26TH HABITÁCOLA AWARDS

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Abandon yourself!

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The Habitácola Awards, promoted by Arquinfad, were established in 1987 with the aim of encouraging reflexion about new theo-retical frameworks in the context of architecture and design and discussing, in conjunction with schools, innovative solutions and viewpoints arising from the various subjects of social interest put forward for each competition.

The Habitácola Awards are given out as a prize in a contest for students to spread the importance of creativity, social commitment and professionalism among businesses, and other bodies, as well as the public at large, supporting and promoting new initiatives, new approaches and new emerging talent.

The subjects chosen for these awards have always touched on aspects that are relevant in society and addressed unresolved and current problems. In this edition, as on other occasions, the themes coincide with the subject matter of Arquinset – Architecture Week (www.arquinset.org), held under the tagline of “Contemporary landscapes, hindrance &/or opportunity”.

In promoting these awards, Arquinfad seeks to aid students in introducing themselves and making themselves known to the professional and business world, being as they are the professionals of the future.

In the preceding two editions a school from outside the Spanish State was invited to participate with a view to opening up both to different academic approaches and to alternative working practices. This same intention is true for the current edition, which is open to all schools on the Iberian Peninsula and in Latin America.

Partnering this edition are the Barcelona Design Hub (www.dissenyhubbarcelona.cat) and CCCB (Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture) (www.cccb.org) in respect of the prizes, publicity and exhibition of the winning works, which will be a part of FADFest, Barcelona Design Festival 2014 (www.fadfest.cat) and the Piso Piloto exhibition (www.pisopiloto.org) at CCCB.

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Theme

The 26th Habitácola Awards will be themed around abandoned, unused, dilapidated and underused architecture anywhere in the world, of the kind which, in Spain, sprouted out alarmingly with the property boom. This entire stock of part-builds spread across housing schemes, skeleton structures and expectant buildings, languishes, whether by virtue of their condition as unfinished products or their condition as unexpected products, in a state of profound sleep, unaware of its possibilities.

The need is clearly there to organise and intervene in those landscapes of incomplete housing and remould them into sustainable, efficient and accessible environments by means of political, social and economic trans-formations that avoid the land’s predation and include architectural involvement.

The 26th Habitácola Awards are a call for plans for action or intervention that rouse those buildings from their comatose state, those infrastructures, those faded vestiges, those places in a state of shock in which housing constitutes the centre of the argument. It is less important that they should end up as they were originally intended than that they become a useful rehabitable presence - a social space; that they recover a sense and meaning and are reintegrated with the wider flows of informa-tion, people and goods.

Participants must select a place, a specific location that fulfils these characteristics, and propose an architectural action that transforms it and creates sense. Credit will be given to proposals for action from housing or into hou-sing, as well as the concept that can transform such architecture or landscape or, in other words, give them new meaning.

The proposal for architectural action can be temporary or permanent and there is no limita-tion as to scale or budget, but the team must specify the limits in terms of space, lifetime (if any) and budget for the action, where applica-ble.

Consideration will also be given to any projects that have been executed, made reality, by students.

The proposal for architectural action, or the completed project itself (if it has been execu-ted) will be presented to the awards jury and the general public in an audiovisual format that allows it to be publicised using both traditional channels and social networks.

Credit will also be given for ease of commu-nication via the internet - social spread of the proposal through social networks – as it is a given that part of the proposal involves commu-nity engagement, taking it on collectively via the web. Intervening in an abandoned project - ta-king ownership of it – brings with it a democra-tic process of expressing an opinion and taking a position within a preexisting setting.

What is wanted, in short, is to put the abando-ned space to work, which means working with the outcasts, with the neglected. Abandonment as a mechanism for renewal. Working with and from a state of abandonment, abandoning oneself. Abandon yourself!

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Eligibility

Entry to the Habitácola Awards is open to all design and architecture students enrolled in any school, college or university in the Iberian Peninsula or Latin America for the 2013-2014 academic year, whether at undergraduate, graduate or postgraduate levels.

Proposals may be submitted by a single student or a group of up to three students maximum.

In the case of groups, one of the participants must be a student at a school of design or architecture, but the others may be students from any other discipline (sociology, fine arts, economics, photography, political science, gra-phic design...). Where a project is implemented and requires collaboration with others, these will be featured in the credits. The intention is to encourage interdisciplinary team work.

