AA|FAB Awards ‘Designing Fabrication’

This years Award theme is ‘Designing Fabrication’ and the Cluster is interested in recently built projects that exemplify the innovative integration of design and fabrication processes through digitally driven design systems and protocols, and whose completion contributes to an international discourse on the use of emerging design and fabrication technologies.

Category Award
Type International, Award, Open, Single-Stage, Onymous
Genre Architecture, Interior, Urban
Country London, UK
RegDeadline 8 June 2009 GoogleCal iCal
8 June 2009 (Must be Received)
Eligibility All
Target Field At least full scale working prototypes within the last 3 years

Description
The AA|FAB Cluster is a 2 year research programme at the Architectural Association School in London. The Cluster supports novel design research projects and fosters interdisciplinary collaboration between members of the school community and outside participants who share a common interest in the emerging application of digital design and fabrication technologies.
We are interested in work that exemplifies how the designer is increasingly approaching the material fabrication and assembly of projects as an integral part of the design process and how the acquisition of these new forms of knowledge is changing the existing definitions of the profession.
Categories: ROOM Projects, BUILDING, CITY Projects

Jury
Michael Weinstock (Architectural Association, London)
Brett Steele (Architectural Association, London)
Alan Dempsey (AA|FAB Cluster Curator)
Kris Mun (AA|FAB Cluster Curator)
Hanif Kara (Adams Kara Taylor, London)
Christian Tygoer (Adams Kara Taylor, London)
David Glover (Arup, London)
Sebastian Wrong (Established & Sons, London)
Paul Velterveden (Land Securities, London)
Other invited participants

Prize
First Prize (each category): £1500 and Participation in an International Symposium at the AA during the London Design Festival in September 2009
Second Prize (each category): £750 and Participation in an International Symposium at the AA during the London Design Festival in September 2009
A selection of the best runner-up entries: Participation in the exhibition and publication

Entry Fee
GPB £30

Entries
2 panels (A2) and a CD containing digital datas

Submission Address
Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture
36 Bedford Square
London WC1B 3ES

Timetable
Exhibition and Symposium: September 2009

Organizer
Architectural Association School of Architecture

Official Website
http://www.aa-fab.net/