UIA 2014 International Student Competition

This competition provides an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students from schools of architecture around the world to submit their solutions for short, medium and long-term interventions around the dynamic and complex Warwick Junction site in Durban, South Africa.

Category Idea Competition / Open to Students
Type International, Idea, Open
Genre Architecture, Urban
Country South Africa
RegDeadline 31 October 2013 GoogleCal iCal
31 March 2014 (via Online) GoogleCal
Eligibility Students

Description
The UIA 2014 International Student Competition explores WARWICK JUNCTION, a uniquelocation within central Durban.

This vibrant transport node provides a setting for predominantly informal traders at an unprecedented scale.The competition aims to recognise the complex systemic ecology that underpins the economic, cultural andsocial dynamics inherent to this area, and to find ways to strengthen, reinforce or expand these systems ina beneficial way.

Jury
TBA

Prize
GOLD: R 50,000
SILVER: R 30,000
BRONZE: R 20,000

Entry Fee
R 500 (South African Rands) per competition project entry

Timetable
Winners announced: August 2014

Organizer
UIA

Official Website
http://uia2014durban.org/student_competition.htm