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Submission format

Each proposal for an intervention will be submit-ted in video format, with a maximum of 3 minutes with free technique, on a specific site.

Participants will create a map in Google Maps with a placemark at the chosen location. If there is a proposal with several potential sites, the au-thor team must choose the most significant.

The video will be published through the online channel Vimeo (www.vimeo.com). The video title will be the tagline that identifies the team. All content must be used and published under a Creative Commons license .

Supporting documents considered necessary may be published on any website (images, plans, text, complementary videos...).

The title of the video on Vimeo is configured from the following code: #parameter@handle (Example: # reciclaje@xxxxxx999 ).

The #parameter may be selected exclusively from the following words only and must be unique:

#reciclaje (recycling)#okupacion (occupation)#intensidad (intensity)#transparencia (transparency)#especulacion (speculation)#emergencia (emergency)#inseguridad (insecurity)#exclusion (exclusion)#barrios (neighbourhoods)#politicas (policies)

The @handle is the name chosen by the author(s) of the proposal, consisting of the combination of “@” + “six letters” + “three numbers” . (Example : @xxxxxx999 ).

The following will be included in the description text box of the video:

The words ‘This video is an entry for the 26th Habitácola Awards.http://habitacola.org’. A short explanatory note of the action or interven- tion (max. 300 words), that gives an understan-ding of the project’s context and interpretative perspective within which the ruin and housing make up an essential part of the argument.

Name(s) of the student(s), other participants and contributors, if applicable.

Name of the participating school, website address and person leading the assignment or academic in charge.

Link to supporting documentation on other websites, if any.

Once the proposal has been uploaded to Vimeo participants have to make the commitment fee (“Cuota de compromiso”, 5 euros ) and send the proposal using the form at the bottom of the web page http://habitacola.org (“Envía tu Propuesta”).

It is understood that part of the presentation will include spreading the video on the internet, espe-cially through social networks. Participants have to make a tweet once registration is complete , with the following contents: @arquinfad #habita-cola #arruniate plus #parameter of the proposal and the @handle chosen ( example: #recycle@xxxxxx999), and the link to the placemark created in Google Maps.

Finally, participants must vote (do ‘like’) any other proposal of the competition, from the listing of http://habitacola.org/propuestas/. It can not be the own proposal.

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Jury members

For the purpose of ensuring an objective and plural assessment, Arquinfad will constitute a jury with the following composition:

Chair:Josep Bohigas www.bopbaa.com/beta/index.html)

Member from Barcelona City Council, Urban Habitat:

Architectural member:Lluís Ortegawww.sio2arch.com

Film / image / media member:Adrià Goula www.adriagoula.com

Film / architectural member:Martín Garberwww.ojoconico.org

Jury Secretary:Leonardo Novelo www.inputmap.com

Scoring criteria

Points will be assigned out of a total of 100 according to the following criteria:

40 points. Choice of location, quality of the intervention/action and appropriateness to the proposed theme.20 points. Interpretative perspective with regard to the project’s arguments.20 points. Audiovisual presentation. 5 points. Impact on social media measured on the video count & social rating on http://habitacola.org up to the closing date for publication of the video. 15 points. Impact on social media measured on the video count & social rating onhttp://habitacola.org up to the closing date for social spread.

The impact on social media will be scored ba-sed on the number of “Likes” on the video, but especially taking into account comments on the video contributed by the community (which will be assessed both quantitatively and qua-litatively). The jury may take into account the conversation generated on social networks in those cases where the authors have specified the URL where the discussion can be followed in the video text box.

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Registration

Submission deadlines

Registration for the Habitácola Awards will be submitted using the online form on http://habitacola.org “Envía tu propuesta” (in which the name, email, title and URL for the video will be specified) and by payment of 5 euros using the form “Cuota de compromiso”. Arquinfad will confirm receipt of the submission and payment.

Only one proposal will be accepted for each group or participant and none of its members will be allowed to enter as part of any other group.

Failure to comply with the terms specified may lead to disqualification.

Since weight will be given both to the proposal itself and its engagement by the community, there are two dates set for submission:

Closing date for publication of the video on the internet and notification to the jury via email: Wednesday 11 June 2014, at 1200 hrs (GMT+1).

Closing date for social spread: Wednesday 18 June 2014, at 0800 hrs (GMT+1).

