Submission: June 29, 2014
Registration: June 29, 2014 (€ 100)
Language: English
Location: Concept
Prizes: 4 Prizes of € 1.000 each for the 4 selected teams + 1st Prize € 12.000
Type: Open competition for architects and architecture students in two stages.
International ideas competition PLASTICITY, the quality of being able to be made into different shapes, to be molded or altered, is a quality that is pervasive in contemporary design.
This idea can manifest as a material providing haptic experience or as a concept defining relational interaction with performative consequence. Plasticity extends beyond the design disciplines into biologics where organisms with the same genotype vary in developmental pattern, in phenotype, or in behavior according to varying environmental conditions.
Plasticity seeks to frame this concept within an architectural proposal that foregrounds the application of parametric design and digital fabrication with a broad range of possible outcomes. Casting, forming, 3D printing, fluid assemblies of folded 2D profiles and even activated networks of robotic components are techniques to consider as potential building components in an architecture of plasticity.