Dynamically Active Facades: Metals in Construction Magazine 2022 Design Challenge

This is an ideas competition involving the design of an innovative curtain wall system for a new, site-specific office building.

Category Idea Competition / Open to Students
Type International, Idea, Open, Single-Stage, Anonymous
Genre Façade
Country United States
RegDeadline 15 February 2022 GoogleCal iCal
15 February 2022 (via Online)
Eligibility All

Description
With people spending about 90% of their time indoors, and even more during the past year and a half of the global pandemic, indoor environmental quality (IEQ) is of paramount importance. IEQ is heavily influenced by a building's façade system, which provides access to view and daylight while controlling glare, solar heat gain, and thermal and acoustical comfort. Indoor air quality is also fundamental to IEQ, and the facade system holds the potential to provide natural ventilation while enhancing the thermal resilience of the building interior.
This year's competition is based on the idea of a dynamic facade system that integrates critical building systems' functionality, including lighting, ventilation, thermal, visual and acoustical comfort, and energy management, thereby acting as the central component for holistic building systems integration. The design challenge proposes an exploration of the limits and potentials of a façade system capable of responding dynamically to changing indoor and outdoor conditions over the range of seasonal and temporal climatic conditions while maintaining as close to optimal IEQ as possible. The challenge's $15,000 Grand Prize will be awarded to the building and facade system design judged most innovative and effective in integrating building systems functionality to achieve optimal, carbon efficient year-round control of the indoor environment.

Jury
Not yet announced

Prize
$15,000

Entry Fee
$125 for students and $150 for professionals

Timetable
A panel of industry judges will choose the winner on March 5, 2021.

Organizer
The Metals in Construction magazine

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