Open Call for Architectural Competition Entries: New Spatial Reality of Cities - Post Covid - 19

Competition Challenge

The design challenge of this competition Challenge on is to imagine the new spatial and social reality in our cities.

To explore new concepts or question existing one concepts in architectural design and urban planning that proof to be obsolete to the post Covid-19 society and even life threatening due to its incapacity to provide a safe ground for the basic human needs and practices. Shaping and designing the new spatial reality in cities is important because the spatial designs and metaphors that we use to describe the disease driven spatial practices profoundly shape our experience of urban and social space; our social and cultural discourse regarding the new spatial practices such as Covid-19 can help us discover new potential in our cities or on the contrary to produces fear and stigma that hinder care and marginalize citizens and whole communities.

The New Spatial Realities international competition calls for fresh, innovative and challenging new spatial paradigms and design concepts in architecture and urban planning that will steer the debate about the future of living in our cities in the post Covid-19 pandemic society that has been heavily shaped by the rules and logic of the newly encountered spatial and bio-political paradigm. Can we design what is to become the new potential future of our communities? Can we design the better, sustainable and more just new spatial reality of our cities? Can we imagine what was not possible before?

Objectives of the competition

The main objectives are the following:

To encourage innovative proposals that are committed to a strategy of implementing cutting-edge, contemporary architecture and urban design in urban environment, with approaches that lead to synergies between the context, the community, the programme, public space and the buildings.

To convene ideas of spaces that promote a deep understanding and resolution or improvement of the new spatial challenges shaping the new spatial reality in cities. Projects must lead through their architecture to sensitivity, awareness, understanding, enthusiasm and commitment to the health, social, environmental, economic, educational, residential and civic challenges that cities and urban communities around the world are faced during and after the Covid 19 pandemics and its consequences to the cities.

To initiate an informed and open debate about the new concepts and paradigms that will shape the future of cities and showcase the capacity of architecture and Urban design to provide better understanding and solutions to the contemporary challenges that are beyond engineering but also resort to innovation and technology.

The awards for the winning proposals will be the following:

Competition registration deadline: April 07, 2021
Question deadline: April 07, 2021
Proposal submission deadline: April 21, 2021
Winners announcement: June 11, 2021
Awarding of prizes: July 1, 2021
Exhibition of proposals: September / October, 2021

All architects, urban planners, designers, architecture students and individuals interested in the topic around the world can enter this competition of ideas. Proposals may be presented individually or as a team of up to 5 people max.

Only one proposal may be presented for each registration made. Each competitor or team may present only one project as registration completed and each proposal will be assigned a specific REGISTRATION NUMBER.

The following are prohibited to enter this competition: any member of the jury, or regular partners, employees or relatives up to second-degree of them, employees of Faculty of Architecture, UKIM in Skopje and Chamber of Certified Architects and Certified Engineers of Republic of North Macedonia or architects with any type of contractual relationship with that company before the registration deadline for the competition.

The non-compliance of any of these conditions will result in disqualification of the competitor or team involved.

https://www.newspatialreality.com/

All correspondence related to this competition will be directed to Faculty of Architecture, University “Ss. Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje at:
- Address: Bul. Partizanski odredi, 24, 1000, Skopje, Republic of North Macedonia
- Phone Number: +389 2 3116367
- Fax: +389 2 3116367
- E-mail: contact@newspatialreality.com
- Website: www.newspatialreality.com
All questions concerning this programme and the competition in general will be dealt by e-mail.

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