AILCD 2016 International Student Design Competition “Digital City Kokura”

Theme: Digital City Kokura

Description
The Asia Institute of Low Carbon Design (AILCD) is pleased to invite students from all over the world to take part in the sixth AILCD International Student Design Competition. The theme of this year is “Digital City Kokura”.　The competition addresses the problem of future developments of the Kokura City Center. The competition asks the students to make a proposal for a digital city within the Kokura area. The Kokura area should be considered as a real problematic area for the city of Kitakyushu.
Multidisciplinary teams of Graduate (Master and PhD students) and Undergraduate students from Architecture, Landscape, Civil Engineering and related disciplines are accepted. Team and individual entries are accepted. Only one project may be submitted per person or per team.
You can choose the whole Kokura area or only a part, for example 2 or 3 sites within the Kokura area, as the site for your proposal of this competition.
All proposals should contain one or more of below features:
- digital city concept
- overall sustainable concept
- green space design
- usage of renewable energy systems
- sustainable transport systems
- connection to the surrounding urban area

Jury
Jury Chairman
Prof. Bart Dewancker, The University of Kitakyushu (Japan)
International Jury
- Arch. Zhu Wang, Prof. Zhejiang University (China)
- Prof. Yue Fan, Dalian University of Technology (China)
- Prof. Dian Zhou, Xian Jiaotong University (China)
- Prof. Nguyen To Lang, Hanoi Architectural University (Vietnam)
- Arch. Mochamad Donny Koerniawan, Institut Teknologi Bandung (Indonesia)
- Arch. Fritz Akhmad Nuzir, Bandar Lampung University (Indonesia)
- Prof. Yiyin Tsai, Chung Hua University (Taiwan)
- Prof. Pawinee Iamtrakul, Thammasat University (Thailand)
- Prof. Hiroatsu Fukuda, The University of Kitakyushu (Japan)

Prize
First Prize: 50,000 Yen and a certificate
Second Prize: 30,000 Yen and a certificate
Third Prize: 10,000 Yen and a certificate
7 Honorable Mentions: Certificate

Entry Fee
None

Timetable
Winners will be announced: 1 December 2016
Award Ceremony: End February 2017 at the International Conference and Workshop “Digital City Kokura”,

Links
Past winners

Organizer
Asia Institute of Low Carbon Design, The University of Kitakyushu

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