The Future of the Seashore −Designing for Reconstruction of Shichigahama−
課題主旨/About Competition
Context
The Great East Japan Earthquake and tsunami of the year 2011 had left a catastrophic damage to the wide coastal area of Tohoku region, wiping out not only its architecture, but, along with it, the human activities built upon its long history and the very system that had long supported the economic growth in Japan. Five years has passed since then, and in the area of Shobuta shore in Shichi-ga-hama town, the houses which once stood near the seaside have been moved to the higher grounds, and the enormous tide embankment is being constructed along the local beach, which used to be one of the first public swimming beach to be opened in Japan. Today, in-between the sea and the residential areas, here lies an ambiguous flat-land, with neither any view out to the sea nor connection to the residential area, existing as an enormous, isolated void.
Proposal
How can we utilize this void, so that what were once been connected can again find its way to be reunited? For this design competition, we ask the participants to propose ideas that would answer this question, by taking into consideration of the following three key directions; “the revival of the local trade and the introduction of the new industry", "the new node for the city with full of activities" and "the development of the seashore as a tourism resource." In recent years, the increasing number of countries in Asia are suffering from natural disasters, such as earthquakes, tsunami, typhoons, and floods, and just like in the case of Shichi-ga-hama, we all face the similar dilemma of the reconstruction, trying to bridge in-between many issues, such as the residential and the sea front, the human scale and the inhuman scale, the hard and the soft, the past and the future, the local and the global. We hope that your architectural proposal would address as many of these issues as possible, and as you will be the ones to face the future of Asia, please make the full use of your experiences and knowledge to come up with the very original and creative solutions.
Juries
渡辺真理
Makoto Shin Watanabe
建築家、設計組織ADH共同代表、法政大学教授
Architect
Professor, School of Architecture and Graduate school of Architecture，Hosei University
塚本由晴
Yoshiharu Tsukamoto
建築家、博士（工学）アトリエ・ワン共同代表、東京工業大学大学院教授
Architect
Professor, Graduate school of Architecture and Building Engineering，Tokyo Institute of Technology
http://www.bow-wow.jp/
王維仁
Weijen Wang
建築家、香港大学教授
Architect
Head, Department of Architecture, The University of Hongkong
宮城俊作
Shunsaku MIyagi
ランドスケープアーキテクト、設計組織PLACEMEDIA, パートナー
Partner, PLACMEDIA Landscape Architects Collaborative
Landscape Architect
牧紀男
Norio Maki
京都大学防災研究所教授
Professor, Disaster Prevention Research Institute, Kyoto University
寺澤薫
Kaoru Terasawa
七ヶ浜町長
Town Mayor of Shichigahama
Submission Details
事前登録/Registration
- For participationg in the competition, please register in followsfrom April 18th toJune 12th 2016.
- After registration, you will recieve an ID and password to access supporting contents on the competition website and the address of submission.
- Mail is not automatic. There is a timerag before you recieve the ID and password.
応募資格/Requirement for entry
-This is the student competition open to all students who will be enrolled in Architecture program in Asian Universities and/or Universities in the Pan Pacific Region(Graduate or Under-graduate) at September of year 2016.
-The entry shall be done in groups with no more than 5 students.
提出物/Deliverables
2 panels of A1 size, the print of Registration completion e-mail
-２ panels of A1 size (594mm×841mm), used landscape orientation, one side only.
-Please include your concept, diagrams, zoning/master plan, drawings and images of your architectural proposal/proposals, taking into the consideration of at least one of the three main key concepts writtenin the“Competition Details” section.The format shall be in pdf format.
使用言語/Language Use
-Japanese and/or English
-Applicants may choose either English or Japanese for submissions, or may choose to describe the project using both languages.
- Submissions must be legible. Unreadable material may be rejected.
作品の提出方法/Submission Procedure
-The submission is due on June 30, 2016.Entries arriving after the deadline will not be accepted.
-The applicants who were selected at the first selection stage are required to participate in the workshop held in Sendai from September 20-22, 2016.
-In case that the entry is damaged during delivery, or that the e-mail entry does not have sufficient resolution or readable data, we may ask the applicant to re-submit the entry.
-After receiving the entries, the organizer will take all possible measure to assure their security. However, if the entries are damaged by a natural disaster or other kind of unavoidable accident, the organizer will not bear any responsibility.
-Entries will not be returned to the applicants.
-Any expenses for preparing and submitting the entry are the responsibility of the applicant.
審査方法/Selection Process
-The selection process will be as follows; at the first selection stage the best 6 proposals are to be selected and invited for the second stage.
- The second selection stage will take place during the ISAIA symposium, during which the members of the 6 teams will visit the site, and attend workshops before the final presentation and review.
-The award ceremony will be held during the closing party of the ISAIA symposium with final some teams will be awarded the award for excellence and 1 team will be awarded the first prize.
-For those teams continuing to the second stage of the competition,
traveling fee(model making fee) may be provided. (Details to be announced later.)
-Those teams which pass through the first selection stageshall have to confirm whether to participate in the workshop as well as the second stage selection in Sendai.
The right to be awarded shall be waived if the team chooses not to participate in the workshop.
The overall schedule:
① The deadline for the first stage submission is June 30.
② The announcement of the first stage selection: the begining of July
The results will be announced on the website.
③ Site visit and workshop: 9/20〜21
④ Final open presentation and award ceremony: 9/22
Contact
ISAIA 2016 International student design competition office
Architectural Institute of Japan (Host)
5-26-20, Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan
108-8414
isaia_competition*aij.or.jp