The YARCH 2014 X-Change Competition
We refer to “cultural exchange between people – linking and bridging continents together”.
| Category | Project Competition / Open to Students |
| Type | International, Project, Open, Single-Stage, Anonymous |
| Genre | Temporary-Structure |
| Country | Cyprus |
| RegDeadline | 25 June 2014 GoogleCal iCal |
| 25 June 2014 (via Online) | |
| Eligibility | Professionals, students and architecture enthusiasts |
Description
At the level of consciousness, we, as users of a space, are unconsciously recording the environmental variables effects on our nervous system through our senses that leads to our brain. Our perception of movement and spatial orientation arises from stimuli within the body itself. Therefore, the process of understanding and recognizing a space leads to a deeper level of memory, the one that has to do with experience of our existence in the world. Experiences are formed by the way we grow up in a society and have a variety that depends on our culture. Each individual’s senses can register the existence of being into a space through signals that cannot be consciously highlighted. Therefore, users simultaneously experience space as assembled by their senses and link those experiences with memories of similar spaces they visited before, to the one they are in at the specific time.Exchanging cultures is a way of also exchanging experiences between people from different countries who all together inhabit a space. Consequently, exchanging cultures refers to the meaning of linking and bridging continents as well as cooperation and cohabitation between different countries, in order to achieve mutual understanding in every level of coexistence. The meaning of exchanging cultures aims in a kind of connection in which a space reflects a constant intercultural dialog between civilizations in general. This could be translated architecturally into something symbolic or more practically and spatially functional with the aim to cultivate union in the meaning of exchange, through communicative space. “ – YArch-workshop
Jury
There will be two ways in which the winners will be decided:
1. YArch will set out an online voting competition in which anyone as a member of YArch website will be able to vote their favorite proposal.
2. There will be a jury consisting of professionals from the design industry who will have an impact on the result.
Prize
Top Competition Winners will have the opportunity to construct their structures during YARCH 2014 X-CHANGE -WORKSHOP.
Entry Fee
€50
Entries
Two boards (A3)
A DOC file containing the project statement (250-500 words max)
Timetable
Announcement of the results: around mid June 2014
Finalists’ names will be available online at yarchworkshop.com after June 25, 2014.
The workshop: from 27th of July until the 10th of August, 2014
Organizer
YArch