COMPETITIONS
GHANA: 2011 OPEN ARchiTecture CHALLENGE
2011 Open ARchiTecture Challenge Receives Enetries from Over 30 Countries
Nka Foundation is pleased to announce the results for the Ghana: 2011 Open ARchiTecture Challenge. Entries were received from over 30 countries. The challenge was to design and build units of a model arts village in the Ashanti Region of Ghana for replication in other parts of the sub-Sahara. The design entry was to include a Multipurpose Arts Center, Residential Courtyard that sleeps 21 persons, Community Kitchen, Courtyard for arts studios and a Recreational Sports Ground on a 10-acre lot with earth under the feet and within a budget of $42,000-$62,000. We are inclined to building for the arts with earth because in West Africa, from the cities to the low-income villages, earth architecture is fast giving way to modern dwellings made of cement-blocks and corrugated zinc-roof that are expensive and thermally and acoustically problematic.
Thus, we were interested in design solutions that integrate art into architecture for a more sustainable future. We emphasized that the design should provide a comfortable, and multi-use of space and should be easily built from local materials and local labor at low cost for use by the international arts community. The international competition is of the Open Source Share, which implies that we aim at making the design process and design documents open to all who may use, improve and adapt them to generate a more practical and contemporary design trend for the region.
Twenty top finalists were chosen by the Preselection Jury of artists, architects, and administrator with relevant expertise, which were forwarded to the Main Jury. The Main Jury consists of architects, who work with architectural firms and architects associated with the academy; they were responsible for the selection of the grand prize winner who will receive $1,000 cash prize, the Second and Third Place who will receive $500 and $300 respectively. The winning project will be executed between August 2011 and August 2012 as a part of the Foundation’s Arts Village at Abetenim.
Thank you to the Main Jury: GEORGE WILLIAM KOFI INTSIFUL, Architect, Department of Architecture, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Ghana; JOHN CHUN HAN LIN, Architect, Department of Architecture, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; VERENA MAEDER, Organic Architect, Solid Earth Adobe Buildings Ltd, New Zealand; JASON McDONALD; Architect, Rahoul Singh Design Associates, India; VINCENT VAN DER MEULEN, Architect, Enviu/OS-House, The Netherlands; EPHRÈME OUEDRAOGO, Architect, Shelters Architects, Burkina Faso; and KIKUMA WATANABE, Architect, Kochi University of Technology, Japan.
Grand Prize winning design is
Open Jewelry Loop by Mitsuru Hamada from Japan
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Second Prize winning designis
Gye Nyame by Giuseppe Calabrese from Australia
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Third Prize winning design is
Abetenim Art Village by Claire Taggart from UK
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Winners are invited for the 2nd Kumasi Biennial Symposium: Community Arts in Focus which will run from July 16 to August 6, 2011 at Kumasi in the Ashanti Region of Ghana where they are expected to present their designs. Prizes to the winners will be awarded at the symposium closing banquette.
Contest Details & Top Enteries:
CALLING ALL ARCHITECTS, ECO-COMMUNITY DESIGNERS, STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS & IMAGINATIVE OTHERS:
In West Africa, from the cities to the low-income villages, earth architecture is fast giving way to modern dwellings (made of cement-blocks and corrugated zinc-roof that are expensive and thermally and acoustically problematic). On the fringes of environmental issues and Open Source concept, we are developing a model arts village in the Ashanti Region of Ghana for replication in other parts of West Africa. The challenge i s to design and build units, such as a Multipurpose Arts Center, Residential Courtyard that sleeps 21 persons, Community Kitchen, Courtyard for arts studios and a Recreational Sports Ground on a 10-acre lot and with a budget of $42,000-$62,000 and earth under the feet. We are interested in design solutions that integrate art into architecture for a more sustainable future. We emphasize that the design should provide a comfortable, and multi-use of space and should be easily built from local materials and local labor at low cost for use by the international arts community.
A grand prize winner and twenty top finalists and will be chosen. The grand prize will be $1000 cash prize, and the Second and Third Place will receive $500 and $300 respectively. The winners will be determined by a jury of architecture and art professionals. Join us! Show the world how to re-invent the African semi-suburb! Establish your name, and contribute your ideas and designs to a real need.
- Competition Starts: April 7, 2010.
- Deadline for all Entries: November 13, 2010 - We are no longer taking new enteries.
- Date Results will be Published: January 7, 2011
- Winning Project Execution: Between August 2011 and August 2012.
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- View the Main Jury information.
