Category | Idea Competition / Open to Students |
Type | International, Idea, Students, Single-Stage, Anonymous |
Genre | Daylight |
Country | Denmark |
RegDeadline | 1 April 2024 GoogleCal iCal |
30 May 2024 (via Online) GoogleCal | |
Eligibility | Any registered student of architecture – individual or team – all over the world |
Target Field | Projects from individuals or groups of students, who are students during the study year 2023/24 |
Description
"Light of Tomorrow" is the overall theme of the International VELUX Award. The award seeks to challenge the future of daylight in the built environment with an open-minded and experimental approach. Therefore, the award seeks to widen the boundaries of daylight in architecture, including aesthetics, functionality, sustainability, and the interaction between buildings and environment.
1. Daylight in buildings
Projects that demonstrate applicable principles for providing daylight and sunlight into buildings - including the effects of building construction and context of the site, orientation, shape and dimensions, window openings, screens, shadings, interior divisions, materials and external conditions. Also looking at ways to channel and reflect daylight into deep building structures in dense, urban context. Specific focus on architecture for health and well-being and projects that address challenges faced by cities, communities and modern societies, and where daylight and architecture can help create change through better and healthier living environments; e.g. by retrofitting and repurposing the existing building stock.
2. Daylight investigations
Projects that look at the physical properties of light, basics of optics and materials, as well as technological developments, new materials, storage or transportation of daylight.
The use of daylight in public space for functional, recreational, cultural or spiritual use and the effect of daylight on state of mind, health and well-being as well as the dynamics and temporal quality of daylight and its effects on behaviour and spaces over time and seasons.
Jury
ALBERTO VEIGA
EWA KURYLOWICZ
JENNI REUTER
SONG YEHAO
KENT HOLM
Prize
A Grand Prize: 5,000 € per category (4,000 € to the student and 1,000 € to the teacher)
A prize: 1,250 € per category (1,000 € to the student and 250 € to the teacher)
The jury will be allowed to award a number of special prizes, including prizes for innovative use of VELUX products.
Entry Fee
None
Timetable
Summer 2024 Regional winners announcement
Fall/Winter 2024 Regional winners workshop/ presentations to the jury / Global winners announcement
Links
Past winners
Organizer
VELUX