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Summary of the competition |
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| Our home is the centre of our lives. Without improving the quality of our houses we cannot have a real ‘quality of life’. Our home is the ‘stage’ on which we live our lives. It must fulfill all our fundamental needs and wishes. Without a house which suits this purpose we can never find a ‘real quality of life’. In America, Canada and Europe, which can be called ‘Housing-Developed Countries’, the value of a house remains high for many years, and the longer a house stands, the more the owners attachment to it grows, and the more they can sense a real ‘quality of life’. Japan has a long history of constructing timber buildings, including houses, and many old timber buildings remain standing, showing their traditional beauty to new generations. Recently in Japan it has become possible to build ‘large-scale timber structures’ in city centers, where only fire-proof buildings are allowed, and the advantages and calm beauty of timber structures have been rediscovered. In this Century, we, as world citizens, have recognized the urgent need to protect and preserve the Earth’s environment, and timber houses designed with an aim of long life, such as our company’s ‘Houses to last for 100 Years’, are attracting much attention in Japan. We believe that our company’s commitment to enhanced forest management ? balancing the cycle of planting and cutting ? and our construction of structures in recyclable timber, contributes to the prevention of global warming. Above all, I believe that, in the 21st Century, we need to create buildings that are environmentally sustainable, that are designed for our happiness, that are of high-quality construction, and that retain their asset values. We would like to invite ambitious architectural students from all over the world to join this student ideas competition. It is a good opportunity to nourish their design abilities. The selected students will receive the jury’s critique, and be encouraged in a warm and supportive atmosphere. It is our aim to make this competition a gateway to success in the architectural profession. We hope that architecture students will grow to become good architects, and design environmentally friendly buildings with quality and value for the future. We publish the results of the competition in a variety of media, as part our mission to promote improvement in our natural and built environments all over the world. |
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| The Shelter Corporation President & CEO Kazuyoshi Kimura |
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The Result of the Final Screening |
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The First Prize (to the best design): 1 work |
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| 'A HUT OPENING WITH RICH EMOTION' Naoto Hatabata Architecture Major, Graduate School of Engineering, Nippon Institute of Technology |
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The Second Prize (to an excellent design): 1 work |
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| 'A CLOSED BOOK TO THE WOODEN CUMULONIMBUS
' Emi Komiyama Department of Spatial Design, Graduate School of Project Design, Miyagi University |
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The Third Prize (to good designs): 4 works |
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| 'A FLOATING BOX' Yumian(Dino) Chai University of Auckland School of Architecture & Planning; Bachelor of Architectural Studies |
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| 'A PLACE WHERE BIG BOOKS ARE READ' Toshiharu Terashima Department of Urban Architecture, Graduate School of Design and Architecture, Nagoya City University Naoyo Nakao Department of Urban Architecture, Graduate School of Design and Architecture, Nagoya City University Tomoki Nagase Department of Urban Environmental Design, School of Design and Architecture, Nagoya City University |
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| 'READING ROOMS WITH SWINGING
WALLS' Takashi Ikeda Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo Shiho Eika Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts |
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| 'A PLACE WHERE FLOATING TREES ARE' Kotaro Mori Department of Design and Architecture (Architecture), School of Engineering, Chiba University Yusuke Fukuchi Department of Design and Architecture (Architecture), School of Engineering, Chiba University Kaoru Nishimura Department of Design and Architecture (Architecture), School of Engineering, Chiba University |
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The Encouragement Prize: 4 works |
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| 'A WOODEN ROOM TO
READ A BOOK IN' Timothy Sargisson University of Auckland School of Architecture |
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| 'DENSITY BOXES ' Sho Sasaki Department of Design Strategy, Graduate School of Design, Kyushu University Kei Sasaki Department of Environmental Design, School of Design, Kyushu University |
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| 'A PEONY WHEN STANDING, A GRAND PEONY WHEN SITTING, A LILY WHEN
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Ryuji Fujimaru Department of Social Space System Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, Yokohama National University |
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| 'ROOMS WITH WOODEN STEPS' Ryosuke Yuasa Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts Kohei Kudo Department of Architecture, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Tokyo University of the Arts The winners for the Third Prize and the Encouragement Prize are listed according to their entry numbers. |
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Tatal number of works submitted: 660 |
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Amounts of the Supplementary Prizes The First Prize: \500,000 The Second Prize: \200,000 The Third Prize: \50,000 The Encouragement Prize |
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| The result of the primary screening (with first and second stages) | |
| Final candidates: 6 [their entry numbers] 646 759 838 844 946 1311 ‘Encouragement prize’ winners: 4 [their entry numbers] 635 874 1453 1495 |
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| About the screening | |
| The primary screening was held on 17 October (Saturday). It was divided into two stages: at first the referees selected 15 works respectively. In the next stage, judgment was made for each of the above works. Those selected are listed below [according to their entry numbers]. 239 374 564 635 646 759 838 844 874 915 919 946 1122 1131 1311 1233 1443 1453 1495 1570 1593 And upon discussion, eight works were selected as final candidates and three for ‘encouragement prize’. |
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| Theme＝「A wooden room in which to read a book.」 | |