SUBMISSIONS TO THE COMPETITION
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ENTRY ONE:
Navkar Architects, India
(Design Team: Ajeet Hippergekar, Hrishikesh More, Vinit Patil, Pooja Sanke, Nirali Jain, Anvi Shah)
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ENTRY TWO:
Aptdesign, India
(Design Team: Ar. Rahul Malandkar and Ar. Neeraj Keni)
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ENTRY THREE:
Vilnius, Lithuania
(Design Team: Gediminas Ratavicius, Raimundas Zidonis and two students from Lithuania)
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ENTRY FOUR:
Bulgaria
(Design Team: Raina Krasteva)
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ENTRY FIVE:
Cape Town, South Africa
(Design Team: Raymond Smith, Architect)
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ENTRY SIX:
Castelló, Spain
(Design Team: Jesús Montero Veiga, Architect)
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ENTRY SEVEN:
Bamako, Mali
(Design Team: Oumar Mc KONÉ, Architect; Thomas DIANÉ, Artist; and Cheichna CISSÉ, Draughtsman)
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ENTRY EIGHT:
Sydney, Australia
(Design Team: Giuseppe Calabrese, Architect)
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ENTRY NINE:
Szombathely, Hungary
(Design Team: Balazs Szilagyi and Adrienn Kaposi Szilagyi Architect)
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ENTRY TEN:
Czech Republic/ India
(Design Team: Lenny Schutz, Architect)
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ENTRY ELEVEN:
S.O.C.H., India
(Design Team: Sonam Ambe and Vijay Panchal, Architects)
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ENTRY TWELVE:
MMconcept 2003, Bucharest, Romania; and Horsens, Denmark
(Design Team: Mihai Dorcu, Padurariu Stefan and Vlad Burlacu, Architects)
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ENTRY THIRTEEN:
Paris, France/ Dessau, Germany Padurariu Stefan and Vlad Burlacu
(Design Team: Lucio Rossi, Architect)
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ENTRY FOURTEEN:
Moscow, Russia
(Design Team: Stanislav Michalowski, Atchitect, Roddom Project)
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ENTRY FIFTEEN:
Pune, India
(Design Team: Ankur Kothari and Anil Poduval, Architect, Red Brick Studio)
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Cape Town, South Africa
(Design Team: James Atkinson, Architect, Fractal Architecture & Design)
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Northern, Italy
(Design Team: Laura Martinelli and Luca Cleva)
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ENTRY EIGHTEEN:
Isa Town, Bahrain
(Design Team: Ranjith Dayaratne, Architect with University of Bahrain and Jamila Ghazal, Student Architect)
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ENTRY NINETEEN:
London, UK
(Design Team: Helena Dowset, spatial designer)
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ENTRY TWENTY:
Tokyo, Japan
(Design Team: Mitsuru Hamada, Architect, Starburstar)
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ENTRY TWENTY-ONE:
Porto, Portugal
(Design Team: Ana Martins, and Pedro Gordon, Architects)
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ENTRY TWENTY-TWO:
Coventry, UK
(Design Team: Claire Taggart, Architect)
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ENTRY TWENTY-THREE:
London, UK
(Design Team: Gregory Simoes, Architect)
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ENTRY TWENTY-FOUR:
Dalian, China
(Design Team: SEHOUE Y Gildas, architect)
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ENTRY TWENTY-FIVE
New York, NY, USA
(Design Team: Frederic Schwartz, Architect)
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ENTRY TWENTY-SIX
Toronto, Canada
(Design Team: Jamie Atkinson, Architect)
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ENTRY TWENTY-SEVEN
Montreal, Canada/Dinkelsbühl, Germany
(Design Team: Varun Thautam, Judith Vogel and Ajinka Unhale, Architects)
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ENTRY TWENTY-EIGHT
Cairo, Egypt
(Design Team: Ahmed El Emam and Ahmed Zayed Radwan, Architects)
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ENTRY TWENTY-NINE
Phoenix, AZ, USA
Design Team: Kobina Banning, Architect, Fusion Architecture)
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ENTRY THIRTY
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
(Design Team: Antonio Carneiro, Architect)
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ENTRY THIRTY-ONE
Vienna, Austria
(Design Team: Tobias Baldauf, Marie-Theres Okresek, Florian Otto, Rupert Halbartschlager, Tina Roi, Ernst Körmer, and Anna fink, Bauchplan)
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ENTRY THIRTY-TWO
Czech Republic
(Design Team: Jakub NOVÁK, and Vladislav BUREŠ, Architects)
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ENTRY THIRTY-THREE
Zagreb, Croatia
(Design Team: Iva Ivas, and Nikola Bojanic, Architects)
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ENTRY THIRTY-FOUR
Miami, FL, USA
(Design Team: Christine Zavesky, Architect)
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ENTRY THIRTY-FIVE
Lisbon, Portugal
(Design Team: Ivanethe Almeida dos Reis, Architect and Adine Chantre, Designer)
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ENTRY THIRTY-SIX
Wroclaw, Poland
Design Team: Leszek Orzechowski, Student Architect at the Wroclaw University of Technology)
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