• Pick a city in Asia. This may be a city where you live or one that you are familiar with.
• Choose a current project with a site area of up to 100,000 square metres (10 hectares), with an existing underutilised/empty building. At the point of submission, this must be the case and entrants should provide the actual images of the site or the geographical coordinates. Both privately and government owned project sites are acceptable.
• Understand the potential impact of reinterpreting this project on the community & the environment—this means firstly understanding the project’s current architecture & structure before evaluating the motivation for reinterpreting it with a new function.
• Decide on reinterpretation. Propose new elements & networks that will help achieve the project’s new goals.

You may decide on the types of intervention, but collectively the area must amount up to 100,000 square metres (10 hectares). Your proposal should justify your decision on the basis of necessity, impact and replicability.

Remember that this challenge cannot be solved with ad hoc addition of greenery and water to an existing development. It also cannot be solved by architecture alone. You are encouraged to consult a sociologist, a biologist or an ecologist, where possible, or at the very least, make inroads into available knowledge on social sciences. The creation of safe, sustainable and equitable community public spaces can only be reached if there is an understanding of how social and urban systems can be integrated. Your approach should illustrate a win-win solution for both social needs and physical contextuality.

The jury is looking for solutions that are plausible, rooted in local conditions and cross-disciplinary. Decisions that are made on scale and delineation of site boundaries must be clearly explained. Entrants must also explain context in terms of why a particular current development is selected, what the community needs are and the known impact on the environment. The submission must be presented clearly as a proposed reinterpretation of a private project to a public one with relevant reimagined natural and social layers as well as their contributions or purposes to the greater good.

Judging will be based on a clear explanation of the following corresponding to the task:

• REINTERPRETATION: The intervention in terms of design and functions
• INTEGRATION: Layers of interacting natural and human-made systems
• IMPACT: How a proposed solution affects community and the natural environment
• REPLICABILITY: How a proposed solution might be replicated across the city or to other cities

• FuturArc Prize 2022 is open internationally to any individual or team meeting eligibility requirements.
• The competition may be entered by any undergraduate, postgraduate, doctoral student of any recognised tertiary institution of architecture, engineering, planning, urban design, landscape design, environmental design, etc; or recent graduates with less than 2 years of professional experience.
• Each team may comprise up to five members.
• One member of the team must also be designated as leader and identified as such on the registration form. He/she is the team’s sole representative in all liaisons with the competition registrar.
• All members of the team are regarded as co-authors of the project they submitted together and will be acknowledged as such in all announcements, displays, exhibitions and publications associated with the competition, in the order with which their details are listed on the team’s registration form.
• The individual entrant is regarded as the author of the project he/she submits and will be acknowledged as such in all announcements, displays, exhibitions and publications associated with the competition.
• Each individual entrant is his/her own representative in all liaisons with the competition registrar.

• None of the competition organisers, their employees and/or family members, are allowed to enter the competition. The assessment committee and jury members, their respective professional practices, employees and/or family members, are also forbidden to enter the competition.
• Entrants must not submit any project published or made public, in part or in full, before the closing date for online submission. Entrants are prohibited from disclosing their identities, names, countries of residence and/or practice before the competition results are made public by the competition organiser. Failure to comply with any of the above may lead to immediate disqualification.
• BCI employees and/or family members are not allowed to enter the competition. Jury members, their respective professional practices, employees and/or family members, are also forbidden to enter the competition.

COMPULSORY

1. PANELS

• Entries are to be submitted by following the specified template (4 panels per entry).
• Maximum file size of all 4 panels to be submitted is 12MB; in A2 size, PDF format.
• Images should consist only of drawings, rendered images, photographs and thumbnails.
• The actual images of the site or the geographical coordinates should also be included.
• Scales that are necessary to comprehend certain drawings (plans, sections, etc.) must be shown as graphic scales next to the drawing.
• The contents of the panels should be sufficient to impart a clear understanding of the proposal; explore and present according to the stated evaluation criteria.
• Any names, countries of residence and/or practice MUST NOT be displayed anywhere on the panels.

2. FORMS

• Form I: Copyright Licence
• Form II: Declaration

OPTIONAL

1. VIDEO

• Video is the format of MP4, MOV or AVI with a compressed size of 10 MB

1. Register via FuturArc Prize 2022 online registration form.
2. Submit the materials via:
   a. Email to [email protected] as a ZIP attachment; or
   b. WeTransfer link sent to [email protected].

Please note that you need to complete both steps in order for your entry to be considered legitimate. Failure to do so will lead to disqualification.

Indicate in your email subject the project name and your name (or team leader’s name); for example: Rebar House_Dinda Wijaya

The jury is looking for solutions that are plausible, rooted in local conditions and cross-disciplinary. Decisions that are made on scale and delineation of site boundaries must be clearly explained. Entrants must also explain context in terms of why a particular current development is selected, what the community needs are and the known impact on the environment. The submission must be presented clearly as a proposed reinterpretation of a private project to a public one with relevant reimagined natural and social layers as well as their contributions or purposes to the greater good.

• All winners will be awarded with the FuturArc Prize Trophy and the following cash prizes*.
• First Place: Cash prize of SGD8,000 plus 2-year subscription to FuturArc app
• Second Place: Cash prize of SGD3,500 plus 1-year subscription to FuturArc app
• Third Place: Cash prize of SGD2,000 plus 1-year subscription to FuturArc app
• Citations (up to 12 citations will be given): SGD500 each plus 1-year subscription to FuturArc app
• Awards will be given based on quality of entry, regardless of the country of origin.
• Awards given to team entrants will be presented to the team representative and are to be shared at the discretion of the team members.
• Each winner/winning team will receive:
  Cash prize
  One trophy (only 1 trophy will be awarded for each winner or winning team)
  Certificates
  Complimentary subscription to FuturArc app
• Each citation recipient/team will receive:
  Cash prize
  Certificates
  Complimentary subscription to FuturArc app
• In addition to the awards, all projects from winning entrants and citation recipients may be published on FuturArc website and in an upcoming edition of FuturArc.
• The jury shall have full freedom to decide on the awards and citations. The jury decision shall be final and binding on all entrants.
• The competition registrar reserves the right to not award any prize where the jurors agree that submissions are of insufficient quality.
• Provided that physical events are allowed to take place, winners will be recognised at BCI Asia Awards (BCIAA)—a gala event that attracts key architecture, building and construction industry players in all seven BCI Asia countries.

* Competition Organiser reserves the right to change the prizes

Vietnam

1. Do I have to pay to participate in the competition?
No fee is required.

2. Can I submit in person?
Entrants are encouraged to tender all submissions in electronic format online (see Submission Steps), but hard copy submissions sent to local offices may be accepted on a case-by-case basis.

3. Can I submit additional materials?
Under no circumstances will the jury consider additional panels, materials or individual images that do not fit into the submission template.

4. Will I be notified about the outcome of the submission?
Only winners and merit recipients (i.e., runners-up) will be notified individually via email towards the end of April 2022.

5. How do I submit multiple entries?
Each UNIQUE project should be presented using the full set of templates. For example, for 3 different projects, entrants should submit 3 sets of [Panels + Declaration forms] (one set for each project).

6. I am not allowed to display any names, countries of residence and/or practice on the panels, but should I still indicate my email address and project location?
Yes, the absence of any names, countries of residence and/or practice on the panels is to ensure anonymity among the jurors. But you still need to display the email and project location on the panel at the top right corner for the competition’s administrators.