Who Can Participate?
The competition is open to 2nd, 3rd and 4th year students studying in The Department of Architecture, Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design and Department of Industrial Design at BAU Faculty of Architecture and Design.
Individual or Team Entries: Participate individually or in teams of a maximum of 5 members. Teams can be interdisciplinary, and such collaborations are highly encouraged.
Application Document: Complete the Competition Application Document (Registration Form) available on https://forms.gle/M7DTebBdd2atoXMP6
Mandatory Workshop: All students or teams participating in the competition must attend the workshop and seminar to be organized. Projects of students who do not participate in the seminar and workshop will not be accepted.
Communication Guidelines: No participants may have direct contact with the jury committee and rapporteurs during the competition calendar. All questions about the competition should be sent to [email protected] e-mail address until 28 October 2024 at 17:00. Questions and answers will be published on this website on 01 November 2024.
Students are not allowed to ask questions to the organizing committee and lecturers, except during the question-and-answer periods and on the day of the seminar.
Project Requirements:
Originality: Projects participating in the competition must be original. Projects must not have been published elsewhere before, must not have participated in another competition, and must not have been produced within the scope of the project studios. If found otherwise, the project will be disqualified.
References: If using images and texts from other sources, proper references must be cited.
Material Usage: Designs must incorporate the provided timber material with appropriate detailing of connections. Non-structural/secondary materials such as textile, membrane may be used in moderate scale and amount.
In order to fully comply with the competition principles, each student who will participate in the competition must read the specifications carefully.
Disqualification Conditions:
Direct contact with the jury committee and rapporteurs.
If the submitted project is not original, has been previously published elsewhere, participated in another competition, or was produced within a project studio/workshop; or if it is a copy of an existing project or images of an existing project that have been created, printed, displayed, or published.
If any information that could reveal the identity of the participant, such as name-surname, or school id, is written on the project visuals or design documents.
If the required documents from the participants are uploaded to the system incorrectly or incompletely, or if they are uploaded after the project submission deadline specified in the competition calendar.
If different representations of the drawings in the competition posters are uploaded to another digital interface and directed via QR code.
In such cases, the applications of participating students will not be evaluated by the jury and will be disqualified by the rapporteurs, documented with a report.