Concours Stairs Design Awards #2 - Édition 2020

Description

The Stairs Design Awards competition is organised by the PBM Group.
The Stairs Design Awards encourages candidates to come up with an innovative staircase design, with a strong identity, that will become a key architectural element, going far beyond its basic functional application. It gives candidates an opportunity to express their creativity and showcase their project.

Get creative and design a staircase that is dramatically different. While concrete must be the main component, the design can include other, complementary, materials. The staircase must retain its fundamental role, be conform with accessibility rules and regulations, and be technically feasible.

Key dates:
7 October 2019: registration opens
10 January 2020: registration closes
14 February 2020: deadline for project submission
2 March 2020: announcement of the 10 finalists
2 March to 29 March 2020: public vote
2 April 2020: Awards ceremony

Competition procedure:
Registration is free of charge and open to all Ecole d’Architecture students in France, Belgium, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Germany or the United Kingdom.

- The first phase is open to all candidates wishing to participate in the competition and is the subject of a first jury. Deliverables are expected to be delivered by 14th February 2020.
- The second phase is aimed at candidates selected during the first jury.

A first selection will take place from 17 February to 28 February 2020 during which the jury will select the 10 finalists. PBM Group will announce the selection on March 2, 2020.
All compliant projects will be displayed on the website www.pbm-stairsdesignawards.fr, as well as on all the PBM's social networks from 2 March 2020.

Internet users will be asked to vote to elect the public prize from among all the projects on display until 29th March 2020.
The 10 Finalist Projects will be decided by the jury during the award ceremony on April 2, 2020.
The jury will reveal the three winners of the Competition as well as the Audience Award at this prize-giving ceremony.

First phase:
Projects and all documents must be sent in PDF format via the application platform.The file must contain all of the following elements:

• A summary of the Project with explanatory text
• A description of the Project (choice of artistic party, technical performances, technical details, details on the rendering, as well as any other information that the candidate or team of candidates may consider useful)
• A2 size sheets, portrait format, which must contain the following elements:
  • A map of the staircase at 1/50th
  • An elevation of the staircase to 1/50th
  • An image of the staircase in situation, in its entirety

Second phase:
The presentation of the Finalists' Projects selected by the first jury must contain the following elements:

• A PowerPoint, supporting an oral presentation of up to 5 minutes, followed by an exchange with the jury for 5 minutes
• Signs in A1 or A0 format for the Project exhibition
• Any additional documents for the exhibition of the Project that the candidates consider useful for their presentation

Any non-compliant presentation may, if the jury so decides, result in the immediate and definitive elimination of the candidate or team.
The scale of all graphic and presentation documents must be specified on all documents and the direction must be specified on all plans.

PRIZES
The winners will receive their prizes by bank transfer, in the days following the awards aeremony. The prizes will be awarded to the winners as follows:
• 1st Prize: € 8,000
• 2nd Prize: € 5,000
• 3rd Prize: € 2,500
• People’s choice award: € 1,500
• PBM award: € 1,500