Imagine Mumbai and Miami permanently underwater, hurricanes frequently clashing against Manhattan and Manila, devastating droughts in Los Angeles and London, and fires running rampant in Sydney and San Francisco.
A global future like this currently occupies our imagination but inches closer to reality each day.
How will our built environment react to rising sea levels, extended droughts, climbing temperatures, and other symptoms of global warming? How can our buildings and cities prevent the severity of natural disasters, degrading air quality, melting ice caps, and climate change at large?
WARMING calls on students and professionals from the fields of architecture, planning, and design to submit projects that respond to our changing climate and the environment.
CHALLENGE
WARMING competition participants are asked to propose new or adapted architecture that addresses issues of global warming.
Participants are free to experiment and explore the subject – designs can be of any program, any scale, and on any site. Architecture may be building types such as homes, parks, skyscrapers, stadiums, schools, museums, libraries, transportation, multifamily housing, and more.
See how designers addressed our changing climate in last years WARMING Competition here.
Participants may propose strategies that prevent the rise of global warming or strategies that react to the changing world we will inhabit. Participants may also take a combined approach.
PREVENT – designs and strategies can address issues such as renewable energy, recycling, sustainable farming, alternative transportation, or many others.
REACT – designs and strategies can address issues such as sea-level rise, droughts, wilderness fires, severe weather, habitat destruction, or many others.
AWARDS
Overall Winner
$5,000
Book Feature + Press Publications
Prevent Award
$1,000
Book Feature + Press Publications
React Award
$1,000
Book Feature + Press Publications
Honorable Mentions
Book Feature + Press Publications
Directors Choice
Book Feature + Press Publications
Total Awards
$7,000
JURY
Alice Britton | Squint / Opera
Tei Carpenter | Agency Agency
Sou Fujimoto | Sou Fujimoto Architects
Rossana Hu | Neri&Hu
Thom Mayne | Morphosis
Sheila Sri Prakash | Shilpa Architects
Lola Sheppard | LATERAL OFFICE
Neyran Turan | NEMESTUDIO
Ken Yeang | Ken Yeang Ecoarchitect
SCHEDULE
Competition Begins Mar. 22
$55 Advance Entry Ends May 25
$75 Early Entry Ends July 20
$95 Regular Entry Ends Sep. 04
Submission Deadline Sep. 05
Results Announced Oct. 2021
Jakob Rope Systems is an Official Sponsor of The WARMING Competition 2021.