Archi-Skin Design Competition

Description

The Skin is a complex organ that extends as the key interface between the inside and the outside. It also extends inwards and transform into tissue that in many ways define what the organism is.

In Architecture, its “Skin” has a similar role. It protects, it extends, it negotiates with the environment to affect the spatial quality within as well as the urban context without. It can also be an armature and stratum for a multitude of systems. From living systems to system to convey people and services. It also can also swell out to accommodate an in-between zone that in itself is another space.

In the increasingly complex role in which the urban metropolis plays in natural ecology the design of the Architectural Skin becomes crucial. It cannot just be the boundary of an object. It needs to transcend and mutate to be relevant.

This design competition which will run for 3 years aims to be a platform for the consolidation of the best examples of Architectural skin as well as the place for the ideation of what Skin can be for Architecture.

Category 1:
Completed Projects

• To submit 2 A1 panel of images, drawings, explanation, text and diagrams of completed projects (near completion, 95% and above, are acceptable).
• Up to 20 individual images (include drawings, photos)
• Design Report (up to maximum 4 pages)
• Project Summary (up to 300 words)
• All submission material must not have any form of identification.

Category 2a:
Conceptual Design (Professional)

• To submit 2 A1 panel of images, drawings, explanation, text and diagrams of the conceptual proposal.
• Up to 20 individual images (include drawings, photos)
• Design Report (up to maximum 4 pages)
• Project Summary (up to 300 words)
• All submission material must not have any form of identification.

Category 2b:
Conceptual Design (Student)

The conceptual framework is to “Skin Again” Block 93, Jalan Dua. The exact concept needs to be defined by the competitor. It is envisaged that the following aspects (one or multiple) may be considered:

• site specificity
• aging in place
• growing the family in place
• climatically responsive
• community/identity responsive
• sustainability
• services
• modularity and ease of assembly