Architecture of Necessity - invitation

Architecture of Necessity, an international triennial for sustainable community building, is held by Virserum Konsthall with the support of the Municipality of Hultsfred and the Regional Federation of Kalmar County.

Category Award
Type International, Award, Open, Single-Stage, Anonymous
Genre Architecture, Community, Installation, Urban
Country Hultsfred, Sweden
RegDeadline 28 March 2022 GoogleCal iCal
28 March 2022 (via Online)
Eligibility Professionally active individuals or legal persons such as architectural bureaus, building contractors, local governments or other entities
Target Field The submitted project must be dated between 2019 and 2022.

Description
Architecture of Necessity, an international triennial for sustainable community building, is held by Virserum Konsthall with the support of the Municipality of Hultsfred and the Regional Federation of Kalmar County.
Entries can be along the whole scale from installations and buildings to city or community planning projects. Submissions have to fall within the scope of the manifesto Architecture of Necessity. You can read the manifesto here. The international manifesto on the Architecture of Necessity was first launched in 2009. For the exhibitions in 2010, 2013, 2016 and 2019 more than 600 entries have been submitted from more than 40 countries.
Considering the pressing issues of today what could be called not only sustainable but "regenerative design" is searched for. The jury would also especially love to see entries that deal with the rural or "rurban" context - activation of neglected places as well as reactivation of forgotten places, both with transformation of existing buildings and with new typologies, for example combining living, work and "freespace". Like many others we are looking for an architectural language, developed for smaller cities and places, integrating landscape, typology and details and materials. Entries could be unbuilt projects, but acknowledging the well-known "implementation deficit" in sustainable building we give a certain priority to built projects.

Jury
Claes Caldenby, professor of architectural theory and history at Chalmers university of technology in Gothenburg, Sweden
Nils Björling and Julia Fredriksson from Chalmers university of technology
Katy Chada and Ogmund Sørli from Pir II AS, Trondheim
Marine Miroux and Leon Radeljć from ZRS Architects, Berlin

Prize
The winners will be reimbursed with 1200 €, plus travel expenses to Virserum, as well as accommodation for one person to take part in the opening of the exhibition and to speak about the project at the conference Architecture of Necessity the same day.

Entry Fee
None
Entrants who are chosen for the exhibition will be required to pay a EUR 250 + VAT service charge per chosen project.

Timetable
The winners will be announced 20th May 2022.

Organizer
Virserums Konsthall

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