, Liberec); Faculty of Architecture VŠB TU Ostrava (office of the secretary of the architecture department, Mrs. Markéta Teslíková, room H606/2, L. Podéště 1875/17, 708 33 Ostrava-Poruba); VUT Brno, Faculty of Architecture (study department of the architecture department, room A107, Poříčí 273/5, 639 00 Brno, contact person Ing. Arch. Ondřej Chybík )
•    April 11, 2012, 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM Deadline and submission of competition entries at CTU, New Building, room 864              
•    April 13, 2012 Jury meeting at CTU                                  
•    April 13 - 20, 2012 Announcement of results and winners                                             
•  April – May 2012 Exhibition of competition works at CTU including the ceremonial announcement of results (the opening will take place in the week of April 16, 2012 – the date will be specified)
•    Fall-Winter 2012 Presentation of the exhibition at other architecture faculties (Brno, Liberec, Ostrava )
•    May 7 - 11, 2012 Workshop common to all participating countries, University of Debrecen, Hungary (led by Prof. Antal Puhl, DLA)
•    May 2013 Presentation of results at a conference and exhibition in Brussels              

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