Venice City Vision Competition is the second edition of the international competition series promoted by City Vision Mag. The Roman edition, Rome City Vision Competition, has attracted more than one hundred partecipants from all over the world and has amazed us with an upload page completely full of very interesting projects, which were judged by a jury of international architects led by Juergen H. Mayer and members Francesco Gatti, Francesco Lipari, Felipe Escudero and Michael Caton. The purpose of Rome’s competition was to give the opportunity to architects, designers and students to activate their creativity to stimulate the contemporary potential of the city. The aim of Venice City Vision Competition starts from the same guidelines and, besides wanting to enhance the historic texture of the city, sees the aquatic identity of the lagoon a fundamental starting point to create new visions about a possible development of this component. The imagination of the participants, the use of parametric software and eco technology will be the main driver of Venice’s visions and the proposals will shown how to create new digital landscape for a city so connected to classicism and tradition. The Venice ideas will be judged by an international jury which will have as president Bjarke Ingels, founder of the Danish office BIG and again Neri Oxamn, Elena Manferdini, Maria Ludovica Tramontin and Bostjan Vuga, all of whom are distinguished by the large experimentation willingness in their work. Inside this issue you will have the opportunity to virtually meet some of them, their ideas, philosophies and to have a look to their work’s images. Now, we officially launch Venice City Vision Competition! Let’s start with the proposals; we expect only to be surprised by your creativity! Down here you can read an extract of the competition brief. Go to the website: www.cityvision-competition.com to download the full version. 1.1 NATURE AND PURPOSE OF THE COMPETITION Venice CityVision is an ideas competition, which challenges architects, engineers, designers, students and creative individuals to develop visionary urban proposals with the intention of stimulating and supporting the contemporary city, in this case Venice. Through innovative ideas and methodologies which can improve the connection between the historical, present, and future city. CITYVISION aims to foster a critical evolution of architectural historiography. The Italian city manifests a consistent absence of Contemporary Urban Planning and relatively ineffective architectural intervention. The objective of the competition is to drive your imagination, by the use of new materials, eco- technologies, parametric software and territorial organizations for a future vision of the city of Venice. Globalization, environmental concerns, the future historiography of the city, adaptability and emerging digital practices are some of the elements that should be taken into consideration. Venice CityVision Competition focuses on the revealing of the urban context as a newly launched syntax of diverse terms. If one imagines the existing area as the creational canvas then on a mixture of Baroque and Renaissance fragments, one is invited to propose an original dialogue, an advanced element, as if inserting a new exhibit in an ever-existing museum. Aiming to highlight the intense water border, that divides the vertical body of the city in two parts – above and underneath it - the proposals given should reinterpret the symbiosis, the antithesis or even the collaboration of the three parts: the lower and upper urban segments, as well as the in-between limit. In the particular case of the city of Venice, it could be translated verbally as a live microcosm in constant - yet discreet - change. Then, the element of delicate motion can stand as a focal point of the competition. This specific urban example is appointed, one one hand, to represent a
moving city – concerning the as-said phenomenon of sinking – but also a city in which the transportations are being executed in a special way. Architects, engineers and all kind of creational artists are invited to participate in a competition that attempts to answer the following questions: How can a subtle city movement be expressed through a design proposal? How one may develop his work according to a vertical or horizontal axes? 1.2 PROCEDURE OF PARTICIPATION Architectural competition in a single phase. Participation in the competition is open to architects, engineers, designers, students and creatives world-wide. Individual or group entries are permitted. The indication of a group leader is required. 1.3 Language The official language of the competition is English. CityVision will provide also a competion brief in Italian 1.4 Registration Architects, engineers, designers, students and creatives are invited to take part in this competition. Temporary groups are allowed especially if they are multi skilled. Being multi-skilled is an important characteristic because it can help to understand and to better represent a global vision of the city. Participants can register at www.cityvision-competition.com till 4th April (first registration) or 27th May (late registration). 1.5 question & answers Answers to f.a.q. are already on the website page Q&A, write us for any further questions and we’ll update the section. 1.6 awards 1st place. € 2.000 2nd place. € 1.000 and 6 Honorable Mentions. 1.7 submission of boards This is a digital competition and hard copy proposals will not be accepted. All entries are to be submitted via e-mail on and before the 6th of June, 2011 (hours 22:00 Greenwich Time) to the following email address: submission@cityvision-competition.com. The attachment, packed in a ZIP file, should include 2 boards of project in A2 horizontal format, a technical/written report in A4 format and partecipation data in A4 format. 1.8 Methods of evaluation of proposals The entries will be judged based on the following criteria: 1. Visionary potential; On the basis of which the jury will concentrate on originality, sustainability, and the innovative character of the proposal. 2. Architectural integrity; Formal composition, integration with the urban environment, design sensibility, in the context of which the jury will review the coherence of the proposal. 3. Ecological sustainability. 1.9 schedule 7th February 2011 Announcement of the competition 04th April 2011 Early registration deadline 27th May 2011 Late registration deadline 06th June 2011 Submission deadline June 2011 Announcement of results September 2011 Projects exhibition, Awards Ceremony and Conference
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