INSPIRATION HOSTEL 2017 COMPETITION

Description

OPENGAP organizes the fifth edition of this open ideas competition seeking for innovative, cutting-edge, contemporary, proposals regarding a new concept for artistic inspiration spaces.
Participants are invited to design a place focused on the rental of spaces that motivate creativity and concentration, allowing users to focus, inspire and develop their artistic ideas.

INTRODUCTION

The pace of urban life, information overload, visual and noise pollution, invasive advertising and other external factors constantly overstimulate our senses altering and distorting our perception of reality.

Nowadays it is difficult to find an evocative space for inspiration, which is not only an aesthetically pleasing site, but also psychologically and emotionally neutral, where it is possible to concentrate, clear the mind, the consciousness and the artistic sensibilities.Therefore, there is a need for spaces that promote concentration, artistic inspiration and meditation.

Try to imagine a space for artistic-spiritual retreat, where artists and hobbyists can spend some days developing their creativity in any focus area: write a book, carry out a dance workshop, a music program, paint, sculpt or simply meditate.

AIMS OF THE COMPETITION

To encourage innovative, contemporary and avant-garde architectural approaches that respond to the noticeable need for spaces intended for artistic inspiration and meditation, through projects that promote the psychological and emotional comfort of their users.

LOCATION

• This competition of ideas does not specify any particular site or setting. Therefore, each contestant or team will be able to choose the location of their project.
• The project may be located either as a space of inspiration in a natural context or as an introspective shelter in the city, but isolated from the urban chaos.
• Nevertheless, participants will have to justify their choice of location for the project in the proposal.
• Since one of the aims of this competition is to search for heterogeneous proposals and various possible locations, we hope that this global diversity will enrich the final results.

PROJECT CRITERIA

• The competition invites to design a “Hotel” where anyone can book/rent for a certain period of time (hours, days, weeks or months) not only a common hotel room, but a studio in which be inspired and creative in any form of art.
• The design of this site should be focused on creating a space that encourages creativity, calmness and concentration, allowing users to get inspired and develop their ideas.
• In regard to the project's functionality, it will be necessary to correctly define the interaction of the proposed spaces in the Program of Requirements, as well as the use of the new proposed spaces.
• It is important to set out the logic behind the routes to be used by visitors and facilitate movement of persons within the edifice.
• As this is an academic competition, we are not searching for a profound technical and construction detailing. A good architectonic conceptualization and original ideas will receive the greatest consideration. Opengap encourages contestants to experiment and to formally and spatially explore new solutions. Original, creative, contemporary, and risky proposals, from the architectonic point of view, will therefore be welcomed.

PROGRAM OF REQUIREMENTS:

The following program contains the basic areas to be included in the projects. Using this proposal of minimum required zones as a starting point, the contestant or team will be able to add new elements that they consider will improve their specific design.