The Cambridge to Oxford Connection: Ideas Competition

ケンブリッジやオックスフォードは、有名大学や研究機関が集まるUKで成功している都市と言えるが、インフラ問題が顕在化している。これらの都市を結び付け、経済的、環境的、社会的に価値をもたらす提案を求める。

カテゴリ アイディアコンペ / 学生が参加できるコンペ
タイプ International, Idea, Open, Two-Stage
ジャンル Urban
開催地 UK
登録締切日 3 August 2017 GoogleCal iCal
提出締切日 3 August 2017 (via Online)
応募資格 All

Description
The corridor that spans Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Northampton and Oxford defines one of the most productive and fastest-growing knowledge networks in the United Kingdom.
It is home to 3.3 million people and hosts some of the country’s most successful cities, as well as world-leading universities, knowledge-intensive high-tech firms and highly-skilled workers.
Yet within this area significant housing and transport pressures exist: the scarcity of suitable and affordable homes, and difficulties in travelling within, and between, cities. These constraints are becoming obstacles to attracting and retaining talent and inevitably putting a break on economic growth.
Across the corridor, new infrastructure is coming in the form of rail and roads that will hugely improve connectivity, but really captivating, attractive places, which allow people to flourish – whether new or reinvented – are rarely accidental.
This is why the National Infrastructure Commission, an independent body with cross-party support that provides advice to government on infrastructure policy and strategy, is launching this free-to-enter, two-stage ideas contest aimed at broad multidisciplinary teams of urban designers; architects; planning, policy, and community specialists; landscape designers; development economists; and others with local knowledge and general insight Submissions from international teams and are welcome.
Through the competition, the Commission will be seeking visionary ideas for development typologies across the Cambridge – Milton Keynes – Oxford corridor, and including Northampton. Typologies that contribute to providing the homes the area needs, integrate the delivery of infrastructure – the highly anticipated East West Railway and planned Oxford to Cambridge Expressway – with high-quality places, and maintain the environmental and cultural character of the corridor.
A strategy that integrates placemaking with infrastructure is essential for the area to achieve sustainable progress that speaks to all communities and creates a sound basis for economic success. The knowledge economy is particularly vulnerable to talent relocating – the job may be great, but this is just one factor among many. How does the environment measure up? What is the community like? Is this a place to settle and make a future, to live happily and healthily?
The need for fresh and visionary thinking is urgent: future generations, locally and nationally, depend on realising the potential of an area that is one of the engines of the UK economy – but in a sustainable, creative and intelligent way. The Commission will be publishing a Final Report in late 2017 that will include visions and design principles for infrastructure, and associated development sites, ensuring these are effectively integrated into the local environment and meet the needs of residents and communities. This competition is focused on finding the very best ideas to guide the Commission forward.

Jury
Not yet announced

Prize
Shortlisted teams will receive an honorarium of £10,000 to progress their emerging visions into creative concepts, developed on a specific location within the corridor.

Entry Fee
None

Timetable
Shortlist Announced / Stage Two Launch: Mid-August
Stage Two Deadline: Late September 2017
Jury Interviews: Late October 2017
Winner Announced: Early November 2017

Organizer
National Infrastructure Commission, Malcolm Reading Consultants Limited

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