Jacques Rougerie Foundation - INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION IN ARCHITECTURE 2026

海洋建築で有名なフランスの建築家ジャック・ルジュリの財団が主催する恒例アイディアコンペ。海洋、海底、宇宙空間における新たな生活環境を設計してほしい。

Description
This competition invites participants to design new living environments across three realms where physical and environmental conditions redefine the very act of building: flood-prone lands, marine/submarine environments, and outer space.
In these unstable or hostile contexts, the ground can no longer be taken for granted, the atmosphere is no longer assured, resources are limited, and natural cycles impose their own temporalities. The challenge is not to dominate the environment, but to design in harmony with it.
•On flood-prone lands, rising sea levels turn water into a core design parameter: adaptability, reversibility, scalability, and integrated risk management become central to the project.
• In marine and submarine environments, swell, currents, pressure, and buoyancy (Archimedes' principle) call for a systemic approach combining architecture, engineering, and ecology as the driving force of design.
•In space, vacuum, radiation, and microgravity transform architecture into a life-support system: autonomy, closed-loop cycles, modularity, and maintainability structure the proposal.
Projects are encouraged to develop bold, resilient, and tangible responses.
The objective is to place humanity and living systems at the heart of safe and desirable frameworks, capable of turning constraints into resources and inventing new ways of inhabiting the Earth, the sea, and beyond--by bringing together art, science, and technology in close connection with nature.

Jury
Not yet announced

Prize
In 2026, the Fondation Jacques Rougerie - Académie des beaux-arts will reward candidates presenting an architectural project related to flood-prone lands, the sea, or space, by awarding prizes totaling €42,000.
• Grand Prize - Flood-Prone Lands - Prospective: €7,000 (seven thousand euros)
• Grand Prize - Flood-Prone Lands - LAB: €7,000 (seven thousand euros)
• Grand Prize - Sea - Prospective: €7,000 (seven thousand euros)
• Grand Prize - Sea  - LAB: €7,000 (seven thousand euros)
• Grand Prize - Space - Prospective: €7,000 (seven thousand euros)
• Grand Prize - Space - LAB: €7,000 (seven thousand euros)

Entry Fee
None

Timetable
Jury deliberation: October 2026
Individual notification to award winners: Late October 2026
Awards Ceremony: Late November 2026

Links
Past winners

Organizer
The Jacques Rougerie Foundation

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