6 Day Architecture Design Competition Submission - Start to Finish by Architecture Student - Part 1
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Only 6 days to design a concept for an architectural competition. I’m going to take you with me as I start from idea to finish with the final presentation. This is part 1, the first 2 days of my architectural design competition submission for SONA’s SuperStudio 2020.
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Join me as I work to complete a finished concept design for the SONA SuperStudio architectural design competition.
WHAT IS SUPERSTUDIO?
“SuperStudio is a national conceptual design competition open to all SONA members.
Think of it as a creative licence to do the things students wouldn’t get to do in studio or any other assignment. Participants shouldn’t focus their time and ideas around the realistic approach but rather the ideas and thoughts that can never be made real at all.
SuperStudio will be completely virtual in 2020. Participants are encouraged to use any medium to convey their message eg hand drawings, a model of your proposal with some renders, or completely digital – just remember the delivery will be via zoom.
Participants also have the opportunity to be mentored and present their proposal to a judging panel in each state and territory. Winners in each state will then go into the national competition for a chance to win $3000.”
Design proposals can be developed individually or in teams of maximum 4 participants. I have chosen to undertake this individually.
FROM THE BRIEF:
“This year SuperStudio would like you to find a place in the world that has been desolated, damaged or destroyed that has particularly resonated with you. You’ve never been there, and you can’t travel there now. What place have you spent too much time thinking about or too much energy not thinking about? This studio is not about solving the problems of a place – it is about finding a way through the problems of our collective psyche. Your studio response to this place should aim to help you and others process the events that have occurred there.
There is no particular kind of approach required, you are encouraged to be meaningfully inventive. It could be some form of memorial. It could involve a ceremony, an event, an occupation, reclamation, action, or protest. Perhaps it is something to be experienced in silence and alone. Your relationship to this place doesn’t need to be knowledgeable but it should be respectful.
Consider how you approach this gap in understanding as part of your response. Consider how your proposal may allow people to grieve but will also inspire or renew them. Will people attend the site physically or do they participate from a distance? Will your proposal include those who are far away? How will your proposal transform the site? Will this be immediate, or will it evolve and change over time? What is your intent? What might be the future of this place?”
MY CONCEPT:
With everything going on I couldn’t pick just one place. Instead, I’ve decided to design something that signifies the isolation people have been experiencing individually on a personal level.
The physical location of the site is in Lauterbrunnen in the Swiss alps, about as isolated as you can get, but signifies the isolation we have been experiencing individually. It reflects back to the loneliness and hardships we’ve faced this year.
The place is a symbol of isolation. But why would anyone want to go there?
Isolation has caused grief, hardship and loneliness.
It’s caused sorrow and struggle.
We have been grounded in a physical location away from those we love.
Though, is this for the worse or better?
It’s not until we are isolated that we realise our unnecessary dependence on others.
Isolation has grounded us in a physical place but has given us the ability to wander freer than ever in our own minds. It’s given us the opportunity to dream big and reflect on the past to learn, grow and progress forward.
We are free to imagine the places we want to go and the people we want to see.
I’ve realised that If we want something and receive it instantaneously, it comes and goes quickly. But, when we delay that thing we want, and we delay gratification and reward, we focus on the process, it makes that experience taste all the better. It lasts longer. It helps us appreciate what we have now, rather than what we want in the future.
My intention is to design a place that delays gratification. It acknowledges isolation as a tool for reflection and growth. It reminds us of our own individual hardships but can act as an end destination to fuel us moving forward through those hardships.
The idea behind the design is to teach that beauty is not in the end destination, but in the process. It’s the challenges and hardships we face that make the destination feel good.
My design is therefore a place of isolation, self-reflection and thought. The very last “light at the end of the tunnel.”
Check out my FREE online course for architecture students:
▼ 70 Hacks for Architecture Students▼
→ https://successfularchistudent.com/ ←
Join me as I work to complete a finished concept design for the SONA SuperStudio architectural design competition.
WHAT IS SUPERSTUDIO?
“SuperStudio is a national conceptual design competition open to all SONA members.
Think of it as a creative licence to do the things students wouldn’t get to do in studio or any other assignment. Participants shouldn’t focus their time and ideas around the realistic approach but rather the ideas and thoughts that can never be made real at all.
SuperStudio will be completely virtual in 2020. Participants are encouraged to use any medium to convey their message eg hand drawings, a model of your proposal with some renders, or completely digital – just remember the delivery will be via zoom.
Participants also have the opportunity to be mentored and present their proposal to a judging panel in each state and territory. Winners in each state will then go into the national competition for a chance to win $3000.”
Design proposals can be developed individually or in teams of maximum 4 participants. I have chosen to undertake this individually.
FROM THE BRIEF:
“This year SuperStudio would like you to find a place in the world that has been desolated, damaged or destroyed that has particularly resonated with you. You’ve never been there, and you can’t travel there now. What place have you spent too much time thinking about or too much energy not thinking about? This studio is not about solving the problems of a place – it is about finding a way through the problems of our collective psyche. Your studio response to this place should aim to help you and others process the events that have occurred there.
There is no particular kind of approach required, you are encouraged to be meaningfully inventive. It could be some form of memorial. It could involve a ceremony, an event, an occupation, reclamation, action, or protest. Perhaps it is something to be experienced in silence and alone. Your relationship to this place doesn’t need to be knowledgeable but it should be respectful.
Consider how you approach this gap in understanding as part of your response. Consider how your proposal may allow people to grieve but will also inspire or renew them. Will people attend the site physically or do they participate from a distance? Will your proposal include those who are far away? How will your proposal transform the site? Will this be immediate, or will it evolve and change over time? What is your intent? What might be the future of this place?”
MY CONCEPT:
With everything going on I couldn’t pick just one place. Instead, I’ve decided to design something that signifies the isolation people have been experiencing individually on a personal level.
The physical location of the site is in Lauterbrunnen in the Swiss alps, about as isolated as you can get, but signifies the isolation we have been experiencing individually. It reflects back to the loneliness and hardships we’ve faced this year.
The place is a symbol of isolation. But why would anyone want to go there?
Isolation has caused grief, hardship and loneliness.
It’s caused sorrow and struggle.
We have been grounded in a physical location away from those we love.
Though, is this for the worse or better?
It’s not until we are isolated that we realise our unnecessary dependence on others.
Isolation has grounded us in a physical place but has given us the ability to wander freer than ever in our own minds. It’s given us the opportunity to dream big and reflect on the past to learn, grow and progress forward.
We are free to imagine the places we want to go and the people we want to see.
I’ve realised that If we want something and receive it instantaneously, it comes and goes quickly. But, when we delay that thing we want, and we delay gratification and reward, we focus on the process, it makes that experience taste all the better. It lasts longer. It helps us appreciate what we have now, rather than what we want in the future.
My intention is to design a place that delays gratification. It acknowledges isolation as a tool for reflection and growth. It reminds us of our own individual hardships but can act as an end destination to fuel us moving forward through those hardships.
The idea behind the design is to teach that beauty is not in the end destination, but in the process. It’s the challenges and hardships we face that make the destination feel good.
My design is therefore a place of isolation, self-reflection and thought. The very last “light at the end of the tunnel.”