International Design Competition for Yeonsu-gu Youth Center

1. BACKGROUND & PURPOSE
Adolescents should enjoy the present through self-directed participation and activities in a fair and safe social environment and need active support and attention to become self-reliant with the capabilities necessary for the future society.Therefore, Yeonsu-gu plans to build a “Yeonsu-gu Youth Center” that can promote healthy youth growth through various youth activities such as cultural activities, creative experience activities, career experience activities, and internationalization activities for teenagers.
JURY COMMITTEE
-Luca Galofaro – Associated professor, Università di Camerino-Dennis Pieprz – Principal, Sasaki Associates-Dietmar Feichtinger – Principal, Dietmar Feichtinger Architects -Heo Seogoo – Principal, Studio HSG-Kim Sooyoung – Principal, Su:mvie Architects-Lim Jong-yup – Professor, Inha Unicersity
Short Description
The purpose of this design competition is to provide efficient and creative spaces for various training and self-development activities such as culture, education, experience, and physical education, and to establish a youth center as a representative building in Incheon
Organizer
Yeonsu-gu office, Incheon-si, S.Korea
Link to Competition
Link to Registration form
Prizes
AWARDS (Taxes and duties included)
1st Place Winner(1 entry): Award and the priority negotiation rights for the basic and working design
2nd Place Winner(1 entry): Award and KRW 50 million in prize money
3rd Place Winner(1 entry): Award and KRW 30 million in prize money
4th Place Winner(2 entries): Award and KRW 10 million in prize money
Runner-up Winner(10 entries): Awards
Type of Competition
Open to the public/Minimum requirements (Open to anyone that complies with the requirements), Single stage (Winners selected immediately)
Who can Participate
● Eligibility- Both domestic and foreign architects(Licensed architects, including corporations) can participate.
– For Korean architects, it shall be an architect, completing the business registration and running the business under the 「Certified Architects Act)」 of Korea as of the date of the notification, and the architect shall be running an architectural business with no cause of disqualification under the relevant laws and regulations. If awarded in the contest, the main contractor will be the applicant representative.- In the case of foreign architects, they shall be a qualified architects according to the laws of their countries by the time of the announcement date, and if winning, they will be able to conclude a service contract only if they have formed a joint body with a qualified Korean architect according to the related laws. At this time, the representative of the joint body shall be a qualified Korean architect.
– For the joint application, all of the applicants shall be qualified as written in 7.1.2 and 7.1.3, and the maximum number of co-applicants is three. One of them must be the representative, and even if the representative is the co-CEO of the office, designate only one person as an applicant. – The representative of the joint application shall play the role of generalizing and controlling the general works as the representative of the joint body, and the legal rights, responsibilities, and obligations related to the competition belong to the representative.- Participants in the Design Competition, registered as a representative or participant, shall not join any other design.
Dates and Time Frame
Registration Closes December 17, 2021
Deadline to Submit Project February 28, 2022
Winners announcement Date March 14, 2022
Languages
English, Other
Location of Competition
S.Korea
Location of Project (if developed)
South Korea