CALL FOR TENDERS

University of Kassel
ASL Faculty – Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape Planning
Environmentally-conscious planning and experimental construction
Univ.-Prof. Claus Anderhalten
Dipl.-Ing. Anna Baltschun
Dipl.-Ing. Arch Filip Nosek
Gottschalkstraße 28
34127 Kassel
>> www.uni-kassel.de/asl/upeb

Initiator
Artemide GmbH
Hans-Böckler-Straße 2
58730 Fröndenberg
>> www.artemide.com

Students and graduates of architecture, interior design, urban planning and landscape architecture courses in all German-speaking further education institutions (universities, technical colleges, universities of applied sciences and art colleges), as well as Turkish universities. Collaboration with building technology and lighting design students is recommended.

This is a single-stage competition. The best work will be selected by an independent jury. The jury consists of five individuals from the specialist disciplines of architecture, urban planning, lighting design and architectural theory.

The following prizes will be awarded:
1st prize € 2,500
2nd prize € 1,500
3rd prize € 500
Special prizes: Artemide GmbH products

The jury may decide to allocate prizes differently. All decisions are made freely and cannot be contested. There is no recourse to legal action.

The competition is being announced in all German-speaking and Turkish universities.
Competition documentation is available on the internet from www.lighthouse-competition.com with effect from 1 October 2009.

The competition documentation includes:

• Photographic material of the competition site and surrounding area
• Outline plan showing viewpoints of the photos
• Map of the area in dwg format

Entrants must register to take part in the competition by mail or fax by 31.12.2009, citing their name, university and subject, and respective supervising tutor.
Competition entries are to be submitted by 15.03.2010 to the following address (the day of the postmark or the date it was taken to a courier company shall apply):

University of Kassel
ASL Faculty – Architecture, Urban Planning, Landscape Planning
Environmentally-conscious planning and experimental construction
Univ.-Prof. Claus Anderhalten
Gottschalkstraße 28
D-34127 Kassel
Germany

Competition entries (drawings and plans) are to be submitted in a sealed mailing tube. For reasons of anonymity, the sender is also to be given as the addressee.

All queries relating to the competition submitted by 30.11.2009 by e-mail to >> info@lighthouse-competition.com will be answered. The query log forms part of the competition documentation and will be available for downloading from the website with effect from 14.12.2009.
The jury’s decision will be announced immediately after the jury has met. A public exhibition of the competition results will feature in specialist media and on the promoter’s website.

For the designs, DIN A0 paper size is to be used in landscape format as standard. No more than four DIN A0-sheets are allowed and all sheets are to be numbered clearly (from 1 to 4). The four sheets will be hung in landscape format as follows: sheets 1 and 2 above, sheets 3 and 4 below. An explanatory report is to be included with each piece of work. Using no more than 2 DIN A4-pages, it should explain briefly and concisely the design concepts behind the architecture and the lighting technology, as well as contain information about the supporting structure, building construction and environmental and energy concepts. Photos of models can be shown in the presentation plans.

All parts of the work are be given a codeword of your choice in the top right-hand corner. The mail rolls must also have this codeword on them. The terms Lighthouse, House of the Future and Istanbul may not be used as codewords. All entries must also be supplied in CD form. This is to be labelled in the same way, as explained above. For ease of allocating entries to their authors, the following name conventions must be used for file identification: the first part of the file name is the codeword, followed by the title of the plan and the file format name (for example: Doerner_EG_plan_01.pdf). Users of Apple computers are particularly asked to pay attention to giving the file format name when saving data.
Other popular number combinations should also be avoided as far as possible.

The author’s name and precise address, including telephone number and e-mail address and codeword must be included with the plans in a sealed envelope. The name of the university, faculty and supervising tutors involved must also be given. The outside of this envelope will only have the codeword on it. To maintain the anonymity of the competition entry, the submission sheets and explanatory report may not make any reference to its author other than with the codeword. A form for the declaration of authorship and labelling of the rolls can be downloaded from the LIGHTHOUSE student competition website.

Crucial to the assessment is a convincing portrayal of the urban planning and architectural vision, as well as the development of an innovative lighting concept.

Other criteria are:

• the optimal realisation of the space allocation plan
• well thought-through ground plans in terms of function, depicting the external and internal site development
• expressive materiality in terms of structural design and building physics
• statements about the desired atmospheres and materiality
• a convincing and efficient building concept in terms of energy use.
• the detailed portrayal of an innovative lighting concept, which uses both brightness and colour as a design element, in special different tones of white
• use of energy-saving and sustainable lighting concepts

Work that is submitted late or incomplete or which deviates markedly from the remit may lead to the work being excluded. The final assessment criteria are set by the jury.

The competition is held without the possibility of recourse to legal action. Participants accept the promoter’s competition terms and conditions. All documents provided, in particular Ortho photo files, geo-topographic basic data, ground plan data, maps and aerial photographs, are protected by copyright and may only be used for participation in the student competition. They may not be passed to third parties or duplicated and/or distributed in any other way without express permission.

Copyright remains with the design’s authors. The promoters (University of Kassel and Artemide GmbH) are entitled to publish the work, naming the respective author. All prize-winning work shall become the promoter’s property. Work that does not win a prize can be collected from the promoters following the exhibition. The promoters shall not return any work.

The competition languages are German and English.

Format: DIN A 0 (landscape format)

• Site plan on a scale of 1:1000 showing open spaces and the development of the site
• Design plans on a scale of 1:200 of all ground plans required to understand the competition entry (with uses plotted), views, sections
• Details on a scale of 1:50 of at least two details relevant to the design and construction (view / section) of the building envelope with comments on aspects relating to building physics, structural design and aspects of energy/building climate control
• At least two perspectives / visualisations / collages of the external appearance and interior
• Explanatory drawings / diagrams/ pictograms are permitted
• Approximate calculation of the built area and gross floor space
• Explanatory report DIN A4
• 1:200 model. The construction and submission of an expressive model is only required by prize winners for presentation during the awards ceremony/competition exhibition.