Antonello da Messina’s painting ‘Saint Jerome in his Study’, painted around 1470, can be found on the National Galley of London’s web-site※ It is a painting that has long had a particular appeal for architects because ? in its thin layer of paint ? it seems to capture much of the potential and purpose of architecture. It addresses space, and materiality, and the passage of time, and activity, and memories of the past (which are dark) and hopes for the future (which are bright). It shows a wooden ‘box-like’ enclosure in which Saint Jerome is seen reading. The enclosure seems to fit around him, and his activity, like a glove. It is unclear whether it is ‘architecture’ or ‘furniture’. Being made of wood, and lifted slightly off the hard stone floor, it is clearly separate from the surrounding stone church, but - having walls on only two of its four sides - it requires the walls of the church to give it ‘enclosure’. The narrative of the painting concerns the intense relationship between the book and its reader. Unlike many Renaissance paintings in which various vanishing-points focus on the face of the subject, the vanishing-points and horizontals of this painting focus not on Saint Jerome’s face nor on the book, but on the space between them ? creating a visual tension between the two. And, even while the painting captures only a brief moment in time, the viewer clearly senses the passage of this whole day. In our imaginations we can ‘hear’ Saint Jerome’s footsteps on the stone floor, echoing in the height of the cathedral, as he approaches the ‘box’ in the morning…We can ‘hear’ the sound of those footsteps changing to a deeper, hollow sound as he climbs the four wood steps and walks across the bare-board floor, and places his hat on the bench. We can imagine him settling into his heavy wood chair - which has a semi-circular back to hold him tightly in place ? and opening the book on his desk. We know that lighting conditions will change throughout the day, making his reading easier or more difficult, and we know that sometimes, if only for relaxation, he will look out of the huge window that stands between the Saint and the viewer. And, since no candles are present in the painting, we know that when darkness begins to fall he must cease reading, and re-trace the route and the sounds of the morning. The challenge of this design competition is not to design a new study for Saint Jerome. The challenge is to design a place to read ? for a single person ? who is yourself. Your chosen site should be in a public place ? in a city or in a city building. In Antonello’s painting Saint Jerome’s ‘room’ is located within a church ? which is a public place. We can see his activity, and we can see what he sees with his eyes, but we can not see what he sees in his head. The images that he imagines as he reads remain private. In a ‘reading room’ the real world and the imagined world are brought into contact. The challenge is to design a place to read a book ? not a place to read a digital display. A digital display may give better, more, and more recent information, but a book rewards the sense of touch ? as does a plank of wood or a slab of stone. Antonello’s painting shows how actions and senses can be intimately and poetically locked together by architecture. When we read we are very still, and we become conscious of things that we normally have no time to observe ? Saint Jerome is certainly aware of the sounds of his breathing, and of the smell and grain of the wooden panels, and of minute changes in the temperature or lighting. The architecture that Antonello has painted is very sensual, but sensuality has become a rare component of recent architecture. This competition raises the question of the place of sensuality in contemporary life. ※THE NATIONAL GALLERY |
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| Prizes | |
| First Prize 1 \500,000 | |
| Second Prize 1 \200,000 each | |
| Third Prize 4 of fewer \50,000 each Honorable Mention(Several) | |
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| Applicants must be currently enrolled at an institution of higher education ※Institutuions of Higher Education include Universities, Graduate Schools, Junior Colleges, Institutes of Higher Learning operated by Administrative Entities, High School-Level Technical Schools,and other relevant Technical Schools. ※Transportation and accommodation costs for particpation in the final judging will be reimbursed for one person per entry. | |
Application for the 11th Competition has been closed |
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| Submissions | Format:One A2 sized page（594mm×420mm).Drawings may be either horizontal or vertical.There are no restrictions on the type of paper used.Please do not mount your submissions on panel board. Contents:An architectural drawing of your choice accompanied by a written explanation in English or Japanese .Both scale and mode of expression are unrestricted. Only previously non-publicized submissions will be accepted.Method of Submission: The Design Competition Office will e-mail you after receiving your application for entry .Please print out this e-mail and tape or glue ie to the back of your submission. Also,please write your entry number in the upper right-hand corner of the front side of you rsubmission . Submission should be made by post or in person(for details,please see the instructions in the above-mentioned web site). ※not e-mail ※not fold Submission will not be returned. |
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| Method of Evaluation and Presentation of Results | Preliminary screening, to be conducted on October 17, will determine which submissions will be accepted into the competition.Those accepted will be expected to participate in the public presentation in Daikanyama ,Tokyo on November 28, following which the Screenng Committee will decide the prizewinners. The results of the competition will be publicized in magazines and/oe other media. ※Partcipants in the Public Presentation will be expected to prepare an A1 size version of their submmissions for use in the presentation. ※Results of both the Preliminary Screening and the Final Jundging will be published on the above-mentioned web site. |
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| Deadline for Submissions:Entries must be postmarked by September 30,2009 |
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| Submission/inquiries | |
| Please direct your submissions and inquiries to :The Shelter Student Architectural Design Competition Office Shelter Co., Ltd., 1-5-13 Matsue, Yamagata, 990-2473 Tel 023-647-5300 Fax:023-647-5150 URL http://www.ssac-office.com E-mail shelter@ssac-office.com |
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| 11th Shelter Students Architectural Design Competition 2009 , Sponsored by Shelter. Shelter Co., Ltd., 1-5-13 Matsue, Yamagata, 990-2473 Tel 023-647-5000 Fax:023-647-5150 URL：http://www.kesfc.co.jp/shelter-inc/index.html |
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