LAGOS: CITY OF WATER ARCHITECTURE Competition 2020

When it comes to architecture competitions that have African contexts, we believe there are not enough competitions that engage the architectural potential and urban fabric of African cities. We as a foundation wanted to create an architecture competition that brings attention to our home city, Lagos, while also bringing attention to the issues low-income communities face. The purpose of this competition is to engage the creativity of young architects with Lagos (Nigeria) being the context.

For the design competition, you are asked to use your creativity to design a building, structure or masterplan that helps envision a future for Lagos on water. Your project should make significant use of water space, whether floating, submerged and/or built over water. You can focus on one architectural topic such as affordable housing, sustainable cities or others to act as a starting point for your project. We encourage projects of different scales as we want a large variety of ideas and concepts realised.

Whether your submission is a single building that can be expanded using a modular method or your submission is a self-sustaining community, your project has the opportunity to win. The scale of your project is not a factor that contributes to winning the competition. Instead, the level of detail, development and innovation of your submission will contribute to your project winning. Your project can remain at the concept level, but still present a detailed and developed solution to a problem. The competition is also relatively open in terms of its context. Your project can be based in any part of Lagos, Nigeria whether Mainland Lagos, Lagos Island, Snake Island or Lekki.

We encourage participants to keep the low-income communities of Lagos in mind when starting your project. Their demographic tends to be overlooked when decisions are made on the government level. This is an opportunity to show the leaders of Nigeria the possibilities for these communities.

The competition is open to students, recent graduates and young architects around the world.

The competition allows groups (3 people max.) to submit projects and all group member names must be included when filling the registration form. If you want to add or remove group members after submitting the registration form, you can email us (contact@voenassociates.com) to make group member changes to your registration.

June 10th – Early Registration starts
June 24th – Normal Registration Period Begins/Submissions Open
July 20th – Late Registration Period Begins, Submission Open

August 10th – Registration Closes

August 25th – Submission Closes

September 5th – Winners Announced, Virtual Exhibition Begins
September 20th – Virtual Exhibition Ends

1st Place (International Contestant) – €700
1st Place (Nigerian Contestant) – €700/N245,000
2nd Place - €400
3rd Place – €200
Founder’s Choice
10 Honorable Mentions
20 Finalists

All Positions listed above will receive a certificate from the
foundation, signed by one of our trustees, as well as be showcased
in Virtual Exhibition at the end of the competition.

https://www.voenassociates.com/foundationcompetition

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