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Prizes

Ten Finalist projects

The jury will select ten finalist proposals that will make up the Habitácola Awards exhibition at Disseny Hub Barcelona, within the FADFest programme. The exhibition is planned to be held between June and September 2014.

The ten finalist projects will receive an Habitáco-la 2014 diploma awarded by Arquinfad.

During the period of the exhibition at Disseny Hub Barcelona, the ten chosen proposals will participate in a second round when the winning team for the Habitácola Award will be selected.

Habitácola award

The winner of the Habitácola Award will be placed in charge of mounting and exhibiting the ten finalist proposals for «Piso piloto, vivienda y espacio público»* (www.pisopiloto.org), at the Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Cul-ture (CCCB) in November 2014. This initiative is part of CCCB’s activation and expansion of activities over the four months following the exhibition.

The winning team will be able to work with a local team in Barcelona, if it so wishes, to execu-te the proposal for the exhibition.

Learning centre prize

The Habitácola Awards offer a section aimed at learning centres that develop the theme of the competition as part of an academic cour-se. Arquinfad will award the Habitácola 2014 diploma to the centre which is singled out according to the following parameters:

- Overall quality of the proposals submitted.- Number of works submitted by the centre that are selected as finalists by the jury.

Both winners and finalists of the 26th Habitá-cola Awards will be promoted by Arquinfad by publicising their works in specialist design and architecture media, both traditional and virtual, as well as through Arquinfad ‘s own digital media.

Date for the jury decision and exhibition opening at FAD Disseny Hub Barcelona’s headquarters: public announcement of finalists and the diploma ceremony will take place on Wednesday 25 June 2014 at FAD headquarters, to coincide with the Habitácola Awards exhibition opening.

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Exhibition

Actividades complementarias

Copyright Acceptance

The ten finalist projects will be included in the group exhibition to be held over the months of July, August and September 2014 at FAD’s headquarters, Disseny Hub Barcelona (https://vimeo.com/67132698).

Subsequently the Habitácola Awards winning entry will be exhibited as part of the «Piso piloto, vivienda y espacio público»* (www.pisopiloto.org), at the Barcelona Centre for Contemporary Culture (CCCB),

where proposals may continue to be develo-ped between November 2014 and April 2015, and thereafter in 2015 as a travelling exhibition around Latin America.

A virtual exhibition will be placed on the web to include the winning project and finalists, as on previous occasions (http://habitacola.org).

A first group of activities took place during the sessions of Arquinset 2013 Architecture Week, between 23 - 31 October 2013. In this year’s edition, entitled “Contemporary landsca-pes, hindrance &/or opportunity” (www.arquin-set.cat/es), the subject has been the impact of the property bubble on the landscape and the city in recent years, a subject that may be taken into account in the proposals presented by students with reference to materials available on Arquinfad’s Youtube channel.

Arquinfad will inform registered schools and students of the activities to be developed via its blog (http://arquinfad.org/blog/) and website (http://arquinfad.org/ ).

While the designs submitted remain the exclu-sive property of their authors, the materials that are submitted for the awards will be published under a Creative Commons licence and Arquin-fad may reproduce them on the web, in publica-tions and magazines and present them at exhibi-tions under the Creative Commons licence.

Participation in this competition implies accep-tance in whole of these terms. Where conside-red appropriate, Arquinfad reserves the right to modify their content. Projects that fail to comply with these terms will be rejected.

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Information

Calendar

For any enquiries regarding this competition, contact Arquinfad’s secretariat, between 10 am and 2 pm (GMT+1)

Tel.: + 34 93 256 67 47/8. Pl. dels Glòries Catalans, 37-38 (Edifici Disseny Hub Barcelona) 08018 Barcelona

arquinfad@arquinfad.org. www.arquinfad.org

11 june 2014Closing date for publication of the video

18 june 2014Closing date for social spreadJury convenes

25 june 2014Award ceremonyExhibition opening at FAD / Disseny Hub Barcelona (until September 2014)

13 novembre 2014Exhibition opening at CCCB(until 5 April 2015)

*“Test ground or showhome, housing and public space” Piso piloto has a double meaning: it is the phrase used in Spain for show-home/flat, but in Latin America piso has the meaning of ground or floor and piso piloto indicates an experimental or test ground.

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